Committee sends bill fixing purge process for involuntary mental health commitments to rules
House Bill 285 would require a procedure — rather than an automatic computer purge — before records of involuntary mental health commitments are removed from criminal background checks; the committee passed the bill without debate.
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Representative Debbie Buckner presented House Bill 285 to the committee on March 6, 2025. She said the bill “provides for a procedure to purge someone that was involuntarily committed to a mental health hospital from the criminal background checklist rather than having the computer do the purge automatically.”
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