Continue Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board

The bill requires the domestic violence fatality review board (review board) to:

• Provide technical assistance and training to local governments to help establish and maintain a review team and provide technical assistance and training to existing review teams;
• Pursue and implement any recommendations received in the previous year pertaining to improving communication and information-sharing between public and private organizations and agencies as to domestic violence incidents and risk, reducing the incidence of domestic violence and domestic violence fatalities in the state, and improving responses to domestic violence incidents ;
• Provide any necessary coordination between local governments and organizations to assist with domestic violence prevention and responses to fatalities; and
• Make a recommendation in its 2022 annual written report whether and how diversity, equity, and inclusion training could be provided for individuals who provide initial call response functions and could be provided for local boards that may conduct a fatality review to create greater trust between local agencies and victims of domestic violence;
• Coordinate with stakeholders to develop best practices for collecting data on domestic violence-related fatalities;
• Coordinate to implement effective information-sharing related to identified domestic violence fatalities;
• Perform outreach to local governments and organizations to promote the development of local review teams; and
• Prioritize development and support of local review teams in underserved and rural communities.

The review board is set to repeal on September 1, 2022. The bill extends the repeal to September 1, 2027, and requires a sunset review prior to the repeal. The bill also repeals the review board's associated cash fund. The bill appropriates $43,350 to the department of law from the general fund to implement the act.

(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)

(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)