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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 5086 Mobile crisis co-response team programs; DCJS & DBHDS to establish throughout the Commonwealth.
Introduced by: Kaye Kory | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Mobile crisis co-response team programs. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services shall support the development and establishment of a mental health first response and alert system that uses mobile crisis co-response team programs in areas throughout the Commonwealth. A mobile crisis co-response team is defined in the bill as a group of mental health service providers working with law-enforcement officers as a team, with the mental health service providers leading such team, to help stabilize individuals during law-enforcement encounters and crisis situations. A mental health first response and alert system is defined in the bill as a process in which a call for service or other communication to an emergency 911 system or that is communicated with any other equivalent reporting system gets routed for the appropriate services, including directed to a mobile crisis co-response team for service.
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HISTORY
- 08/18/20 House: Presented and ordered printed 20200396D
- 08/18/20 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 11/09/20 House: Left in Public Safety