Bill Title: Imposes a duty to protect upon mental health practitioners; requires reasonable efforts to modify aspects of treatment in order to reduce or eliminate the risk of harm, initiating procedures for hospitalization, notifying the intended victim or victims, or notifying law enforcement officials when a person directly communicates a threat of serious, imminent harm to self or against a readily identifiable person or persons, and the threat includes both a serious intent to act and the ability to carry out the threat; does not require a mental health practitioner to take any action which, in the exercise of reasonable professional judgment, would endanger such mental health practitioner or increase the danger to a potential victim or victims.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-04 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH [S07969 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Contact	Phone	District	Sponsorship	State Profile	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Kevin Parker [D]	Primary	Email	518-455-2580	SD-021	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Thomas O'Mara [R]	Cosponsor	Email	518-455-2091	SD-058	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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