CA SB367

Expands criteria for recommending Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) conservatorships to include individuals who have demonstrated an inability to accept voluntary treatment due to apparent incapacity, and broadens who can make such recommendations to include county conservatorship investigation agencies and physicians/psychiatrists who treated the person within the past year

Requires LPS conservatorship investigators to evaluate probate conservatorship (with or without major neurocognitive disorder powers) as an alternative, and mandates coordination between probate and LPS agencies when cases involve major neurocognitive disorders

Mandates individualized treatment plans within 10 days of LPS conservatorship establishment that specify goals for stabilization, evidence-based treatment, and movement to less-restrictive settings, with plans filed with the court and subject to court-ordered remediation if deficient

Prohibits courts from terminating an LPS conservatorship before the one-year term ends if the conservatee cannot be located, unless treatment plan goals are achieved; requires petitions for new conservatorships to disclose if the person had a conservatorship terminated within the prior six months

Authorizes CARE Act courts to order respondents to involuntary evaluation under LPS provisions without a county petition if the court determines the respondent appears gravely disabled, after holding a status review hearing where all parties can be heard