should be made to make it easier for individuals to be detained, lessening the restrictions required under the LPS Act. In 2018, SB 1045 was signed into California law, establishing a pilot program in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego counties, if the counties approve. It would allow for the creation of a conservatorship for a person who is unable to care for his or her own health and well-being due to serious mental illness and substance use disorder. SB 1045 provides the least restrictive and most clinically appropriate alternative needed for the protection of persons incapable of caring for their own health. See also Wrongful involuntary commitment California Mental Health Services Act Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Act Community Mental Health Act (of 1963) Disability rights movement "5-1-5-0", a song by American country music artist Dierks Bentley about the policy Community Mental Health Act Emergency psychiatry Florida Mental Health Act (also known as the "Baker Act") Medically indigent adult Political abuse of psychiatry Section 135/136 of the Mental Health Act, a similar policy in England and Wales References Further reading California Welfare and Institutions Code, Section 5150 California Welfare and Institutions Code, Section 5008 (h) definition of gravely disabled California Welfare and Institutions Code, Section 5008 (m) emergency defined California Welfare and Institutions Code, Section 5256: Certification Review Hearing defined California Welfare and Institutions Code, Section 5332: Capacity Hearing defined, involuntary medication California Welfare and Institutions Code, Section 5325-5325.2: Patients' Rights California Welfare and Institutions Code, Section 5325: Patients' Rights California Welfare and Institutions Code, Section 5325.1: Patients' Rights California Welfare and Institutions Code, Section 5325.2: Patients' Rights American Psychiatric Association, Definition of Crisis Behavior & A Mental Disorder by DSM-IV (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of APA), & Crisis Management California Code of Regulations (C.C.R.), Title 9 & Title 22, Licensed psychiatric hospitals in California are governed by CCR Title 22 California Health & Safety Code, on seclusion and restraint External links LASuperiorCourt.org (pdf) – 'LPS Holds Chart', Los Angeles County Superior Court Los Angeles County LPS Training Manual. 1972 in law California statutes Mental health law in the United States 1972 in California Deinstitutionalization in the United States Involuntary commitment