West Virginia Senate Bill 425 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on March 4 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-03-04 - To Health and Human Resources
Pending: Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to provide mental health treatment alternatives to involuntary commitment; allow a court to convert an involuntary hospitalization application into a petition for a temporary compliance order; eliminate the sunset provision; modify the requirements and process necessary to enter a treatment compliance order; clarify that persons who use the modified procedures of this section are not subject to reporting to certain databases; and create a new database for compilation of certain persons to be used by the circuit courts.

Relating to mental health treatment alternatives

Sen. Gregory Tucker [D]

Sen. Jeffrey Kessler [D]

Sen. Donald Cookman [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-03-04	Senate	To Health and Human Resources
2013-03-04	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2013-03-04	Senate	To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2013-03-04	Senate	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
27	5	11	Amended Code	Citation Text
27	5	12	New Code	See Bill Text
27	5	2a	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=425&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb425%20intr.htm&yr=2013&sesstype=RS&i=425