Mental health courts; Crime Commission to study costs and benefits of establishing courts. (HJ154)
Introduced By
Del. Manoli Loupassi (R-Richmond)
Progress
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Introduced |
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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 |
Description
Study; costs and benefits of establishing mental health courts; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the costs and benefits associated with establishing mental health courts designed to divert nonviolent offenders with mental illnesses from local jails and state prisons and place them into judicially monitored treatment programs. View Full Text »
Outcome
Bill Has Failed
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Comments
This will put people who commit crimes at the head of the line for extremely scarce resources in the mental health system while people who have never committed a crime sit on increasingly long waiting list. This makes no sense.
laid on the table, i.e. failed. Good.