Florida Senate - 2021                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 828
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/16/2021           .                                
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       The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Book)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
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    3         Between lines 971 and 972
    4  insert:
    5         (7) PROCEDURE FOR CONTINUED INVOLUNTARY INPATIENT
    6  PLACEMENT.—
    7         (d) If at a hearing it is shown that the patient continues
    8  to meet the criteria for involuntary inpatient placement, the
    9  administrative law judge shall sign the order for continued
   10  involuntary inpatient placement for up to 90 days. However, any
   11  order for involuntary mental health services in a treatment
   12  facility may be for up to 6 months. The same procedure shall be
   13  repeated before the expiration of each additional period the
   14  patient is retained.
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   16  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   17         Delete line 828
   18  and insert:
   19         (b), and (c) of subsection (6), and paragraph (d) of
   20  subsection (7) of section 394.467, Florida
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   23  And the title is amended as follows:
   24         Delete line 71
   25  and insert:
   26         provisions to changes made by the act; revising the
   27         amount of time a court may require a patient to
   28         receive services; amending ss.