MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT                                                                 H.B. 5818-5820:

                                                                                                    SUMMARY OF BILL

                                                                                      REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE

House Bill 5818 through 5820 (as reported without amendment)

Sponsor:  Representative Vanessa Guerra (H.B. 5818)

     Representative Klint Kesto (H.B. 5819 & 5820)

House Committee:  Health Policy

Senate Committee:  Health Policy

CONTENT

House Bill 5818 would amend the Estates and Protected Individuals Code to do the following:

-- Allow the guardian of an incapacitated individual to give consent or approval for a ward to receive mental health treatment.

-- Prohibit a guardian from providing consent to or approval for inpatient hospitalization without a court order expressly granting the power.

-- Prescribe the procedure a guardian would have to follow if a ward refused mental health treatment.

-- Require a guardian to report any mental health treatment received by a ward.

House Bill 5819 would amend the Mental Health Code to do the following:

-- Refer to written consent to mental health treatment or written consent with a mental health facility, instead of application.

-- Require that a patient's right to object to mental health treatment be orally communicated to the patient and the person who executed written consent.

-- Refer to mental health treatment, instead of hospitalization.

-- Revise certain definitions including "assisted outpatient treatment", "consent", and "involuntary mental health treatment".

House Bill 5820 would amend the Mental Health Code to do the following:

-- Refer to "treatment", instead of "judicial admission", and specify the definition of "treatment".

-- Revise the criteria under which a court could order appropriate outpatient treatment or admission into an appropriate treatment facility if he or she had been diagnosed with a mental disability.

-- Require a facility to notify the prosecuting attorney if an individual with an intellectual disability who was admitted to a facility by court order because of previous arrest and charge related to the disability were discharged.

House Bills 5818 and 5819 are tie-barred.

MCL 700.5314 (H.B. 5818)                                          Legislative Analyst:  Tyler VanHuyse

       330.1100a et al. (H.B. 5819)

       330.1500 et al. (H.B. 5820)

FISCAL IMPACT

The bills would have no fiscal impact on State or local government.

Date Completed:  12-18-18                                               Fiscal Analyst:  Ellyn Ackerman

This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.