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Senate panel approves change to crisis-hold language for people with neurocognitive disorders
Summary
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved sending Senate Bill 1120 to the Senate with a do-pass recommendation after debate over replacing a "likely to injure" standard with an "imminent danger" standard for crisis holds involving people with neurocognitive disorders.
Senate Bill 1120, which would create a limited crisis-hold authority for people with neurocognitive disorders, advanced from the Senate Health and Welfare Committee after senators voted to send the bill to the full Senate with a do-pass recommendation.
The bill was presented by Senator Melissa Wintrow, who said the measure builds on a law enacted last year and would allow police as a last resort to take a person with a neurocognitive disorder to a hospital for…
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