Mississippi House Bill 1004 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on February 4 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-02-04 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Amend Section 43-14-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That The Mississippi Statewide System Of Care For Children With Serious Emotional/behavioral Disorders Shall Be Designed To Reduce The Reliance On State-run And Private Institutions For Children And Youth And Expand The Availability Of Intensive Home- And Community-based Services; To Provide That One Of The Outcomes Of The System Of Care Is To Permanently Reduce The Number Of State-run Psychiatric Beds And Divert Funding To Community-based Services; To Provide That The Community Mental Health Centers And County Field Offices Of The Department Of Human Services Shall Be Responsible For Conducting Epsdt Screenings And Ensuring That Eligible Children And Youth Receive Medically Necessary Services Under The System Of Care; To Remove The Limitation On "a" Teams Providing System Of Care Services Only For Nonviolent Youthful Offenders Who Have Serious Behavioral Or Emotional Disorders; To Provide That The Interagency System Of Care Council Shall Develop A Pre-screening Evaluation Tool To Identify Children And Youth With Serious Behavioral And Emotional Disorders Who Can Be Served With Intensive Home- And Community-based Services And Diverted From A State-run Or Private Institutional Placement; To Provide That The Department Of Mental Health May Not Accept Any Child For An Institutional Placement Without A Completed Pre-screen Evaluation; To Provide That The Interagency System Of Care Council Shall Provide Educational And Promotional Activities Regarding The Pre-screening Tool That Are Aimed At Reducing The Commitments To Oak Circle Center, The Bradley A. Sanders Adolescent Complex And The Specialized Treatment Facility For The Emotionally Disturbed; To Provide That The Interagency System Of Care Council Shall Designate Persons To Serve On An Intensive Home-based Services Team, Which Shall Plan And Implement An Expansion Of Intensive Home-based Services To Facilitate Diversion From Hospitals And Residential Facilities And Reduce Institutional Commitments And Beds; To Provide That The Intensive Home-based Services Team Shall Reduce The Occupancy Of State Institutions By Identifying Youth Who Have Been In A State Facility For Ninety Days Or More And Developing For Each Child A Unique Team That Shall Identify The Services That Would Be Required To Return The Youth To His Or Her Home Community; To Prohibit The Department Of Human Services From Using Public Or Private Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities As A Placement For Children Who Could Be Served In A Less-restrictive Environment; And For Related Purposes.

Statewide System of Care; reduce reliance on institutions and expend home- and community-based services.

Rep. Bryant Clark [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-04	House	Died In Committee
2014-01-20	House	Referred To Public Health and Human Services;Appropriations

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2014/pdf/history/HB/HB1004.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2014/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1004IN.htm