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Senate advances assisted outpatient mental-health bill amid funding questions
Summary
SB 39, which would create an assisted outpatient treatment pathway for people with severe mental illness, was advanced to third reading after sponsor remarks and a floor exchange about fiscal impacts on county mental health authorities; the floor recorded broad support but senators requested consultation with local health departments.
The Utah Senate on the floor advanced SB 39, Assisted Outpatient Treatment for Mental Illness, to third reading after sponsor Sen. Daniel Fillmore described the measure as an early-intervention 'off-ramp' intended to help people with severe mental illness before they are civilly committed or enter the criminal justice system.
Fillmore said the bill creates a 'need for treatment' standard and outlines procedures family members, courts and county mental health departments would follow.…
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