RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH.
Summary
Requires the Department of Health to respond to reports about persons having severe mental illness and in need of assistance and to assess whether those persons may fulfill the criteria for assisted community treatment. Requires the Department of Health to track and publicly report certain data relating to crisis reports, emergency mental health transports, and court-ordered treatments. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Health for software and data collection and publication. Requires courts, when dismissing an involuntary hospitalization petition for a person, to assess whether the person meets the criteria for assisted community treatment. Requires the Department of the Attorney General to assist in the preparation and filing of certain assisted community treatment petitions and related court proceedings.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2023
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 25, 2023
Last action Dec 11, 2023
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
3
Key actions
0
Committee
1
Jan 30, 2023
House · Referred to committee
Referred to HLT/JHA, FIN, referral sheet 3
Jan 25, 2023
House · Introduced
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Scott Saiki
DDemocratic
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