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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

AB 654

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Relating to: expanding telehealth mental health treatment to offenders under community supervision. (FE)

Corrections department of Mental health Parole or probation Persons with disabilities Telecommunications Telephone

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the Department of Corrections to expand telehealth mental

health treatment to offenders under community supervision in division of

community corrections regions 4, 6, and 8.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Ballweg (R) , Born (R) , Bowen (D) , Brooks (R) , Dittrich (R) , Emerson (D) , Horlacher (R) , Knodl (R) , Kulp (R) , Nygren (R) , Plumer (R) , Quinn (R) , Ramthun (R) , Rohrkaste (R) , Schraa (R) , Spiros (R) , Tusler (R)

5 cosponsors

Darling (R) , Feyen (R) , Olsen (R) , Stubbs (D) , Wanggaard (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Mental Health, Ayes 9, Noes 2

Passed 9–2 Jan 16, 2020 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Dec 5, 2019 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Brooks, Schraa, Bowen, Ballweg, Born, Dittrich, Emerson, Horlacher, Knodl, Kulp, Nygren, Plumer, Quinn, Ramthun, Rohrkaste, Spiros and Tusler; cosponsored by Senators Darling, Feyen, Olsen and Wanggaard

  2. Dec 5, 2019 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Mental Health

  3. Dec 17, 2019 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Dec 27, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Jan 8, 2020 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Jan 16, 2020 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Mental Health, Ayes 9, Noes 2

  7. Jan 16, 2020 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  8. Jan 16, 2020 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-21-2020 by Committee on Rules

  9. Jan 21, 2020 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  10. Jan 21, 2020 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  11. Jan 21, 2020 · Assembly

    Representative Stubbs added as a coauthor

  12. Jan 21, 2020 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  13. Jan 21, 2020 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  14. Jan 21, 2020 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  15. Jan 22, 2020 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  16. Feb 28, 2020 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  17. Feb 28, 2020 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  18. Apr 1, 2020 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1