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| 5 | 5 | | 2025 -- H 5452 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LC001123 |
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| 9 | 9 | | S T A T E O F R H O D E I S L A N D |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 11 | 11 | | JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2025 |
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| 12 | 12 | | ____________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | A N A C T |
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| 15 | 15 | | RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, |
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| 16 | 16 | | YOUTH AND FAMILIES |
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| 17 | 17 | | Introduced By: Representatives Casimiro, Noret, Read, Place, Serpa, Alzate, Cotter, |
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| 18 | 18 | | Kislak, Shallcross Smith, and Tanzi |
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| 19 | 19 | | Date Introduced: February 12, 2025 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Referred To: House State Government & Elections |
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| 23 | 23 | | It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
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| 24 | 24 | | SECTION 1. Section 42-72-5.2 of the General Laws in Chapter 42-72 entitled "Department 1 |
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| 25 | 25 | | of Children, Youth and Families" is hereby amended to read as follows: 2 |
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| 26 | 26 | | 42-72-5.2. Development of a continuum of children’s behavioral health programs. 3 |
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| 27 | 27 | | (a) The departments of children, youth and families (DCYF) and human services (DHS) 4 |
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| 28 | 28 | | shall cooperate to develop a design of a continuum of care for children’s behavioral health services 5 |
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| 29 | 29 | | that encourages the use of alternative psychiatric and other services to hospitalization and reviews 6 |
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| 30 | 30 | | the utilization of each service in order to better match services and programs to the needs of the 7 |
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| 31 | 31 | | children and families as well as continuously improve the quality of and access to services. The 8 |
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| 32 | 32 | | departments of children, youth and families and human services shall present a report to the 9 |
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| 33 | 33 | | governor and the general assembly no later than February 1, 2006 that fully describes this 10 |
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| 34 | 34 | | continuum of services and outlines a detailed plan for its implementation, including resource 11 |
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| 35 | 35 | | requirements, responsibilities, milestones, and time frames, as well as a set of indicators and 12 |
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| 36 | 36 | | program metrics that will be employed to evaluate its clinical and fiscal effectiveness over time. 13 |
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| 37 | 37 | | The report shall also describe any and all changes proposed in program oversight or budgetary 14 |
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| 38 | 38 | | responsibility for specific services. An important step towards the development of such continuum 15 |
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| 39 | 39 | | of care is to assure the appropriate management of psychiatric hospitalizations. To that end the state 16 |
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| 40 | 40 | | shall: 17 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (1) Amend contractual agreements with RIte Care health plans to reflect complete 18 |
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| 45 | 45 | | responsibility for the management of psychiatric hospitalizations, specifically the development of 1 |
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| 46 | 46 | | hospital diversion and post discharge services; and the utilization of crisis intervention services as 2 |
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| 47 | 47 | | a requirement for authorization of a psychiatric admission for all children enrolled in RIte Care; 3 |
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| 48 | 48 | | and 4 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (2) Issue a request for proposals to identify a contracted entity to reflect complete 5 |
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| 50 | 50 | | responsibility for the management of psychiatric hospitalizations, specifically the development of 6 |
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| 51 | 51 | | hospital diversion and post discharge services for crisis intervention services as a requirement for 7 |
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| 52 | 52 | | authorization of a psychiatric admission for all Medicaid-eligible children not enrolled in RIte Care. 8 |
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| 53 | 53 | | The request for proposals shall include a dispute resolution process. 9 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (b) It shall be the public policy of the state that the department of children, youth and 10 |
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| 55 | 55 | | families be the chief state agency responsible for all matters related to children's behavioral health 11 |
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| 56 | 56 | | including, but not limited to, contracting with whatever agencies are necessary to provide and 12 |
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| 57 | 57 | | implement these services. 13 |
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| 58 | 58 | | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. 14 |
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| 65 | 65 | | EXPLANATION |
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| 66 | 66 | | BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL |
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| 67 | 67 | | OF |
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| 68 | 68 | | A N A C T |
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| 69 | 69 | | RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, |
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| 70 | 70 | | YOUTH AND FAMILIES |
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| 71 | 71 | | *** |
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| 72 | 72 | | This act would provide that it is the public policy of the state that DCYF be the chief agency 1 |
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| 73 | 73 | | responsible for all matters related to children's behavioral health. 2 |
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| 74 | 74 | | This act would take effect upon passage. 3 |
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