AB 85

  • Nevada Assembly Bill
  • 2019 Regular Session
  • Introduced in Assembly Nov 21, 2018
  • Assembly
  • Passed Senate May 07, 2019
  • Signed by Governor May 15, 2019

Revises provisions governing mental health. (BDR 39-443)

Abstract

AN ACT relating to mental health; requiring the adoption of regulations governing the involuntary administration of medication to persons with mental illness and the medical examination of a person alleged to be a person in a mental health crisis; authorizing the adoption of regulations concerning the plan for the discharge of a person admitted to a mental health facility or hospital; revising certain terminology and standardizing certain time periods relating to admission to mental health facilities; revising the authority of certain accredited agents to make certain certifications and transport persons with mental illness; revising requirements concerning notification to certain persons of the emergency admission of a person to a mental health facility; revising the procedure for proceedings for the involuntary court-ordered admission of a person to a mental health facility or a program of community-based or outpatient services; authorizing the disclosure to a provider of health care of certain information related to a person who seeks mental health services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

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Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

     
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May 15, 2019

Office of the Governor

Approved by the Governor. Chapter 66.

May 09, 2019

Office of the Governor

Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

May 08, 2019

Assembly

In Assembly. To enrollment.

May 07, 2019

Senate

Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.

May 06, 2019

Senate

Read second time.

May 03, 2019

Senate

From committee: Do pass.

Apr 17, 2019

Senate

In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee.

Apr 16, 2019

Assembly

From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 39, Nays: 1, Excused: 2.) To Senate.

Apr 15, 2019

Assembly

Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 126.) To printer.

Apr 11, 2019

Assembly

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

Feb 04, 2019

Assembly

Read first time. To committee.

Nov 27, 2018

Assembly

From printer.

Nov 21, 2018

Assembly

Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer.

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Amendment 126 PDF
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