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HB 972 Involuntary commitment; criteria for commitment.

Introduced by: Robert B. Bell | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Criteria for involuntary commitment.  Provides that when a court is to make a decision as to whether it should involuntarily commit a person for 30 days when less restrictive alternatives are inappropriate, it shall consider, in addition to other relevant evidence, whether the person recently has been found by a court to be unrestorably incompetent to stand trial.


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