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Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 25, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 25, 2024
- Done: House committeeFebruary 6, 2024
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 2397
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became HF 2397 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 2397 What’s a funnel?
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 would also pay these ambulance programs for these trips at the same rates they receive for 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.
House subcommittee
Named January 25, 2024. On January 31, 2024 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.
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