CA AB2291

Requires facilities providing 72-hour psychiatric evaluations to maintain contact information for each patient's designated medical emergency contact in their medical record.

Mandates facilities develop a continuity of care plan for each admitted patient and share it with county behavioral health directors, receiving facilities, and hearing officers as appropriate.

Requires county behavioral health directors to contact patients' medical emergency contacts and provide them with continuity of care plans before release from involuntary detention.

Obligates counties to offer homeless individuals released from involuntary psychiatric detention placement in local crisis beds or recuperative care (not congregate shelters), though acceptance is voluntary.

Provides for state reimbursement to counties for costs mandated by this legislation if determined by the Commission on State Mandates.