2002-03-15                     House Journal                      Page 2548
HB 505                                                                                            
HOUSE BILL NO. 505 by the House Health, Education & Social                                          
Services Committee, entitled:                                                                       
                                                                                                    
     "An Act defining the term 'mental health professional' for the                                 
     purpose of statutes relating to the evaluation of prisoners who may                            
     need psychological or psychiatric treatment, for the purpose of                                
     statutes relating to the evaluation of children in need of aid and                             
     delinquent minors who may need to be confined in a secure                                      
     residential psychiatric treatment center or who should be released                             
     from such a center, for the purpose of statutes requiring certain                              
     professionals to report the possibility that a vulnerable adult has                            
     been abused or neglected, and for the purpose of statutes relating                             
     to mental health civil commitments."                                                           
                                                                                                    
was read the first time and referred to the Labor & Commerce and                                    
Health, Education & Social Services Committees.