HOUSE BILL No. 5045


     October 26, 1999, Introduced by Reps. Brater, Hansen, LaForge, Woodward, Bovin,
Baird, Callahan, Spade, Martinez, Schauer, Price, Vaughn, Tesanovich, Jacobs, Garza, DeHart,
Schermesser, Dennis, Hale, Cherry, Rivet, Scott, Garcia, Jamnick, Godchaux, Tabor and Toy and
referred to the Committee on Health Policy.


        A bill to amend 1974 PA 258, entitled

   "Mental health code,"

   by amending section 208 (MCL 330.1208), as amended by 1995 PA

   290.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 208.  (1) Services provided by a community mental

 2    health services program shall be directed to individuals who have

 3    a serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or

 4    developmental disability.

 5         (2) Services may be directed to individuals who have other

 6    mental disorders that meet criteria specified in the most recent

 7    diagnostic and statistical manual of mental health disorders pub-

 8    lished by the American psychiatric association and may also be

 9    directed to the prevention of mental disability and the promotion

10    of mental health.  Resources that have been specifically


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 1     designated  PROVIDED to community mental health
             services

 2    programs for services to individuals with dementia, alcoholism,

 3    or substance abuse or for the prevention of mental disability and

 4    the promotion of mental health shall be utilized for those spe-

 5    cific purposes.

 6         (3) Priority shall be given to  the provision of
              PROVIDING

 7    services to  individuals  ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:

 8         (A) INDIVIDUALS with the most severe forms of serious mental

 9    illness, serious emotional disturbance, and developmental

10    disability.  Priority shall also be given to the provision
             of

11     services to individuals 

12         (B) INDIVIDUALS with a serious mental illness, serious emo-

13    tional disturbance, or developmental disability in urgent or

14    emergency situations.

15         (C) INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE BEEN ORDERED TO OBTAIN MENTAL

16    HEALTH SERVICES UNDER SECTION 84 OF CHAPTER VII OF THE CODE OF

17    CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1927 PA 175, MCL 767.84, DURING THE TERM OF

18    THE CONTRACT ENTERED INTO UNDER THAT SECTION, REGARDLESS OF

19    WHETHER CRIMINAL CHARGES REMAIN PENDING.

20         (4) An individual shall not be denied a service because an

21    individual who is financially liable is unable to pay for the

22    service.

23         Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take

24    effect unless Senate Bill No. ______ or House Bill No. 5046

25    (request no. 00563'99 *) of the 90th Legislature is enacted into

26    law.





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