Legislative Bills

The Bills Currently in the Legislature are:

1. The fresh air and Five Fundamental Rights Enforcement Bill.

The first bill is the Five Fundamental Rights bill combined with the Right to Fresh Air bill. The bill is House #1945 and Senate # 734. This bill is to provide enforcement of the Five Fundamental Rights, which are violated by hospitals every day, and to provide mandatory fresh air times in all hospitals. It makes fresh air a sixth right.

2. The Peer-run-Respite or Crisis Center bill:

This bill would establish a peer-run alternative to emergency rooms and locked psychiatric units. It is bill #3584. The second bill is the peer-run-respite or crisis center bill, which is about having a feasibility study about peer-run-respites done and hopefully this would lead to starting these peer-run crisis alternatives in Massachusetts.

3. The Emergency Room Rights Bill

The third bill currently in the legislature is bill #3585, which would require acute-care hospitals to keep data on how often they use restraints in Emergency rooms.