<section number="75A-9-108"><effdate>1/1/2026</effdate><histories><history>Enacted by Chapter <modchap sess="2025GS">439</modchap>, 2025 General Session</history><modyear>2025</modyear></histories><catchline>Advance mental health care directive.</catchline><subsection number="75A-9-108(1)"><subsection number="75A-9-108(1)(a)">An individual may create an advance health care directive that addresses only mental health care for the individual.</subsection><subsection number="75A-9-108(1)(b)">The directive may include a health care instruction, a power of attorney for health care, or both.</subsection></subsection><subsection number="75A-9-108(2)">A health care instruction under this section may include the individual's:<subsection number="75A-9-108(2)(a)">general philosophy and objectives regarding mental health care; or</subsection><subsection number="75A-9-108(2)(b)">specific goals, preferences, and wishes regarding the provision, withholding, or withdrawal of a form of mental health care, including:<subsection number="75A-9-108(2)(b)(i)">preferences regarding professionals, programs, and facilities;</subsection><subsection number="75A-9-108(2)(b)(ii)">admission to a mental-health facility, including duration of admission;</subsection><subsection number="75A-9-108(2)(b)(iii)">preferences regarding medications;</subsection><subsection number="75A-9-108(2)(b)(iv)">refusal to accept a specific type of mental health care, including a medication; and</subsection><subsection number="75A-9-108(2)(b)(v)">preferences regarding crisis intervention.</subsection></subsection></subsection><subsection number="75A-9-108(3)">A power of attorney for health care under this section may appoint an agent to make decisions only for mental health care.</subsection></section>