HF 3897 - Summary

• Expands eligible services for children's mental health grants under section 245.4889 to include sustaining extended-stay inpatient psychiatric hospital services for children and adolescents.

• Modifies county payment obligations for state-operated facilities by creating separate payment schedules for Anoka Metro Regional Treatment Center (0% for first 30 days, 20% thereafter), community behavioral health hospitals (100% upon clinical discharge determination), and state-operated forensic services (10-50% depending on program type).

• Changes reporting deadline for Minnesota sex offender program performance report from January 15 to February 15 of each year, beginning in 2017.

• Appropriates $1.5 million in fiscal years 2018-2019 for children's mental health services grants focused on extended-stay psychiatric hospital services for children and adolescents.

• Allocates supplemental appropriations totaling approximately $75 million across fiscal years 2016-2017 for state-operated mental health services, forensic services, sex offender program, and the Community Addiction Recovery Enterprise (C.A.R.E.) program in Brainerd.