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Subcommittee amends, forwards HB 1895 to appropriations to loosen rules for psychiatric emergency departments
2158764 · January 28, 2025
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Summary
The subcommittee voted to report HB 1895, as amended, to the Appropriations Committee. The bill removes a requirement that psychiatric emergency departments be adjacent to behavioral-health-licensed facilities and inserts a statutory compliance clause.
Delegate Herring presented HB 1895, a bill that “relates to what we determine psychiatric emergency departments.” The measure, as he described it, “will specifically remove the requirement that those psychiatric emergency departments… be adjacent to facilities licensed by behavioral health.”
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