CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1861Introduced by Assembly Member SantiagoJanuary 07, 2020 An act to amend Section 5150.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1861, as introduced, Santiago. Mental health: involuntary commitment.Under existing law, if a person, as a result of a mental disorder, is a danger to others, or to themselves, or is gravely disabled, the person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services as a facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation. Existing law prohibits specified mental health personnel from taking certain actions that interfere with a peace officer seeking to transport, or having transported, a person detained for 72-hour treatment and evaluation.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 5150.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:5150.1. No (a) A peace officer seeking to transport, or having transported, a person to a designated facility for assessment under Section 5150, shall not be instructed by mental health personnel to take the person to, or keep the person at, a jail solely because of the unavailability of an acute bed, nor bed. Nor shall the peace officer be forbidden to transport the person directly to the designated facility. No A mental health employee from any county, state, city, or any private agency providing Short-Doyle psychiatric emergency services shall not interfere with a peace officer performing duties under Section 5150 by preventing the peace officer from entering a designated facility with the person to be assessed, nor shall any an employee of such an agency require the peace officer to remove the person without assessment as a condition of allowing the peace officer to depart.Peace officer (b) Peace officer for the purposes of this section also means includes a jailer seeking to transport or transporting a person in custody to a designated facility for assessment consistent with Section 4011.6 or 4011.8 of the Penal Code and Section 5150.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1861Introduced by Assembly Member SantiagoJanuary 07, 2020 An act to amend Section 5150.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1861, as introduced, Santiago. Mental health: involuntary commitment.Under existing law, if a person, as a result of a mental disorder, is a danger to others, or to themselves, or is gravely disabled, the person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services as a facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation. Existing law prohibits specified mental health personnel from taking certain actions that interfere with a peace officer seeking to transport, or having transported, a person detained for 72-hour treatment and evaluation.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1861
Introduced by Assembly Member SantiagoJanuary 07, 2020
Introduced by Assembly Member Santiago
January 07, 2020
An act to amend Section 5150.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1861, as introduced, Santiago. Mental health: involuntary commitment.
Under existing law, if a person, as a result of a mental disorder, is a danger to others, or to themselves, or is gravely disabled, the person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services as a facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation. Existing law prohibits specified mental health personnel from taking certain actions that interfere with a peace officer seeking to transport, or having transported, a person detained for 72-hour treatment and evaluation.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Under existing law, if a person, as a result of a mental disorder, is a danger to others, or to themselves, or is gravely disabled, the person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services as a facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation. Existing law prohibits specified mental health personnel from taking certain actions that interfere with a peace officer seeking to transport, or having transported, a person detained for 72-hour treatment and evaluation.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 5150.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:5150.1. No (a) A peace officer seeking to transport, or having transported, a person to a designated facility for assessment under Section 5150, shall not be instructed by mental health personnel to take the person to, or keep the person at, a jail solely because of the unavailability of an acute bed, nor bed. Nor shall the peace officer be forbidden to transport the person directly to the designated facility. No A mental health employee from any county, state, city, or any private agency providing Short-Doyle psychiatric emergency services shall not interfere with a peace officer performing duties under Section 5150 by preventing the peace officer from entering a designated facility with the person to be assessed, nor shall any an employee of such an agency require the peace officer to remove the person without assessment as a condition of allowing the peace officer to depart.Peace officer (b) Peace officer for the purposes of this section also means includes a jailer seeking to transport or transporting a person in custody to a designated facility for assessment consistent with Section 4011.6 or 4011.8 of the Penal Code and Section 5150.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 5150.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:5150.1. No (a) A peace officer seeking to transport, or having transported, a person to a designated facility for assessment under Section 5150, shall not be instructed by mental health personnel to take the person to, or keep the person at, a jail solely because of the unavailability of an acute bed, nor bed. Nor shall the peace officer be forbidden to transport the person directly to the designated facility. No A mental health employee from any county, state, city, or any private agency providing Short-Doyle psychiatric emergency services shall not interfere with a peace officer performing duties under Section 5150 by preventing the peace officer from entering a designated facility with the person to be assessed, nor shall any an employee of such an agency require the peace officer to remove the person without assessment as a condition of allowing the peace officer to depart.Peace officer (b) Peace officer for the purposes of this section also means includes a jailer seeking to transport or transporting a person in custody to a designated facility for assessment consistent with Section 4011.6 or 4011.8 of the Penal Code and Section 5150.
