H-1177.1

HOUSE BILL 1826

ByRepresentatives Leavitt, Kilduff, and Morgan

AN ACT Relating to the disclosure of certain information during the discharge planning process; and amending RCW 71.05.365.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1. RCW 71.05.365 and 2016 sp.s. c 37 s 15 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) When a person has been involuntarily committed for treatment to a hospital for a period of ninety or one hundred eighty days, and the superintendent or professional person in charge of the hospital determines that the person no longer requires active psychiatric treatment at an inpatient level of care, the behavioral health organization, full integration entity under RCW 71.24.380, managed care organization, administrative services organization, or agency providing oversight of long-term care or developmental disability services that is responsible for resource management services for the person must work with the hospital to develop an individualized discharge plan and arrange for a transition to the community in accordance with the person's individualized discharge plan within fourteen days of the determination.

--- END ---