Requests hospitals and behavioral health facilities, including those treating both mental illness and substance abuse, in enumerated behavioral health services regions to report on certain matters impacting mental health services
Creates a task force to study the costs of expenses and the utilization of the New Orleans ferries, connecting Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard parishes.
Relating to delivery of and reporting on mental health, behavioral health, substance abuse, and certain other services.
Amends laws relative to behavioral health and mental health to provide for current practice and appropriate terminology
Provides relative to admissions by emergency certificate of persons suffering from mental illness and substance abuse. (8/1/16)
Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Directs the office of behavioral health of the Louisiana Department of Health to collect data relative to certain mental illness and substance use crisis care
Commends the Honorable Raymond E. Garofalo and expresses enduring gratitude for his outstanding contributions to the parishes of Orleans, Plaquemines, and St. Bernard and the state of Louisiana, particularly during his tenure as a distinguished member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Expresses support for the relocation of the existing railroad lines in Plaquemines and Jefferson Parishes of the New Orleans and Gulf Coast Railway Company and the Union Pacific Railroad in order to improve the public safety of citizens, reduce vehicular and rail interfaces, improve air quality and mitigate congestion, and enhance economic development in those parishes.