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This bill extends confidentiality protections during peer support counseling sessions to correctional workers, recognizing that they face similar high-stress and emotionally traumatic situations as law enforcement officers and emergency services personnel. The bill amends existing law to define "correctional worker" and explicitly includes them alongside law enforcement officers and emergency services personnel in provisions that protect communications made during peer support counseling sessions, ensuring that these discussions are privileged and cannot be disclosed in judicial or administrative proceedings, with specific exceptions for threats of suicide or homicide, mandatory reporting situations like child or elder abuse, and admissions of criminal conduct.

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https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=3106&year=2026