Bill > HB2287

This bill expands the protections of confidentiality for peer support counseling sessions to include correctional workers, recognizing that they face similar high-stress and emotionally traumatic situations as law enforcement officers and emergency services personnel. The bill defines "correctional worker" as any employee of the department of corrections and rehabilitation involved in the custody, care, treatment, or supervision of inmates or detainees, and amends existing law to ensure that communications made during peer support counseling sessions for these workers, as well as for law enforcement officers and emergency services personnel, are considered privileged and cannot be disclosed in judicial, administrative, or other adjudicatory proceedings, with specific exceptions for threats of suicide or homicide, mandatory reporting situations like abuse, or admissions of criminal conduct.

Justice, Military Affairs and Security

https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=2287&year=2026