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Senate Committee on Education and Health Subcommittee Health Care

Newman (Chairman), Northam, Miller, J.C., Black, Garrett

Clerk: Patty Lung, Jocelyn Lance
Staff: Jessica Eades, Ellen Porter
Date of Meeting: February 28, 2012
Time and Place: Tuesday, 1/2 hr. after Senate Adjourns, 3 East Conference Room

H.B. 496 Discharge planning from state hospital or training center; right to return to place of residence.

Patron: Dance

Discharge from state hospital or training center; return to place of residence.  Provides that community services boards shall, as part of the discharge planning process for each individual released from a state hospital or training center, inform the consumer or his legally authorized representative that he may choose to return to the county or city in which he resided prior to admission or to any other county or city in the Commonwealth. The bill provides that the community services board serving the county or city in which the individual chooses to live is responsible for arranging transportation for the individual upon request.