Bill Text: CA SB929 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 929 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Community mental health services: data collection.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Passed) 2022-09-25 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 539, Statutes of 2022. [SB929 Detail]

Download: California-2021-SB929-Amended.html

Amended IN Senate May 19, 2022

Amended IN Senate March 28, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 929

Introduced by Senator Eggman
(Coauthors: Senators Grove, Hurtado, ~~and Rubio)~~ Rubio, and Stern)

February 07, 2022

An act to amend Section 5402 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 929, as amended, Eggman. Community mental health services: data collection.

Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to collect and publish annually quantitative information concerning the operation of various provisions relating to community mental health services, including the number of persons admitted for evaluation and treatment for certain periods, transferred to mental health facilities, or for whom certain conservatorships are established, as specified. Existing law requires each local mental health director, and each facility providing services to persons under those provisions, to provide the department, upon its request, with any information, records, and reports that the department deems necessary for purposes of the data collection and publication.

This bill would additionally require the department to collect and publish annually quantitative information relating to, among other things, the number of persons detained for 72-hour evaluation and treatment, clinical outcomes for individuals placed in each type of hold, services provided in each category, waiting ~~periods, and needs for treatment beds, as specified.~~ periods prior to receiving an evaluation or care, and an assessment of all contracted beds. The bill would specify that the information be from each county for some of those data. The bill would additionally require each other entity involved in implementing the provisions relating to detention, assessment, evaluation, or treatment for up to 72 hours to provide data to the department upon its request, as specified.

To the extent that the bill would increase the duties of local mental health directors, facilities of local entities, or any other local entities with regard to providing the department, upon its request, with new types of data, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YES

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 5402 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:

5402.

(a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall collect and publish annually quantitative information concerning the operation of this division, including ~~the~~ all of the following:

(1) The number of persons admitted or detained for 72-hour evaluation and treatment, admitted for 14-day and 30-day periods of intensive treatment, and admitted for 180-day postcertification intensive ~~treatment, the~~ treatment in each county.

(2) The number of persons transferred to mental health facilities pursuant to Section 4011.6 of the Penal ~~Code, the~~ Code in each county.

(3) The number of persons for whom temporary conservatorships are ~~established, the~~ established in each county.

(4) The number of persons for whom conservatorships are established in each ~~county, the~~ county.

(5) The clinical outcomes for individuals placed in each type of ~~hold, the~~ hold.

(6) The services provided to individuals in each ~~category, the~~ category.

(7) The waiting periods for individuals prior to receiving care, current and future needs for treatment beds and services, an assessment of all contracted beds, historical information on county bed waiting lists and referrals to certain types of facilities, and plans for the creation of new beds. an evaluation pursuant to Section 5150 or 5151 and waiting periods for individuals prior to receiving care, including the reasons for waiting periods.

(8) An assessment of all contracted beds.

(b) Each local mental health director, each facility providing services to persons pursuant to this division, and each other entity involved in implementing Section 5150 shall provide the department, upon its request, with any information, records, and reports that the department deems necessary for the purposes of this section. The department shall not have access to any patient name identifiers.

(c) Information published pursuant to this section shall not contain patient name identifiers and shall contain statistical data only.

(d) The department shall make the reports available to medical, legal, and other professional groups involved in the implementation of this division.

SEC. 2.

If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.