SENATE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 1460, 1838, 2083,
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PRINTER'S NO. 4252
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1233
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY MURT, BAKER, BENNINGHOFF, BLOOM, BOBACK, BRIGGS,
V. BROWN, SCHLEGEL CULVER, DeLISSIO, EVERETT, GODSHALL,
HEFFLEY, IRVIN, KINSEY, MICCARELLI, D. MILLER, MUSTIO,
NEILSON, NELSON, RADER, ROTHMAN, TAYLOR, TOEPEL, TOOHIL,
WATSON, WHITE, HANNA, DAVIS, BARBIN, SANTORA AND MADDEN,
APRIL 17, 2017
AS AMENDED ON SECOND CONSIDERATION, IN SENATE, OCTOBER 15, 2018
AN ACT
Amending the act of July 9, 1976 (P.L.817, No.143), entitled "An
act relating to mental health procedures; providing for the
treatment and rights of mentally disabled persons, for
voluntary and involuntary examination and treatment and for
determinations affecting those charged with crime or under
sentence," in general provisions, further providing for scope
of act, providing for definitions and, further providing for
TREATMENT FACILITIES AND FOR individualized treatment plan
AND PROVIDING FOR ASSISTED OUTPATIENT TREATMENT
IMPLEMENTATION BY COUNTIES AND FOR ASSISTED OUTPATIENT
TREATMENT IMPLEMENTATION BY DEPARTMENT; in involuntary
examination and treatment, further providing for persons
subject, FOR INVOLUNTARY EMERGENCY EXAMINATION AND TREATMENT
AUTHORIZED BY PHYSICIAN, for persons for whom application may
be made and for additional periods of court-ordered
involuntary treatment; and adding provisions relating to
assisted outpatient treatment.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 103 of the act of July 9, 1976 (P.L.817,
No.143), known as the Mental Health Procedures Act, is amended
to read:
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