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SF 2929 Senate Long Description

Relating to corrections; clarifying the provision prohibiting persons+ in state correctional facilities or hospitals from possessing controlled +substances or intoxicating liquor; requiring the commissioner of human services to +create forensic patient transition savings accounts for patients receiving +treatment in secure treatment facilities from a portion of the patient share of+ the cost of care to be available upon transition of the patient into the +community; defining administrative restriction, safety and security under the +civil commitment law and providing for the right of patients to be free +from unnecessary or excessive administrative restriction; providing for +disclosure without the consent of the mentally ill and dangerous patient of +health information to treatment facilities upon filing of a petition for +amendment of provisional discharge or discharge with the commissioner of to +evaluate compliance with the terms of the discharge; stating the findings of +the legislature relating to protection of civilly committed sex offenders+ under the patients bill of rights, authorizing the commissioner to limit the +statutory rights of patients to ensure the safety and security of the treatment+ facility, staff, other patients and the public, authorizing heads of secure +treatment facilities to further limit certain other statutory rights of sexual psychopathic personalities or sexually dangerous persons; expanding +the crime of assault in the fourth degree to acts committed against employees +or other individuals providing care or treatment at certain treatment +facilities(mk)