SB 3137

Abstract

Amends the Substance Use Disorder Act and the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that substance abuse programs and mental health or developmental disabilities facilities operating in the State shall provide verbal notice to the personal representative of the patient within 24 hours after the death of a patient and shall provide written notice to the personal representative of the patient within 5 days after the death of a patient. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as Jordan's Law. Provides that a mental health or developmental disabilities facility shall provide notice in accordance with the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the bill, as amended by Senate Amendments numbers 1 and 2 with the following change, in the amendatory changes to the Substance Use Disorder Act, provides that the notice shall be provided for persons whose death occurred in a licensed facility for the treatment of substance use disorders (rather than at treatment programs). Effective immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Provides that the verbal and written notices of death of a patient occurring in a licensed substance use disorder treatment facility or in a mental health or developmental disabilities facility shall be provided by the facility to the personal representative of the patient, if known. Provides that the facility shall attempt to provide (rather than shall provide) verbal notice of the death to the personal representative, if known.