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HB 816 Outpatient treatment; community services board et al., to report any material noncompliance.

Introduced by: David B. Albo | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Outpatient treatment; compliance; medication. Provides that the community services board, behavioral health authority, or designated provider charged with monitoring a person's compliance with an involuntary outpatient treatment order shall report any material noncompliance, including a failure to take medication, with that order to the judge or special justice. Upon receipt of a report of material noncompliance, the judge or special justice shall issue a temporary detention order and then proceed to hold an involuntary commitment hearing, as a result of which the court may revoke outpatient treatment and order the person's involuntary commitment. This bill was incorporated into HB 499.


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