HLS 21RS-635 ORIGINAL
2021 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO.589
BY REPRESENTATIVE DUPLESSIS
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
MENTAL HEALTH: Provides relative to petitions for authorizing involuntary outpatient
treatment
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 28:67(4), relative to behavioral health; to provide for persons
3 who may petition to the court to authorize involuntary outpatient treatment; and to
4 provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 28:67(4) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง67. Petition to the court
8 A petition for an order authorizing involuntary outpatient treatment may be
9 filed in the judicial district in the parish in which the patient is present or reasonably
10 believed to be present. A petition to obtain an order authorizing involuntary
11 outpatient treatment may be initiated by one of the following persons:
12 * * *
13 (4) Any interested person through counsel with written concurrence of the
14 coroner in the jurisdiction in which the person is found.
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are additions. HLS 21RS-635 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 589
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 589 Original 2021 Regular Session Duplessis
Abstract: Provides for persons who may petition the court when authorizing involuntary
outpatient treatment.
Present law provides that a petition to obtain an order authorizing involuntary outpatient
treatment may be initiated by several authorized persons including any interested person
through counsel with written concurrence of the coroner in the jurisdiction in which the
person is found.
Proposed law retains present law but no longer requires that an interested person through
counsel shall have written concurrence of the coroner in the jurisdiction in which the person
is found.
(Amends R.S. 28:67(4))
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
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