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Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 2, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 2, 2023
- Done: House committeeFebruary 23, 2023
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 466
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became HF 466 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 466 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Courts holding hearings about involuntary commitment for mental illness or substance use disorders can now allow certain health professionals to testify over television. Judges also have the power to hold these hearings over the phone. People involved in the case, such as the applicant or the person being committed, can choose to opt out of the professional testifying via video.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to televised testimony at involuntary commitment hearings for persons with substance-related disorders and persons with a mental illness. _____ disorder or mental illness, may allow a specified health professional who examined the respondent in connection with the commitment hearing to provide testimony at the hearing via televised means. The bill also allows such hearings to take place telephonically at the discretion of the court. The bill provides that, in a hearing relating to a person’s involuntary commitment for a substance-related disorder or mental illness, an applicant, respondent, and a respondent’s attorney may waive the televised appearance at the hearing of the health professional who examined the respondent in connection with the commitment hearing. The bill also allows such hearings to take place telephonically at the discretion of the court.
House subcommittee
Named February 2, 2023. On February 15, 2023 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.
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