Section 632.590

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS

Chapter 632

Effective - 28 Aug 2026, see footnote   

  632.590.  Issuance of order, when. — Following receipt of a petition and completion of the procedures required in section 632.593, a court may issue an order requiring a respondent to participate in assisted outpatient treatment if:

  (1)  The respondent:

  (a)  Is eighteen years of age or older;

  (b)  Is suffering from a mental illness;

  (c)  Will not obtain treatment in the community voluntarily; and

  (d)  Is unable to make an informed decision to seek or to comply with voluntary treatment; and

  (2)  Either:

  (a)  Because of the respondent's fulfillment of the criteria of subdivision (1) of this section, the respondent requires treatment to prevent a deterioration in the respondent's mental illness that would be likely to result in serious harm to the respondent or others as described in section 632.305; or

  (b)  The respondent has a history of a lack of compliance with treatment for the respondent's mental illness, and within the thirty-six months immediately preceding the date of the filing of the petition such lack of compliance has either:

  a.  At least twice, been a significant factor in necessitating a civil detention period for treatment instituted under section^* 632.120 or 632.305 or receipt of services in a forensic or other mental health unit of any state or local correctional facility, not including any period during which the respondent was hospitalized or incarcerated immediately preceding the date of the filing of the petition; or

  b.  Resulted in one or more acts of violent behavior with the intention of causing serious physical injury toward self or others or threats of, or attempts of, serious physical harm to self or others, not including any period during which the respondent was hospitalized or incarcerated immediately preceding the date of the filing of the petition.

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(L. 2026 H.B. 2637 & 3155)

*Word "sections" appears in original rolls.

Severability clause, see § 1.1005)