SB3977 Summary

• Department of Human Services must develop an assessment protocol and training for tardive dyskinesia and other drug-induced involuntary movement disorders within 6 months of the bill's effective date.

• Department of Human Services must make the assessment protocol and training available to all State agencies that contract for or directly provide housing services, including the Department of Corrections, Department of Children and Family Services, Department of Juvenile Justice, and Department of Veterans' Affairs.

• Department of Children and Family Services, Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, and Department of Veterans' Affairs must train appropriate staff and screen all residents prescribed psychotropic medication within one year of the bill's effective date using the assessment protocol.

• Each affected department must publish a report on its website showing the number of residents assessed for tardive dyskinesia and other drug-induced involuntary movement disorders by facility, with results of assessments, while protecting individual resident privacy.

• The bill takes effect immediately upon becoming law.