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Budget Amendments - SB800 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Mason
CSB Documentation and Reporting Requirements (language only)

Item 311 #14s

Item 311 #14s

Health and Human Resources
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services

Language

Page 401, after line 1, insert:

"NN. The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) shall: (i) identify all current DBHDS requirements related to documentation and reporting of community services board (CSB) behavioral health services; (ii) identify which of these requirements currently apply to work by CSB direct care staff; (iii) identify any DBHDS requirements of direct care staff that are duplicative of or conflict with other DBHDS requirements; (iv) eliminate any requirements that are not essential to ensuring consumers receive effective and timely services or are duplicative or conflicting; and (iv) report to the State Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and the Behavioral Health Commission on progress made toward eliminating administrative requirements that are not essential, are duplicative, or are conflicting."



Explanation

(This amendment directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to identify and eliminate duplicative and non-essential documentation and reporting requirements for CSBs. This is a recommendation of the Behavioral Health Commission.)