Chapter 83 — STATE INSTITUTIONS
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Repealed. Laws 1981, LB 95, § 30.
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Repealed. Laws 1976, LB 806, § 91.
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Repealed. Laws 1996, LB 1155, § 121.
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Repealed. Laws 1969, c. 812, § 25.
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Repealed. Laws 1947, c. 335, § 47.
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Repealed. Laws 1969, c. 812, § 25.
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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-348 State hospitals for the mentally ill; patients whose legal settlement has not been ascertained; state to bear expense.
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Patients in the state hospitals for the mentally ill having no legal settlement in this state, or whose legal settlement cannot be ascertained, shall be supported at the expense of the state. This section shall apply to all such patients now in the hospitals and shall include exp…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-349 State hospitals for the mentally ill; adjustment of expense between counties; notice; inquiry; effect of delay.
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If the mental health board finds that a person committed to a state hospital for the mentally ill by the board has, or probably has, a legal settlement in some other county in the state, the board shall immediately notify the mental health board of that county of its finding and …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-350 State hospitals for the mentally ill; legal settlement of patient in another county; treatment.
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When the chief executive officer of a state hospital for the mentally ill has been notified, as provided for in sections 83-313 to 83-357, that a patient sent to the hospital from one county has a legal settlement in another county of the state, the chief executive officer shall …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-351 Expenses; adjustment between counties; patients transferred from a state institution.
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Expenses incurred by one county, on account of a mentally ill and dangerous person or a dangerous sex offender as defined in section 83-174.01 whose legal settlement is in another county of the state, shall be refunded, with lawful interest thereon, by the county in which the men…
Repealed. Laws 1969, c. 812, § 25.
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Repealed. Laws 1969, c. 812, § 25.
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Repealed. Laws 2004, LB 1083, § 149.
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Repealed. Laws 1947, c. 335, § 47.
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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-354 State hospitals for the mentally ill; equal treatment; special care at private expense.
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All patients in the state hospitals for the mentally ill shall be regarded as standing on an equal footing. The patients, according to their different conditions of mind and body and their respective needs, shall be provided for and treated with equal care. If the relatives or im…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-355 State hospitals for the mentally ill; admission of nonresidents; expenses paid quarterly in advance.
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Mentally ill persons from other states and territories may be admitted to the state hospitals for the mentally ill upon equal footing and on same conditions as private-pay patients. The sum to be paid monthly for the care, maintenance, and treatment of such patients shall be fixe…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-356 Mentally ill persons; mistreatment; liability; penalty.
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Any person taking care of a mentally ill person, and restraining such a person, either with or without authority, who shall treat such person with wanton severity, harshness or cruelty, or shall in any way abuse such a person, shall be guilty of a Class V misdemeanor and shall al…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-357 Persons supposed mentally ill; liberty not to be restricted; exception.
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The liberty of any person supposed to be mentally ill shall not be restrained by any person not acting under the authority of the county board of mental health except to the extent for the period that may be necessary for the safety of persons and property, and until authority ca…
Repealed. Laws 1969, c. 817, § 87.
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Repealed. Laws 1963, c. 528, § 12.
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Repealed. Laws 1963, c. 528, § 12.
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Repealed. Laws 1969, c. 821, § 1.
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Repealed. Laws 1969, c. 821, § 1.
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Repealed. Laws 1969, c. 821, § 1.
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Repealed. Laws 1969, c. 821, § 1.
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Repealed. Laws 1972, LB 1492, § 8.
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Repealed. Laws 1972, LB 1492, § 8.
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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-363 Terms, defined.
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As used in sections 83-227.01, 83-227.02, 83-350, and 83-363 to 83-379, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Department means the Department of Health and Human Services; (2) State institution means the state hospitals at Lincoln and Norfolk, the Beatrice State Developmenta…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-364 Cost of patient care; liability of patient and relatives.
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When any person is admitted to a state institution or other inpatient treatment facility pursuant to an order of a mental health board under the Nebraska Mental Health Commitment Act or the Sex Offender Commitment Act or receives treatment prescribed by such institution or facili…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-365 Cost of patient care; department; determine.
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The department shall periodically determine the individual cost, exclusive of the cost of education, for the care, support, maintenance, and treatment of the patients in each state institution and for persons receiving treatment prescribed by an institution following release or w…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-366 Cost of patient care; assess against patient or relatives; limitations.
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The department shall assess against the patient or his or her relatives all or such part of the cost determined under section 83-365 as they are able to pay, in the judgment of the department, except that a patient who is placed in a state institution to receive appropriate speci…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-367 Cost of patient care; relatives; limitation.
