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2009 SESSION
SB 1079 Emergency custody; authority of law-enforcement officer.
Introduced by: Janet D. Howell | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Emergency custody; authority of law-enforcement officer. Authorizes a law-enforcement officer who is transporting a person who has voluntarily consented to being transported to a facility for assessment or evaluation and who subsequently revokes consent to be transported to take such person into emergency custody when the law-enforcement officer determines that consent has been revoked and the person meets the criteria for emergency custody, even if the law-enforcement officer is beyond the territorial limits of the jurisdiction in which he serves. This bill also clarifies that a law-enforcement officer who takes a person into emergency custody based upon his own observations or reliable reports of others may transport such person beyond the territorial boundaries of the jurisdiction in which he serves in order to obtain the required assessment. A second enactment clause provides that this bill is declarative of existing law. This bill is identical to HB 2486.
FULL TEXT
- 01/13/09 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 093192248 pdf
- 02/09/09 Senate: Printed as engrossed 093192248-E pdf
- 02/28/09 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1079ER) pdf
- 03/27/09 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0607) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/13/09 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 093192248
- 01/13/09 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/14/09 Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Mental Health
- 02/04/09 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/09 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/09 Senate: Read second time
- 02/09/09 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/09/09 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/09/09 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1079E
- 02/09/09 Senate: Printed as engrossed 093192248-E
- 02/09/09 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/09 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/09 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/13/09 House: Read first time
- 02/13/09 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/16/09 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 02/18/09 House: Referred from Courts of Justice by voice vote
- 02/18/09 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 02/19/09 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/09 House: Read second time
- 02/23/09 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/24/09 House: Read third time
- 02/24/09 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/09 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/09 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/28/09 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1079ER)
- 02/28/09 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/04/09 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/27/09 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 607 (effective 7/1/09)
- 03/27/09 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0607)