Bill Text: MI HB5939 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Courts; other; priority for providing mental health services to individuals diverted from jail; require under certain circumstances. Amends sec. 208 of 1974 PA 258 (MCL 330.1208). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5938'12
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-09-25 - Printed Bill Filed 09/21/2012 [HB5939 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-HB5939-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 5939
September 20, 2012, Introduced by Reps. Oakes, Ananich, Santana, Tlaib, Hovey-Wright, Brown, Dillon, Stanley, McCann, Cavanagh, Brunner and Lipton and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
A bill to amend 1974 PA 258, entitled
"Mental health code,"
by amending section 208 (MCL 330.1208), as amended by 1995 PA 290.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 208. (1) Services provided by a community mental health
services program shall be directed to individuals who have a
serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or
developmental disability.
(2) Services may be directed to individuals who have other
mental disorders that meet criteria specified in the most recent
diagnostic and statistical manual of mental health disorders
published by the American psychiatric association and may also be
directed to the prevention of mental disability and the promotion
of mental health. Resources that have been specifically designated
to community mental health services programs for services to
individuals with dementia, alcoholism, or substance abuse or for
the prevention of mental disability and the promotion of mental
health shall be utilized for those specific purposes.
(3)
Priority shall be given to the provision of providing
services
to individuals all of the
following:
(a) Individuals with the most severe forms of serious mental
illness, serious emotional disturbance, and developmental
disability.
Priority shall also be given to the provision of
services
to individuals
(b) Individuals with a serious mental illness, serious
emotional disturbance, or developmental disability in urgent or
emergency situations.
(c) Individuals who have been ordered to obtain mental health
services under section 85 of chapter VII of the code of criminal
procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 767.85.
(4) An individual shall not be denied a service because an
individual who is financially liable is unable to pay for the
service.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5938(request no.
02551'11) of the 96th Legislature is enacted into law.
