Bill Text: MI HB4239 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Courts; other; priority for providing mental health services to individuals diverted from criminal prosecution; require under certain circumstances. Amends sec. 208 of 1974 PA 258 (MCL 330.1208). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4238'13

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-13 - Printed Bill Filed 02/13/2013 [HB4239 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB4239-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4239

 

February 12, 2013, Introduced by Reps. Oakes, Lane, Townsend, Brown, Howrylak, Slavens, Hovey-Wright, Lipton, Banks, Schor and Irwin and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1974 PA 258, entitled

 

"Mental health code,"

 

by amending section 208 (MCL 330.1208), as amended by 1995 PA 290.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 208. (1) Services provided by a community mental health

 

services program shall be directed to individuals who have a

 

serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or

 

developmental disability.

 

     (2) Services may be directed to individuals who have other

 

mental disorders that meet criteria specified in the most recent

 

diagnostic and statistical manual of mental health disorders

 

published by the American psychiatric association and may also be

 

directed to the prevention of mental disability and the promotion

 

of mental health. Resources that have been specifically designated

 

to community mental health services programs for services to

 

individuals with dementia, alcoholism, or substance abuse or for

 

the prevention of mental disability and the promotion of mental

 

health shall be utilized for those specific purposes.

 

     (3) Priority shall be given to the provision of providing

 

services to individuals all of the following:

 

     (a) Individuals with the most severe forms of serious mental

 

illness, serious emotional disturbance, and developmental

 

disability. Priority shall also be given to the provision of

 

services to individuals

 

     (b) Individuals with a serious mental illness, serious

 

emotional disturbance, or developmental disability in urgent or

 

emergency situations.

 

     (c) Individuals who have been ordered to obtain mental health

 

services under section 85 of chapter VII of the code of criminal

 

procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 767.85.

 

     (4) An individual shall not be denied a service because an

 

individual who is financially liable is unable to pay for the

 

service.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4238(request no.

 

00428'13) of the 97th Legislature is enacted into law.