MN HF3865

Expands ACT team eligibility to include individuals ages 16-17 upon commissioner approval and adds first episode psychosis program participants as a qualifying criterion for ACT services.

Removes requirement that ACT providers must have contracts with host counties; eliminates strikethrough language requiring team leaders to obtain full licensure within 24 months.

Modifies ACT team program size requirements to prioritize passing scores on the Tool for Measurement of Assertive Community Treatment (TMACT) instead of prescriptive staff-to-client ratios.

Clarifies that diagnostic assessments must be updated as required under existing statute rather than specifying "at least annually."

Directs the revisor of statutes to prepare 2025 legislation separating assertive community treatment and intensive residential treatment services provisions into distinct statutory sections.