S1240: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Care

Legislative Summary

Expanding mental health crisis services to include the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline call center; authorizing the guardian advocate to be discharged when a patient is discharged from involuntary outpatient services; providing that a designated facility that has received the transfer of a patient outside a specified timeframe or that does not receive timely notification of a transfer may not release such patient or be ordered by a court to release such patient under specified circumstances; providing that orders entered by administrative law judges for continued involuntary placement for patients at certain mental health facilities are final and subject to judicial review, etc.