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The liability of each relative, except a spouse, shall cease when relatives shall have completed payments assessed pursuant to sections 83-227.01, 83-227.02, 83-350, and 83-363 to 83-379 for one hundred eighty months, or when the patient attains the age of majority, whichever sha…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-368 Cost of patient care; ability to pay; factors.
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Except as provided in section 71-809, the department shall determine the ability of a patient to pay by consideration of the following factors: (1) Taxable income reportable under Nebraska law; (2) the patient's age; (3) the number of his or her dependents and their ages and ment…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-369 Cost of patient care; Department of Health and Human Services; determination of ability to pay; factors considered.
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When the department determines that a patient is unable to pay the entire cost determined pursuant to section 83-365, the department shall then determine the ability of his relatives to pay such cost. In making this determination, the department shall consider the relative's taxa…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-370 Cost of patient care; failure to furnish information; effect.
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When any relative willfully fails to furnish to the department, upon request, the information required by sections 83-227.01, 83-227.02, 83-350, and 83-363 to 83-379 as to his or her taxable income, such relative shall be deemed to have ability to pay the entire cost determined u…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-371 Department; rules and regulations.
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Pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, the department shall adopt and promulgate appropriate rules and regulations for making the determinations required by sections 83-227.01, 83-227.02, 83-350, and 83-363 to 83-379.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-372 Cost of patient care; county board; duties.
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It shall be the duty of the county board in each county to make such investigation as the department may require with regard to the ability to pay of any patient or relative of a patient who resides within the county. In making such investigation, the county board shall act in ac…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-373 Cost of patient care; determination; redetermination annually.
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Any determination of the ability of a patient or relative to pay shall remain in effect until a redetermination is made. A redetermination shall be made annually and at such additional times when, in the judgment of the department, it is appropriate to do so, or when a request is…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-374 Cost of patient care; hearing; appeal.
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Any patient or relative aggrieved by a determination of ability to pay may request a hearing before the department. The department shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to govern the conduct of such hearings. The department may appoint an examiner who shall have power …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-375 Cost of patient care; failure to pay; action by Attorney General.
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When any patient or relative fails to pay the amounts determined to be due under sections 83-227.01, 83-227.02, 83-350, and 83-363 to 83-379, the State of Nebraska may proceed against such person in the manner authorized by law for the recovery of money owed to a creditor. The At…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-376 Cost of patient care; failure of patient or relative to pay; cost to be paid by county and state.
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When the full cost determined to be necessary for the care, support, maintenance, and treatment of any patient is not paid by the patient or his or her relatives within thirty days of receipt of such care, (1) the county in which the patient resides shall pay (a) the first fiftee…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-377 Cost of patient care; guardian; duties; liability.
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In all cases in which a guardian has been named for any person liable for payments under sections 83-227.01, 83-227.02, 83-350, and 83-363 to 83-379, the guardian shall represent such person in all matters arising under sections 83-227.01, 83-227.02, 83-350, and 83-363 to 83-379 …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-378 Cost of patient care; claim against estate; voluntary payments.
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No person shall be liable for the cost of the care, support, maintenance, and treatment of any patient except as provided in sections 83-363 to 83-379, but the amounts determined to be due and unpaid at the time of the death of a patient or relative shall constitute a claim again…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-379 Cost of patient care; fraudulent transfers; effect.
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In the absence of fraud, a patient and the patient's relatives shall be liable only to the extent of assessments actually made against them respectively, in accordance with sections 83-227.01, 83-227.02, 83-350, and 83-363 to 83-379. For the purposes of sections 83-227.01, 83-227…
Repealed. Laws 2026, LB1048, § 46.
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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-380.01 Indigent outpatient; prescription medicine; Department of Health and Human Services; pay costs; when.
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Upon the discharge from a treatment facility, an indigent person who has received mental-health-board-ordered treatment may file an affidavit with the Department of Health and Human Services or the mental health board requesting that prescription medicine which the regional cente…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-381 Terms, defined.
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As used in sections 83-217, 83-218, and 83-381 to 83-390, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Person with an intellectual disability means any person of significant subaverage general intellectual functioning which is associated with significant impairments in adaptive fun…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-382 Residential facilities; admission; department; jurisdiction.
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Except as provided in sections 79-1148 and 79-1149, the department shall have jurisdiction of the admission of persons with an intellectual disability to a residential facility. Applications for admission to a residential facility shall be filed with the department.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-383 Residential facilities; admission; application; by whom; appointment of guardian.
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(1) An application for admission shall be made in writing by one of the following persons: (a) If the person applying for admission has a court-appointed guardian, the application shall be made by the guardian; and (b) If the person applying for admission does not have a court-ap…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-384 Residential facilities; application for admission; contents.
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An application for admission to a residential facility shall contain the name, age, and place of residence of the person for whom admission is requested. The application shall set forth the name of the person submitting the application and the capacity in which he or she makes th…