Delaware House Bill 9 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)
Status: Passed on March 28 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-03-28 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This legislation represents the work of the HJR 17 Study Group created to review Delaware’s civil mental health laws. HJR17 required a report and recommendation on immunity provisions of 16 Del. C. 5122(j) and 5004(f) by January 1, 2013. This is the proposal that resulted from the work of the HJR17 Study Group and is a consensus recommendation from the diverse stakeholders. This bill clarifies the law on immunity as regards the process to detain or not detain a person for an involuntary mental health evaluation. Medical negligence claims arising after the mental health assessment and resulting clinical decision to detain and claims unrelated to mental health are not intended to be included in the immunity protection.

An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Mental Health And Liability.

Rep. Earl Jaques [D]	Rep. Michael Barbieri [D]	Sen. Bethany Hall-Long [D]	Sen. Margaret Henry [D]
Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Rep. Quinton Johnson [D]	Rep. John Kowalko [D]	Rep. Joseph Miro [R]
Rep. John Mitchell [D]	Rep. Darryl Scott [D]	Sen. Bruce Ennis [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]

2013-03-19 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 18 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2013-01-17 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 41 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-03-28	House	Signed by Governor
2013-03-19	Senate	Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 18 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2013-03-19	Senate	Lifted From Table in Senate
2013-03-14	Senate	Laid On Table in Senate
2013-03-13	Senate	Reported Out of Committee (HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits
2013-01-22	Senate	Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate
2013-01-17	House	Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 41 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2013-01-16	House	Reported Out of Committee (HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT) in House with 12 Favorable
2013-01-15	House	Introduced in House and assigned to Health & Human Development Committee
2013-01-15	House	Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis147.nsf/2bede841c6272c888025698400433a04/31f8a6bd168b5bea85257aed00763e69?OpenDocument
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis147.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+9/$file/legis.html?open
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis147.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/fa11793d6491025c85257af6007997d3?OpenDocument
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis147.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/32358de4264207af85257b33006de6f1?OpenDocument