Delaware Senate Bill 242 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)
Status: Introduced on March 8 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-03-08 - Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate
Pending: Senate Health & Social Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

When a youth who is experiencing foster care and living in an out-of-home placement has a need for residential psychiatric treatment, there can be a delay in gaining voluntary admission to a facility due to the Division of Family Services needing to obtain the youths parent or legal guardians consent for treatment. This can lead to a youth waiting in an emergency department bed or other inappropriate setting while waiting for the proper consent to be signed. In some cases, when a youths parent or legal guardian cannot be located, the youth must be involuntarily committed in order to obtain residential treatment, even when the youth is going willingly.

An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Health And Safety And Voluntary Admission Procedure.

Sen. Marie Pinkney [D]	Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown [D]	Sen. Kyle Gay [D]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]
Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]	Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]
Rep. Krista Griffith [D]	Rep. Eric Morrison [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-08		Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79199
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=79199&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB242