This website will be unavailable from Friday, April 26, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. through Monday, April 29, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. due to data center maintenance.


Amend CSSB 1, on page II-75 of the Department of State Health Services bill pattern by amending Rider 83, State Hospital System Long-Term Plan, with the following text:
83.  State Hospital System Long-Term Plan. Out of funds appropriated above, the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) shall develop a ten-year plan for the provision of psychiatric inpatient hospitalization to persons served by the department. This plan will consider state hospital system operational needs, including infrastructure needs of the existing facilities, future infrastructure needs, capacity needs across various regions of the state, and associated costs. The plan must also consider then need for community-based alternatives to inpatient hospitalization in a state hospital, local needs and demands for outpatient services that would reduce the use of beds in state hospitals, and the availability of contracted providers of outpatient services and inpatient mental health facilities other than state hospitals. The plan must consider current state funded hospital capacity for individuals requiring hospitalization, timely access to patient care in the least restrictive setting as clinically appropriate, best practices in psychiatric inpatient care, opportunities for patients to receive care closer to their homes, community-based alternatives to inpatient hospitalization that will reduce the demands on the state hospital system, including crisis stabilization services, short-term residential treatment, respite care, and extended observation services, and efficient use of state resources. DSHS is required to seek public input during development of the plan, and is authorized to contract for necessary technical expertise to assist in the development of the plan. DSHS shall submit the plan to the Office of the Governor and the Legislative Budget Board not later than December 1, 2014. DSHS is required to implement the provisions of the plan, and in order to authorize the implementation funding for of improvements implementing the plan to regarding the state hospital system and community based alternatives related to the plan, DSHS shall submit a written request for funding to the Legislative Budget Board and the Governor. The request shall be considered to be approved unless the Legislative Budget Board or the Governor issues a written disapproval within 30 business days of the date on which the staff of the Legislative Budget Board concludes its review of the proposal and forwards its review to the Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Speaker of the House, and Lieutenant Governor.