Text: HF00336 Text: HF00338 Text: HF00300 - HF00399 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 229.1, subsection 14, paragraph c, Code 1 2 1995, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 c. Is unable to satisfy the person's needs for 1 4 nourishment, clothing, essential medical care, or shelter so 1 5 that it is likely that the person will suffersubstantial1 6 physical injury,seriousphysical debilitation, or death 1 7within the reasonably foreseeable future. 1 8 Sec. 2. Section 229.22, subsection 2, Code 1995, is 1 9 amended to read as follows: 1 10 2. In the circumstances described in subsection 1, any 1 11 peace officer who has reasonable grounds to believe that a 1 12 person is mentally ill, and because of that illness is likely 1 13 to physically injure the person's self or others if not 1 14 immediately detained, may without a warrant take or cause that 1 15 person to be taken to the nearest available facility as 1 16 defined in section 229.11, subsections 2 and 3. A person 1 17 believed mentally ill, and likely to injure the person's self 1 18 or others if not immediately detained, may be delivered to a 1 19 hospital by someone other than a peace officer. Upon delivery 1 20 of the person believed mentally ill to the hospital, the chief 1 21 medical officer may order treatment of that person, including 1 22 chemotherapy, but only to the extent necessary to preserve the 1 23 person's life or to appropriately control behavior by the 1 24 person which is likely to result in physical injury to that 1 25 person or others if allowed to continue. The peace officer 1 26 who took the person into custody, or other party who brought 1 27 the person to the hospital, shall describe the circumstances 1 28 of the matter to the chief medical officer. If the chief 1 29 medical officer finds that there is reason to believe that the 1 30 person is seriously mentally impaired, and because of that 1 31 impairment is likely to physically injure the person's self or 1 32 others if not immediately detained, the chief medical officer 1 33 shall at once communicate with the nearest available 1 34 magistrate as defined in section 801.4, subsection 10. The 1 35 magistrate shallimmediately proceed to the facility where the2 1person is detained, except that if the chief medical officer's2 2communication with the magistrate occurs between the hours of2 3midnight and the next succeeding seven o'clock a.m. and the2 4magistrate deems it appropriate under, based upon the 2 5 circumstances described by the chief medical officer,the2 6magistrate may delay going to the facility and in that case2 7shallgive the chief medical officer verbal instructions 2 8 either directing that the person be released forthwith or 2 9 authorizing the person's continued detention at that facility. 2 10 In the latter case, the magistrate shall: 2 11 a. By the close of business on the next working day, file 2 12 with the clerk a written report stating the substance of the 2 13 information on the basis of which the person's continued 2 14 detention was ordered; and 2 15 b.Arrive atProceed to the facility where the person is 2 16 being detainednot later than eight o'clock a.m. of the same2 17day on which the chief medical officer's notification occurs2 18 within twenty-four hours of giving instructions that the 2 19 person be detained. 2 20 HF 337 2 21 lh/pk/25
Text: HF00336 Text: HF00338 Text: HF00300 - HF00399 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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