<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" 
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	>

<channel>

	<title>Mark Meadows's podcast.</title>
	<link>http://069.housedems.com/podcasts/</link>
	<description>Mark Meadows's podcast.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
	<generator>http://www.housedems.com/</generator>
	<language>en</language>

	<item>
	<title>Representative Meadows' Senior Protection Legislation</title>
	<link>http://069.housedems.com/podcast/listen/representative-meadows-senior-protection-legislation/267</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
	<category>Podcasts</category>
	<guid isPermaLink="true">http://069.housedems.com/podcast/listen/representative-meadows-senior-protection-legislation/267</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[I have two bills that amend the adult protective services portion of the Social Welfare Act and require that employees of financial institutions become mandatory reporters.  There's a whole bunch of mandatory reporters in the State of Michigan; doctors, nurses, social workers, police officers, everybody's a mandatory reporter of suspected abuse.  And there are protections in the statute for people who do report.  They are immune from liability, civil liability, and their report is confidential.  But financial institutions, even though they have sometimes voluntarily made a report, are not required to make the report and that was seen by the people who prepared the original recommendations in 2006 as being another loophole in the protection of elderly individuals in the State of Michigan, so I'm closing that loophole with one of my bills.

]]></description>
	<enclosure url='http://069.housedems.com/podcast/play/representative-meadows-senior-protection-legislation/267.mp3' length='1036539' type='audio/mpeg'/>
	</item>
	<item>
	<title>The Elder Financial Protection Act</title>
	<link>http://069.housedems.com/podcast/listen/the-elder-financial-protection-act/265</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
	<category>Podcasts</category>
	<guid isPermaLink="true">http://069.housedems.com/podcast/listen/the-elder-financial-protection-act/265</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Well in 2006, the Governor had a report delivered to her on Elder Abuse in the State of Michigan and there were certain recommendations in that report and the recommendations have really never made their way into law even though this continues, elder abuse, continues to be a problem in the State of Michigan and throughout the country.  
  
 We have statutes in Michigan that have tried to protect elderly individuals or any adult who may be incapacitated or vulnerable, but they don't go quite far enough.  And the report itself made certain, specific recommendations which have now made their way into this package that the Democratic caucus has pushed forward.

]]></description>
	<enclosure url='http://069.housedems.com/podcast/play/the-elder-financial-protection-act/265.mp3' length='747311' type='audio/mpeg'/>
	</item>
	<item>
	<title>Details of the Elder Financial Protection Act</title>
	<link>http://069.housedems.com/podcast/listen/details-of-the-elder-financial-protection-act/266</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
	<category>Podcasts</category>
	<guid isPermaLink="true">http://069.housedems.com/podcast/listen/details-of-the-elder-financial-protection-act/266</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[The package, as it's constituted, has a lot of elements in it. It allows a third person, a non-victim, to make a criminal complaint against someone.  So someone who could be in a position to protect an elderly person could make a criminal complaint.  It puts together an elder death investigation team at the county level - that's optional - but it allows the county medical examiners to see a suspicious death and do an investigation, a multi-team investigation.  
  
 My part of this package, makes it impossible for an individual to abuses an elderly individual to inherit from that estate.  Under current law, unless you kill the person, you can still inherit from their estate, even though you've been stealing from them for years.  So, we're trying to close that loophole for abusers. 

]]></description>
	<enclosure url='http://069.housedems.com/podcast/play/details-of-the-elder-financial-protection-act/266.mp3' length='960470' type='audio/mpeg'/>
	</item>
	<item>
	<title>Protecting Seniors from Financial Exploitation</title>
	<link>http://069.housedems.com/podcast/listen/protecting-seniors-from-financial-exploitation/263</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
	<category>Podcasts</category>
	<guid isPermaLink="true">http://069.housedems.com/podcast/listen/protecting-seniors-from-financial-exploitation/263</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[You may not realize this, but although we have an adult protection statute in the state of Michigan, it does not require employees of financial institutions to report any abuse that they may suspect, and it doesn't provide financial institution employees any protection when they do report financial abuse that they suspect. Our bills will, in fact, require the reporting of suspected financial abuse by bank employees, and also protect the employees and the institutions from nuisance lawsuits that might result from it. 
  

]]></description>
	<enclosure url='http://069.housedems.com/podcast/play/protecting-seniors-from-financial-exploitation/263.mp3' length='602279' type='audio/mpeg'/>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>
