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Senate committee advances amendment to crisis-hold bill for people with neurocognitive disorders
Summary
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send Senate Bill 11 20 forward after the sponsor proposed changing the legal standard police would use to place a crisis hold for people with neurocognitive disorders, replacing “likely to injure” language with an “imminent danger” standard familiar to law enforcement.
Senator Melissa Wintrow, sponsor of Senate Bill 11 20, told the Senate Health and Welfare Committee that the bill would extend a crisis-hold procedure to people with neurocognitive disorders who are in crisis and pose a danger to themselves or others.
Wintrow said the bill builds on a measure passed last year and was prompted by an incident at a homeless shelter where a person with Huntington’s disease was “throwing hot coffee pots at folks” and police had no crisis-hold option. She said the earlier statute created a crisis…
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