Chapter
10.77 RCW - Provides for the commitment of persons found incompetent
to stand trial or acquitted of a crime by reason of insanity.
Chapter
71.05 RCW - Provides for persons suffering from mental disorders
to be involuntarily committed for treatment and sets forth that
procedures and services be integrated with Chapter 71.24 RCW.
Chapter
71.24 RCW - Establishes community mental health programs through
county-based regional support networks that operate systems of care.
Chapter
71.32 RCW - Establishes that validly executed mental health
advance directives are to be respected by agents, guardians, and
other surrogate decision makers, health care providers, professional
persons, and health care facilities.
Chapter
71.34 RCW - Establishes mental health services for minors, protects
minors against needless hospitalization, enables treatment decisions
to be made with sound professional judgment, and ensures minors’
parents/guardians are given an opportunity to participate in treatment
decisions.
Chapter
72.23 RCW - Establishes Eastern and Western psychiatric state
hospitals for the admission of voluntary patients.
Chapter
74.09 RCW - Establishes medical services, including behavioral
health care, for recipients of federal Medicaid as well as general
assistance and alcohol and drug addiction services.
