SB2776

All three conditions must be met: discharge from commitment, age 18 or older, and the person’s consent. The permission includes personally identifiable information. The department may disclose—not must disclose—and cannot release information outside the consent or use the consent for a different disclosure purpose. Reaching age 18 alone does not qualify someone still committed, and a parent’s permission is not the consent described in this new provision. Final law, section 1.

The bill adds this route to the existing confidentiality law, which otherwise keeps examination, treatment and other information about a child nonpublic subject to specified exceptions. Existing provisions separately address disclosures to children, parents and other authorized recipients; escape-related public information; facility-record access; and criminal-intelligence information. SB2776 does not repeal those provisions, erase records, or create a general public-records entitlement. Prior confidentiality rule; Existing authorized disclosures; Escape exception; Facility-record confidentiality; Criminal-information release; Child-related criminal information; Final law.

All five posted versions were compared through enrollment, with no operative changes found. The official amendment index lists no amendments. The consent conditions in the introduced bill survived into the final law. All versions; Introduced text; Amendment index; Final law.

Compare the published text versions in the official text index. A change is not attributed to a specific amendment here without a verified record.

A qualifying former youth gains a way to authorize the department to share selected information for an agreed purpose, while the department must respect those limits. The act does not specify a consent form, require disclosure in every case or establish a new penalty in its text. This briefing does not decide an individual request or verify the department’s implementation procedures. Final law.

The sole posted fiscal note anticipates no significant state or department fiscal impact and no local-government fiscal implication. That estimate does not measure individual privacy risks or the benefit of a particular authorized disclosure. April 21 fiscal note.