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CS/CS/HB 535: Mental Illness

GENERAL BILL by Public Safety and Domestic Security Policy Committee ; Health Care Services Policy Committee ; Drake ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Evers ; Sachs

Mental Illness; Requires law enforcement agency that transports persons to receiving facility to have memorandum of understanding with facility; requires that custody of person who is transported to receiving or treatment facility be relinquished to responsible person at facility; specifies that psychiatric examination by certain personnel be conducted face to face, in person.

Effective Date: 07/01/2009
Last Action: 4/28/2009 House - Placed on Special Order Calendar; Substituted CS/CS/SB 456; Laid on Table, Link/Iden/Sim/Compare passed, refer to CS/CS/SB 456 (Ch. 2009-38) -HJ 01035
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF

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