2025 bills / H.B. 56
H.B. 56 Civil Commitment Modifications (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
This bill changes the notice required when a person is released from temporary involuntary mental health commitment. It also changes the content of discharge instructions from a local mental health authority, allows them on paper or electronically based on the person's preference, lets a local authority's designee perform certain civil commitment tasks, and changes follow-up requirements after discharge.
Plain-English summary written by AI from the official description. Check the official text below.
Official description
- amends notification requirements for when a patient is discharged from temporary, involuntary commitment
- amends the information that must be included in discharge instructions that are given to an individual who is discharged from a local mental health authority's custody and allows discharge instructions to be provided in paper or electronic form depending on the individual's preference
- provides that certain requirements related to civil commitment may be performed by a local mental health authority's designee
- addresses when a local mental health authority is required to follow up with certain individuals discharged from civil commitment
- makes technical and conforming changes
Your legislators on this bill
Enter your address to see what your own representative and senator did on this bill.
Take action
This bill's session is over, but your legislators still want to hear from you. Ideas that died often come back next year.
Enter your address to get your legislators' contact information and a ready-to-send message about this bill.
Every vote
- 74 yes, 0 no, 1 absentFinal House vote · 1/23/2025 11:55 AMWho voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: vote to change the bill · 1/27/2025 3:11 PMWho voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · 1/27/2025 3:13 PMWho voted how
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFirst of two Senate votes · 2/5/2025 2:54 PMWho voted how
- 27 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal Senate vote · 2/6/2025 2:58 PMWho voted how
- 72 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · 2/10/2025 11:20 AMWho voted how