AZ HB2969

Requires automatic suspension of in-person parenting time when a parent undergoes involuntary behavioral health commitment, with an expedited court hearing within 10 days to assess the parent's mental state and safety risks to children.

Parents who voluntarily commit themselves to inpatient behavioral health treatment must disclose relevant records to the other parent within 5 business days of discharge, including admission dates, discharge summary, medications, and safety recommendations.

Courts must order a lethality and psychosis risk assessment for any parent who undergoes voluntary or involuntary commitment, evaluating factors such as suicidal/homicidal ideation, delusions involving children, weapons access, and treatment compliance.

Before granting or expanding unsupervised parenting time following a commitment, courts must make written findings that the parent is psychiatrically stable, not experiencing psychotic symptoms involving children, not a suicide/homicide risk, and compliant with treatment.

Mandates additional training requirements for court-appointed advisors and investigators, including 6 initial hours on behavioral health crisis and child safety risk assessment, plus annual continuing education on domestic violence, child abuse, and behavioral health crisis.