Signed by Governor Tony Evers

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that expands immunity for individuals reporting or investigating child abuse or neglect to any person assisting with medical examination of a child or providing other assistance or investigation.

Highlights:

• Establishes that any person or institution doing any of the following in good faith in connection with a report under this section has immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, that results because of the action (Sec. 1):

• Participating in the making of a report;

• Conducting an investigation;

• Ordering or taking photographs; or 

• Ordering, performing, or assisting with medical examinations of a child or an expectant mother.

• Specifies that for any proceeding, civil or criminal, the good faith of any person reporting under this section shall be presumed except in cases concerning liability for abusing or neglecting a child or for abusing an unborn child (Sec. 1).

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