Bill Title: As enacted, provides for prescreening agents, physicians, and psychologists to be considered state employees when assessing persons for admission and transportation to involuntary inpatient treatment; authorizes transport of people with a mental illness who do not present a danger to themselves or are not in need of physical restraint or vehicular security by a friend, neighbor, relative, clergy, or other mental health professional familiar with the person; revises other provisions regarding transport of persons with mental illness.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2009-07-01 - Comp. became Pub. Ch. 468 [HB1385 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

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