Bill Text: OR HB3332 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to services for individuals with mental illness; appropriating money; declaring an emergency.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2013-07-08 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB3332 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-HB3332-Introduced.html

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     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

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                         House Bill 3332

Sponsored by Representatives NATHANSON, TOMEI; Representative
  OLSON, Senator KRUSE (at the request of  NAMI (National
  Alliance on Mental Illness - Oregon))

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Requires Oregon Health Authority to seek out and apply for
funding for and appropriates moneys from General Fund to pay for
crisis intervention services and residential care for individuals
with mental illness. Directs authority to convene work group.
  Declares emergency, effective on passage.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to services for individuals with mental illness;
  appropriating money; and declaring an emergency.
  Whereas Oregon's mental health care system suffers from
bottlenecks that keep people who are ready for discharge from
psychiatric institutions in those institutions for the lack of
available community housing and keep people who need psychiatric
hospitalization from being admitted to hospitals because of
overcrowding; and
  Whereas the inefficient use of psychiatric hospital beds and
the inappropriate use of public safety systems to address the
needs of people with mental illness result in poor outcomes for
people who live with serious mental illness; now, therefore,
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + (1) The Oregon Health Authority shall seek out
and apply for grants, gifts and contributions of moneys to pay
for:
  (a) The development of infrastructure for subacute residential
care and community-based housing for individuals with mental
illness; and
  (b) Crisis intervention services, rental subsidies and other
housing-related services provided through coordinated care
organizations to help keep individuals with mental illness safe
and healthy in their communities.
  (2) The authority shall use moneys received under subsection
(1)(a) of this section and any legislative appropriation for such
purposes to provide funding for not more than:
  (a) Twenty percent of the costs for the construction of
housing; and
  (b) Fifty percent of the start-up costs of the housing,
including but not limited to fixtures, furnishing and training of
staff.

  (3)(a) The authority shall develop a list of projects to be
financed in part with funds provided under this section. The
authority shall convene a work group to advise the authority in
developing and prioritizing the list of projects. The work group
shall meet at least four times before finalizing the prioritized
list.
  (b) The work group must include:
  (A) One representative of a private provider of mental health
treatment;
  (B) One representative of a private provider of substance abuse
treatment;
  (C) Two representatives of groups that advocate on behalf of
consumers of mental health or substance abuse treatment;
  (D) Two staff persons from the division of the Oregon Health
Authority that regulates mental health and substance abuse
treatment programs;
  (E) Two consumers of mental health or substance abuse
treatment;
  (F) One representative of the community mental health program
of the Association of Oregon Counties; and
  (G) One person with expertise in developing and financing
community housing projects. + }
  SECTION 2.  { + All moneys received by the Oregon Health
Authority under section 1 of this 2013 Act shall be paid into the
State Treasury and deposited to the credit of the Oregon Health
Authority Fund. Such moneys shall be used by the authority for
the purposes of section 1 of this 2013 Act. + }
  SECTION 3.  { + There is appropriated to the Oregon Health
Authority, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2013, out of the
General Fund, the amount of ___ million for the purposes
described in section 1 of this 2013 Act. + }
  SECTION 4.  { + This 2013 Act being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency
is declared to exist, and this 2013 Act takes effect on its
passage. + }
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