DHS-INVOLUNTARY TREATMENT

Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that a court order authorizing the administration of authorized involuntary treatment shall allow a person designated in the order as authorized to administer the treatment to designate another person to administer the treatment in the court-designated person's absence. Provides that a person designated in the court order as authorized to administer the treatment must be a qualified acute and long-term health care professional familiar with the recipient's mental and physical status and active in the recipient's care. Provides that a person designated by the court-designated person to administer the treatment in the court-designated person's absence must be a licensed and qualified health care professional. Effective immediately.