11. SB 359 3rd Reading

Passage; April 9, 2015; Journal Page 727; 28 Yeas, 3 Nays

YCT Nay.  SB 359 allows physicians to initiate a temporary, four-hour hold of a patient with mental illness who is judged to be a danger to self or others only if the governing body of a facility adopts a policy permitting the hold to allow necessary crisis psychiatric care. YCT opposes legislation that gives preferential authorities to that of doctors, over that of a parent, and especially legislation that infringes upon the 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.