Summary & Fiscal Analysis Of New Mexico Senate Bill 113 Of 2016: New Mexico Assisted Outpatient Treatment Act

The legislation was signed on March 9, 2016, to allow court-ordered assisted outpatient treatment for people with untreated mental illness. The law goes into effect on July 1, 2016. It allows each New Mexico county that decides to implement the law to change civil commitment statutes and grant authority to a district court judge to order people with mental illness into mandatory assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) for up to one year. The law did not provide funding to the counties . . .