Amendment ASA1-SB565

SB565-ASA1,68 Section 68. 51.61 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB565-ASA1,42,18 51.61 (1) (f) Have a right to receive prompt and adequate treatment, rehabilitation and educational services appropriate for his or her condition, under programs, services and resources that the county board of supervisors or the Milwaukee County mental health district board, as applicable, is reasonably able to provide within the limits of available state and federal funds and of county funds required to be appropriated to match state funds.

SB565-ASA1,69 Section 69. 55.001 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB565-ASA1,43,10 55.001 Declaration of policy. The legislature recognizes that many citizens of the state, because of serious and persistent mental illness, degenerative brain disorder, developmental disabilities, or other like incapacities, are in need of protective services or protective placement. Except as provided in s. 49.45 (30m) (a), the protective services or protective placement should, to the maximum degree of feasibility under programs, services and resources that the county board of supervisors or the Milwaukee County mental health district board, as applicable, is reasonably able to provide within the limits of available state and federal funds and of county funds required to be appropriated to match state funds, allow the individual the same rights as other citizens, and at the same time protect the individual from financial exploitation, abuse, neglect, and self-neglect. This chapter is designed to establish those protective services and protective placements, to assure their availability to all individuals when in need of them, and to place the least possible restriction on personal liberty and exercise of constitutional rights consistent with due process and protection from abuse, financial exploitation, neglect, and self-neglect.

SB565-ASA1,70 Section 70. 59.53 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB565-ASA1,43,14 59.53 (7) Initiative to provide coordinated services. The Except in Milwaukee County, the board may establish an initiative to provide coordinated services under s. 46.56.

SB565-ASA1,71 Section 71. 59.53 (25) of the statutes is created to read:

SB565-ASA1,43,19 59.53 (25) Milwaukee County mental health. The Milwaukee County board has no jurisdiction and may not take any actions, including under ss. 59.52 (6) and (31), 66.0301, and 66.0607 (2), related to mental health functions, programs, and services.

SB565-ASA1,72 Section 72. 66.0301 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB565-ASA1,44,10 66.0301 (1) (a) Except as provided in pars. (b) and (c), in this section "municipality" means the state or any department or agency thereof, or any city, village, town, county, school district, public library system, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, sanitary district, farm drainage district, metropolitan sewerage district, sewer utility district, solid waste management system created under s. 59.70 (2), local exposition district created under subch. II of ch. 229, local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229, local professional football stadium district created under subch. IV of ch. 229, local cultural arts district created under subch. V of ch. 229, long-term care district under s. 46.2895, the Milwaukee County mental health district created under s. 51.407, water utility district, mosquito control district, municipal electric company, county or city transit commission, commission created by contract under this section, taxation district, regional planning commission, housing authority created under s. 66.1201, redevelopment authority created under s. 66.1333, community development authority created under s. 66.1335, or city-county health department.

SB565-ASA1,73 Section 73. 66.0621 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB565-ASA1,44,23 66.0621 (1) (a) "Municipality" means a city, village, town, county, commission created by contract under s. 66.0301, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district established under s. 33.23, 33.235 or 33.24, metropolitan sewerage district created under ss. 200.01 to 200.15 and 200.21 to 200.65, town sanitary district under subch. IX of ch. 60, a local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229, a local professional football stadium district created under subch. IV of ch. 229, a local cultural arts district created under subch. V of ch. 229, the Milwaukee County mental health district, or a municipal water district or power district under ch. 198 and any other public or quasi-public corporation, officer, board or other public body empowered to borrow money and issue obligations to repay the money and obligations out of revenues. "Municipality" does not include the state or a local exposition district created under subch. II of ch. 229.

SB565-ASA1,74 Section 74. 66.0621 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB565-ASA1,45,10 66.0621 (1) (c) "Revenue" means all moneys received from any source by a public utility and all rentals and fees and, in the case of a local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229 includes tax revenues deposited into a special fund under s. 229.685 and payments made into a special debt service reserve fund under s. 229.74, in the case of the Milwaukee County mental health district created under s. 51.407 includes tax revenues deposited into a special fund under s. 51.413, and, in the case of a local professional football stadium district created under subch. IV of ch. 229 includes tax revenues deposited into a special fund under s. 229.825 and payments made into a special debt service reserve fund under s. 229.830.

