2007 Regular
Session
|
| HB
820 |
LC2196 |
Janna Taylor |
(S) Returned to House with Amendments |
04/16/2007 |
Biennial funding for certain executive branch
agencies |
|
Several
items of interest in HB820 relating to mental health:
Budget Item
|
FY2008 General Fund
|
FY2008 Other Funds
|
FY2009 General Funds
|
FY2009 Other Funds
|
Total Biennium Funding
|
Restrictions and Notes
|
Governor's
Office--Mental Disabilities Board of Visitors
|
352,452
|
0
|
354,074
|
0
|
706,526
|
|
AMDD
Operations Budget--Overall
|
51,366,876 |
54,551,224
|
52,864,079 |
56,322,474
|
215,104,653
|
|
Addictive/Mental
Disorders Administration/Reporting
|
477,886
|
681,830
|
484,739
|
684,957
|
2,329,412
|
|
Direct
Care Worker Wage Increase (Restricted)
|
224,964
|
491,711
|
225,681
|
490,994
|
1,433,350
|
Funds in
Direct Care Worker Wage Increase may be used only to raise direct care
worker wages and related benefits through an increase in provider
rates. Funds in Direct Care Worker Wage Increase may not be used to
offset any other wage increase mandated by any other laws, contracts,
or written agreements, which will go into effect at the same time as or
after implementation of the appropriation included in Direct Care
Worker Wage Increase. Funds in Direct Care Worker Wage Increase must be
used first to raise the lowest paid direct care workers to $8.50 an
hour and to raise related benefits, and the remaining balance may be
used only to raise wages and related benefits of all direct care
workers. The department shall provide documentation that these funds
are used solely for direct care worker wage and related benefits
increases. The documentation must include initial wage rates, wage
rates after the rate increases have been applied, and wage rates every
6 months after the rate increases have been granted. Addictive/Mental
Disorders Administration/Reporting includes funding for a semiannual
report for the legislative finance committee and the children,
families, health, and human services interim committee summarizing
direct care wage rates.
|
Behavioral
Health Inpatient Facility (Restricted)
|
0
|
0
|
3,000,000
|
3,263,417
|
6,263,417
|
Behavioral
Health Inpatient Facility may be used only to develop one or more
behavioral health inpatient facilities as defined in 53-21-102(2).
Behavioral Health Inpatient Facility may be used to pay for services
and may not be used for construction of buildings. Behavioral Health
Inpatient Facility is contingent upon passage and approval of Senate
Bill No. 45.
|
Mental
Health Drop-In Centers (Restricted)
|
500,000
|
0
|
500,000
|
0
|
1,000,000
|
Funds in
Mental Health Drop-In Centers may be used only to support community
drop-in centers for persons with a mental illness and to provide
training for up to 60 consumers each fiscal year to perform peer
specialist duties. Drop-in centers with staff who can assist persons
with medication management must receive priority in consideration for
funding.
|
Suicide
Prevention (Restricted)
|
400,000
|
0
|
400,000
|
0
|
800,000
|
Funds in
Suicide Prevention may be used only to implement a comprehensive
suicide prevention program, which at a minimum includes a suicide
prevention officer, a comprehensive suicide reduction plan, and a
24-hour suicide prevention hotline.
|
Services
for Mentally Ill Offenders (Restricted)
|
500,000
|
0
|
500,000
|
0
|
1,000,000
|
Funding in
Services for Mentally Ill Offenders may be used for two purposes only:
(1) services for adults under the supervision of the community
corrections division in the department of corrections; and
(2) training for community probation and parole officers.
The services may include case management, treatment, transition
support, and medication monitoring. Funding may be used to provide
training to community probation and parole officers about mental
illness and chemical dependency and about how to assist offenders to
enroll in public benefit programs, if appropriate.
|
Expand
Mental Health Services Plan (Restricted)
|
3,500,000
|
0
|
3,500,000
|
0
|
7,000,000
|
Funds in
Expand Mental Health Services Plan may be used only TO IMPLEMENT
53-21-702(2).
