File Code: Public Health
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 640
- Sponsored By:
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Senator Exum
- Entitled:
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Mental Hygiene Facilities - Patient Rights
Altering the requirement that individuals in mental hygiene facilities
be free from specified restraints and seclusions; establishing that
individuals in mental hygiene facilities be free from specified
physical restraints and holds; providing that a specified requirement
does not prohibit a specified action; requiring a mental hygiene
facility to have a written policy specifying a method for specified
patients to effectively communicate distress under specified
circumstances; etc.
Senate Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Finance
- 2/21
- Hearing 3/7 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/12
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- 3/13
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/15
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- 3/31
- Senate Concur - House Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- Passed Enrolled
House Action
- 3/16
- First Reading Health and Government Operations
- 3/21
- Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/30
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
- 3/26
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/27
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (139-0)
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 4/24
- Approved by the Governor
- - Chapter 172
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Civil Actions -see also- Small Claims
- Communications -see also- Language; Telecommunications
- Court Costs
- Developmental Disabilities
- Health -see also- Mental Health
- Hospitals -see also- Clinics; State Hospitals
- Human Rights
- Mental Health
- Patients
- State Hospitals
Bill affects the following Statute:
- Health - General
- (
10-701
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments (Displayed in PDF Format):
Senate
- Number: 277578/01 Offered on: March 13, 2007 at:
11:40 a.m. Status: Adopted
House
- Number: 146280/01 Offered on: March 30, 2007 at:
11:46 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
Senate
- March 15, 2007: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- March 31, 2007: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
House
- March 27, 2007: Third Reading Passed (139-0)