MI SB0558

Each county must establish a written interagency agreement by October 1, 2014 for a collaborative mental health program serving persons with serious mental illness at risk of entering the criminal justice system or not receiving treatment during or after incarceration.

Minimum agreement parties include the county sheriff's department, prosecutor's office, community mental health services program, county board of commissioners, and designated district and circuit court judges.

Agreement must address program eligibility, interagency communication, case management, screening procedures, court coordination, jail coordination, crisis response, and public reporting of program outcomes.

Counties with existing interagency agreements may maintain them if updated to include all required provisions from this section.

Counties are not required to provide funding; expenditures limited to amounts appropriated annually by the legislature for the program.