HB 07051 Summary

• Removes several mental health and substance abuse benefits from individual and group health insurance policies, specifically eliminating coverage for evidence-based maternal home visitation services, family-based treatment programs for juvenile offenders, other home-based therapeutic interventions, chemical maintenance treatment, and extended day treatment programs, effective July 1, 2017.

• Relocates the Criminal Justice Information System Governing Board from the Office of Policy and Management to the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection for administrative purposes.

• Eliminates the Council on Environmental Quality and transfers its functions to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, removing references to the council from multiple environmental review and approval processes.

• Establishes a new grant withholding mechanism for Metropolitan District Commission member municipalities that fail to timely pay sewer assessments, with potential recovery if payment is made by December 1st.

• Modifies judicial and family support magistrate compensation schedules, delaying salary increases from July 1, 2017 to July 1, 2019, and removes the Office of State Broadband from the Office of Consumer Counsel.