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Referred Bills (96)
Preventing homelessness among persons discharging from inpatient behavioral health settings.
Concerning forensic competency restoration programs.
Concerning assisted outpatient treatment for persons with behavioral health disorders.
Concerning overdose and suicide fatality reviews. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Concerning overdose, withdrawal, and suicide fatality reviews.)
Concerning providing quality behavioral health co-response services
Concerning overdose and suicide fatality reviews. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Concerning overdose, withdrawal, and suicide fatality reviews.)
Increasing access to behavioral health services for minors.
Concerning the children and youth behavioral health work group.
Concerning partial hospitalizations and intensive outpatient treatment services for minors.
Allowing nurses to dispense opioid overdose reversal medication in the emergency department.
Improving behavioral health outcomes by enhancing engagement of state hospitals.
Establishing behavioral health support specialists.
Conforming disclosure restrictions for mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social workers to the requirements of the Uniform Health Care Information Act.
Concerning expediting approval for applicants for an associate license as a social worker, mental health counselor, or marriage and family therapist.
Adopting the psychology interjurisdictional compact.
Concerning updates to competency restoration order requirements.
Integrating behavioral health in primary care through the use of health navigators and a primary care collaborative.
Making state hospitals available for short-term detention and involuntary commitment.
Concerning assisted outpatient treatment for persons with behavioral health disorders.
Facilitating supportive relationships with family and significant individuals within the behavioral health system.
Facilitating supportive relationships with family and significant individuals within the behavioral health system.
Improving access to behavioral health treatment in certified crisis facilities.
Concerning clubhouses for persons with mental illness.
Creating a confidential youth safety and well-being tip line.
Enhancing and expanding behavioral health and suicide prevention crisis response services.
Establishing safe station pilot programs.
Implementing the national 988 system to enhance and expand behavioral health crisis response and suicide prevention services.
Updating mental health advance directive laws.
Concerning prescribing opioid overdose reversal medication.
Extending certificate of need exemptions.
Providing incentives to reduce involvement by persons with behavioral disorders in the criminal justice system.
Concerning involuntary commitment.
Creating transition teams to assist specified persons under civil commitment.
Creating the state office of behavioral health consumer advocacy.
Authorizing the issuance of substance use disorder professional certifications to persons participating in apprenticeship programs.
Concerning veteran diversion from involuntary commitment.
Implementing policies related to children and youth behavioral health.
Providing for certain emergency medical services personnel to work in diversion centers.
Allowing additional renewals for behavioral health professional trainee and associate credentials.
Removing health coverage barriers to accessing substance use disorder treatment services.
Concerning enhanced services facilities.
Expanding access to critical incident stress management programs.
Concerning the involuntary treatment act.
Concerning law enforcement officer mental health and wellness.
Increasing access to medications for opioid use disorder.
Improving the Indian behavioral health system.
Expanding adolescent behavioral health care access.
Updating the children's mental health work group.
Protecting patient safety in psychiatric hospitals and other health care facilities.
Concerning disclosures of information and records related to forensic mental health services.
Concerning the use of video technology under the involuntary treatment act.
Creating the state office of the behavioral health ombuds.
Establishing a work group to address mental health advance directives.
Concerning the disclosure of certain information during the discharge planning process.
Concerning the disclosure of certain information during the discharge planning process.
Creating a pilot program for gender-responsive and trauma-informed outpatient substance abuse treatment.
Concerning persons with substance use disorders.
Facilitating treatment for gun violence victims.
Supporting and expanding behavioral health workforce pathway programs.
Requiring a coprescription of opioid overdose reversal medication.
Requiring licensure of state hospitals.
Establishing a safe station pilot program.
Protecting patient safety in psychiatric hospitals and other health care facilities.
Improving access to behavioral health treatment in certified crisis facilities.
Addressing the suicide and addiction crisis among American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Ensuring persons with serious mental illness and substance use disorders receive proper care and assistance.
Expanding adolescent behavioral health care access.
Updating the children's mental health work group.
Concerning public disclosures by state-funded substance use disorder treatment programs and facilities.
Removing requirements for behavior technicians.
Evaluating competency to stand trial.
Removing barriers for agency affiliated counselors practicing as peer counselors.
Concerning the accessibility of electroconvulsant therapy.
Concerning community facilities needed to ensure a continuum of care for behavioral health patients.
Establishing a streamlined process to increase the capacity of certain mental health providers to offer substance use disorder treatment.
Providing tax relief to entities that deliver behavioral health and mental health services.
Establishing a behavioral health innovation and integration campus within the University of Washington school of medicine.
Concerning the duties of mental health professionals.
Establishing a reentry community safety program for state hospital patients.
Limiting the placement of institutionalized persons with a history of criminal justice involvement in adult family homes.
Integrating risk for long-term civil involuntary treatment into managed care.
Concerning development of community long-term involuntary treatment capacity.
Extending county authority to collect reimbursements from the department when conducting panel competency evaluations.
Providing incentives to reduce involvement by persons with behavioral health disorders in the criminal justice system.
Concerning the equitable geographic distribution of community placements for institutionalized persons with a history of criminal justice involvement.
Adjusting the duration of competency restoration treatment based on risk.
Concerning substance use disorder professional practice.
Concerning the substance use disorder treatment system.
Implementing policies related to expanding adolescent behavioral health care access as reviewed and recommended by the children's mental health work group.
Establishing a law enforcement grant program to expand alternatives to arrest and jail processes.
Concerning community facilities needed to ensure a continuum of care for behavioral health patients.
Concerning fully implementing behavioral health integration for January 1, 2020, by removing behavioral health organizations from law; clarifying the roles and responsibilities among the health care authority, department of social and health services, and department of health, and the roles and responsibilities of behavioral health administrative services organizations and medicaid managed care organizations; and making technical corrections related to the behavioral health system.
Providing timely competency evaluations and restoration services to persons suffering from behavioral health disorders within the framework of the forensic mental health care system consistent with the requirements agreed to in the Trueblood settlement agreement.
Concerning recovery support services.
Concerning psychiatric payments under medical assistance programs for certain rural hospitals that are not designated as critical access hospitals, do not participate in the certified public expenditure program, have less than fifty acute care beds, and have combined medicare and medicaid inpatient days greater than fifty percent of total days.
Clarifying the definition of a geriatric behavioral health worker for individuals with a bachelor's or master's degree in social work, behavioral health, or other related areas.