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2023 Regular Session

Senate Bill 161

AN ACT REPEALING THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE PROBATE COURT ISSUE AN ORDER ALLOWING A PATIENT TO RECEIVE SHOCK THERAPY WHEN A PATIENT IS INCAPABLE OF GIVING INFORMED CONSENT.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Public Health Committee on January 13, 2023. The 2023 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To eliminate the requirement that the Probate Court issue an order for a patient to receive shock therapy when the patient is incapable of giving informed consent if the shock therapy is medically recommended.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

In the House of Representatives

    1 co-sponsor

    Travis Simms

    Its course

    January 13 to January 13, 2023, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

    Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

    Every action1 action on 1 day

    In the SenateJan 13 to Jan 13 · stopped0 days

    Public Health CommitteeJan 13 to Jan 13 · stopped0 days

    Text

    Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

    l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

    What happened

    In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

    In the Senate Jan 13

    1. Jan 13Introduced and sent to Public Health Committee
    All 1 actions, as published
    1. Jan 13REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses