Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Providing an exception to background screening requirements for certain licensed physicians and nurses; authorizing the state to establish that a transfer evaluation was performed by providing the court with a copy of the evaluation before the close of the state’s case-in-chief; allowing a patient’s legal custodian to authorize release of the patient’s clinical records; revising requirements for ordering a person for involuntary services and treatment, petitions for involuntary service, appointment of counsel, and continuances of hearings, respectively, etc. APPROPRIATION: $50,000,000