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Bill	An Act amending the act of July 9, 1976 (P.L.817, No.143), known as the Mental Health Procedures Act, in general provisions, further providing for scope of act, providing for definitions, further providing for treatment facilities and for individualized treatment plan and providing for assisted outpatient treatment implementation by counties and for assisted outpatient treatment implementation by department; in involuntary examination and treatment, further providing for persons subject, for involuntary emergency examination and treatment authorized by physician, for persons for whom application may be made, and for additional periods of court-ordered involuntary treatment; and adding provisions relating to assisted outpatient treatment.	An Act amending the act of July 9, 1976 (P.L.817, No.143), known as the Mental Health Procedures Act, in general provisions, further providing for scope of act, providing for definitions, further providing for treatment facilities and for individualized treatment plan and providing for assisted outpatient treatment implementation by counties and for assisted outpatient treatment implementation by department; in involuntary examination and treatment, further providing for persons subject, for involuntary emergency examination and treatment authorized by physician, for persons for whom application may be made, and for additional periods of court-ordered involuntary treatment; and adding provisions relating to assisted outpatient treatment.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2017-2018	HB 1233	Pennsylvania HB 1233 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Murt	5	25	6	2017-04-17T04:00:00+00:00	2018-10-24T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/ef5c2043-e27f-4df1-9590-00f8dbe3247a	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=1233	34dfb874dacad86c1422948e16d54615d7486e440c75046c31cd5f9c6952b4c7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 1233 (2017-2018) — An Act amending the act of July 9, 1976 (P.L.817, No.143), known as the Mental Health Procedures Act, in general provisions, further providing for scope of act, providing for definitions, further providing for treatment facilities and for individualized treatment plan and providing for assisted outpatient treatment implementation by counties and for assisted outpatient treatment implementation by department; in involuntary examination and treatment, further providing for persons subject, for involuntary emergency examination and treatment authorized by physician, for persons for whom application may be made, and for additional periods of court-ordered involuntary treatment; and adding provisions relating to assisted outpatient treatment.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Printer's No. 1460 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 1838 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. 2083 (committee substitute) — source
4. Printer's No. 3188 (committee substitute) — source
5. Printer's No. 4252 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 189–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 26–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1233 PN 4252, CONCUR — 181–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES): Reported as Amended — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1233 PN 1838, 2017 A1992, MURT — 196–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Murt — primary (person)
• Baker — cosponsor (person)
• Barbin — cosponsor (person)
• Benninghoff — cosponsor (person)
• Bloom — cosponsor (person)
• Boback — cosponsor (person)
• Briggs — cosponsor (person)
• D. Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Delissio — cosponsor (person)
• Everett — cosponsor (person)
• Godshall — cosponsor (person)
• Hanna — cosponsor (person)
• Heffley — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• Kinsey — cosponsor (person)
• Madden — cosponsor (person)
• Miccarelli — cosponsor (person)
• Mustio — cosponsor (person)
• Neilson — cosponsor (person)
• Nelson — cosponsor (person)
• Rader — cosponsor (person)
• Rothman — cosponsor (person)
• Santora — cosponsor (person)
• Schlegel Culver — cosponsor (person)
• Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Toepel — cosponsor (person)
• Toohil — cosponsor (person)
• V. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)
• White — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2017-04-17T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1460 Referred to HUMAN SERVICES referral-committee
• 2017-05-24T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1838 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-24T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2017-05-24T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2017-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2017-06-20T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2083 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2017-06-20T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2017-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2017-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES referral-committee
• 2018-03-20T04:00:00+00:00 PN 3188 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-03-20T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2018-05-21T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table (Pursuant to Senate Rule 9)
• 2018-10-02T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2018-10-15T04:00:00+00:00 PN 4252 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2018-10-15T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2018-10-16T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES referral-committee
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2018-10-18T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-10-24T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ef5c2043-e27f-4df1-9590-00f8dbe3247a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).