Expands the definition of "serious mental illness" to include delusional disorder, major depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and dissociative disorder. (SD2)

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. Section 431M-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "serious mental illness" to read as follows:

""Serious mental illness" means a mental disorder consisting of at least one of the following: schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder, [[and]] bipolar types I and II, obsessive compulsive disorder, dissociative disorder, delusional disorder, and major depression, as defined in the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, which is of sufficient severity to result in substantial interference with the activities of daily living."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.