SB 1492: Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Providing exceptions to a provision prohibiting the court from appointing the public defender to represent certain persons who are not indigent; providing that the opinion of a qualified professional, rather than that of a psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse practicing within the framework of an established protocol with a psychiatrist, may be the basis for the court to grant a petition for the appointment of a guardian advocate; authorizing a qualified professional, rather than a physician or the patient’s psychiatric nurse, to restrict a patient’s access to his or her clinical records if the qualified professional believes such access to the records is harmful to the patient; requiring the qualified professional who assessed the patient, rather than the treating physician or psychiatric nurse practicing within the framework of an established protocol with a psychiatrist, to document in the patient’s clinical record that the patient is able to give express and informed consent for admission, etc.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. June 16, 2025Died in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
2. May 3, 2025Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
3. March 10, 2025Introduced
4. March 6, 2025Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Rules
5. February 27, 2025Filed