Mental Health
Summary
Mental Health; Authorizing the Department of Children and Families to issue a conditional designation for up to a certain number of days to allow the implementation of certain corrective measures by receiving facilities, treatment facilities, and receiving systems; requiring the sheriff to administer or to permit the department to administer the appropriate psychotropic medication to forensic clients before admission to a state mental health treatment facility; revising what an expert is required to specifically report on for recommended treatment for a defendant to attain competence to proceed, if the expert finds that a defendant is incompetent to proceed; revising the circumstances under which every defendant who is charged with a felony and who is adjudicated incompetent to proceed may be involuntarily committed for treatment upon specified findings by the court, etc.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2023
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Mar 14, 2023
Last action May 2, 2023
Floor votes
How they voted
No floor votes recorded yet.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
18
Key actions
7
Committee
8
Apr 25, 2023
Upper · Passed
Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
upper
Apr 20, 2023
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/25/23, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
upper
Apr 12, 2023
Upper · Passed
Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
upper
Apr 6, 2023
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 04/12/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
upper
Mar 22, 2023
Upper · Passed
Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
upper
Mar 22, 2023
Upper · Passed
Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
upper
Mar 15, 2023
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/20/23, 12:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
upper
Mar 14, 2023
Introduced
Introduced
upper
Mar 9, 2023
Committee
Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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