SB 6010-S.E - DIGEST
(AS OF SENATE 2ND READING 2/13/12)

Includes in the crime of custodial assault, the assault of a full-time or part-time staff member or volunteer, educational personnel, a personal service provider, or a vendor or agent thereof at any state hospital who was performing official duties at the time of the assault.

Prohibits a jail from refusing to book a patient of a state hospital based solely on the patient's status as a state hospital patient.

Authorizes state hospitals, under certain circumstances, to administer antipsychotic medication without consent to an individual who is committed as criminally insane by following the same procedures applicable to the administration of antipsychotic medication without consent to a civilly committed patient.