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Senate committee backs bill to allow crisis holds 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 person with a neurocognitive disorder into a crisis hold.
Senate Health and Welfare Committee members voted to send Senate Bill 11 20 to the full Senate with a do-pass recommendation after the bill’s sponsor proposed a language change aimed at easing law enforcement concerns.
Senator Melissa Wintrow, D-Boise, told the committee the bill is a narrow update to last year’s law that created a crisis-hold process for people with neurocognitive disorders who pose a danger to themselves or others. Wintrow said some law…
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