Marcus alert system; participation in the system is optional for localities, etc. (SB361)
Introduced By
Sen. Richard Stuart (R-Westmoreland)
Progress
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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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Description
Marcus alert system; participation. Extends the date by which localities shall establish voluntary databases to be made available to the 9-1-1 alert system and the Marcus alert system to provide relevant mental health information and emergency contact information for appropriate response to an emergency or crisis from July 1, 2021, to July 1, 2023, and provides an exemption to the requirement that localities establish protocols for local law-enforcement agencies to enter into memorandums of agreement with mobile crisis response providers regarding requests for law-enforcement back-up during mobile crisis or community care team response and minimum standards, best practices, and a system for the review and approval of protocols for law-enforcement participation in the Marcus alert system for localities with a population that is less than or equal to 40,000, so that localities with a population that is less than or equal to 40,000 may but are not required to establish such protocols. The bill also requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to include in its annual report to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committees for Courts of Justice and on Health, Welfare and Institutions, the Senate Committees on the Judiciary and Education and Health, and the Behavioral Health Commission information regarding barriers to establishment of local Marcus alert programs and community care or mobile crisis teams to provide mobile crisis response in geographical areas served by community services boards or behavioral health agencies in which such programs and teams have not been established and a plan for addressing such barriers. This bill is identical to HB 1191. Read the Bill »
Outcome
History
Date | Action |
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01/11/2022 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102006D |
01/11/2022 | Referred to Committee on Education and Health |
01/21/2022 | Assigned Education sub: Health |
01/24/2022 | Impact statement from DPB (SB361) |
01/27/2022 | Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered |
01/27/2022 | Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
01/27/2022 | Committee substitute printed 22105304D-S1 |
01/28/2022 | Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
01/31/2022 | Read second time |
01/31/2022 | Reading of substitute waived |
01/31/2022 | Committee substitute agreed to 22105304D-S1 |
01/31/2022 | Passed by for the day |
02/01/2022 | Passed by for the day |
02/02/2022 | Floor substitute printed 22105835D-S2 (McPike) |
02/02/2022 | Passed by for the day |
02/03/2022 | Passed by for the day |
02/04/2022 | Floor substitute printed 22106013D-S3 (Stuart) |
02/04/2022 | Read second time |
02/04/2022 | Committee substitute reconsidered (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/04/2022 | Committee substitute rejected 22105111D-S1 |
02/04/2022 | Substitute by Senator McPike withdrawn 22105835D-S2 |
02/04/2022 | Reading of substitute waived |
02/04/2022 | Substitute by Senator Stuart agreed to 22106013D-S3 |
02/04/2022 | Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB361S3 |
02/07/2022 | Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/09/2022 | Impact statement from DPB (SB361S3) |
02/22/2022 | Placed on Calendar |
02/22/2022 | Read first time |
02/22/2022 | Referred to Committee on Public Safety |
02/23/2022 | Assigned PS sub: Subcommittee #2 |
02/24/2022 | Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) |
02/25/2022 | Reported from Public Safety with substitute (21-Y 1-N) (see vote tally) |
02/25/2022 | Committee substitute printed 22106957D-H1 |
03/01/2022 | Impact statement from DPB (SB361H1) |
03/01/2022 | Read second time |
03/02/2022 | Read third time |
03/02/2022 | Committee substitute agreed to 22106957D-H1 |
03/02/2022 | Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB361H1 |
03/02/2022 | Passed House with substitute (93-Y 7-N) |
03/02/2022 | VOTE: Passage (93-Y 7-N) (see vote tally) |
03/04/2022 | House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N) (see vote tally) |
03/04/2022 | House substitute rejected by Senate 22106957D-H1 (0-Y 39-N) (see vote tally) |
03/07/2022 | House insisted on substitute |
03/07/2022 | House requested conference committee |
03/08/2022 | Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
03/08/2022 | Conferees appointed by Senate |
03/08/2022 | Senators: Stuart, McPike, Hashmi |
03/10/2022 | Conferees appointed by House |
03/10/2022 | Delegates: Ransone, Ballard, Kory |
03/10/2022 | C Amended by conference committee |
03/10/2022 | Conference substitute printed 22107573D-S4 |
03/11/2022 | Passed by temporarily |
03/11/2022 | Conference report agreed to by House (51-Y 47-N) |
03/11/2022 | VOTE: Adoption (51-Y 47-N) (see vote tally) |
03/11/2022 | Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N) (see vote tally) |
03/21/2022 | Enrolled |
03/21/2022 | Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB361ER) |
03/21/2022 | Signed by President |
03/22/2022 | Signed by Speaker |
03/22/2022 | Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022 |
03/22/2022 | G Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022 |
03/23/2022 | Impact statement from DPB (SB361ER) |
04/11/2022 | G Approved by Governor-Chapter 613 (effective 7/1/22) |
04/11/2022 | G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0613) |
Comments
OPPOSE this bill that makes local participation optional for the new Marcus alert system for people having a mental health crisis. How law enforcement responds in these situations should not vary by the locality in which you live.
OPPOSE this bill that makes the Marcus Alert system optional for local governments. LRIDD worked hard to ensure that we begin the process of removing police from responding to incidents involving a person experiencing a mental health crisis. This needs to be a statewide program if we are to reduce the high incidence of death and injury to individuals and police in these kinds of cases.