Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF0754

E Relating to mental health ARTICLE 1 SUICIDE PREVENTIONRequiring the
commissioner of health to make suicide prevention an important public health
goal of the state, to conduct suicide prevention activities to accomplish the
goal and to implement a suicide prevention plan in collaboration with the
departments of public safety and children, families and learning and other
appropriate agencies, organizations and institutions; requiring the commissioner
to create or contract for an ongoing public education campaign to raise
awareness of suicide as a public health issue, specifying certain campaign
requirements, requiring the commissioner to establish partnerships with media
vendors for implementation purposes and to disseminate education materials to
state and local officials and policymakers; requiring the commissioner to
establish grant programs for certain community based programs including programs
in schools and workplaces and for professional preservice or continuing
education programs targeted toward school staff, health care and mental health
providers, corrections and law enforcement personnel, social services providers
and members of faith based professions; requiring the commissioner to collect
and annually report on certain suicide and suicidal behavior data and to make
grants and assist entities in seeking nonstate funding sources for certain
research on suicide prevention and intervention, to periodically survey and
evaluate the suicide prevention and intervention polices and practices of
institutions licensed by the state, to study current practices of determining
and reporting suicides and make recommendations to professionals and
organizations for accurate reporting and to periodically evaluate the impact and
outcomes from implementation of the suicide prevention plan and report the
results biennially to the legislature; prohibiting the commissioner of public
safety from including suicide statistics in crime statistics compilations;
requiring the commissioner of health to study the existing suicide crisis
response system to identify gaps in intervention and services, to determine
costs and to provide recommendations to the legislature by a certain date;
appropriating money to the commissioner of health for implementation of the
suicide prevention plan and for certain related education and outreach
activities ARTICLE 2 CORRECTIONSRequiring the commissioner of corrections to
offer to develop discharge plans for community based services for offenders with
serious and persistent mental illness released from correctional facilities,
specifying certain plan content requirements, authorizing county human services
departments or providers authorized by the county to invoice the commissioner of
human services for offenders with serious and persistent mental illness
discharged from prison and receiving the services; requiring the commissioner in
collaboration with the commissioner of human services to establish a pilot
project grant program to provide startup funding for a certain number of
counties to provide transitional housing and other community support services
for former state inmates diagnosed with serious mental illness, specifying
certain comprehensive plan requirements and requiring a pilot project
effectiveness report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the
commissioner of corrections in collaboration with the commissioner of human
services to plan, develop and implement a study to assess and identify barriers
to successful reintegration into the community of offenders awaiting discharge
from correctional facilities with certain brain conditions, specifying certain
study requirements, requiring the commissioner of corrections to incorporate
recommendations to improve reintegration and to reduce recidivism through a
discharge planning process referring discharged offenders to appropriate
community services, requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date;
appropriating money to the mental health division of the department of
corrections for hiring or contracting for additional mental health services and
treatment in state correctional facilities, for development of discharge plans,
for transitional housing services and to the commissioner of human services to
reimburse invoices ARTICLE 3 REIMBURSEMENT RATESRequiring and providing for the
commissioner of human services to annually adjust for inflation reimbursement
rates for adult residential program and adult and family community support
grants, requiring use of a certain percentage of the increase to increase
compensation paid to certain employees, specifying certain provider compliance
plan requirements; providing for funding of county regional treatment center
care or diversion programs based on population decreases, specifying certain
duties of the commissioner and certain authorized uses of the funds; providing
medical assistance (MA) reimbursement for medication management provided by
certain mental health services; increasing the medical assistance reimbursement
rate for certain mental health clinics, requiring the commissioner to implement
a settle up procedure to pay community health centers and mental health clinics
for services provided to prepaid medical assistance or general assistance
medical care (GAMC) and MinnesotaCare enrollees; appropriating money to the
commissioner for the grant increases and for the payments to counties ARTICLE 4
COVERED SERVICES Defining or redefining certain terms under the adult and
children's mental health acts and requiring county boards to provide or contract
for mental health crisis services to certain residents experiencing a mental
health crisis or emergency; providing for team case management services for
certain children with severe emotional disturbance; authorizing community
support services programs to administer programs to reimburse individuals and
organizations for transporting adults with serious and persistent mental illness
to health care and social services; requiring and providing for appropriate
settings for children to receive mental health services; requiring the
commissioner to establish a continuing care benefit program for acute care
hospital inpatient treatment of persons with mental illness, requiring
commissioner establishment of admissions criteria and prohibiting the
commissioner from requiring civil commitment or petition as a condition of
admission, specifying certain notice requirements; requiring medical assistance
(MA) coverage of special transportation services necessary to obtain services
not covered by medical assistance under certain conditions, continuing care
benefits, certain community support services, certain mental health evaluation
and management services and mental health crisis services; expanding authorized
uses of community support services grants for persons with serious and
persistent mental illness under the community social services act to the
acquisition of passenger vehicles by nonprofit community mental health providers
to transport adults with mental illness to health care and social services;
requiring health plan coverage of referral of children determined to be in need
of protection or services to certain special services; requiring the
commissioner to establish a pilot program to provide advocacy services to
children with severe emotional disturbance and to study acute care hospital
inpatient treatment length of stay for medicare eligible persons with mental
illness and make recommendations to the legislature by a certain date;
appropriating money to the commissioner for funding to county boards for vehicle
purchases, for grants to community support services programs for transportation
costs, for increased funding for state mental health grants for inpatient
hospital services to persons with mental illness, for the pilot program, for
crisis services and for increased funding to county boards for certain CSSA
services and for reimbursement to mental health providers for certain services
ARTICLE 5 HEALTH PLAN COVERAGEProhibiting health plans from excluding or
reducing coverage for enrollees attempting suicide; requiring health plans to
provide coverage for drugs prescribed to treat emotional disturbance or mental
illness regardless of the formulary of the health plan, authorizing continuation
of coverage for individuals receiving prescribed drugs to treat diagnosed mental
illness or emotional disturbance without the imposition of special deductibles,
copayments, coinsurance or other special payment requirements after certain
health plan changes under certain conditions; requiring coverage for court
ordered mental health services ARTICLE 6 OTHER MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES Requiring
the commissioner of human services to by rule establish staff ratios and
training requirements for mental health and support units in regional treatment
centers; requiring and providing for the commissioner to develop a payment
system for adult residential services grants and report to the legislature by a
certain date; specifying certain commissioner behavioral health care
expenditures information collection and dissemination requirements under the
medical assistance (MA) prepayment demonstration project; requiring the
commissioner to develop plans to improve delivery of services to individuals
with certain dual diagnoses for presentation to the legislature by a certain
later date, specifying certain plans content requirements (mk, ja)