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2009 SESSION
HB 2061 Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of Minors Act; mandatory outpatient treatment.
Introduced by: Phillip A. Hamilton | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of Minors Act; outpatient treatment; etc. Provides that a person who meets the criteria for involuntary commitment under the Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of Minors Act may be ordered to mandatory outpatient treatment if less restrictive alternatives to involuntary inpatient treatment are appropriate and available, and the minor and his parents have the capacity to understand the stipulations of the minor's treatment and to comply with such outpatient treatment and they have agreed to abide by the treatment plan. The bill also sets forth how such mandatory outpatient treatment will be monitored and how a minor's noncompliance with such treatment will be addressed, and clarifies that the judge who presides over any noncompliance hearing does not have to be the judge who presided over the mandatory outpatient commitment hearing. The bill also clarifies that the commitment criteria for minors, and not the criteria for adults, apply when the emergency admission of a minor is sought under the procedures for the emergency admission of an adult set forth in Article 4 (§ 37.2-808 et seq.) of Chapter 8 of Title 37.2. The bill also provides that a minor who has been properly detained by a juvenile and domestic relations court may petition for voluntary admission and treatment of mental illness. Currently, such detained minors may not voluntarily seek admission. The bill further requires that if a minor is in a detention home or shelter care facility when admitted to a mental health facility, the director of the detention home or shelter care facility or his designee shall provide, if available, certain information relating to the minor to the mental health facility and to the juvenile and domestic relations district court for the jurisdiction in which the facility is located if such court is different than the court that placed the minor in detention or shelter care. The bill also clarifies the circumstances under which the qualified evaluator who examined the minor must attend the minor's hearing and under what circumstances the evaluator's report is admissible. This bill is identical to SB 1122.
FULL TEXT
- 01/13/09 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 090292528 pdf | impact statement
- 01/27/09 House: Committee substitute printed 093266528-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/09/09 House: Substitute bill reprinted 093266528-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/28/09 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2061ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/27/09 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/13/09 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 090292528
- 01/13/09 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/27/09 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/09 House: Committee substitute printed 093266528-H1
- 01/27/09 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/28/09 House: Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources (Hamilton)
- 02/02/09 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s)
- 02/04/09 House: Reported from Appropriations (23-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/09 House: Read first time
- 02/08/09 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/09/09 House: Substitute bill reprinted 093266528-H1
- 02/09/09 House: Read second time
- 02/09/09 House: Committee substitute agreed to 093266528-H1
- 02/09/09 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2061H1
- 02/10/09 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/09 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/09 House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/10/09 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/09 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/09 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/11/09 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/19/09 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/09 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/09 Senate: Read third time
- 02/23/09 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/09 House: Enrolled
- 02/28/09 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2061ER)
- 02/28/09 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/28/09 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/27/09 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 455 (effective 7/1/09)
- 03/27/09 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455)