MCA 53-21-702(2):The
department may establish resource and income standards of
eligibility for mental health services that are more liberal than the
resource and income standards of eligibility for physical health
services. The standards of eligibility for mental health services may
provide for eligibility for households not eligible for medicaid with
family income that does not exceed 160% of the federal poverty
threshold or that does not exceed a lesser amount determined at the
discretion of the department. The department may by rule specify under
what circumstances deductions for medical expenses should be used to
reduce countable family income in determining eligibility. The
department may also adopt rules establishing fees, premiums, or
copayments to be charged recipients for services. The fees, premiums,
or copayments may vary according to family income.
|
Provider
Rate Increase (Restricted)
|
287,953
|
1,058,075
|
915,500
|
1,901,526
|
4,163,054
|
Funds in
Provider Rate Increase may be used only to raise provider rates
|
Mentally
Ill Offender Drugs (Restricted/Biennial)
|
950,000
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
950,000
|
Funding in
Mentally Ill Offender Drugs may be used only to provide a prescription
benefit for offenders leaving secure care who meet the criteria for
serious mental illness and who have not been enrolled in public benefit
programs. Benefits may include a 60-day supply of medications and other
short-term medication purchases for offenders who become unstable and
need medications and who are not eligible for other public prescription
drug programs.
|
72-Hour
Crisis Eligibility (Restricted)
|
1,861,245
|
171,525
|
1,860,334
|
172,436
|
4,065,540
|
72-Hour
Crisis Eligibility may be used only to develop community mental health
crisis services and for provision of psychiatric consulting services
for community providers who manage and administer community mental
health crisis services.
|
Methamphetamine
Treatment (Restricted)
|
2,000,000
|
0
|
2,000,000
|
0
|
4,000,000
|
Methamphetamine
Treatment may be used only to develop community treatment.
PARENTS WITH CHILDREN must be given priority consideration when
selecting candidates to participate in the treatment funded by
Methamphetamine Treatment.
|
MHSP Drugs
(Biennial)
|
0
|
6,305,210
|
0
|
0
|
6,305,210
|
|
Community
Liaison Officers (Restricted)
|
0
|
129,522
|
0
|
145,000
|
274,522
|
Funding in
Community Liaison Officers may be used only for five half-time staff in
the addictive and mental disorders division to provide focused reentry
support services, including assistance in accessing community services,
to persons who are discharged from Montana state hospital. The
legislature intends that the positions be filled by individuals who
have a primary diagnosis of mental illness and are certified peer
specialists. The goal of this service is to reduce readmissions to
Montana state hospital at 30- and 60-day intervals, as a result of
assisted reintegration to community settings.
|
Service
Area Authority Grants (Restricted)
|
115,000
|
0
|
115,000
|
0
|
230,000
|
Service
Area Authority Grants may be used only to provide grants to service
area authorities established in 53-21-1006.
|
|
| HB
830 |
LC2195 |
Dave Kasten |
(S) Hearing
(H) Conference Committee
Appointed |
04/23/2007 |
Appropriate money for
construction & maintenance of public buildings and systems |
|
Several
items of interest in HB830 relating to mental health
All are proposed to be funded through the state's long-range building
program account (LRBP).
1. Receiving Hospital Renovation,
MSH
$5,800,000
2. Renovate/Improve Support Services,
MSH
$4,500,000
3. Improvements,
MMHNCC
$750,000
4. Improve Campus,
MSH
$1,280,000 |
Bills Tabled in
Committee
|
| SB
149 |
LC0464 |
Bill Tash |
(H) Tabled in Committee |
04/18/2007 |
Revise use of Xanthopoulos
building |
|
A BILL
FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT ESTABLISHING A FORENSIC PROGRAM FOR THE
EXAMINATION AND TREATMENT OF MENTALLY ILL OFFENDERS; PROVIDING FOR A
SECURE RESIDENTIAL FORENSIC TREATMENT FACILITY AND PROVIDING STANDARDS
FOR THE FACILITY; REVISING THE USE OF THE FORMER FORENSIC UNIT AT WARM
SPRINGS; AMENDING SECTIONS 46-14-202, 46-14-221, 46-14-312, 53-1-209,
AND 53-21-102, MCA; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE." |
| SB
93 |
LC0569 |
Gerald Pease |
(H) Tabled in Apropriations
Committee |
04/19/2007 |
Revise and fund service area
authorities |
|
This is
for additional funding for the SAAs, increasing from $45,000 to
$115,000 yearly. This $115,000 appears to have been added to
HB820. Does this make SB93 redundant? |
Bills Passed by
Legislature, Needing Governor's Signature
|
| SB
478 |
LC1253 |
Dan Weinberg |
Passed By Legislature--Enrolling
and Final Preparation Process
House final vote: 67 to 32
Senate final vote: 49 to 1 |
04/20/2007 |
Implement suicide prevention
program |
| SB
382 |
LC1517 |
Jesse Laslovich |
Passed By Legislature--Enrolling and Final
Preparation Process
House final vote: 67 to 32
Senate final vote: 48 to 2 |
04/17/2007 |
Establish mental health courts |
|
This
bill will only allow local jurisdictions to establish mental health
courts, but there is no dedicated funding to it.
