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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.