HOUSE BILL No. 4225

 

 

February 15, 2017, Introduced by Rep. Kosowski and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.

 

     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 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 providing

 

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

 

providing 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

 

providing services to children who require any level of mental

 

health treatment and who are placed by the department 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 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.