LRB-1121/P2
TJD:kjf
2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Mott, BB0150 - Comprehensive mental health consultation program
For 2019-2021 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
health and human services
Mental illness and developmental disabilities
1. Mental health consultation program
This bill requires DHS to convene a statewide group of interested persons to develop a concept paper, business plan, and standards for a comprehensive mental health consultation program that incorporates general, geriatric, and addiction psychiatry, a perinatal psychiatry consultation program, and the child psychiatry consultation program, which operates under current law.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 20.435 (5) (ct) of the statutes is created to read:
20.435 (5) (ct) Mental health consultation program. The amounts in the schedule for developing a plan for a mental health consultation program under s. 51.441. No moneys may be encumbered under this paragraph after June 30, 2021.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 51.441 of the statutes is created to read:
51.441 Comprehensive mental health consultation program. The department shall convene a statewide group of interested persons, including at least one representative of the Medical College of Wisconsin, to develop a concept paper, business plan, and standards for a comprehensive mental health consultation program that incorporates general psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, addiction medicine and psychiatry, a perinatal psychiatry consultation program, and the child psychiatry consultation program under s. 51.442.
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