Bill No.: SF0056 Drafter: JHR

LSO No.: 06LSO-0165 Effective Date: 7/1/2006

Enrolled Act No.: HEA0060

Chapter No.: 111

Prime Sponsor: Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

Catch Title: Involuntary commitments.

Subject: Amends procedures for the involuntary commitment of the mentally ill.

Summary/Major Elements:

· This bill:

· Provides that the Department of Health shall adopt standards and procedures to designate hospitals or other treatment facilities to provide treatment to persons detained under emergency conditions because the person may be mentally ill and a danger to self or others;

· Specifies the proceeding for an involuntary hospitalization shall be commenced in the county where the person was initially detained and that costs for the first 72 hours of the emergency detention shall be borne by the person's county of residence;

· Provides for termination of a county's costs for detention, treatment or transportation, if continued emergency detention (i.e., beyond the first 72 hours) is ordered before an involuntary hospitalization hearing is conducted. The Department of Health shall be responsible for costs once continued emergency detention is ordered;

· Specifies the Wyoming State Hospital is the hospital of last resort to receive a person involuntarily hospitalized.