HI SB1450

Establishes a three-year intensive mobile team pilot program within the Department of Health's adult mental health division to provide "street psychiatry" and mobile treatment services to chronically houseless individuals with serious brain disorders, particularly schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.

Team shall manage up to 40 enrolled participants and provide services including crisis response, emergency room visits, law enforcement coordination, psychiatric medications, hospitalization determination, housing placement prioritization, and assisted community treatment order pursuit.

Staffing includes 8.1 full-time equivalent positions: one clinical supervisor, half-time psychiatrist, five human services professionals/social workers, half-time registered nurse, one-tenth epidemiologist/statistician, and one program specialist.

Department of Health must submit reports to the legislature by 2026 and 2027 with aggregate data on participant arrests, hospitalizations, housing placements, medication starts, state hospital admissions, family reconnections, and assisted community treatment orders.

Pilot program dissolves June 30, 2028; appropriation provided for fiscal years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 for positions, operating costs, and equipment.