May 7 2025 Senate Health Pol Cmte: being committed, outpatient mental health treatment, nurse practitioner, MDHHS procedures, community mental health

"Being committed" to a psych hospital may be voluntary. If it's involuntary, the law steps in and things get complicated. They get even more complicated with a psych bed shortage.

"Requiring treatment" is the legal euphemism for "being committed."

These bills revise current committal law to include court-mandate outpatient treatment. As proposed, MDHHS has 100% discretion to determine what the treatment would be.

A lot of red flags for individual liberty - the right to come and go as one chooses - in these bills. Also concerning: highly prescriptive law for healthcare, individual scope of practice, third party payers.

Wednesday, May 7, 2025            12:30 p.m.

AGENDA

SB 219 Sen. Hertel Mental health: hospitalization; person requiring treatment; revise, and modify certain procedures for treatment.

SB 220 Sen. Irwin Mental health: other; hospital evaluations for assisted outpatient treatment; expand.

SB 221 Sen. Santana Criminal procedure: mental capacity; outpatient treatment for misdemeanor offenders with mental health issues; provide for.

SB 222 Sen. Wojno Mental health: other; petition for access to assisted outpatient treatment; expand to additional health providers.

Presentation on Behavioral Health from the Michigan Health and Hospital Association

And any other business properly before the committee.