Amendment H-8327 to HF 2578
Relating to appropriations for health and human services and veterans and including other related provisions and appropriations, providing penalties, and including effective date and retroactive and other applicability date provisions
Ruled not germane · April 5, 2022
Filed April 5, 2022 in the House by
What it changes
AI summary This amendment increases the funding amounts for three specific items in the bill and adds a requirement for the Department of Human Services to create intensive psychiatric units for adults and children at state mental health institutes. It also requires the department to collect data on these units and submit a report to the legislature so they can decide whether to continue the program.1
Read the amendment’s wording
- Page 40, line 29, by striking “15,613,624” and inserting “17,764,975”
- Page 40, line 35, by striking “19,688,928” and inserting “21,577,968”
- Page 44, line 21, by striking “15,342,189” and inserting “15,537,677”
- Page 79, after line 8 by inserting: “DIVISION ___ STATE INTENSIVE PSYCHIATRIC UNITS Sec. ___. DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES —— STATE INTENSIVE PSYCHIATRIC UNITS.
- The department of human services shall establish, at the state mental health institutes, intensive psychiatric units for adults with certain mental health and behavioral health disabilities and intensive psychiatric units for children with certain mental health and behavioral health disabilities who may benefit from more extensive and intensive mental and behavioral health treatment services with the goal of providing a higher acuity of care for such persons.
- Each intensive psychiatric unit shall have a minimum of twelve residential service beds to be used by adults and children with the highest acuity level of needs at the mental health institute where the intensive psychiatric unit is established, but the mental health institute may use the beds for persons with lower-level acuity needs if beds are otherwise available within an intensive psychiatric unit.
- The department of human services shall collect data necessary to determine the effectiveness of each intensive psychiatric unit. Four years after the department determines an intensive psychiatric unit is operational, the department shall submit a report to the chairpersons and ranking members of the joint appropriations subcommittee on health and human services with details on the effectiveness of the intensive psychiatric units and recommendations for such units. Such details shall include but not be limited to the impact the intensive psychiatric units have on community mental health facilities and emergency departments in this state. No later than one year from the date the department submits its report, the legislature shall determine whether to continue operations of the intensive psychiatric units based on the efficacy and feasibility for continued use of such units.”
- By renumbering as necessary.