This Idaho statute requires licensed medical professionals, emergency services personnel, facility employees, social workers, law enforcement, and others to report suspected maltreatment of vulnerable adults to the designated Adult Protective Services (APS) provider within 24 hours, and to law enforcement within 4 hours when maltreatment results in death or serious physical injury. Failure to report is a misdemeanor. This is a mandatory reporting law of general applicability and does not license or set operating standards for any specific behavioral health, IDD, or foster care facility type.
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