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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 20-47-105. Liability for costs of proceedings - (a) When an individual is detained or involuntarily admitted to...
§ 20-47-106. Liability for support - A person legally liable for the support, care, or maintenance...
§ 20-47-109. Abuse of patients prohibited - (a) In addition to the protections provided to patients under...
Subchapter 2 - Commitment and Treatment
§ 20-47-201. Purpose — Policy - (a) The purpose of this subchapter is to enable the...
§ 20-47-202. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Administrator” means the chief...
§ 20-47-203. Habeas corpus - Nothing in this subchapter shall in any way restrict the...
§ 20-47-204. Voluntary admissions - The following shall apply to voluntary admissions of persons with...
§ 20-47-205. Jurisdiction of circuit court - (a) The circuit courts of this state shall have exclusive...
§ 20-47-207. Involuntary admission — Original petition - (a) Written Petition — Venue. Any person having reason to...
§ 20-47-208. Role of prosecuting attorney - (a) (1) It shall be the duty of the prosecuting...
§ 20-47-209. Initial hearing — Failure to appear — Exceptions from appearance requirement - (a) If the person named in the original petition is...
§ 20-47-210. Immediate confinement — Initial evaluation and treatment - (a) Whenever it appears that a person is of danger...
§ 20-47-211. Notification of rights - Along with the copy of the petition and the copy...
§ 20-47-212. Appointment of counsel - (a) If it appears to the court that the person...
§ 20-47-213. Evaluation — When performed and by whom — Transportation to place of evaluation - (a) If the person is transported to a hospital or...
§ 20-47-214. Forty-five-day involuntary admission — Hearing - (a) (1) Within the period specified in § 20-47-205, a...
§ 20-47-215. Additional periods of involuntary admission — Petitions — Hearing - (a) Generally. (1) Additional one-hundred-eighty-day involuntary admission orders may be...
§ 20-47-216. Continuances - Continuances requested by either party for any hearing provided for...
§ 20-47-217. Appeals - All involuntary admission orders authorized in this subchapter shall be...
§ 20-47-218. Treatment - (a) At all steps of the involuntary admission proceeding, the...
§ 20-47-219. Return of persons absent from treatment — Noncompliance with treatment plan — Effect on order - (a) If any person involuntarily admitted to a receiving facility...
§ 20-47-220. Fundamental rights - (a) No person receiving treatment for mental illness shall be...
§ 20-47-221. Patient or client advocate - (a) (1) The Director of the Division of Aging, Adult,...
§ 20-47-222. Transfer and admission of residents who become ill in another state - The Director of the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral...
§ 20-47-223. Admission not adjudication of incapacity - No person admitted voluntarily or involuntarily to a receiving facility...
§ 20-47-224. Conversion from involuntary to voluntary status - (a) At any time during the involuntary admission period, a...
§ 20-47-225. Liability for charges - (a) Notwithstanding any statute enacted before January 1, 2011, receiving...
§ 20-47-226. Forms - (a) The Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts...
§ 20-47-227. Exclusion from liability - No officer, physician, or other person shall be held civilly...
§ 20-47-228. Assurance of compliance - (a) To assure compliance under this subchapter, the Division of...
§ 20-47-229. Restraint of Arkansas State Hospital patient - (a) If necessary for security, an Arkansas State Hospital patient...
§ 20-47-230. Return of detained or involuntarily admitted person to state of residence — Reciprocal agreements - (a) The Department of Human Services may enter into a...
Subchapter 3 - Residential Care Facilities
§ 20-47-301. Legislative findings and intent - (a) (1) The General Assembly recognizes that the state encouraged...
§ 20-47-303. Multihour daily service rate reimbursement — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Congregate setting” means...
Subchapter 4 - Cooperation Among Institutions
§ 20-47-401. Contracts with United States Department of Veterans Affairs and certain other federal agencies - (a) The Director of the Arkansas State Hospital is given...
§ 20-47-402. Commitment to United States Department of Veterans Affairs and certain other federal hospitals — Generally - (a) Whenever, in any proceeding under the laws of this...
§ 20-47-403. Commitment to United States Department of Veterans Affairs and certain other federal hospitals — Judgment or order - (a) The judgment or order of commitment by a court...
§ 20-47-404. Commitment to United States Department of Veterans Affairs and certain other federal hospitals — Transfer - (a) Upon receipt of a certificate of the United States...
§ 20-47-405. Treatment for tuberculosis — Transfer - (a) Any person who is committed to the Arkansas State...
§ 20-47-406. Department of Human Services agreements for medical care of indigent individuals with mental illness, intellectual and developmental disabilities, or tuberculosis - (a) The Arkansas State Hospital and other state institutions are...
