Introduced
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To establish a new category of "assisted outpatient treatment" or "AOT," which means intensive case management services or “assertive community treatment team services” for those mental heath patients that a court has ordered to submit to such treatment, and require local community mental health services programs to provide AOT. AOT may include medication; drug tests to determine compliance with prescribed medications; individual or group therapy; day program activities; vocational, educational, or self-help training or activities; alcohol or substance abuse treatment and counseling, with periodic drug or alcohol tests; supervision of living arrangements; and any other services to treat the mental illness and assist the individual in living and functioning in the community, or needed to prevent relapse or deterioration that may reasonably be predicted to result in suicide or hospitalization. The bill would authorize a court to order AOT, and it provides standards for making such an order, if a petition is filed by another person requesting the treatment, subject to an investigation and hearing to determine whether and which type of treatment is warranted.
Referred to the Committee on Health Policy
