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2024 SESSION

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HB 608 Temporary detention; certified evaluators, report.

Introduced by: Marcia S. "Cia" Price | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Temporary detention; certified evaluators; report. Authorizes hospitals with a psychiatric emergency department to employ certain trained individuals to perform evaluations to determine whether a person meets the criteria for temporary detention for behavioral health treatment. The bill defines psychiatric emergency department as an emergency department of a hospital licensed by the Department of Health that is physically attached to a hospital with adult and adolescent inpatient psychiatric beds and adult detoxification beds licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. The bill requires participating hospitals with psychiatric emergency departments to annually report the number of temporary detention order evaluations completed, the number of temporary detention orders petitioned, the number of individuals evaluated for temporary detention who were determined to not meet the criteria for temporary detention, and the number of individuals under a temporary detention order admitted to a state facility to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Education and Health, the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions, and the Behavioral Health Commission. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2026.

FULL TEXT

• 01/09/24  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104584D  pdf | impact statement
• 02/06/24  House: Committee substitute printed 24106410D-H1  pdf | impact statement

AMENDMENTS

• House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted

HISTORY

• 01/09/24  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104584D
• 01/09/24  House: Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
• 01/17/24  House: Assigned sub: Behavioral Health
• 02/01/24  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
• 02/01/24  House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Rules
• 02/06/24  House: Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
• 02/06/24  House: Committee substitute printed 24106410D-H1
• 02/08/24  House: Reconsidered by Health and Human Services
• 02/08/24  House: Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
• 02/08/24  House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
• 02/08/24  House: Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources
• 02/09/24  House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N)
• 02/13/24  House: Left in Appropriations