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Hochul makes involuntary commitment proposals top state budget priority

One of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s top priorities is making it easier to hospitalize people with serious mental illness involuntarily and hold them there until they stabilize.

The proposal would change the standard for what clinicians should consider when deciding the likelihood that a person with a mental illness would “result in serious harm.”

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