PUBLIC LAW 99-319—MAY 23, 1986
100 STAT. 485
ADMINISTRATION
SEC. 116. The Secretary shall carry out this title through the Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration.
42 USC 10826.
AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS
SEC. 117. For allotments under this title, there are authorized to 42 USC 10827. be appropriated $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1986, $10,500,000 for fiscal year 1987, and $11,025,000 for fiscal year 1988. TITLE II—RESTATEMENT OF BILL OF RIGHTS FOR MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS RESTATEMENT OF BILL OF RIGHTS
SEC. 201. It is the sense of the Congress that, as previously stated in title V of the Mental Health Systems Act, each State should review and revise, if necessary, its laws to ensure that mental health patients receive the protection and services they require, and that in making such review and revision, States should take into account the recommendations of the President's Commission on Mented Health and the following: (1) A person admitted to a program or facility for the purpose of receiving mental health services should be accorded the following: (A) The right to appropriate treatment and related services in a setting and under conditions that— (i) are the most supportive of such person's personal liberty; and (ii) restrict such liberty only to the extent necessary consistent with such person's treatment needs, applicable requirements of law, and applicable judicial orders. (B) The right to an individualized, written, treatment or service plan (such plan to be developed promptly after admission of such person), the right to treatment based on such plan, the right to periodic review and reassessment of treatment and related service needs, and the right to appropriate revision of such plan, including any revision necessary to provide a description of mental health services that may be needed after such person is discharged from such program or facility. (C) The right to ongoing participation, in a manner appropriate to such person's capabilities, in the planning of mental health services to be provided such person (including the right to participate in the development and periodic revision of the plan described in subpars^aph (B)), and, in connection with such participation, the right to be provided with a reasonable explanation, in terms and language appropriate to such person's condition and ability to understand, of— (i) such person's general mental condition and, if such program or facility has provided a physical examination, such person's general physical condition; (ii) the objectives of treatment;
State and local governments. 42 USC 10841. 42 USC 9501.
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