Bill Text: MI SB1098 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Mental health; code; priority populations for services; expand to include certain individuals. Amends sec. 208 of 1974 PA 258 (MCL 330.1208).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-12-10 - Referred To Committee On Appropriations [SB1098 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-SB1098-Engrossed.html

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SB-1098, As Passed Senate, December 10, 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUBSTITUTE FOR

 

SENATE BILL NO. 1098

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1974 PA 258, entitled

 

"Mental health code,"

 

by amending section 208 (MCL 330.1208), as amended by 2012 PA 500.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 208. (1) Services provided by a community mental health

 

services program shall be directed to individuals who have a

 

serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or

 

developmental disability.

 

     (2) Services may be directed to individuals who have other

 

mental disorders that meet criteria specified in the most recent

 

diagnostic and statistical manual of mental health disorders

 

published by the American psychiatric association and may also be

 

directed to the prevention of mental disability and the promotion

 

of mental health. Resources that have been specifically designated

 

to community mental health services programs for services to

 

individuals with dementia, alcoholism, or substance use disorder or

 

for the prevention of mental disability and the promotion of mental

 

health shall be utilized for those specific purposes.

 

     (3) Priority shall be given to the provision of services to

 

individuals with the most severe forms of serious mental illness,

 

serious emotional disturbance, and developmental disability.

 

Priority shall also be given to the provision of services to

 

individuals with a serious mental illness, serious emotional

 

disturbance, or developmental disability in urgent or emergency

 

situations. Priority shall also be given to the provision of

 

services to children who require any level of mental health

 

treatment and who are placed by the department of human services

 

into residential foster care. As used in this subsection,

 

"residential foster care" means a child caring institution or a

 

private home as those terms are defined in section 1 of 1973 PA

 

116, MCL 722.111.

 

     (4) An individual shall not be denied a service because an

 

individual who is financially liable is unable to pay for the

 

service.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect July 1,

 

2015.