|
| HB
727 |
LC2029 |
Michael Lange |
Transmitted to Governor
House final vote: 91-9
Senate final vote: 49-1
|
04/17/2007 |
Revise eligibility requirements for certain
benefits |
|
A BILL
FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT REVISING
ELIGIBILITY STANDARDS FOR THE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PLAN BY PROVIDING
FOR CONTINUED ELIGIBILITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF RETURNING TO WORK;
AMENDING SECTION 53-21-702, MCA; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
Change at 53-21-702(2)(b): In
determining CONTINUING eligibility, the department MAY disregard UP TO
the first $1,000 of monthly EARNED income FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE
RETURNED TO WORK.
|
HB
406
|
LC0682 |
Edith Clark |
Passed By Legislature--Enrolling
and Final Preparation Process
House final vote: 87 to 13
Senate final vote: 40 to 10
|
04/18/2007
|
Montana community health center
support |
Bills that
Became Law
|
| HB
769 |
LC1003 |
Bob Lake |
Became Law
|
04/10/2007 |
Require registration of alternative adolescent
programs and rules for regulation |
|
A BILL
FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT REQUIRING MANDATORY REGISTRATION AND
LICENSURE OF
ALTERNATIVE ADOLESCENT RESIDENTIAL OR OUTDOOR PROGRAMS; ALLOWING FOR
PROVISIONAL
LICENSING; PROVIDING FOR BACKGROUND INVESTIGATIONS OF CERTAIN EMPLOYEES
AND
MANAGERS AND ALLOWING FOR A WAIVER; DIRECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
AND INDUSTRY
TO ADOPT RULES REGARDING PROGRAM CRITERIA; REQUIRING DEPARTMENT
INSPECTION OF THE
PROGRAMS FOR LICENSURE AND EVERY 3 YEARS; ALLOWING INSPECTIONS IN
RESPONSE TO
COMPLAINTS; PROVIDING PENALTIES AND NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES; REVISING
DEFINITIONS;
ESTABLISHING CRITERIA FOR ENSURING PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY FOR PROGRAM
PARTICIPANTS; REQUIRING PROOF OF INSURANCE; AMENDING SECTIONS 37-48-101, 37-48-102, AND
37-48-103, MCA; AND
PROVIDING AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE." |
| HJ
26 |
LC2431 |
Tim Callahan |
Became
Law
|
04/12/2007 |
Study mental health issues in criminal and
juvenile justice systems |
|
A JOINT
RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE
OF MONTANA REQUESTING THAT AN INTERIM COMMITTEE OR STAFF STUDY AND
DEVELOP AN
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR ADULTS AND YOUTH IN THE
CRIMINAL AND JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEMS. |
| SB
124 |
LC0466 |
Dan Harrington |
Became Law
|
04/05/2007 |
Cost for state hospital forensic commitment for
court-ordered exam |
|
This
bill removes a circular requirement for the Office of Court
Administrator (OCA) and the Office of State Public Defender (OSPD) to
obtain a general fund appropriation to reimburse Department of Health
and Human Services (DPHHS) for costs of forensic services at Montana
State Hospital (MSH) so DPHHS can, in turn, reimburse the general fund.
The bill has a net zero impact on the general fund, by eliminating both
the OCA and OSPD appropriation to pay the expense as well as the DPHHS
reimbursement of those
dollars back to the general fund. |
| SB
45 |
LC0442 |
Dan Weinberg |
Became Law
|
04/03/2007 |
Revise laws governing inpatient behavioral
health facilities |
| SB
81 |
LC0441 |
Trudi Schmidt |
Became Law
|
03/27/2007 |
Include licensed psychologists as statutory
providers |