Bill Text: IA HF257 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to facilities licensed to provide inpatient psychiatric treatment and services and the psychiatric bed tracking system.

Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-09 - Introduced, referred to Human Resources. H.J. 252. [HF257 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF257-Introduced.html

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House File 257 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  BRECKENRIDGE, M.
                                     SMITH, McCONKEY,
                                     FORBES, STAED, KEARNS,
                                     MASCHER, BEARINGER,
                                     OURTH, NIELSEN,
                                     STECKMAN,
                                     RUNNING=MARQUARDT,
                                     HEDDENS, and HEATON

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to facilities licensed to provide inpatient
  2    psychiatric treatment and services and the psychiatric bed
  3    tracking system.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  DIRECTIVE TO DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES ==
  1  2 PSYCHIATRIC BED TRACKING SYSTEM.  The department of human
  1  3 services shall amend its administrative rules pursuant to
  1  4 chapter 17A to require the state mental health institutes
  1  5 and hospitals licensed to provide inpatient psychiatric
  1  6 treatment and services to participate in the psychiatric bed
  1  7 tracking system and to report the number of beds available for
  1  8 persons with a co=occurring mental illness and substance abuse
  1  9 disorder.
  1 10                           EXPLANATION
  1 11 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 12 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 13    This bill relates to facilities licensed to provide
  1 14 inpatient psychiatric treatment and services and the
  1 15 psychiatric bed tracking system.  The bill directs the
  1 16 department of human services to amend its administrative rules
  1 17 to require the state mental health institutes and hospitals
  1 18 licensed to provide inpatient psychiatric treatment and
  1 19 services to participate in the psychiatric bed tracking system
  1 20 and to report the number of beds available for persons with a
  1 21 co=occurring mental illness and substance abuse disorder.
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