Bill Text: MI HB4091 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Mental health; community mental health; funding for mental health entities; modify. Amends sec. 308 of 1974 PA 258 (MCL 330.1308).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-31 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 01/26/2017 [HB4091 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB4091-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4091
January 26, 2017, Introduced by Rep. Miller and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend 1974 PA 258, entitled
"Mental health code,"
by amending section 308 (MCL 330.1308), as amended by 1995 PA 290.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 308. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter and
subsections
(2), and (3), and (6), and subject to the
constraint of
funds
actually appropriated by the legislature for such this
purpose, the state shall pay 90% of the annual net cost of a
community mental health services program that is established and
administered in accordance with chapter 2.
(2) Beginning in the fiscal year after a community mental
health services program becomes a community mental health authority
under section 205, if the department increases the amount of state
funds provided to community mental health services programs for the
fiscal year, all of the following apply:
(a) The amount of local match required of a community mental
health authority for that fiscal year shall not exceed the amount
of funds provided by the community mental health services program
as local match in the year in which the program became a community
mental health authority.
(b) Subject to the constraint of funds actually appropriated
by the county or county board of commissioners, the amount of
county match required of a county or counties that have created a
community mental health authority shall not exceed the amount of
funds provided by the county or counties as county match in fiscal
year 1994-1995 or the year the authority is created, whichever is
greater.
(c) If the local match provided by the community mental health
services program is less than the level of local match provided in
the year in which the community mental health services program
became a community mental health authority, subdivision (a) does
not apply.
(d) The state is not obligated to provide additional state
funds because of the limitation on local funding levels provided
for in subdivisions (a) and (b).
(3) The state shall pay the family support subsidies
established under section 156.
(4) If 2 or more existing community mental health services
programs
merge pursuant according to section 219, the state shall
pay 100% of administrative costs approved by the department for the
newly created community mental health services program for 3 years
after the date of merger.
(5) If a county demonstrates an inability to meet its local
match obligation due to financial hardship, the department may do
either of the following:
(a) Accept a joint plan of correction from the county and its
community mental health services program that ensures full payment
over an extended period of time.
(b) Waive a portion of the county's obligation based on
hardship criteria established by the department.
(6) The state payment under this section shall be calculated
and made based on relevant factors in the county, including, but
not limited to, demographics, unemployment rates, and poverty
levels.
(7) The department shall work with actuaries to update funding
methodology that is based on a common statewide rate with
adjustments for morbidity.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
