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HB2036: Admission hearings, involuntary; adds providers to list by which an examiner may be employed.
Chief Patron
Del.
Phil Hamilton (R-93)
Phil Hamilton
(R-93)
Newport News, VA
Served: 1988–
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Became Law |
Status
03/15/2007: signed by governor
Summary
Involuntary admission hearings; examination providers. Adds community service boards and behavioral health authorities to the list of facilities by which an examiner may be employed.
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27 votes
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Comments
This bill undermines the entire purpose of an independent evaluation of people subject to commitment for 180 days of their lives. The purpose was to protect the civil rights and prevent conflicts of interest in witnesses at hearings. The VACSB is pushing this bill just because one county wouldn't let them use CSB professionals when their independent evaluators were away. So the VACSB is prepared to deprive a whole class of people of their civil rights over one county's problems. How nice, how recovery oriented, how typical.
The bill was passed out of committee. Please write your senator and ask him or her to vote against this bill that will take away a very important protection for anyone (and that is everyone) who is at risk of inappropriate and unneccessary commitment to our pathetic and dangerous Virginia mental health system.