SECTION 1. Section 5150.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:
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5150.1. No (a) A peace officer seeking to transport, or having transported, a person to a designated facility for assessment under Section 5150, shall not be instructed by mental health personnel to take the person to, or keep the person at, a jail solely because of the unavailability of an acute bed, nor bed. Nor shall the peace officer be forbidden to transport the person directly to the designated facility. No A mental health employee from any county, state, city, or any private agency providing Short-Doyle psychiatric emergency services shall not interfere with a peace officer performing duties under Section 5150 by preventing the peace officer from entering a designated facility with the person to be assessed, nor shall any an employee of such an agency require the peace officer to remove the person without assessment as a condition of allowing the peace officer to depart.Peace officer (b) Peace officer for the purposes of this section also means includes a jailer seeking to transport or transporting a person in custody to a designated facility for assessment consistent with Section 4011.6 or 4011.8 of the Penal Code and Section 5150.
5150.1. No (a) A peace officer seeking to transport, or having transported, a person to a designated facility for assessment under Section 5150, shall not be instructed by mental health personnel to take the person to, or keep the person at, a jail solely because of the unavailability of an acute bed, nor bed. Nor shall the peace officer be forbidden to transport the person directly to the designated facility. No A mental health employee from any county, state, city, or any private agency providing Short-Doyle psychiatric emergency services shall not interfere with a peace officer performing duties under Section 5150 by preventing the peace officer from entering a designated facility with the person to be assessed, nor shall any an employee of such an agency require the peace officer to remove the person without assessment as a condition of allowing the peace officer to depart.Peace officer (b) Peace officer for the purposes of this section also means includes a jailer seeking to transport or transporting a person in custody to a designated facility for assessment consistent with Section 4011.6 or 4011.8 of the Penal Code and Section 5150.
5150.1. No (a) A peace officer seeking to transport, or having transported, a person to a designated facility for assessment under Section 5150, shall not be instructed by mental health personnel to take the person to, or keep the person at, a jail solely because of the unavailability of an acute bed, nor bed. Nor shall the peace officer be forbidden to transport the person directly to the designated facility. No A mental health employee from any county, state, city, or any private agency providing Short-Doyle psychiatric emergency services shall not interfere with a peace officer performing duties under Section 5150 by preventing the peace officer from entering a designated facility with the person to be assessed, nor shall any an employee of such an agency require the peace officer to remove the person without assessment as a condition of allowing the peace officer to depart.Peace officer (b) Peace officer for the purposes of this section also means includes a jailer seeking to transport or transporting a person in custody to a designated facility for assessment consistent with Section 4011.6 or 4011.8 of the Penal Code and Section 5150.
5150.1. No (a) A peace officer seeking to transport, or having transported, a person to a designated facility for assessment under Section 5150, shall not be instructed by mental health personnel to take the person to, or keep the person at, a jail solely because of the unavailability of an acute bed, nor bed. Nor shall the peace officer be forbidden to transport the person directly to the designated facility. No A mental health employee from any county, state, city, or any private agency providing Short-Doyle psychiatric emergency services shall not interfere with a peace officer performing duties under Section 5150 by preventing the peace officer from entering a designated facility with the person to be assessed, nor shall any an employee of such an agency require the peace officer to remove the person without assessment as a condition of allowing the peace officer to depart.
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(b) Peace officer for the purposes of this section also means includes a jailer seeking to transport or transporting a person in custody to a designated facility for assessment consistent with Section 4011.6 or 4011.8 of the Penal Code and Section 5150.