EHB 2088: Extending liability protections for responders dispatched from mobile rapid response crisis teams and community-based crisis teams.
Signed into law: Chapter 370, Laws of 2024
- Sponsor
- Orwall
- Introduced
- January 8, 2024
- Status
- C 370 L 24
- Last action
- Effective date 6/6/2024. (March 29, 2024)
- As of
- August 18, 2026, 2:02 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Provides covered entities and personnel with immunity from civil liability for negligent acts and omissions while providing: (1) specified crisis care services under clinical supervision to persons experiencing a behavioral health crisis; or (2) transportation of patients to specified services.
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Floor votes
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 8, 202496 yea · 0 nay · 2 not voting
- Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 27, 202449 yea · 0 nay
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