Minnesota Session Laws - 1996, Regular Session

  
    
KEY: stricken = old language to be removed
     underscored = new language to be added
    
                            CHAPTER 281-S.F.No. 2514 
                  An act relating to civil commitment; clarifying the 
                  financial responsibility for hearings on the use of 
                  neuroleptic medications; amending Minnesota Statutes 
                  1994, section 256G.08, subdivision 1. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 256G.08, 
        subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
           Subdivision 1.  [COMMITMENTS.] In cases of voluntary 
        admission or commitment to state or other institutions, the 
        committing county shall initially pay for all costs.  This 
        includes the expenses of the taking into custody, confinement, 
        examination, commitment, conveyance to the place of detention, 
        and rehearing, and hearings under section 253B.03, subdivision 
        6c, including hearings held under that section which are venued 
        outside the county of commitment. 
           Presented to the governor February 22, 1996 
           Signed by the governor February 23, 1996, 2:18 p.m.