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Sutter‑Yuba Behavioral Health warns counties that SB 43 could raise conservatorship demand and costs
Summary
Sutter‑Yuba Behavioral Health director Rick Bingham told supervisors SB 43 expands LPS conservatorship criteria to include severe substance use disorder and inability to access essential medical care; he said counties are already seeing a 7‑year rise in conservatorships and that housing individuals in locked facilities costs the counties about $6.7 million annually.
Rick Bingham, director of Sutter‑Yuba Behavioral Health, briefed the Yuba County Board of Supervisors on Senate Bill 43 — the 2023 law that expands Lanterman‑Petris‑Short (LPS) conservatorship criteria — and the implications for local services and budgets.
Bingham explained that SB 43 broadened the definition of “grave disability” under the LPS Act to include a standalone severe substance use disorder or a co‑occurring mental health/substance‑use disorder, and to permit conservatorship where an individual is at serious risk to health or cannot access medically necessary care.…
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