To:  MHOCCA@egroups.com
From:  Andrew Phelps  <starfish@n...>
Date:  Fri Jul 7, 2000 8:48am
Subject:  Re: SB 1769


Dick wrote:
> I trust everyone is also watching SB 1769 in the Calif. Legislature?
> It looks headed to pass.
>
enrolled version
>
> This would basically encourage every MH Authority (county) applying
> for Mentally Ill Offender Grant (Dept. of Corrections) money to also
> establish a MH Court.

> This bill would require the board to
> encourage counties to submit crime reduction grant
> proposals to establish or
> implement a mental health court, as described in (2).

There was some discussion of this at the Santa Clara County
Budget Coalition meeting last nite. I think AMI is grinning
like the cat that swallowed the canary.

Respectfully

Andrew Phelps