Subchapter 5 - Child and Adolescent Service System Program
§ 20-47-501. Purpose - The General Assembly finds that services to children are provided...
§ 20-47-502. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) (A) “Case management” means...
§ 20-47-503. System of care - The following guiding principles shall be incorporated into the system...
§ 20-47-504. Components of system of care - The components of the system of care shall include, but...
§ 20-47-505. Child and Adolescent Service System Program Coordinating Council - (a) (1) There is created a Child and Adolescent Service...
§ 20-47-506. Regional Child and Adolescent Service System Program Coordinating Council planning teams - (a) A regional Child and Adolescent Service System Program planning...
§ 20-47-507. Child and Adolescent Service System Program Coordinating Council staff - (a) The staff for the Child and Adolescent Service System...
§ 20-47-508. Evaluation and treatment - (a) Children suspected of having emotional disturbances who are referred...
§ 20-47-510. Coordination and oversight — Annual reports - (a) The Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services...
Subchapter 6 - Protocol, Submission, and Evaluation of Reports — Monitoring of Compliance
§ 20-47-601. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Community mental health centers”...
§ 20-47-602. Protocols and accountability - (a) Each county jail shall prepare and may use during...
§ 20-47-603. Conditional effectiveness - Unless sufficient appropriations are provided for the purposes of this...
Subchapter 7 - Arkansas System of Care for Behavioral Healthcare Services for Children and Youth Act
§ 20-47-701. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 20-47-702. Purpose - The purpose of this subchapter is to help facilitate the...
§ 20-47-703. Findings - The General Assembly finds: (1) The system for providing behavioral...
§ 20-47-704. Children's Behavioral Health Care Commission — Composition — Duties - The Governor shall establish a Children's Behavioral Health Care Commission....
§ 20-47-705. Behavioral healthcare initiatives - The Department of Human Services, with advice from the Children's...
§ 20-47-706. Assessment tool - The standardized screening and assessment tool established by Medicaid rules...
§ 20-47-707. Multiagency plan of services - Each multiagency plan of services shall: (1) Be consistent with...
§ 20-47-708. Annual report - The Department of Human Services shall report annually on progress...
§ 20-47-709. Rules - The Department of Human Services shall promulgate rules in accordance...
Subchapter 8 - Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Protocol Act of 2017
§ 20-47-801. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 20-47-802. Legislative intent - (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly to...
§ 20-47-803. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Activities of daily living”...
§ 20-47-804. Crisis intervention protocol not exclusive — Voluntary stay at crisis stabilization unit - (a) If during or after the initiation of a crisis...
§ 20-47-805. Establishment of crisis intervention teams - (a) As part of a crisis intervention protocol established under...
§ 20-47-806. Crisis intervention protocol — Collaborative agreements - (a) A proposed crisis intervention protocol and crisis intervention team...
§ 20-47-807. Crisis stabilization units — Operations - (a) (1) The internal operation of a crisis stabilization unit...
§ 20-47-808. Determination of need to initiate crisis intervention protocol - (a) (1) If a crisis intervention team officer determines that...
§ 20-47-809. Implementation of psychiatric emergency services - (a) (1) To implement psychiatric emergency services under a crisis...
§ 20-47-810. Seventy-two-hour maximum time of detention - (a) An individual with a behavioral health impairment who is...
§ 20-47-811. Immunity from liability - A person acting in good faith in connection with the...
§ 20-47-812. Development of crisis intervention protocols - (a) (1) A director of a community mental health center...
§ 20-47-813. Rulemaking authority - The Department of Human Services is authorized to utilize rulemaking...
Subchapter 9 - Rehabilitative Services for Persons with Mental Illness
§ 20-47-901. Legislative findings and intent - (a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) There are more...
§ 20-47-902. Definition - As used in this subchapter, “rehabilitative services for persons with...
§ 20-47-903. Certification — Moratorium - (a) The Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services...
Subchapter 10 - Mental Health Services for Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Bill of Rights Act
§ 20-47-1001. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 20-47-1002. Legislative findings - The General Assembly finds that: (1) Individuals who are deaf...
§ 20-47-1003. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Certified mental health professional”...
§ 20-47-1004. Discrimination - (a) A certified mental health professional shall: (1) Offer culturally...
§ 20-47-1005. Statewide mental health services - The Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of...
§ 20-47-1006. Deaf Services Coordinator — Advisory committee - (a) In order to provide culturally affirmative mental health services...
§ 20-47-1007. Basic standards of care for mental health services for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing - (a) A client who is admitted for mental health treatment...