HB2387: MHDD CD-OUTPATIENT TREATMENT

Legislative Summary

Reinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1. In the amendatory changes to the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code, provides that an order of care and custody that grants the custodian the authority to consent to the admission of (rather than admit) a respondent to a hospital if the respondent fails to comply with the conditions of the order does not apply to a respondent charged with a felony. Provides that noncompliance with an order placing the respondent in the care and custody of a relative or other person willing and able to properly care for him or her or committing the respondent to alternative treatment at a community mental health provider shall not be a basis for a finding of contempt.