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Relating to county funding of services for persons with substance-related disorders and co-occurring mental health and substance-related disorders, including intensive mental health services provided through access centers and intensive residential service homes, and including effective date provisions
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 6, 2019
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
Under current law, if a mental health and disability services region is meeting the financial obligations for implementation of its regional service system management plan for a fiscal year and residual funding is anticipated, the regional administrator shall reserve an adequate amount of unobligated and unencumbered funds for cash flow of expenditure obligations in the next fiscal year. For fiscal years beginning July 1, 2017, July 1, 2018, and July 1, 2019, that portion of each region’s cash flow amount either reserved in the combined account or reserved among all separate county accounts under the control of the governing board that exceeds 25 percent of the gross expenditures from the combined account or from all separate county accounts under the control of the governing board in the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in progress are required to be used in whole or in part to fund the payment of services provided under the regional service system management plan.
Read the full explanation
The bill provides that for fiscal years beginning July 1, 2018, and July 1, 2019, such funds may be used for expenses associated with increasing capacity to provide services to persons with substance-related disorders and persons with co-occurring mental health and substance-related disorders including intensive mental health services provided through access centers and intensive residential service homes. Current law requires each region to submit to the department of human services an annual service and budget plan approved by the region’s governing board and subject to the approval of the director of human services. The bill provides the annual service and budget plan may include a plan to provide services to persons with substance-related disorders and co-occurring mental health and substance-related disorders, including intensive mental health services provided through access centers and intensive residential service homes, and that a regional service system may provide funding for such services including any anticipated residual funding. The bill takes effect upon enactment.