Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF3049

3E Relating to children's mental health; requiring providers of mental health
services for children, including certain emergency, family community, day
treatment, therapeutic support of foster care, professional home based family
treatment and mental health crisis services, to develop a plan for and comply
with requirements before using a restrictive procedure with a child; specifying
certain restrictive procedure plan filing and availability requirements;
defining certain terms; requiring parental consent and notification; specifying
certain prohibitive actions and procedures; specifying administrative review
requirements of restrictive procedures; requiring training for staff; specifying
certain requirements for a school or school district certified to provide full
year round therapeutic services and supports benefit and uses restrictive
procedures; specifying certain annual report reporting requirements; authorizing
counties to contract with hospitals to provide chemical use assessments for
emergency room patients under certain conditions; requiring the commissioner of
human services to convene a work group to develop recommendations to meet the
acute mental health needs of children, adolescents and adults, requiring a
report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring additional data reporting
to determine substance abuse treatment effectiveness
(Ch. 234, 2008)