Chapter 51, STATE ALCOHOL, DRUG ABUSE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIESAND MENTAL HEALTH ACT
76 sections in this chapter.
Wis. Stat. § 51.001 Legislative policy
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51.001 Legislative policy. (1) It is the policy of the state to assure the provision of a full range of treatment and rehabilitation services in the state for all mental disorders and developmental disabilities and for mental illness, alcoholism and other drug abuse. There shall …
Wis. Stat. § 51.01 Definitions
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51.01 Definitions. As used in this chapter, except where otherwise expressly provided: (1d) “Active psychosis” means a severe mental condition where an individual’s mental reality is separated from the individual’s physical reality and the individual experiences symptoms such as …
Wis. Stat. § 51.02 Council on mental health
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51.02 Council on mental health. (1) The council on mental health shall have the following duties: (a) Advise the department, the legislature and the governor on the use of state and federal resources and on the provision and administration of programs for persons who are mentally…
Wis. Stat. § 51.025 Office of children’s mental health
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51.025 Office of children’s mental health. (1) The office of children’s mental health shall study and recommend ways, and coordinate initiatives, to improve the integration across state agencies of mental health services provided to children and monitor the performance of program…
Wis. Stat. § 51.03 Department; powers and duties
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51.03 Department; powers and duties. (1g) In this section: (a) “Early intervention” means action to hinder or alter a person’s mental disorder or abuse of alcohol or other drugs in order to reduce the duration of early symptoms or to reduce the duration or severity of mental illn…
Wis. Stat. § 51.032 Denial and revocations of certification or approval based on delinquent taxes or unemployment insurance contributions
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51.032 Denial and revocations of certification or approval based on delinquent taxes or unemployment insurance contributions. (1) Except as provided in sub. (1m), the department shall require each applicant to provide the department with his or her social security number, if the …
Wis. Stat. § 51.036 Crisis urgent care and observation facilities
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51.036 Crisis urgent care and observation facilities. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Crisis” means a situation caused by an individual’s apparent mental or substance use disorder that results in a high level of stress or anxiety for the individual, persons providing care …
Wis. Stat. § 51.038 Outpatient mental health clinic certification
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51.038 Outpatient mental health clinic certification. Except as provided in s. 51.032, if a facility that provides mental health services on an outpatient basis holds current accreditation from the council on accreditation of services for families and children, the department may…
Wis. Stat. § 51.04 Treatment facility certification
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51.04 Treatment facility certification. Except as provided in s. 51.032, any treatment facility may apply to the department for certification of the facility for the receipt of funds for services provided as a benefit to a medical assistance recipient under s. 49.46 (2) (b) 6. f.…
Wis. Stat. § 51.042 Youth crisis stabilization facilities
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51.042 Youth crisis stabilization facilities. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Crisis” means a situation caused by an individual’s apparent mental disorder that results in a high level of stress or anxiety for the individual, persons providing care for the individual, or th…
Wis. Stat. § 51.043 Crisis hostels
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51.043 Crisis hostels. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Crisis hostel” means a mental health stabilization program with a maximum of 15 beds that provides crisis stabilization services to an adult individual to prevent or de-escalate the individual’s mental health crisis an…
Wis. Stat. § 51.044 Psychiatric residential treatment facilities
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51.044 Psychiatric residential treatment facilities. (1) DEFINITION. In this section, “psychiatric residential treatment facility” has the meaning given in 42 CFR 483.352. (2) CERTIFICATION AND REQUIREMENTS. (a) The department may establish a certification process for and certify…
Wis. Stat. § 51.045 Availability of inpatient psychiatric and other beds
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51.045 Availability of inpatient psychiatric and other beds. (1m) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (2) (cm), the department shall award a grant in the amount of $80,000 in fiscal year 2021-22 and $50,000 in each fiscal year thereafter to the entity under contract under s. 1…
Wis. Stat. § 51.047 Mental health services
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51.047 Mental health services. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (5) (fr), the department may not award more than $45,000 in each fiscal year to applying public or nonprofit private entities for the costs of providing certain mental health services to homeless individuals wi…
Wis. Stat. § 51.05 Mental health institutes
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51.05 Mental health institutes. (1) DESIGNATION. The mental health institute located at Mendota is known as the “Mendota Mental Health Institute” and the mental health institute located at Winnebago is known as the “Winnebago Mental Health Institute”. Goodland Hall West, a facili…
Wis. Stat. § 51.06 Centers for the developmentally disabled
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51.06 Centers for the developmentally disabled. (1) PURPOSE. The purpose of the northern center for developmentally disabled, central center for developmentally disabled and southern center for developmentally disabled is to provide services needed by developmentally disabled cit…
Wis. Stat. § 51.07 Outpatient services
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51.07 Outpatient services. (1) The department may establish a system of outpatient clinic services in any institution operated by the department. (2) It is the purpose of this section to: (a) Provide outpatient diagnostic and treatment services for patients and their families. (b…
