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2012 Senate Bill 6010: Concerning worker safety at state hospitals

Expands the crime of custodial assault to include an assault on a full or part-time staff member or volunteer, any educational personnel, any personal service provider, or any vendor or agent of a state hospital who was performing official duties at the time of the assault. A jail may not refuse to book a patient of a state hospital based solely on the patient's status as a state hospital patient, but may consider other relevant factors which apply to the individual circumstances of the case. A state hospital may administer antipsychotic medication without consent to a person committed as criminally insane. The maximum period during which the court may authorize medication is 180 days or the time remaining in the person's order of commitment, whichever is shorter. The state has a compelling interest in providing antipsychotic medication to a patient who has been committed as criminally insane when refusal of antipsychotic medication would result in a likelihood of serious harm or substantial deterioration or substantially prolong the length of involuntary commitment and there is no less intrusive course of treatment than medication in the best interest of the patient.

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