California 2017 2017-2018 Regular Session

California Assembly Bill AB1136 Introduced / Bill

Filed 02/17/2017

                    CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1136Introduced by Assembly Member EggmanFebruary 17, 2017 An act to add Article 7.1 (commencing with Section 1323.3) to Chapter 2 of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1136, as introduced, Eggman. Health facilities: residential mental or substance use disorder treatment. Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health licenses and regulates health facilities, defined to include, among others, acute psychiatric hospitals. A violation of these provisions is a crime.Existing law, the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act, contains provisions governing the operation and financing of community mental health services for the mentally disordered in every county through locally administered and locally controlled community mental health programs.Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, provides for the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental disorders for the protection of the persons so committed. Under the act, when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled, he or she may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody by a peace officer, a member of the attending staff of an evaluation facility, designated members of a mobile crisis team, or another designated professional person, and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Social Services as a facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation.Existing law provides for the licensure, certification, and regulation of alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities, as defined, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services.This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to develop and submit a proposal to solicit a grant under the federal 21st Century Cures Act to develop a real-time, Internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and residential substance use disorder treatment facilities.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: YES  Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Article 7.1 (commencing with Section 1323.3) is added to Chapter 2 of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, to read: Article 7.1. Availability of Inpatient Care for Mental or Substance Use Disorder Crisis1323.3. The State Department of Public Health shall develop and submit a proposal to solicit a grant authorized under the federal 21st Century Cures Act (Public Law 114-255) to develop a real-time, Internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and residential substance use disorder treatment facilities in order to facilitate the identification and designation of facilities for the temporary treatment of individuals in mental or substance use disorder crisis. 

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1136Introduced by Assembly Member EggmanFebruary 17, 2017 An act to add Article 7.1 (commencing with Section 1323.3) to Chapter 2 of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1136, as introduced, Eggman. Health facilities: residential mental or substance use disorder treatment. Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health licenses and regulates health facilities, defined to include, among others, acute psychiatric hospitals. A violation of these provisions is a crime.Existing law, the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act, contains provisions governing the operation and financing of community mental health services for the mentally disordered in every county through locally administered and locally controlled community mental health programs.Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, provides for the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental disorders for the protection of the persons so committed. Under the act, when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled, he or she may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody by a peace officer, a member of the attending staff of an evaluation facility, designated members of a mobile crisis team, or another designated professional person, and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Social Services as a facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation.Existing law provides for the licensure, certification, and regulation of alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities, as defined, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services.This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to develop and submit a proposal to solicit a grant under the federal 21st Century Cures Act to develop a real-time, Internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and residential substance use disorder treatment facilities.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: YES  Local Program: NO 





 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill No. 1136

Introduced by Assembly Member EggmanFebruary 17, 2017

Introduced by Assembly Member Eggman
February 17, 2017

 An act to add Article 7.1 (commencing with Section 1323.3) to Chapter 2 of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1136, as introduced, Eggman. Health facilities: residential mental or substance use disorder treatment. 

Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health licenses and regulates health facilities, defined to include, among others, acute psychiatric hospitals. A violation of these provisions is a crime.Existing law, the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act, contains provisions governing the operation and financing of community mental health services for the mentally disordered in every county through locally administered and locally controlled community mental health programs.Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, provides for the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental disorders for the protection of the persons so committed. Under the act, when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled, he or she may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody by a peace officer, a member of the attending staff of an evaluation facility, designated members of a mobile crisis team, or another designated professional person, and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Social Services as a facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation.Existing law provides for the licensure, certification, and regulation of alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities, as defined, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services.This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to develop and submit a proposal to solicit a grant under the federal 21st Century Cures Act to develop a real-time, Internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and residential substance use disorder treatment facilities.

Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health licenses and regulates health facilities, defined to include, among others, acute psychiatric hospitals. A violation of these provisions is a crime.

Existing law, the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act, contains provisions governing the operation and financing of community mental health services for the mentally disordered in every county through locally administered and locally controlled community mental health programs.

Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, provides for the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental disorders for the protection of the persons so committed. Under the act, when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled, he or she may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody by a peace officer, a member of the attending staff of an evaluation facility, designated members of a mobile crisis team, or another designated professional person, and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Social Services as a facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation.

Existing law provides for the licensure, certification, and regulation of alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities, as defined, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services.

This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to develop and submit a proposal to solicit a grant under the federal 21st Century Cures Act to develop a real-time, Internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and residential substance use disorder treatment facilities.

## Digest Key

## Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Article 7.1 (commencing with Section 1323.3) is added to Chapter 2 of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, to read: Article 7.1. Availability of Inpatient Care for Mental or Substance Use Disorder Crisis1323.3. The State Department of Public Health shall develop and submit a proposal to solicit a grant authorized under the federal 21st Century Cures Act (Public Law 114-255) to develop a real-time, Internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and residential substance use disorder treatment facilities in order to facilitate the identification and designation of facilities for the temporary treatment of individuals in mental or substance use disorder crisis. 

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Article 7.1 (commencing with Section 1323.3) is added to Chapter 2 of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, to read: Article 7.1. Availability of Inpatient Care for Mental or Substance Use Disorder Crisis1323.3. The State Department of Public Health shall develop and submit a proposal to solicit a grant authorized under the federal 21st Century Cures Act (Public Law 114-255) to develop a real-time, Internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and residential substance use disorder treatment facilities in order to facilitate the identification and designation of facilities for the temporary treatment of individuals in mental or substance use disorder crisis. 

SECTION 1. Article 7.1 (commencing with Section 1323.3) is added to Chapter 2 of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:

### SECTION 1.

 Article 7.1. Availability of Inpatient Care for Mental or Substance Use Disorder Crisis1323.3. The State Department of Public Health shall develop and submit a proposal to solicit a grant authorized under the federal 21st Century Cures Act (Public Law 114-255) to develop a real-time, Internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and residential substance use disorder treatment facilities in order to facilitate the identification and designation of facilities for the temporary treatment of individuals in mental or substance use disorder crisis. 

 Article 7.1. Availability of Inpatient Care for Mental or Substance Use Disorder Crisis1323.3. The State Department of Public Health shall develop and submit a proposal to solicit a grant authorized under the federal 21st Century Cures Act (Public Law 114-255) to develop a real-time, Internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and residential substance use disorder treatment facilities in order to facilitate the identification and designation of facilities for the temporary treatment of individuals in mental or substance use disorder crisis. 

 Article 7.1. Availability of Inpatient Care for Mental or Substance Use Disorder Crisis

 Article 7.1. Availability of Inpatient Care for Mental or Substance Use Disorder Crisis

1323.3. The State Department of Public Health shall develop and submit a proposal to solicit a grant authorized under the federal 21st Century Cures Act (Public Law 114-255) to develop a real-time, Internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and residential substance use disorder treatment facilities in order to facilitate the identification and designation of facilities for the temporary treatment of individuals in mental or substance use disorder crisis. 



1323.3. The State Department of Public Health shall develop and submit a proposal to solicit a grant authorized under the federal 21st Century Cures Act (Public Law 114-255) to develop a real-time, Internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and residential substance use disorder treatment facilities in order to facilitate the identification and designation of facilities for the temporary treatment of individuals in mental or substance use disorder crisis.