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AZ HB2250

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/23/2020

Primary Sponsor

Walter Blackman

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Origin

House of Representatives

Fifty-fourth Legislature - Second Regular Session (2020)

AI Summary

  • Establishes the Community Treatment and Safety Fund to be administered by the Department of Health Services with $5,000,000 appropriated annually from the state general fund.

  • Authorizes the department to use up to 10 percent of annual fund monies for administrative costs and award grants to nonprofit behavioral health treatment providers in counties with populations under one million persons.

  • Directs the department to analyze counties with populations under one million to identify available behavioral health treatment services and gaps in service availability.

  • Restricts grant funding to treatment programs serving individuals in court-ordered substance abuse treatment, state department of corrections community supervision programs, or on probation.

  • Specifies eligible treatment services including cognitive behavioral therapy, family therapy, couples therapy, group and individual counseling, psychosocial interventions, post-traumatic stress disorder treatment, and substance abuse treatment.

Legislative Description

Grants; behavioral health treatment services

Department Of Health Services

Last Action

House HHS Committee action: Do Pass, voting: (9-0-0-0-0-0)

2/20/2020

Full Bill Text

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