Bill Text: HI HB2580 | 2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Mental Health.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-07 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) McDermott, Yamashita excused (2). [HB2580 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2020-HB2580-Amended.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 353C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§353C- Mental health first aid training. (a) The judiciary shall establish a mental health first aid training program for personnel in the district and family courts whose duties include proceedings for restraining or protective orders. The program shall include a mandatory eight-hour interactive training course triennially that teaches the skills necessary to assist a person who is developing or has developed a mental health disorder or mental health crisis, and to de-escalate crisis situations as needed.
(b) The mandatory interactive training shall instruct personnel to, at minimum:
(1) Identify signs of mental health crises, illness, and instability;
(2) Identify signs of behavioral and psychological patterns of mental health disorders;
(3) Provide initial assistance to persons with mental health disorders or mental health crises;
(4) Guide individuals requiring assistance toward appropriate professional help;
(5) Provide comfort to persons experiencing mental health disorders or mental health crises;
(6) Assist in preventing a mental health disorder from deteriorating into a more serious condition that may lead to more costly interventions and treatments;
(7) Provide information on and referral to outreach workers who are trained to assist persons with mental health disorders and mental health crises; and
(8) Promote healing, recovery, and good mental health."
PART II
SECTION 2. (a) The director of health shall establish an emergency examination and hospitalization subsidy program within the department of health for the purpose of recruiting, retaining, and subsidizing the salaries of licensed physicians practicing psychiatry and clinical psychologists employed by licensed psychiatric facilities.
(b) The director of health shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 necessary for the purposes of this section.
(c) The director of health shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2021 on the status of the emergency examination and hospitalization subsidy program.
SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2020-2021 for the emergency examination and hospitalization subsidy program.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.
PART III
SECTION 4. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval; provided that section 3 shall take effect on July 1, 2020.
Report Title:
Mental Health First Aid Training; Judiciary; Subsidy Program; DOH; Appropriation
Description:
Requires the judiciary to establish a mental health first aid training program that provides mandatory eight-hour sessions triennially for personnel in the district and family courts whose duties include proceedings for restraining or protective orders. Requires the director of health to establish an emergency examination and hospitalization subsidy program for the purpose of recruiting, retaining, and subsidizing the salaries of certain psychiatrists and psychologists. Appropriates funds. (Proposed HD1)
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