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Committee urges state action on behavioral-health bills, flags debate over conservatorship changes
Summary
The committee unanimously recommended a resolution urging the state to pass a package of bills to modernize behavioral-health care, including measures on data, bed capacity and conservatorship; supervisors noted SB 1416's proposed expansion of 'grave disability' is especially contentious.
On May 26 the Public Safety & Neighborhood Services Committee voted to forward a resolution urging the California Legislature to pass a package of behavioral-health bills authored by Senator Susan Eggman that supervisors said would strengthen data collection, bed planning and legal tools to serve people with severe mental illness.
Supervisor Rafael Mandelmann summarized the package bill-by-bill, describing proposals to…
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