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Committee adopts amendments to mental‑health petition bill, then holds measure to confirm crisis‑team dispatch practice
Summary
The committee adopted amendments to House Bill 860 to limit petition extensions to 30 days and require courts to include expiration times, but members raised concerns about a 'subject to the discretion of the peace officer' phrase; the chair held the bill pending clarification from the Anne Arundel County crisis response team.
The House Judiciary Committee considered House Bill 860 (sponsored by Delegate Austin) and adopted two amendments before pausing further action to verify how the bill would operate in practice.
A staff member identified two amendments: a technical amendment (Amendment 1) and Amendment 2, which limits any court extension of a petition to no more than 30 days from the petition’s original endorsement date, requires good cause and that the petition’s original grounds still exist, requires courts to include…
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