Bill > SB128

This bill, the Suicide Prevention, Response & Treatment Act, aims to improve mental health care and suicide prevention efforts in the state. Key provisions include: - Establishing standards for suicide risk assessments and requiring suicide prevention counseling for at-risk patients in psychiatric facilities and outpatient treatment facilities. - Mandating policies and protocols for the discharge and transition of at-risk patients, including the use of warm hand-offs, rapid referrals, and supportive contacts. - Requiring suicide prevention training for staff at psychiatric and outpatient facilities, as well as police officers. - Creating county-level suicide prevention response coordinators to dispatch counselors to emergency scenes involving suicidal individuals. - Establishing procedures for public safety answering points to notify coordinators of potential suicide-related calls. - Allowing the state Department of Health to impose administrative penalties on facilities that fail to comply with the Act's provisions.

Health and Social Services, Justice

https://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legislation.aspx?chamber=S&legtype=B&legno=128&year=21