SHB 1811 — Enhancing crisis response services through co-response integration and support.

What this bill does

Directs the University of Washington School of Social Work to develop a statewide internal peer support program to assist co-response professionals who have faced life-threatening or traumatic incidents on the job. Adds individuals engaged in co-response services to the list of first responders who may not be compelled to testify about their communications with recipients of peer support services. Adds members of first response teams that are engaged in co-response during a public health emergency to the definition of "frontline employees" for the purpose of presuming that an infectious or contagious disease was acquired during employment under the Workers' Compensation program.

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Floor votes

• House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 4, 2025
  92 yea · 3 nay · 3 not voting
• House — Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · April 21, 2025
  59 yea · 38 nay · 1 not voting
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · April 16, 2025
  49 yea · 0 nay

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