New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

New Mexico House Bill HB152 Compare Versions

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28	28	HOUSE BILL 152
29	29	57TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 2025
30	30	INTRODUCED BY
31	31	Eleanor Chávez
32	32	AN ACT
33	33	RELATING TO HEALTH; PREVENTING THE RESTRICTION OF MEDICATION-
34	34	ASSISTED TREATMENT FOR MINORS IN INPATIENT, OUTPATIENT,
35	35	JUVENILE CORRECTION AND JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITIES AND
36	36	PROGRAMS THAT HOUSE OR TREAT ADOLESCENTS WITH SUBSTANCE USE
37	37	DISORDERS AND ARE OPERATED OR FUNDED BY THE STATE; CREATING THE
38	38	EVIDENCE-BASED SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER TREATMENT FOR MINORS
39	39	FUND; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.
40	40	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
41	41	SECTION 1. [NEW MATERIAL] DEFINITIONS.--As used in
42	42	Sections 1 through 3 of this act:
43	43	A. "evidence-based" means a course of treatment
44	44	that is supported by research, clinical expertise and the needs
45	45	of a patient;
46	46	B. "inpatient substance use treatment facility"
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74	74	means a residential facility that operates twenty-four hours
75	75	per day and provides intensive management of symptoms related
76	76	to substance use disorder and monitoring of the physical and
77	77	mental complications resulting from substance use;
78	78	C. "juvenile correction facility" means the
79	79	physical plant and buildings operated by or on behalf of the
80	80	juvenile justice division of the children, youth and families
81	81	department or any other facility or location designated by the
82	82	juvenile justice division's director to house or provide care
83	83	to clients committed to the custody of the children, youth and
84	84	families department;
85	85	D. "juvenile detention facility" means a place
86	86	where a child may be detained under the Children's Code pending
87	87	a court hearing and does not include a facility for the care
88	88	and rehabilitation of an adjudicated delinquent child;
89	89	E. "medication-assisted treatment" means the use of
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91	91	drugs, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies,
92	92	to provide a whole-patient approach to the treatment of
93	93	substance use disorders;
94	94	F. "minor" means an individual who is under
95	95	eighteen years of age; and
96	96	G. "outpatient substance use treatment program"
97	97	means a program that offers resources, counseling and substance
98	98	use treatment on an outpatient basis.
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127	127	SECTION 2. [NEW MATERIAL] MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT
128	128	FOR MINORS IN INPATIENT SUBSTANCE USE TREATMENT FACILITIES,
129	129	OUTPATIENT SUBSTANCE USE TREATMENT PROGRAMS, JUVENILE
130	130	CORRECTION FACILITIES AND JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITIES.--
131	131	A. By the end of fiscal year 2026, the department
132	132	of health, the health care authority and the children, youth
133	133	and families department shall not operate or contract with an
134	134	inpatient substance use treatment facility, an outpatient
135	135	substance use treatment program, a juvenile correction facility
136	136	or a juvenile detention facility that has policies or
137	137	procedures that restrict the use of medication-assisted
138	138	treatment for the treatment of substance use disorder in minor
139	139	patients.
140	140	B. Beginning July 1, 2026, an inpatient substance
141	141	use treatment facility, an outpatient substance use treatment
142	142	program, a juvenile correction facility or a juvenile detention
143	143	facility that has policies or procedures that restrict the use
144	144	of medication-assisted treatment for the treatment of substance
145	145	use disorder in minor patients shall not be eligible for
146	146	reimbursement from the state's medicaid program for services
147	147	rendered to minors.
148	148	C. No later than December 1, 2025, the health care
149	149	authority shall promulgate rules for the operation of
150	150	medication-assisted treatment programs in inpatient substance
151	151	use treatment facilities, outpatient substance use treatment
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180	180	programs, juvenile correction facilities and juvenile detention
181	181	facilities in consultation with the department of health, the
182	182	children, youth and families department, inpatient substance
183	183	use treatment facility administrators, outpatient substance use
184	184	treatment program administrators and health care providers with
185	185	experience treating substance use disorder among minor
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187	187	D. Beginning October 1, 2025 and annually
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190	190	availability of medication-assisted treatment for minor
191	191	patients at inpatient substance use treatment facilities,
192	192	outpatient substance use treatment programs, juvenile
193	193	correction facilities and juvenile detention facilities.
194	194	SECTION 3. [NEW MATERIAL] EVIDENCE-BASED SUBSTANCE USE
195	195	DISORDER TREATMENT FOR MINORS FUND--CREATED.--
196	196	A. The "evidence-based substance use disorder
197	197	treatment for minors fund" is created as a nonreverting fund in
198	198	the state treasury. The fund consists of appropriations,
199	199	gifts, grants and donations. The health care authority shall
200	200	administer the fund, and money in the fund is appropriated to
201	201	the health care authority to assist the children, youth and
202	202	families department, the department of health and licensed
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204	204	medication-assisted treatment programs for minors.
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233	233	Disbursements from the fund shall be made by warrants of the
234	234	secretary of finance and administration pursuant to vouchers
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236	236	B. No later than December 1, 2025, the health care
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