Bill Text: HI SB2330 | 2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Homeless Individuals With Severe Mental Illness.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-16 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC/WAM. [SB2330 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2018-SB2330-Amended.html
|
THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
2330 |
|
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018 |
S.D. 1 |
|
|
STATE OF HAWAII |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
||
A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS WITH SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the State has a gap in services for homeless individuals with severe mental illness, as these individuals often cycle between homelessness, emergency room treatment, incarceration, and hospitalization. Individuals with severe mental illness typically become chronically homeless and further burden the health care system through excessive use of expensive emergency services, inpatient treatment, and crisis services. The legislature further finds that homeless individuals with severe mental illness who are discharged from acute care often need services and shelter to assist in transitioning back to healthy and successful lives.
The purpose of this Act is to require the department of human services, in consultation with the department of health, to issue a request for proposal to contract for services and housing for homeless individuals with severe mental illness who are discharged from acute care and require further medical treatment and other supportive services.
SECTION 2. (a) Pursuant to chapter 103D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the department of human services, in consultation with the department of health, shall issue a request for proposal to contract for services and housing for homeless individuals with severe mental health illness who have been discharged from acute care and require further medical treatment and other supportive services.
(b) The department of human services may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to effectuate this section.
SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $500,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2018-2019 for costs necessary for services and housing for homeless individuals with severe mental illness who have been discharged from acute care and require further medical treatment and other supportive services.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2018.
Report Title:
Individuals with Severe Mental Illness; Homeless; Request for Proposal; Appropriation
Description:
Requires the department of human services, in consultation with the department of health, to issue a request for proposal to contract for services and housing for homeless individuals with severe mental health illness who have been discharged from acute care and require further medical assistance. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
