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Relating to the transport of patients to mental health access centers by an ambulance
Sponsored by the House Health and Human Services Committee
Topics:Health careFamilies & human servicesMental health & addiction
Same legislation: HSB 617
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 25, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 25, 2024
- Done: House committeeFebruary 6, 2024
- Done: Passes the HouseFebruary 21, 202497–0
- Done: Senate committeeMarch 14, 2024
- Done: Passes the SenateApril 15, 202447–0
- Done: To the GovernorApril 23, 2024
- Done: Signed into lawMay 1, 2024
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What’s in it
AI summary Ambulance services would be allowed to take people having a mental health crisis to a mental health access center instead of just a hospital. The state health department will also make sure these ambulance companies get paid for these trips at a similar rate to emergency room transports.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to the transportation of persons by ambulance service programs. The bill allows an ambulance service program to transport a person experiencing a mental health crisis to a mental health access center. The bill directs the department of health and human services to authorize payments to service programs for the transportation of persons to mental health access centers in amounts similar to payments authorized for the transportation of persons to hospital emergency departments.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 26, 2024. On March 5, 2024 it recommended passage. [].
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