2014 Budget Session - Bill Title - SF0114 - Hospitalization of mentally ill persons.

AN ACT relating to hospitalization of mentally ill patients; providing for convalescent status of formerly hospitalized patients; requiring the state hospital to maintain capacity to treat persons detained for mental illness on an emergency or involuntary basis; requiring a preliminary examination be done by a different examiner than the one who initiated the detention; requiring action within seventy-two hours of the preliminary examination; providing for notification and action by county attorneys; and providing for an effective date.