TO: | Honorable John Whitmire, Chair, Senate Committee on Criminal Justice |
FROM: | John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | SB1358 by Lucio (Relating to electronically transmitting a warrant for emergency detention.), As Introduced |
The bill would amend the Health and Safety Code to authorize a judge or magistrate to electronically transmit, with a digital signature, a warrant to a licensed physician who is remotely applying for the emergency detention of a person deemed to have a mental health risk.
The bill would take effect September 1, 2011.
Source Agencies: | 537 State Health Services, Department of
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LBB Staff: | JOB, ESi, TP
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