Bill Text: MS HB462 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Mental Health; extend repealer on Strategic planning and Best Practice Committee.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2017-01-31 - Died In Committee [HB462 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2017-HB462-Introduced.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2017 Regular Session

To: Public Health and Human Services

By: Representative White

House Bill 462

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 41-4-10, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO EXTEND THE DATE OF THE REPEALER ON THE STRATEGIC PLANNING AND BEST PRACTICES COMMITTEE CREATED FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING AND COORDINATING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN THE STATE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

     SECTION 1.  Section 41-4-10, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     41-4-10.  There is * * *hereby established a Strategic Planning and Best Practices Committee (committee) for the purpose of improving and coordinating mental health services in the state.  The committee shall consist of eleven (11) members appointed by the Governor as follows:

          (a)  Two (2) members of the State Board of Mental Health;

          (b)  The Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Mississippi Medical Center;

          (c)  The Executive Director of the Division of Medicaid in the Office of the Governor;

          (d)  Two (2) directors of community mental health centers that are members of the Mississippi Association of Community Mental Health Centers * * *.;

          (e)  One (1) representative of a nonprofit mental health advocacy group;

          (f)  One (1) consumer or family member of a consumer of mental health services;

          (g)  One (1) representative from a separate, private, nonprofit provider of a continuum of mental health services; and

          (h)  Two (2) individuals knowledgeable in the field of mental health and/or with experience in business management or public administration.

     All appointed members of the Strategic Planning and Best Practices Committee shall be appointed to three-year terms and may be reappointed.

     The committee shall meet and elect a chairman, who shall not be a member of the Mississippi Board of Mental Health or the State Board of Health.  The committee shall meet upon the call of the chair.

     The Lieutenant Governor may designate one (1) Senator and the Speaker of the House of Representatives may designate one (1) Representative to attend any meeting of the Strategic Planning and Best Practices Committee.  The appointing authorities may designate alternate members from their respective houses to serve when the regular designees are unable to attend the meetings of the committee.

     The committee shall work with the Mississippi Department of Mental Health and the Regional Community Mental Health and Intellectual Disability Commissions to produce the state strategic plan as required in Section 41-4-7(d).

     The Department of Mental Health shall provide professional and technical support to the committee, including the services of the department's medical director, and its planning staff.  Additionally, the committee shall be authorized to seek grants from public and private sources to conduct the necessary studies and evaluations to support the committee in carrying out its responsibilities.  The committee may also seek the assistance of the state institutions of higher learning, the State Department of Health, the Division of Medicaid, the State Department of Education, any community mental health center, and any other state agency whose expertise may be helpful to the committee.

     This section shall stand repealed from and after July 1, * * * 2017 2020.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2017.

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