CS/HB 1189 - Summary

• Creates the Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment and Crime Reduction Act to provide community-based mental health and substance abuse services for individuals involved in or at risk of entering the criminal justice and forensic mental health systems

• Authorizes the Department of Children and Family Services to develop and implement a community forensic treatment system with up to three pilot program sites, including diversion programs, mental health courts, crisis intervention teams, supported housing and employment, and competency restoration services in community residential facilities

• Requires eligible individuals (adults adjudicated incompetent to proceed or found not guilty by reason of insanity with non-violent felony charges) to be placed in community residential facilities for competency restoration in pilot demonstration areas unless bed space is unavailable or the court determines unsafe

• Establishes forensic evaluator training requirements for mental health experts conducting court-ordered competency and sanity evaluations, with experts required to complete approved training and maintain placement on a state registry maintained by the Department of Children and Family Services

• Requires the Agency for Health Care Administration to develop recommendations for adding home and community-based mental health services to the state Medicaid program for individuals receiving services under the Act, with a report due to the Legislature by July 1, 2011