Bill Text: MS HB1150 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Mental Health Diversion Pilot Program; expand statewide.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-02-05 - Died In Committee [HB1150 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2019-HB1150-Introduced.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2019 Regular Session

To: Judiciary B

By: Representative Blackmon

House Bill 1150

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 9-27-21, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO EXPAND THE CIRCUIT COURT DISTRICTS THAT MAY ESTABLISH A MENTAL HEALTH DIVERSION PILOT PROGRAM; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

     SECTION 1.  Section 9-27-21, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     9-27-21.  * * *The following Any circuit court * * *districts district may establish a mental health diversion pilot program * * *:  Second, Third, Eighth, Twelfth, Seventeenth and Twentieth Circuit Court Districts.  The purpose of a pilot program is to implement procedures to meet the goals listed in Section 9-27-3 on a trial basis and is conditioned upon the availability of funds obtained for that purpose from public or private sources other than funds appropriated by the Legislature.  Any drug court * * *in the Second, Third, Eighth or Twentieth Circuit Court Districts shall render such assistance * * *as is authorized by the senior circuit judge as needed to establish a mental health diversion program.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2019.

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