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House passes paired mental-health bills to strengthen patient rights oversight and informed-consent protections
Summary
The House approved House Bills 4218 and 4219 to change oversight of recipient-rights advisory panels and require that voluntarily committed psychiatric patients receive written notice of rights. Sponsors cited family complaints and an auditor general audit as motivation.
The Michigan House of Representatives passed two bills, House Bill 4218 and House Bill 4219, that sponsors said will strengthen oversight and patient-rights protections in state-run psychiatric facilities. The measures passed the House on record roll calls and were ordered to take immediate effect.
Representative Donavan Thompson (as recorded on the floor) spoke at length in support of the bills, saying she began receiving calls from families reporting serious harms at state psychiatric hospitals. Thompson told the House about families in Wayne…
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