Wis. Stat. § 51.08 Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex
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51.08 Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex. Any county having a population of 750,000 or more may, pursuant to s. 46.17, establish and maintain a county mental health complex. The county mental health complex shall be a hospital devoted to the detention and care of drug addicts…
Wis. Stat. § 51.09 County hospitals
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51.09 County hospitals. Any county having a population MENTAL HEALTH ACT 51.10 of less than 750,000 may establish a hospital or facilities for the detention and care of mentally ill persons, alcoholics, and drug addicts; and in connection therewith a hospital or facility for the …
Wis. Stat. § 51.10 Voluntary admission of adults
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51.10 Voluntary admission of adults. (1) With the approval of the treatment director of the treatment facility or the director’s designee, or in the case of a center for the developmentally disabled, the director of the center or the director’s designee, and the approval of the d…
Wis. Stat. § 51.13 Admission of minors
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51.13 Admission of minors. (1) ADMISSION FOR TREATMENT. (a) Minors under 14 years of age. Except as provided in par. (c) and ss. 51.45 (2m) and 51.47, the application for admission of a minor who is under 14 years of age to an approved inpatient treatment facility for the primary…
Wis. Stat. § 51.138 Emergency outpatient treatment for minors
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51.138 Emergency outpatient treatment for minors. (1) In this section, “outpatient mental health treatment” has the meaning given in s. 51.14 (1). (2) Subject to sub. (4), a treatment director of an outpatient mental health treatment provider may provide outpatient mental health …
Wis. Stat. § 51.14 Review of outpatient mental health treatment of minors aged 14 or older
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51.14 Review of outpatient mental health treatment of minors aged 14 or older. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section, “outpatient mental health treatment” means treatment and social services for mental illness, except 24-hour care, treatment, and custody that is provided by a treatmen…
Wis. Stat. § 51.15 Emergency detention
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51.15 Emergency detention. (1) BASIS FOR DETENTION; PURPOSE. (ag) The purpose of this section is to provide, on an emergency basis, treatment by the least restrictive means appropriate to the individual’s needs, to individuals who meet all of the following criteria: 1. Are mental…
Wis. Stat. § 51.17 Warning of dangerousness
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51.17 Warning of dangerousness. (1) DEFINITION. In this section, “health care provider” has the meaning given in s. 146.81 (1). (2) AUTHORIZATION. Any health care provider, as permitted by s. 146.816 (2) (b) 4. or 5., and any law enforcement officer may make a disclosure of infor…
Wis. Stat. § 51.20 Involuntary commitment for treatment
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51.20 Involuntary commitment for treatment. 51.20(1)(1) Petition for examination. 51.20(1)(a)(a) Except as provided in pars. (ab), (am), and (ar), every written petition for examination shall allege that all of the following apply to the subject individual to be examined: 51.20(1…
Wis. Stat. § 51.22 Care and custody of persons
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51.22 Care and custody of persons. (1) Except as provided in s. 51.20 (13) (a) 4. or 5., any person committed under this chapter shall be committed to the county department under s. 51.42 or 51.437 serving the person’s county of residence, and such county department shall authori…
Wis. Stat. § 51.30 Records
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51.30 Records. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (ag) “Health care provider” has the meaning given in s. 146.81 (1) (a) to (p). (am) “Registration records” include all the records of the department, county departments under s. 51.42 or 51.437, treatment facilities, and other pers…
Wis. Stat. § 51.35 Transfers and discharges
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51.35 Transfers and discharges. (1) TRANSFER OF PATIENTS AND RESIDENTS. (a) Subject to pars. (b), (d), and (dm), the department or the county department under s. 51.42 or 51.437 may transfer any patient or resident who is committed to it, or who is admitted to a treatment facilit…
Wis. Stat. § 51.37 Criminal commitments; mental health institutes
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51.37 Criminal commitments; mental health institutes. (1) All commitments under s. 975.01, 1977 stats., and s. 975.02, 1977 stats., and under ss. 971.14 (5), 971.17 and 975.06 shall be to the department. (3) The Mendota and Winnebago mental health institutes may be used for the c…
Wis. Stat. § 51.375 Honesty testing of sex offenders
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51.375 Honesty testing of sex offenders. (1) In this section: (a) “Community placement” means conditional transfer into the community under s. 51.35 (1), conditional release under s. 971.17, parole from a commitment for specialized treatment under ch. 975, or supervised release u…
Wis. Stat. § 51.38 Nonresident patients on unauthorized absence
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51.38 Nonresident patients on unauthorized absence. The circuit court may order the detention of any nonresident individual who is on unauthorized absence from any institution of another state for the treatment of mental illness, developmental disabilities, alcoholism or drug abu…
Wis. Stat. § 51.39 Resident patients on unauthorized absence
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51.39 Resident patients on unauthorized absence. If any patient who is admitted, transferred, or placed under s. 55.06, 2003 stats., or s. 51.13, 51.15, 51.20, 51.35 (3), 51.37, or 51.45 (11) (b), (12) or (13) or ch. 55, 971, 975, or 980 is on unauthorized absence from a treatmen…
Wis. Stat. § 51.40 Determination of residence for certain adults; county of responsibility
