HB 2505: ASSISTED COMMUNITY TREATMENT; PETITIONS; INVOLUNTARY HOSPITALIZATION; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH OUTPATIENT PROGRAMS

Session Year: 2025-2026
House: House
Latest Version Date: 2026-05-01

Current Status:

Passed

(2026-05-27: Act 052, on 05/27/2026 (Gov. Msg. No. 1152).)

Introduced

In Committee

First Chamber

In Committee

Second Chamber

Final Decking

Enacted

Version:

Clarifies that community mental health outpatient programs that have agreed to provide mental health services to a defendant as part of an assisted community treatment order may prepare a certificate for assisted community treatment and provide the certificate to a defendant and may file an assisted community treatment petition with the Family Court. (CD1)

Discussed in Hearing