THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2015

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR

Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Chair

Senator Maile S.L. Shimabukuro, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

Senator Jill N. Tokuda, Chair

Senator Ronald D. Kouchi, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING

 

DATE:

Friday, February 27, 2015

TIME:

10:10 am

PLACE:

Conference Room 211

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

THE FOLLOWING MEASURE WAS PREVIOUSLY HEARD IN THE HEALTH COMMITTEE AND IN THE HUMAN SERVICES AND HOUSING COMMITTEE:

 

SB 961, SD1

      (SSCR398)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT.

Removes the ten-day time limit for setting a hearing date on a petition for assisted community treatment.  Allows for notice of continuation hearings to the subject to be served via the public defender.  Specifies provisions governing the appointment of a public defender or other court-appointed counsel.  Removes provisions allowing the court to order a subject to be examined by a licensed psychiatrist.  Requires treating providers to provide the department of health information related to MH-1s and hospitalization of persons who are under an order to treat by September 30 of each year.  (SD1)

HTH/HSH, JDL/WAM

 

DECISION MAKING MEETING ONLY, NO ORAL TESTIMONY WILL BE ACCEPTED.

 

Persons wishing to submit written testimony may do so up to 24 hours prior to the hearing.

 

Click here to submit testimony to the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Jill N. Tokuda

Chair

 

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Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran

Chair