House of Representatives

HB 2113

health services; department; technical correction

Sponsors: Knaperek

X	Committee on Health
	Caucus and COW
	Third Read
	As Passed the House

HB 2113 makes a technical correction to the Arizona Poison Control System funding statute.

A strike-everything amendment will be offered in the Health Committee with the following provisions:

The strike-everything amendment expands the oversight of the Human Rights Committee on the Mentally Ill to include non-seriously mentally ill persons who receive behavioral health treatment through the Department of Health Services.

History

Laws 2000, Chapter 35, established three human rights committees within the Department of Health Services (DHS) and the Department of Economic Security to promote the rights of persons who receive services.

The DHS Human Rights Committee on the Mentally Ill currently provides services for seriously mentally ill persons. The strike-everything amendment adds non-seriously mentally ill persons that are treated by Regional Behavioral Health Authorities to the committee.

Provisions

· Expands the Human Rights Committee within the DHS to include non-seriously mentally ill persons who receive behavioral health treatment covered under Title 36, Chapter 34.

· Makes act effective January 1, 2004.

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· 45th Legislature

· Second Regular Session 2 February 12, 2002

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