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Committee advances bill aligning neurocognitive hold language with mental-health statute
Summary
The Idaho House Judiciary and Rules Committee on March 17 advanced a bill that aligns emergency-hold language for neurocognitive crises with the state's mental-health statute, aiming to clarify when a person may be temporarily detained for their own or others' safety.
The Idaho House Judiciary and Rules Committee on March 17 advanced a bill that makes a narrow wording change to statutes governing emergency holds for people experiencing severe neurocognitive crises.
Representative Alana Rubell, who carried the bill in the House, described it as "a small tweak" to language contained in a prior bill enacted last year that created a mechanism for emergency holds for people with dementia or other severe cognitive conditions. Rubell said the change replaces the phrase "likely to injure themselves or others" with language stating the person—s "continued liberty poses an imminent danger to themselves or…
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