HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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use of medication for certain patients; and generally
providing that certain mentally ill individuals in
facilities may refuse medication used for the treatment of a
mental disorder.

BY renumbering

Article - Health - General

Section 10-708 through 10-712, respectively

to be Section 10-709 through 10-713, respectively

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Health - General

Section 10-708

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section(s) 10-708 through 10-712, respectively, of
Article - Health - General of the Annotated Code of Maryland be
renumbered to be Section(s) 10-709 through 10-713, respectively.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of
Maryland read as follows:

Article - Health - General

10-708.

(A)  AN INDIVIDUAL IN A FACILITY MAY ELECT TO REFUSE
MEDICATION USED FOR THE TREATMENT OF A MENTAL DISORDER EXCEPT:

(1)  WHEN THE MEDICATION IS PROVIDED ON THE ORDER OF A
PHYSICIAN IN AN EMERGENCY WHERE THE INDIVIDUAL PRESENTS A DANGER
TO THE LIFE OR SAFETY OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR OTHERS; OR

(2)  IN NONEMERGENCY SITUATIONS, WHERE THE INDIVIDUAL
IS HOSPITALIZED INVOLUNTARILY OR BY ORDER OF A COURT AND THE
MEDICATION IS APPROVED BY A CLINICAL REVIEW PANEL.

(B) (1) THE CLINICAL REVIEW PANEL CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING
MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE MEDICAL CLINICAL DIRECTOR:

(I) THE MEDICAL CLINICAL DIRECTOR IF THE
MEDICAL CLINICAL DIRECTOR IS A PHYSICIAN OR A PHYSICIAN
DESIGNATED BY THE MEDICAL CLINICAL DIRECTOR;

(II) A PSYCHIATRIST; AND