Bill Text: MI HB4225 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Mental health; code; priority populations for services; expand to include certain individuals. Amends sec. 208 of 1974 PA 258 (MCL 330.1208).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-16 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 02/15/2017 [HB4225 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB4225-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4225
February 15, 2017, Introduced by Rep. Kosowski and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1974 PA 258, entitled
"Mental health code,"
by amending section 208 (MCL 330.1208), as amended by 2012 PA 500.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 208. (1) Services provided by a community mental health
services program shall be directed to individuals who have a
serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or
developmental disability.
(2) Services may be directed to individuals who have other
mental disorders that meet criteria specified in the most recent
diagnostic and statistical manual of mental health disorders
published
by the American psychiatric association Psychiatric
Association and may also be directed to the prevention of mental
disability and the promotion of mental health. Resources that have
been specifically designated to community mental health services
programs for services to individuals with dementia, alcoholism, or
substance use disorder or for the prevention of mental disability
and the promotion of mental health shall be utilized for those
specific purposes.
(3)
Priority shall be given to the provision of providing
services to individuals with the most severe forms of serious
mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, and developmental
disability.
Priority shall also be given to the provision of
providing services to individuals with a serious mental illness,
serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disability in
urgent or emergency situations. Priority shall also be given to
providing services to children who require any level of mental
health treatment and who are placed by the department into
residential foster care. As used in this subsection, "residential
foster care" means a child caring institution or a private home as
those terms are defined in section 1 of 1973 PA 116, MCL 722.111.
(4) An individual shall not be denied a service because an
individual who is financially liable is unable to pay for the
service.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