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51.40 Determination of residence for certain adults; county of responsibility. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Agency of a county department” means a public or private organization with which a county department contracts for provision of services under ch. 46, 51 or 55. (…
Wis. Stat. § 51.41 Milwaukee County mental health; Milwaukee County mental health board
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51.41 Milwaukee County mental health; Milwaukee County mental health board. (1d) MILWAUKEE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH BOARD; APPOINTMENTS; REQUIREMENTS; VACANCIES. (a) Milwaukee County shall establish the Milwaukee County mental health board. (b) Subject to par. (d), the board shall co…
Wis. Stat. § 51.42 Community mental health, developmental disabilities, alcoholism and drug abuse services
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51.42 Community mental health, developmental disabilities, alcoholism and drug abuse services. (1) PROGRAM. (a) Purpose and intent. All of the following are the purposes and intent of this section: 1. To enable and encourage counties to develop a comprehensive range of services o…
Wis. Stat. § 51.421 Community support programs
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51.421 Community support programs. (1) PURPOSE. In order to provide the least restrictive and most appropriate care and treatment for persons with serious and persistent mental illness, community support programs should be available in all parts of the state. In order to integrat…
Wis. Stat. § 51.422 Opioid and methamphetamine treatment programs
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51.422 Opioid and methamphetamine treatment programs. (1) PROGRAM CREATION. The department shall create 2 or 3 new, regional comprehensive opioid treatment programs, and in the 2017-19 fiscal biennium, shall create 2 or 3 additional regional comprehensive opioid and methamphetami…
Wis. Stat. § 51.4223 Reporting by methadone treatment programs
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51.4223 Reporting by methadone treatment programs. (1) Annually, a treatment program that treats addiction using methadone shall report to the department all of the following: (a) The ratio of treatment program staff to the number of individuals receiving methadone treatment. (b)…
Wis. Stat. § 51.4224 Opioid treatment
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51.4224 Opioid treatment. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Narcotic treatment service for opiate addiction” is an opioid treatment system that includes a physician who administers or dispenses a narcotic drug to a narcotic addict for treatment or detoxification treatment wi…
Wis. Stat. § 51.423 Grants-in-aid
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51.423 Grants-in-aid. (1) The department shall fund, within the limits of the department’s allocation for mental health services under s. 20.435 (7) (b) and (o) and subject to this section, services for mental illness, developmental disability, alcoholism, and drug abuse to meet …
Wis. Stat. § 51.437 Developmental disabilities services
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51.437 Developmental disabilities services. (1) DEFINITION. In this section, “services” means specialized services or special adaptations of generic services directed toward the prevention and alleviation of a developmental disability or toward the social, personal, physical or e…
Wis. Stat. § 51.44 Early intervention services
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51.44 Early intervention services. (1) In this section: (ag) “Case management services” means activities carried out by a service coordinator to assist and enable a child eligible for early intervention services under this section and the child’s family to receive the rights and …
Wis. Stat. § 51.441 Comprehensive mental health consultation program
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51.441 Comprehensive mental health consultation program. The department shall convene a statewide group of interested persons, including at least one representative of the Medical College of Wisconsin, to develop a concept paper, business plan, and standards for a comprehensive m…
Wis. Stat. § 51.442 Child psychiatry consultation program
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51.442 Child psychiatry consultation program. (1) In this section, “participating clinicians” include pediatricians, family physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. (2) The department shall create and administer a child psychiatry consultation program to assist …
Wis. Stat. § 51.448 Addiction medicine consultation program
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51.448 Addiction medicine consultation program. (1) In this section, “participating clinicians” includes physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. (2) Beginning July 1, 2017, the department shall create and administer an addiction medicine consultation program to…
Wis. Stat. § 51.45 Prevention and control of alcoholism and drug dependence
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51.45 Prevention and control of alcoholism and drug dependence. (1) DECLARATION OF POLICY. It is the policy of this state that alcoholics, persons who are drug dependent, and intoxicated persons may not be subjected to criminal prosecution because of their consumption of alcohol …
Wis. Stat. § 51.46 Priority for pregnant women for private treatment for alcohol or other drug abuse
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51.46 Priority for pregnant women for private treatment for alcohol or other drug abuse. For inpatient or outpatient treatment for alcohol or other drug abuse, the first priority for services that are available in privately operated facilities, whether on a voluntary or involunta…
Wis. Stat. § 51.47 Alcohol and other drug abuse treatment for minors without parental consent
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51.47 Alcohol and other drug abuse treatment for minors without parental consent. (1) Except as provided in subs. (2) and (3), any physician or health care facility licensed, approved, or certified by the state for the provision of health services may render preventive, diagnosti…
Wis. Stat. § 51.48 Alcohol and other drug testing, assessment, and treatment of minor without minor’s consent
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51.48 Alcohol and other drug testing, assessment, and treatment of minor without minor’s consent. A minor’s parent or guardian may consent to have the minor tested for the presence of alcohol or other drugs in the minor’s body or to have the minor assessed by an approved treatmen…