CA SB929

State Department of Health Care Services must collect data quarterly and publish an annual report by May 1 each year on community mental health services operations, including admissions, detentions, conservatorships, clinical outcomes, and services provided.

Report must include county-level data on 72-hour evaluations and treatment admissions, waiting periods for evaluations, demographic information of individuals receiving care, county-contracted bed numbers, and assessment of disproportionate detention and conservatorship use by race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, veteran status, and housing status.

Judicial Council must provide superior court data by October 1 annually, including certification review hearings, habeas corpus petitions, judicial review hearings, and capacity hearings to complete the department's report.

County behavioral health directors and designated facilities must submit accurate, deidentified data quarterly or more frequently as required, with security compliance to federal standards; department may impose plans of correction for non-compliance.

Beginning May 1, 2025, the annual report must include progress on implementing recommendations from previous reports; all published data must be deidentified and available on the department's website.