BILL · 2019–20 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SHB 1595

HB 1595: Child sexual abuse investig.

Concerning the sharing of information between participants in multidisciplinary coordination of child sexual abuse investigations.

Summary

Provides the purpose of multidisciplinary child protection teams is to ensure the protection and treatment of the child and to advance and coordinate the prompt investigation of suspected cases of child abuse or neglect to reduce the trauma to any child victim.
Adds licensed physical and mental health practitioners to the multidisciplinary child protection team, which is to meet at least monthly.
Expands the crimes subject to reviewing multidisciplinary child protection teams, and county written protocol, to include online sexual exploitation and commercial sexual exploitation of minors, child fatality, child physical abuse, and criminal neglect cases.
Clarifies who has access to records, confidentiality of the records shared, that the records are not subject to discovery, and other duties and responsibilities of team members.
Provides any team member facilitating exchanging or sharing information in serving any child is presumed to have acted in good faith and is immune from civil liability.

From the Substitute Senate Bill Report (Orig.) (SHB 1595), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate

AN ACT Relating to the sharing of information between participants in multidisciplinary coordination of child sexual abuse investigations;

Passed March 4, 2019

Version voted on: SHB 1595

96 Yea 0 Nay 0 Absent 2 Excused

Party	Yea	Nay	Absent	Excused
Democrat	55	0	0	2
Republican	41	0	0	0

How each member voted

Jan 21, 2020House Rules "X" file. (SHB 1595)
Jan 13, 2020By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (SHB 1595)
Apr 28, 2019By resolution, returned to House Rules Committee for third reading. (SHB 1595)
Mar 6, 2019First reading, referred to Human Services, Reentry & Rehabilitation. (SHB 1595)
Mar 4, 2019Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. (SHB 1595)
Mar 4, 2019Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. (SHB 1595)
Mar 4, 20191st substitute bill substituted. (SHB 1595)
Mar 4, 20191st substitute bill substituted.
Feb 28, 2019Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. (SHB 1595)
Feb 28, 2019Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
Feb 22, 2019Referred to Rules 2 Review. (SHB 1595)
Feb 22, 2019Referred to Rules 2 Review.
Feb 19, 2019PS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SHB 1595)
Feb 19, 2019PS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
Jan 24, 2019First reading, referred to Public Safety.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

HB 1595 (2025–26) Economic development plan · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1595 (2023–24) Cannabis excise tax · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1595 (2021–22) Bridge jumping signs · Did not pass · stalled on the House floor
HB 1595 (2017–18) Public records request costs · Enacted · Chapter 304, Laws of 2017
HB 1595 (2015–16) Labor hours & apprenticeship · Enacted · Chapter 48, Laws of 2015
HB 1595 (2013–14) Initiative and referendum · Did not pass · stalled on the House floor
HB 1595 (2011–12) Foreign med school grads · Enacted · Chapter 138, Laws of 2011
HB 1595 (2009–10) State forest lands transfer · Did not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate