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Meader Bill for an Act
A Bill for an Act Bill as drafted by self, Jan 13, 1923 - see typewritten copy -
Relating to the Psycopathic [[Psychopathic]] Hospital and Laboratory of the University of Colorado - [[.]] Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
[[underline]] Section 1 [[/underline]] The words "The Hospital", said Hospital and "Psycopathic [[Psychopathic]] Hospital" used in this Act shall be understood to mean and to refer to the Psycopathic [[Psychopathic]] Hospital and Laboratory of the University of Colorado, to be established under and pursuant to Chapter 169 of the Session Laws of 1919, of the General Assembly of Colorado.
[[underline]] Section 2 [[/underline]] The conduct and control of said Hospital shall be vested in the Board of Regents of the University Colorado, as provided in said Chapter 169 of the Session Laws of 1919, of the General Assembly of the State of Colorado.
Said Board of Regents shall have [[insert]] full [[/insert]] power and authority to accept legacies, bequests and donations which may be tendered in good faith for the benefit of the Psycopathic
[[Psychopathic]] Hospital, and to apply the same to the furtherance of the purposes of said Hospital. [[underline]] Section 3 [[/underline]] Said Hospital shall be primarily and principally designed [[insert]] not for chronic illnesses but [[/insert]] for the care of legal residents of Colorado who are afflicted with a mental disease or disorder, or abnormal mental condition, which can probably be remedied by observation, treatment and hospital care. Said Hospital shall also be utilized for such instruction and for such scientific research as will, in the opinion of the Board of Regents, promote the welfare of the patients committed to its care, and assist in the application of science to the prevention and cure of mental diseases.
Persons eligible to admission to said Hospital as patients shall belong to one of the following classes: First, Voluntary Public Patients; Second, Committed Public Patients; Third, Voluntary Private Patients; Fourth, Committed Private Patients; Fifth, Part Pay Patients, either voluntary or committed - [[.]]
A Voluntary Public Patient is one who is admitted to the Hospital at his own request, or at the request of the person who has
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lawful custody and control over him. A Committed Patient is one who is ordered by the Court to submit to observation, care and treatment at the Hospital. A private Patient is one whose entire expenses at the Hospital are paid by himself, or out of his estate, or by those responsible for his support, or by some person who voluntarily assumes the expenses. A Public Patient is one whose entire expenses at the Hospital are paid out of the Psycopathic [[Psychopathic]] Hospital Fund, hereinafter mentioned. A Part Pay Patient is one whose expenses are paid in part out of said Psycopathic [[Psychopathic]] Hospital Fund, and the remainder are paid by himself, or out of his estate, or by those legally responsible for his support, or by someone who voluntarily assumes the expense.
[[underline]] Section 4. [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] Whenever any reputable person [[/strikethrough]]
Whenever it shall come to the notice of any reputable person that there is in any county of this State any person, legally a resident of Colorado, who is afflicted with a mental disease or disorder or abnormal mental condition which can probably be remedied by observation, treatment and hospital care in the Psycopathic [[Psychopathic]] Hospital and Laboratory of the University of Colorado, he may file with the Clerk of the County Court of said County an information alleging such fact.
(Then see old copy)
[[underline]] Section 5 [[/underline]] Of the person on [[insert]] whose [[/insert]] behalf information is filed as provided in Section 4 hereof shall fail to state in said information that he wishes treatment as a voluntary patient or if having so stated he shall contact said order of the court admitting him to said Hospital as a voluntary patient or if said person shall, without good and sufficient reason, fail to present himself at said Hospital for treatment within a reasonable time after the court shall have entered said order, then it shall be the duty of said County Judge to forthwith file a copy of said
information with a commission created [[insert]] and paid [[/insert]] in the manner provided by Chapter 118 of the Session Laws of 1915 for a lunacy inquisition. Said Commission shall promptly examine such person and shall thereupon make and file with said County Court [[insert over]] a written report of such examination, in duplicate, as specified in detail providing
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for a physicians examination in Section 4 of this Act. [[a, insert over]] If said report shall state that said person for whose treatment is sought is [[strikethrough]] suffering from [[/strikethrough]] afflicted with a mental disease or disorder, or abnormal mental condition which, in the opinion of said Commission can probably be remedied by observation, treatment and hospital care, [[b, insert over]]
[[strikethrough]] then said judge shall enter an order committing said person to said [[/strikethrough]] Hospital as then it shall be the duty of said County Judge to cause thorough investigation to be made, if such has not already been done, of [[insert]] the financial condition of [[/insert]] [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] said person for whom treatment is sought or of his parent or guardian, of the person having legal custody over him or legally responsible for his support or maintenance, in like manner and with like authority as provided for such investigation in Section 4 [[insert]] of this Act - [[.]] [[/insert]] [[strikethrough]] whereof [[/strikethrough]]
if the report of said commission shall state that said person is afflicted with a mental disease or disorder or abnormal mental condition which can probably be remedied by observation, treatment and hospital care, and if said County Judge shall be satisfied that said person is unable financially, either of himself or of others to provide himself with such observation, treatment and hospital care then said County Judge shall enter an order committing said person to said hospital as a committed public patient. [[c, insert over]] If it shall appear to said judge that said person is able financially, either of himself or of other, to provide himself with such observation, treatment and hospital care, then said County Judge shall enter an order committing said person as a Committed Private Patient. [[c, insert over]]
If the court shall find that said person (etc) (part pay) [[strikethrough]] such … [[/strikethrough]]
[[underline]] Section 6 [[/underline]] Immediately upon receiving the report of a
[[strikethrough]] any [[/strikethrough]] physician or a commission stating that any person for whom treatment is sought is afflicted with a mental disease or disorder or abnormal mental condition which can probably be remedied by observation, care and hospital treatment, said Judge shall ascertain from the Director of said Hospital when said person may be received in said hospital
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If the report of said commission shall state that said person for whom treatment is sought is not afflicted with a mental disease or disorder or abnormal mental condition [[strikethrough]] or that, if so afflicted, said mental disease or disorder cannot be in the opinion of said commission be remedied by such hospital care, [[/strikethrough]] then said County Judge shall order [[strikethrough]] discuss [[/strikethrough]] said information and the court costs, (dismissed at the expense of the County of legal residence of person for whom Rx is sought) if any, shall be paid by the County of legal residence of the person for whom treatment is sought and it shall be the duty of the Board of County Commissioners to provide for such payments - [[.]]
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If the report of said Commission shall state that [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] said person is afflicted with a mental disease or disorder, or abnormal mental condition which cannot, in their opinion be remedied by observation, treatment and hospital care at said Psycopathic
[[Psychopathic]] Hospital then the court shall proceed with the same as if petition had been filed under Chapter 118 of the Session Laws of 1915, providing for a lunacy inquisition.
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and if the information filed as provided in Section 4 hereof shall allege that said person for whom treatment is sought is unable financially, either of himself or of others, to provide himself with such treatment,
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a copy of said order shall be served upon said person so afflicted and said order shall become effective forty eight hours after its entrance by said Judge, unless said person, or his representative, shall previously apply for a jury trial - [[.]]
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and shall so notify said patient, or his parent or guardian or those having legal custody of him. Said Judge shall transmit to the Director of said Hospital a copy of said [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] information, a copy of [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] said report of the examining physician or commission and a copy of the order admitting or committing said patient.
[[underline]] Section 7 [[/underline]] Voluntary private patients etc - [[.]]
[[underline]] Section 8 [[/underline]] Whenever any physician in any county in the State shall report to the Director of said Hospital that there is in his county a person afflicted with a mental disease or disorder or an abnormal mental condition which can probably be benefitted by observation,
treatment and hospital care and whose condition is such that the delay incident to the procedure hereinabove provided would jeopardize said person's life or recovery, said Director may, in his
discretion, authorize the prompt admission of said person to said Hospital without awaiting the order of court [[strikethrough]] as in all the cases [[/strikethrough]] as hereinabove provided, except that no person shall be brought to said Hospital against his will if he be sui juris, or against the will of the person having his lawful custody and control, except upon an order of the court, entered as hereinabove provided. Said physician shall file with said Director, as promptly as possible, a full report of the condition necessitating such emergency admission. Unless the patient be a Voluntary Private Patient, said Director shall [[strikethrough]] file [[/strikethrough]] as soon as possible file with the Clerk of the County Court of the County of residence of the said person on information as provided in Section 4 hereof, together with a report of the mental condition of said patent as provided for physician's reports in Section 4 and said report shall be [[strikethrough]] considered as [[/strikethrough]] [[insert]] decreed by said Court to be [[/insert]] the physicians report or the Commission's report, as the case may be, as provided in Section 4 and Section 5 hereof. If said patient admitted as provided herein shall allege, or it shall be alleged on his behalf, that he is unable financially of himself or of [[strikethrough]] those [[/strikethrough]] others, to pay the entire cost of observation, treatment and hospital care, then upon [[insert]] the [[/insert]] filing [[insert]] of [[/insert]] said information and said report with said County Court, it shall be the duty of the [[strikethrough]] said [[/strikethrough]] judge if said court to determine the financial status of said person or of those legally responsible for his support as in other cases herein above provided.
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Upon [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] ascertaining said financial status, said Judge shall enter an order [[insert]] in accordance with the facts so formed [[/insert]] admitting or committing said person as a public patient;; part pay patient of private patient as the case may be.
[[underline]] Section 9 [[/underline]] If any person shall present himself or anyone under his lawful custody and control at the Hospital for examination to [[strikethrough]] or to [[/strikethrough]] determine his mental condition and shall ask that he be admitted as a public or as a part-pay patient the Director may, if in his judgement the delay incident to the procedure herein provided would jeopardize said person's life or recovery, authorize his admission under the provisions of Section 8 hereof.
[[strikethrough]] In all other cases said Director shall proceed file on behalf of the person for whom treatment is sought file etc (as in Sec 8) [[/strikethrough]]
See all other cases, said Director shall, if as a result of his examination he shall decree said person to be afflicted with - etc) ….. file, on behalf of the said person, on information etc (as in Sec 8)
[[underline]] Section 10 [[/underline]] If, at any time during the pendency of proceedings for the involuntary commitment of a patient to the Psycopathic [[Psychopathic]] Hospital, the patient or those having his lawful custody and control, shall file with the Court a request that the patient be admitted to the Hospital as a voluntary patient, the Court shall thereafter proceed as in the case of a voluntary patient.
[[underline]] Section 11 [[/underline]] Insert Section 13 of last draft of Harris bill - [[.]]
[[underline]] Section 12 [[/underline]] If it shall appear to said Judge that any public patient or part-pay patient [[insert]] ordered either admitted or committed, to said Hospital [[/insert]] is unable financially, of himself or of others, to provide himself with transportation to said Hospital then said Judge may authorize the actual and necessary expense of said transportation, which expense shall be paid by the County of residence of said person and it shall be the duty of the Board of County
Commissioners to provide for such payments. If the physician or commission appointed to examine any person for whom treatment is sought shall state that an attendant
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is necessary to accompany said person to said Hospital, [[strikethrough]] then [[/strikethrough]] said Judge shall appoint some person to accompany said [[strikethrough]] voluntary public [[/strikethrough]] patient or [[strikethrough]] said committed public patient or said committed private patient
[[/strikethrough]] from the place where he may be to said Hospital. Said attendant shall receive his actual and necessary travelling expenses and, if not a salaried officer of the State or of some Subdivision thereof [[insert]] or of a state institution [[/insert]], or an immediate relative of the patient, shall receive in addition not to exceed three dollars per diem for the time actually & [[and]] necessarily consumed in conveying said patient [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] to said Hospital and returning. Said expenses and fees shall be paid by the county of residence of said person and it shall be the duty of the Board of County Commissioners to provide for such payments.
Whenever a patient is transferred [[insert]] from the Psycopathic [[Psychopathic]] Hospital [[/insert]] to the Hospital for the Insane, it shall be the duty of the Director of the Psycopathic [[Psychopathic]] Hospital to designate an attendant to accompany said patient from said Psycopathic [[Psychopathic]] Hospital to said Hospital for the Insane. Said attendant etc as above ….. Said per diem and expenses shall be itemized and [[same?]] to and upon [[strikethrough]] shall be [[/strikethrough]] presentation to the Board of Regents shall be by then paid out of the Psycopathic [[Psychopathic]] Hospital Fund as other expenses for treatment and maintenance of said patient - [[.]]
[[underline]] Section 13 [[/underline]]
Whenever it shall appear to the director of the Psycopathic [[Psychopathic]] Hospital that any patient in said hospital requires observation or treatment in the Colorado General Hospital he may, with the consent of the Superintendent of said Colorado General Hospital, transfer said patient to said General Hospital for such period as may, in the opinion of said Superintendent, be required for such observation and treatment.
In like manner, whenever it shall appear [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] to the
Superintendent of the Colorado General Hospital that any patient in said hospital requires observation or treatment in [[strikethrough]] for? [[/strikethrough]] the Psycopathic [[Psychopathic]] Hospital he may, etc - (as above)
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from the Psycopathic [[Psychopathic]] Hospital to the Colorado General Hospital or from [[insert]] the [[/insert]] Colorado General [[insert]] Hospital to the [[/insert]] Psycopathic [[Psychopathic]] [[insert]] Hospital [[/insert]] the hospital to which said patient was originally admitted, or committed as the case may be, shall pay to the hospital to which said patient is transferred the actual per diem cost of such observation and treatment.
[[underline]] Section 14 [[/underline]]
Whenever, in the opinion of the [[strikethrough]] Super [[/strikethrough]] Director of the Hospital any patient should be discharged therefrom as cured, or as improved, or as not likely to be benefitted by further treatment, or for other good and sufficient reasons said Director shall discharge said patient.
Whenever any committed patient is to be discharged the Director shall immediately notify the Clerk of the Court by which he was committed of the fact of his discharge and the date thereof.
If the Director of the Hospital etc (proceed as in [[Harris?]] last draft, Sec 12 - [[underline]] Section 15 [[/underline]]
All moneys collected from patients in said Hospital shall be deposited in the Psycopathic [[Psychopathic]] Hospital Fund, hereinafter mentioned - [[.]]
Every person received as a patient etc (continues as in Harris last draft, Sec 14 - [[.]] [[underline]] Section 16 [[/underline]] Harris L.D. Sec 15 -
[[underline]] Section 17 [[/underline]] [[insert]] Harris L.D. Sec 16 - [[/insert]] [[underline]] Section 18 [[/underline]] [[insert]] Harris L.D. Sec 17 - [[/insert]] [[underline]] Sec 19 [[/underline]] [[insert]] Harris L.D. Sec 19 - [[/insert]] [[End Page]]
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