AR SB299

Adds definition of "assisted outpatient treatment" as a court-ordered outpatient treatment program allowing individuals with mental illness to comply with treatment while living in their own community

Expands involuntary admission criteria to include persons whose noncompliance with treatment has resulted in psychiatric hospitalization, incarceration, or serious violent behavior at least two times within 48 months

Allows courts to order assisted outpatient treatment for up to six (6) months as an alternative to or in conjunction with involuntary inpatient admission

Permits courts to order individuals to comply with treatment plans and services prescribed by their local community mental health center when receiving assisted outpatient treatment

Authorizes use of short-acting and long-acting medication during forty-five-day inpatient admissions, six-month assisted outpatient treatment periods, and one-hundred-eighty-day involuntary admissions