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Relating to access to and disclosure of information concerning mental health treatment or services involving a minor fourteen years of age or older who seeks treatment or services due to the minor’s thoughts of causing injury to self or others
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 4, 2019
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
Under current law, a mental health professional or an employee or agent for a mental health facility may disclose mental health information to the spouse, parent, adult child, or adult sibling of an individual who has a chronic mental illness under certain circumstances. This bill provides that mental health information relating to a minor who is 14 years of age or older who seeks mental health treatment or services due to the minor’s thoughts of causing injury to self or others, shall not be disclosed to the parent, guardian, or legal custodian of such minor without the minor’s consent.
Read the full explanation
Under current law, a voluntary application for voluntary admission to a public or private hospital for observation, diagnosis, care, and treatment as a voluntary patient may be made by any person who is mentally ill or has symptoms of mental illness; however, in the case of a minor, the parent, guardian, or custodian may make application for admission of the minor as a voluntary patient. The bill provides that a minor 14 years of age or older who has had thoughts of causing injury to self or others may make application under the bill and an application by the minor’s parent, guardian, or custodian is not required. The fact that such minor made such application shall not be reported or disclosed to the parent, guardian, or legal custodian of such minor without the minor’s consent.
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