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AB 85 Nevada Assembly · 2019 Regular Session

Revises provisions governing mental health. (BDR 39-443)

Summary
AN ACT relating to mental health; requiring the adoption of regulations governing the involuntary administration of medication to persons with mental illness and the medical examination of a person alleged to be a person in a mental health crisis; authorizing the adoption of regulations concerning the plan for the discharge of a person admitted to a mental health facility or hospital; revising certain terminology and standardizing certain time periods relating to admission to mental health facilities; revising the authority of certain accredited agents to make certain certifications and transport persons with mental illness; revising requirements concerning notification to certain persons of the emergency admission of a person to a mental health facility; revising the procedure for proceedings for the involuntary court-ordered admission of a person to a mental health facility or a program of community-based or outpatient services; authorizing the disclosure to a provider of health care of certain information related to a person who seeks mental health services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Nov 2018
Committee Review
May 2019
Assembly Passage
Apr 2019
Senate Passage
May 2019
Signed into Law
May 2019
Introduced Nov 21, 2018 Signed May 15, 2019
Floor votes · Senate May 7, 2019 · Assembly Apr 16, 2019

How they voted

21–0
Passed
Total votes 21
May 7, 2019
D Democratic13
13 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican8
8 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
14
Key actions
5
Committee
3
May 15, 2019
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor. Chapter 66.
executive
May 7, 2019
Upper · Passed
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
upper
May 3, 2019
Upper · Passed
From committee: Do pass.
upper
Apr 17, 2019
Committee
In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee.
upper
Apr 16, 2019
Assembly · Passed
Assembly Vote: pass (39-1-2)
assembly
Apr 11, 2019
Lower · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
lower
Nov 21, 2018
Introduced
Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer.
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

No sponsor information available.