Involuntary commitment-detention options.

2016
STATE OF WYOMING
16LSO-0359
Introduced
1.2

HOUSE BILL

NO.

HB0078

Involuntary commitment-detention options.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Sommers, Baldwin and Harvey and Senator(s) Cooper

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to hospitalization of mentally ill persons; specifying requirements for the emergency detention of persons in nonmedical facilities; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
.

W.S. 25
‑
10
‑
109(
d) is amended to read:

25
‑
10
‑
109
.

Emergency detention.

(d)

A person taken into custody under this section may be detained in a hospital or other suitable facility
which is appropriate under the circumstances. The person shall not be detained in a nonmedical facility used for detention of persons charged with or convicted of penal offenses except in extreme emergency or if there are no other reasonable alternatives.
In no event shall
a
person detained
in a nonmedical facility be
housed
in the same room as persons charged with or convicted of penal offenses.

The law enforcement officer who detained the person shall immediately notify the person responsible for the care and custody of the detained person, if known, of the time and place of detention.

For purposes of this subsection,
causes for determining that
no other
reasonable alternatives
exist
include, but
are
not limited to,
situations where there
are

no
hospital
s
or
other suitable
facilities
in the county

of detention
or
no hospitals or
other suitable
facilities
in the county
of detention
that accept
persons
for detention pursua
nt to this act.

Section

2
.

This
act is effective July 1,
201
6
.

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