SB 709: RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH.

Requires the Department of Health to track and publicly report certain data relating to crisis reports, emergency mental health transports, and court-ordered treatments.  Requires DOH to respond to reports about persons having severe mental illness who are in need of assistance, assess whether those persons fulfill criteria for assisted community treatment, and coordinate the process for an assisted community treatment order if indicated.  Establishes that a court's denial of a petition for involuntary commitment shall serve as notification to DOH that the subject of the petition should be evaluated for assisted community treatment.  Appropriates moneys.