Connecticut 2025 Regular Session

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Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/23/2025

                             
 
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General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 6565  
January Session, 2025  
LCO No. 3098 
 
 
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH  
 
 
Introduced by:  
REP. BIGGINS, 11th Dist. 
REP. JOHNSON, 49th Dist. 
REP. SHANNON, 117th Dist. 
REP. WINTER, 94th Dist. 
REP. SHAKE, 120th Dist. 
SEN. MARX, 20th Dist. 
 
 
 
AN ACT REQUIRING CERTAIN HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS TO 
COMMUNICATE ANY SAFETY PLAN PRESCRIBED TO A MINOR 
PATIENT UPON DISCHARGE WITH SUCH MINOR PATIENT'S 
SCHOOL. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
 
That the general statutes be amended to require each hospital and 1 
emergency psychiatric health care provider that prescribes a safety plan 2 
to a minor patient upon discharge to communicate, with the consent of 3 
such minor patient's parent or legal guardian, such safety plan with the 4 
minor patient's school. 5 
Statement of Purpose:   
To promote student safety at schools by requiring hospitals and 
emergency psychiatric health care providers to communicate any safety 
plan prescribed to a minor patient with such minor patient's school.