Indiana Senate Bill 359 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-3)
Status: Passed on May 5 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-05-05 - Public Law 225
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Individualized mental health safety plans. Requires the division of mental health and addiction to establish a standard format for individualized mental health safety plans. Requires psychiatric crisis centers, psychiatric inpatient units, and psychiatric residential treatment providers to: (1) collaboratively develop a mental health safety plan with each patient; (2) explain the benefits of coordinating care and sharing mental health safety plans with mental health providers in the community that can help with the patient's safe transition back into the community; and (3) make a good faith effort before a patient leaves a facility at which the patient is receiving care to obtain the patient's consent to disclose the patient's individualized mental health safety plan with mental health providers, integrated school based mental health providers, and mental health community paramedicine programs that will be supporting the patient's safe transition back into the community and, if applicable, school. Provides that if a licensed mental health professional or paramedic determines that a patient may be a harm to himself or herself or others, the mental health professional or paramedic may request a patient's individualized safety plan. Provides that each psychiatric crisis center, psychiatric inpatient unit, and psychiatric residential treatment provider shall, upon request and without the consent of the patient, share a patient's individualized mental safety to a mental health professional or paramedic who demonstrate proof of licensure and commit to protecting the information in compliance with privacy laws. Provides that a psychiatric crisis center, psychiatric inpatient unit, or psychiatric residential treatment provider that discloses an individualized mental health safety plan to certain licensed providers in good faith is immune from civil and criminal liability.

Individualized mental health safety plans. Requires the division of mental health and addiction to establish a standard format for individualized mental health safety plans. Requires psychiatric crisis centers, psychiatric inpatient units, and psychiatric residential treatment providers to: (1) collaboratively develop a mental health safety plan with each patient; (2) explain the benefits of coordinating care and sharing mental health safety plans with mental health providers in the community that can help with the patient's safe transition back into the community; and (3) make a good faith effort before a patient leaves a facility at which the patient is receiving care to obtain the patient's consent to disclose the patient's individualized mental health safety plan with mental health providers, integrated school based mental health providers, and mental health community paramedicine programs that will be supporting the patient's safe transition back into the community and, if applicable, school. Provides that if a licensed mental health professional or paramedic determines that a patient may be a harm to himself or herself or others, the mental health professional or paramedic may request a patient's individualized safety plan. Provides that each psychiatric crisis center, psychiatric inpatient unit, and psychiatric residential treatment provider shall, upon request and without the consent of the patient, share a patient's individualized mental safety to a mental health professional or paramedic who demonstrate proof of licensure and commit to protecting the information in compliance with privacy laws. Provides that a psychiatric crisis center, psychiatric inpatient unit, or psychiatric residential treatment provider that discloses an individualized mental health safety plan to certain licensed providers in good faith is immune from civil and criminal liability.

Sen. Michael Crider [R]	Sen. Ed Charbonneau [R]	Sen. Vaneta Becker [R]	Sen. James Merritt [R]
Sen. John Ruckelshaus [R]	Sen. Jean Leising [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]	Rep. Cindy Kirchhofer [R]
Rep. Ronald Bacon [R]	Rep. Robin Shackleford [D]	Rep. Lisa Beck [D]

2019-04-17 - Senate - Senate - Senate concurred in House amendments (Y: 46 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2019-04-09 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 95 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2019-04-03 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2019-02-26 - Senate - Third reading (Y: 49 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2019-02-06 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-05-05	Senate	Public Law 225
2019-05-05	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2019-04-30	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2019-04-24	House	Signed by the Speaker
2019-04-18	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2019-04-17	Senate	Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 524: yeas 46, nays 0
2019-04-15	Senate	Motion to concur filed
2019-04-11	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2019-04-09	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 438: yeas 95, nays 0
2019-04-08	House	Representatives Bacon, Shackleford, Beck added as cosponsors
2019-04-08	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2019-04-04	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2019-03-04	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
2019-02-27	Senate	Referred to the House
2019-02-26	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
2019-02-26	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 230: yeas 49, nays 0
2019-02-25	Senate	Amendment #1 (Crider) prevailed; voice vote
2019-02-25	Senate	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2019-02-12	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2019-02-11	Senate	Senators Merritt, Ruckelshaus, Leising added as coauthors
2019-02-11	Senate	Senator Becker added as third author
2019-02-11	Senate	Senator Charbonneau added as second author
2019-02-11	Senate	Senator Becker removed as coauthor
2019-02-07	Senate	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2019-01-14	Senate	Senator Becker added as coauthor
2019-01-10	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
2019-01-10	Senate	Authored by Senator Crider

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2019/bills/senate/359/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/a/e/5/8ae5cdd9/SB0359.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/5/4/1/d541d3ef/SB0359.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/7/f/f/57ff7fc6/SB0359.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/0/f/1/30f1adac/SB0359.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/7/5/5/a755f51e/SB0359.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/1/4/0/3140cc48/SB0359.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/d/0/4/7d04e255/SB0359.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/c/9/8/fc980365/SB0359.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/a/7/3/fa731902/SB0359.05.ENRH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/5/0/7/250760e3/SB0359.01.INTR.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/2/8/7/c287c1ac/SB0359.230.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/6/f/e/96fe3ad8/SB0359.03.ENGS.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/8/8/a/388a6ddc/SB0359.438.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/1/e/0/91e09632/SB0359.524.pdf