Involuntary commitment.
What changed between versions
The Senate removed the amendment to Section 5150, which had added 'emergency physician' as a person authorized to take someone into custody for a 72-hour involuntary hold. Emergency physicians can no longer independently detain individuals under this provision.
The Senate removed the entire amendment to Section 5008, including the new definition of 'emergency physician' that had been added as subdivision (r). The definition now appears only within Section 5121(f)(3).
In Section 5121(f)(1), the requirement for counties to include emergency physicians was reworded from 'a professional who is eligible to be designated' to 'one of the practice disciplines eligible to be designated,' clarifying that emergency physicians are a category of practice discipline rather than an individual professional.
In Section 5121(f)(2), the Senate added 'revocation' to the list of processes (training, application, approval, and revocation) that apply to all designated professionals including emergency physicians, ensuring counties can remove a designation if needed.
In Section 5113, the liability protection language was changed from 'the emergency physician designated pursuant to Section 5121' to 'the emergency physician professional person designated pursuant to Section 5121,' clarifying that the civil and criminal liability shield applies specifically to emergency physicians who have been formally designated as professional persons under the county's procedures.