SB565-ASA1,75 Section 75. Nonstatutory provisions.

SB565-ASA1,45,20 (1) Staggered terms. Notwithstanding section 51.408 (2) of the statutes, as created by this act, the initial term of one individual elected under section 51.408 (1) (a) of the statutes, as created by this act, one individual elected under section 51.408 (1) (b) of the statutes, as created by this act, and one individual elected under section 51.408 (1) (c) of the statutes, as created by this act, is 2 years and the initial term of one individual elected under section 51.408 (1) (a) of the statutes, as created by this act, one individual elected under section 51.408 (1) (c) of the statutes, as created by this act, and the individual elected under section 51.408 (1) (d) of the statutes, as created by this act, is 3 years.

SB565-ASA1,46,2 (2) Jurisdiction of the Milwaukee County mental health district board. The mental health functions, programs, and services over which the Milwaukee County mental health district board has jurisdiction are those functions, programs, and services that Milwaukee County included in its 2014 budget under the behavioral health division unit 6300 and under the behavioral health community services branch of unit 8700.

SB565-ASA1,46,3 (3) Audit and report by department of health services.

SB565-ASA1,46,20 (a) The department of health services shall perform or arrange for an operational and programmatic audit of the behavioral health division of the Milwaukee County department of health and human services, the psychiatric hospital of the Milwaukee County mental health complex, and the related behavioral health programs. The audit shall include recommendations for the state assuming oversight responsibility for emergency detention services and the psychiatric hospital of the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex, developing a plan for closing the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex, and developing a plan for state oversight of a regional facility for the delivery of institutional, inpatient, crisis services, and behavioral health services using similar state-operated regional facilities as a model. In addition, the audit shall provide details and specifications on how, after the transitioning of the county-run institutional model to a state-based regionalized model, the state-based Milwaukee County mental health board will transition to a county-based board, the positions on the Milwaukee County mental health board will transition to a community-based focus, the funding for inpatient services and community-based services will continue, and mental health services will be delivered in a manner that reflects all of the following principles:

SB565-ASA1,46,22 1. Community-based, person-centered, recovery-oriented mental health systems.

SB565-ASA1,46,23 2. Maximizing comprehensive community-based services.

SB565-ASA1,46,25 3. Prioritizing access to community-based services and reducing reliance on institutional and inpatient care.

SB565-ASA1,47,3 4. Protecting the personal liberty of individuals experiencing mental illness so that they may be treated in the least restrictive environment to the greatest extent possible.

SB565-ASA1,47,5 5. Providing early intervention to minimize the length and depth of psychotic and other mental health episodes.

SB565-ASA1,47,7 6. Diverting people experiencing mental illness from the corrections system when appropriate.

SB565-ASA1,47,8 7. Maximizing use of mobile crisis units and crisis intervention training.

SB565-ASA1,47,17 (b) The department of health services may enter into a contract for the performance of the audit. By December 1, 2014, the department of health services or the person with whom the department of health services has entered into a contract for the audit under paragraph (a ) shall submit a report of the findings of the audit under paragraph (a), including recommendations for inpatient mental health treatment in Milwaukee County, to the secretary of health services. The secretary of health services shall submit a copy of the report to the Milwaukee County mental health district board, the Milwaukee County board of supervisors, the Milwaukee County executive, and the legislature under section 13.172 (2) of the statutes.

SB565-ASA1,47,23 (c) The Milwaukee County mental health disrict board, the behavioral health division and the community services branch of the Milwaukee County department of health and human services, and any other Milwaukee County governmental unit that has information necessary for the performance of the audit under paragraph (a) shall cooperate with the department of health services or the contractor of the department of health services for the performance of the audit.

SB565-ASA1,76 Section 76. Effective dates. This act takes effect on the day after publication, except as follows:

SB565-ASA1,48,2 (1) The repeal and recreation of section 25.50 (1) (d) of the statutes takes effect on January 1, 2015.

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