ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Phoenix, Arizona
health services; department;
technical correction
(NOW: human rights committee; mentally ill)
Expands the purview of the
Human Rights Committee on the Mentally Ill (Committee) to include all persons
who receive behavioral health and substance abuse services.
Laws 2000, Chapter 261,
established the Committee to promote the rights of persons receiving mental
health services and required each regional behavioral health authority to have
at least one human rights committee with the authority and responsibilities as
prescribed by the Department of Health Services (DHS). The Committee reviews
incident and accident reports and monitors the mental health treatment system
from an external standpoint.
According to the Division of
Behavioral Health Services in DHS, the enabling legislation was intended to
include all individuals receiving behavioral health treatment. However, it only
included persons with a serious mental illness (SMI). DHS later included
children and adolescents through rule, but non-SMI persons were not included.
As such, DHS cannot share incident and accident reports concerning non-SMI
persons with the Committee for review. H.B. 2113 expands the purview of the
Committee to include all individuals receiving behavioral health and substance
abuse services.
There is no identifiable
fiscal impact to the state general fund associated with the provisions of this
bill.
1. Expands the purview of the Committee to include persons who receive behavioral health and substance abuse services.
2. Becomes effective on January 1, 2004.
HEA 2/11/02 DPA/SE 8-0-0-2
3rd Read
4/8/02 38-13-9
Prepared by Senate Staff
April 12, 2002