HF 243: 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

What it does

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.

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Against: Anthem, Inc. and Its Affiliates Including Amerigroup

In plain words

1. February 6, 2019Filed in the House and sent to the Human Resources committee