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Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Revises written notice requirements relating to filing petitions for involuntary services; revises requirements relating to voluntary admissions to facility for examination & treatment, ordering person for involuntary services & treatment, petitions for involuntary service, appointment of counsel, & continuances of hearings; revises actions that constitute unlawf...

Outpatient Mental Health Services; Authorizing a court to order a respondent into outpatient treatment for a specified amount of time under certain circumstances; providing criteria for involuntary outpatient treatment; authorizing a certain court exercising original jurisdiction to order certain respondents into involuntary outpatient services, etc.

Mental Health of Minors; Defining the terms “immediately” and “serious bodily harm”; specifying the conditions that must be met for a minor to be taken to a receiving facility for involuntary examination; requiring that court orders for involuntary examinations be made a part of the minor’s clinical record; requiring that minors be immediately released if a parent or guardian revokes con...

Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Providing an exception to background screening requirements for certain licensed physicians and nurses; authorizing the state to establish that a transfer evaluation was performed by providing the court with a copy of the evaluation before the close of the state’s case-in-chief; allowing a patient’s legal custodian to authorize release of the patient’s clin...