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OR HB2467
Bill
AI Summary
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Establishes four categories for determining a person needs treatment for mental illness: danger to self, danger to others, unable to provide for basic personal needs, or has a chronic mental disorder
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Allows courts to consider whether harmful behavior is "reasonably foreseeable in the near future" rather than requiring imminent threat, and permits consideration of a person's history, patterns of deterioration, and insight into their mental illness
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Defines "physical harm" as injury, pain, or physiological impairment that is not trivial, and "serious physical harm" as harm placing a person at risk of death or serious irreversible health impairment
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Requires chronic mental disorder classification to include two prior involuntary hospitalizations within three years and symptoms substantially similar to those preceding prior hospitalizations
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Applies to individuals taken into custody by treatment facilities or law enforcement on or after the effective date of the act
Legislative Description
Relating to mental illness.
Last Action
In committee upon adjournment.
6/27/2025