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Senate approves first substitute to mental-health amendments, adding privacy-waiver option and procedural clarifications
Summary
The Senate substituted and approved first substitute SB38, which requires review of a patient’s mental-health history before civil commitment, restores specific authority to local mental-health entities, and directs providers to offer patients a privacy-waiver option to allow family involvement. Vote: 28–0, 1 absent.
Senator Fillmore, sponsor of the interim-committee bill, outlined three policy changes in the first substitute to Senate Bill 38: requiring consideration of a patient’s mental‑health history before civil commitment, reaffirming certain powers for local mental‑health authorities, and directing mental‑health professionals to offer first‑time patients an opportunity to sign a privacy…
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