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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Mental Health

Black (Chairman), Garrett, Saslaw, Howell, Newman

Clerk: Patty Lung
Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: February 17, 2015
Time and Place: 8:30 a.m.- 3rd Floor West Conference Room

H.B. 1581 Family life education; advance directives related to mental health.

Patron: Watts

Family life education; advance directives related to mental health. Requires the family life education curriculum developed by the Board of Education to include, as a component of instruction in mental health education and awareness, instruction on the availability of advance directives, as set forth in the Health Care Decisions Act (§ 54.1-2981 et seq.), related to mental health that permit an adult declarant to appoint an agent and authorize the agent to seek the hospitalization and evaluation of the declarant if the declarant shows signs of mental illness.