INCREASED ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

Session: 102nd General Assembly
Year: 2021
Bill #: SB3617
Category: Public Health, Hospital Facilities and Nursing Homes
Position: No position
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Revenue Loss?
Authority Preemption?

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Creates the Ensuring a More Qualified, Competent, and Diverse Community Behavioral Health Workforce Act. Requires the Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health, to award grants or contracts to licensed community mental health centers or behavioral health clinics to establish or enhance training and supervision of interns and behavioral health providers-in-training pursuing licensure as a licensed clinical social worker, licensed clinical professional counselor, and licensed marriage and family therapist. Creates the Mental Health Assessment Reform Act to remove barriers to care in the Medicaid mental health assessment and treatment planning process. Creates the Recovery and Mental Health Tax Credit Act.



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