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2021 Senate Bill 5370: Updating mental health advance directive laws
Introduced by Sen. Karen Keiser (Kent) (D) on January 28, 2021
Referred to the Senate Health & Long-Term Care Committee on January 28, 2021
Referred to the Senate Behavioral Health Subcommittee to Health & Long Term Care Committee on February 3, 2021
Substitute offered in the Senate on February 12, 2021
Simplifies the form used to create a mental health advanced directive. Allows a mental health advanced directive to be acknowledged by a notary public instead of two witnesses.
Referred to the Senate Rules Committee on February 15, 2021
Amendment offered by Sen. Manka Dhingra (Redmond) (D) on March 8, 2021
Clarifies that mental health advance directives do not restrict the right of a parent to seek a behavioral health evaluation and treatment for a nonconsenting adolescent using family-initiated treatment laws.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the Senate on March 8, 2021
Received in the House on March 10, 2021
Referred to the House Health Care & Wellness Committee on March 10, 2021
Referred to the House Civil Rights & Judiciary Committee on March 16, 2021
Received in the Senate on April 15, 2021
Signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on May 12, 2021