RCW 71.24.011 Short title. This chapter may be known and cited as the community behavioral health services act. [ 2019 c 325 § 1001; 2019 c 314 § 24; 1982 c 204 § 1.] NOTES: Effective date—2019 c 325: “Except as provided in sections 6005 and 6007 of this act, this act takes effect January […]
RCW 71.24.015 Legislative intent—Community behavioral health system. It is the intent of the legislature to establish a community behavioral health system which shall help people experiencing mental illness or a substance use disorder to retain a respected and productive position in the community. This will be accomplished through programs that focus on resilience and recovery, […]
RCW 71.24.016 Intent—Management of services—Work group on long-term involuntary inpatient care integration. (1) The legislature intends that eastern and western state hospitals shall operate as clinical centers for handling the most complicated long-term care needs of patients with a primary diagnosis of mental disorder. It is further the intent of the legislature that the community […]
RCW 71.24.025 Definitions. Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) “988 crisis hotline” means the universal telephone number within the United States designated for the purpose of the national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system operating through the national suicide prevention lifeline. (2) “Acutely […]
RCW 71.24.030 Grants, purchasing of services, for community behavioral health programs. The director is authorized to make grants and/or purchase services from counties, combinations of counties, or other entities, to establish and operate community behavioral health programs. [ 2019 c 325 § 1005; 2018 c 201 § 4003; 2005 c 503 § 3; 2001 c […]
RCW 71.24.035 Director’s powers and duties as state behavioral health authority. (1) The authority is designated as the state behavioral health authority which includes recognition as the single state authority for substance use disorders and state mental health authority. (2) The director shall provide for public, client, tribal, and licensed or certified behavioral health agency […]
RCW 71.24.037 Licensed or certified behavioral health agencies and providers—Minimum standards—Investigations and enforcement actions—Inspections. (1) The secretary shall license or certify any agency or facility that: (a) Submits payment of the fee established under RCW 43.70.110 and 43.70.250; (b) submits a complete application that demonstrates the ability to comply with requirements for operating and maintaining […]
RCW 71.24.045 Behavioral health administrative services organization powers and duties. (Effective until October 1, 2022.) (1) The behavioral health administrative services organization contracted with the authority pursuant to RCW 71.24.381 shall: (a) Administer crisis services for the assigned regional service area. Such services must include: (i) A behavioral health crisis hotline for its assigned regional […]
RCW 71.24.061 Children’s mental health provider networks—Children’s mental health evidence-based practice institute—Partnership access line pilot programs—Report to legislature. (1) The authority shall provide flexibility to encourage licensed or certified community behavioral health agencies to subcontract with an adequate, culturally competent, and qualified children’s mental health provider network. (2) To the extent that funds are specifically […]
RCW 71.24.062 Psychiatry consultation line—Implementation. (1) To the extent that funds are specifically appropriated for this purpose or nonstate funds are available, the authority in collaboration with the University of Washington department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences shall implement a psychiatric consultation call center to provide emergency department providers, primary care providers, and county and […]
RCW 71.24.063 Partnership access lines—Psychiatric consultation lines—Data collection. (1) The University of Washington department of psychiatry and behavioral health sciences shall collect the following information for the partnership access line described in RCW 71.24.061(3)(a)(i), partnership access line for moms described in *RCW 71.24.061(3)(a)(ii)(A), and the psychiatric consultation line described in RCW 71.24.062, in coordination with […]
RCW 71.24.064 Partnership access lines—Psychiatric consultation lines—Funding—Performance measures. (1) Beginning July 1, 2021, the partnership access lines described in RCW 71.24.061(3)(a), and the psychiatric consultation line described in RCW 71.24.062, shall be funded as follows: (a) The authority, in consultation with the University of Washington department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and Seattle children’s hospital […]
RCW 71.24.066 Partnership access line pilot programs—Determination to be made permanent—Long-term funding. Using data from the reports required in RCW 71.24.061(5), the legislature shall decide whether to make the partnership access line for moms and the partnership access line for kids referral and assistance [service] programs, as described in *RCW 71.24.061(3)(a)(ii), permanent programs. If the […]
RCW 71.24.067 Partnership access lines—Psychiatric consultation lines—Review. (1) The joint legislative audit and review committee shall conduct a review, in consultation with the authority, the University of Washington department of psychiatry and behavioral science[s,] and Seattle children’s hospital, of the programs as described in RCW 71.24.061(3)(a) and 71.24.062, covering the period from January 1, 2019, […]
RCW 71.24.068 Telebehavioral health access account. The telebehavioral health access account is created in the state treasury. All receipts from collections under RCW 71.24.064 must be deposited into the account. Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation. Expenditures from the account may be used only for supporting telebehavioral health programs identified in RCW 71.24.061(3)(a) and 71.24.062. […]
RCW 71.24.100 County-run behavioral health administrative services organizations—Joint operating agreements—Requirements. (1) A county authority or a group of county authorities may enter into a joint operating agreement to submit a request to contract with the authority to operate a behavioral health administrative services organization whose boundaries are consistent with the regional service areas established under […]
RCW 71.24.115 Recovery navigator programs—Reports. (1) Each behavioral health administrative services organization shall establish a recovery navigator program. The program shall provide community-based outreach, intake, assessment, and connection to services and, as appropriate, long-term intensive case management and recovery coaching services, to youth and adults with substance use disorder, including for persons with co-occurring substance […]
RCW 71.24.125 Grant program—Treatment services—Regional access standards. (1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the authority shall establish a grant program to: (a) Provide treatment services for low-income individuals with substance use disorder who are not eligible for medical assistance programs under chapter 74.09 RCW, with priority for the use […]
RCW 71.24.135 Expanded recovery support services program—Regional expanded recovery plans. (1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the authority shall establish the expanded recovery support services program to increase access to recovery services for individuals in recovery from substance use disorder. (2) In establishing the program, the authority shall consult […]
RCW 71.24.145 Homeless outreach stabilization transition program—Psychiatric outreach—Contingency management resources—Substance misuse prevention effort—Grants. (1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the authority shall establish a homeless outreach stabilization transition program to expand access to modified assertive community treatment services provided by multidisciplinary behavioral health outreach teams to serve people who […]
