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Mental health: community mental health board.

It became law on Jul 16, 2015.

CA AB 1424 · Assembly Bill · 2015–2016

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Became law
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Latest action
Jul 16, 2015

What it does

Existing law requires each community mental health service to have a mental health board consisting of 10 to 15 members who are appointed by the governing body, and encourages counties to appoint individuals who have experience with and knowledge of the mental health system. Existing law requires 50% of the board membership to be consumers, or the parents, spouses, siblings, or adult children of consumers, who are receiving or have received mental health services. Existing law prohibits a member of the board, or his or her spouse, from being a full-time or part-time county employee of a county mental health service, an employee of the State Department of Health Care Services, or an employee…

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Where it stands

This bill passed and is now law.

  1. Introduced (Done)

  2. Committee (Done)

  3. Floor (Done)

  4. Law (Done)

    Jul 16, 2015

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Where it goes next

Once a bill is decided, the questions are about what is done with it in California.

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