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WA Rev Code § 71.24.215 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 71 - Mental Illness|Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.|71.24.215 - Sliding-scale fee schedules for clients receiving behavioral health services.

RCW 71.24.215 Sliding-scale fee schedules for clients receiving behavioral health services.Clients receiving behavioral health services funded by available resources shall be charged a fee under sliding-scale fee schedules, based on ability to pay, approved by the authority. Fees shall not exceed the actual cost of care.[ 2019 c 325 § 1013; 2018 c 201 § 4011; 1982 c 204 § 11.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 325: See note following RCW 71.24.011.Findings—Intent—Effective date—2018 c 201: See notes following RCW 41.05.018.
WA Rev Code § 71.24.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 71 - Mental Illness|Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.|71.24.220 - State grants may be withheld for noncompliance with chapter or related rules.

RCW 71.24.220 State grants may be withheld for noncompliance with chapter or related rules.The director may withhold state grants in whole or in part for any community behavioral health program in the event of a failure to comply with this chapter or the related rules adopted by the authority.[ 2019 c 325 § 1014; 2018 c 201 § 4012; 1999 c 10 § 8; 1982 c 204 § 12; 1967 ex.s. c 111 § 22.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 325: See note following RCW 71.24.011.Findings—Intent—Effective date—2018 c 201: See notes following RCW 41.05.018.Purpose—Intent—1999 c 10: See note following RCW 71.24.025.
WA Rev Code § 71.24.240 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 71 - Mental Illness|Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.|71.24.240 - Eligibility for funding—Community behavioral health program plans to be approved by director prior to submittal to federal agency.

RCW 71.24.240 Eligibility for funding—Community behavioral health program plans to be approved by director prior to submittal to federal agency.In order to establish eligibility for funding under this chapter, any behavioral health administrative services organization seeking to obtain federal funds for the support of any aspect of a community behavioral health program as defined in this chapter shall submit program plans to the director for prior review and approval before such plans are submitted to any federal agency.[ 2019 c 325 § 1015; 2018 c 201 § 4013; 2014 c 225 § 49; 2005 c 503 § 10; 1982 c 204 § 13; 1967 ex.s. c 111 § 24.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 325: See note following RCW 71.24.011.Findings—Intent—Effective date—2018 c 201: See notes following RCW 41.05.018.Effective date—2014 c 225: See note following RCW 71.24.016.Correction of references—Savings—Severability—2005 c 503: See notes following RCW 71.24.015.
WA Rev Code § 71.24.250 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 71 - Mental Illness|Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.|71.24.250 - Behavioral health administrative services organizations—Receipt of gifts and grants.

RCW 71.24.250 Behavioral health administrative services organizations—Receipt of gifts and grants.The behavioral health administrative services organization may accept and expend gifts and grants received from private, county, state, and federal sources.[ 2019 c 325 § 1016; 2014 c 225 § 38; 2001 c 323 § 16; 1982 c 204 § 14; 1967 ex.s. c 111 § 25.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 325: See note following RCW 71.24.011.Effective date—2014 c 225: See note following RCW 71.24.016.
WA Rev Code § 71.24.260 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 71 - Mental Illness|Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.|71.24.260 - Waiver of postgraduate educational requirements—Mental health professionals.

RCW 71.24.260 Waiver of postgraduate educational requirements—Mental health professionals.The department shall waive postgraduate educational requirements applicable to mental health professionals under this chapter for those persons who have a bachelor's degree and on June 11, 1986:(1) Are employed by an agency subject to licensure under this chapter, the community behavioral health services act, in a capacity involving the treatment of mental illness; and(2) Have at least ten years of full-time experience in the treatment of mental illness.[ 2019 c 325 § 1017; 1986 c 274 § 10.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 325: See note following RCW 71.24.011.
WA Rev Code § 71.24.350 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 71 - Mental Illness|Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.|71.24.350 - Behavioral health ombuds office.

RCW 71.24.350 Behavioral health ombuds office. (Effective until October 1, 2022.)The authority shall require each behavioral health administrative services organization to provide for a separately funded behavioral health ombuds office that is independent of the behavioral health administrative services organization and managed care organizations for the assigned regional service area. The ombuds office shall maximize the use of consumer advocates.[ 2019 c 325 § 1020; 2018 c 201 § 4019; 2016 sp.s. c 29 § 523; 2014 c 225 § 41; 2013 c 23 § 189; 2005 c 504 § 803.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 325: See note following RCW 71.24.011.Findings—Intent—Effective date—2018 c 201: See notes following RCW 41.05.018.Effective dates—2016 sp.s. c 29: See note following RCW 71.05.760.Short title—Right of action—2016 sp.s. c 29: See notes following RCW 71.05.010.Effective date—2014 c 225: See note following RCW 71.24.016.Findings—Intent—Severability—Application—Construction—Captions, part headings, subheadings not law—Adoption of rules—Effective dates—2005 c 504: See notes following RCW 71.05.027.Alphabetization—Correction of references—2005 c 504: See note following RCW 71.05.020.
WA Rev Code § 71.24.370 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 71 - Mental Illness|Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.|71.24.370 - Behavioral health services contracts—Limitation on state liability.

RCW 71.24.370 Behavioral health services contracts—Limitation on state liability.(1) Except for monetary damage claims which have been reduced to final judgment by a superior court, this section applies to all claims against the state, state agencies, state officials, or state employees that exist on or arise after March 29, 2006.(2) Except as expressly provided in contracts entered into by the authority, the entities identified in subsection (3) of this section shall have no claim for declaratory relief, injunctive relief, judicial review under chapter 34.05 RCW, or civil liability against the state, state agencies, state officials, or state employees for actions or inactions performed pursuant to the administration of this chapter with regard to the following: (a) The allocation or payment of federal or state funds; (b) the use or allocation of state hospital beds; or (c) financial responsibility for the provision of inpatient mental health care.(3) This section applies to counties, behavioral health administrative services organizations, managed care organizations, and entities which contract to provide behavioral health services and their subcontractors, agents, or employees.[ 2019 c 325 § 1021; 2018 c 201 § 4021; 2014 c 225 § 42; 2006 c 333 § 103.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 325: See note following RCW 71.24.011.Findings—Intent—Effective date—2018 c 201: See notes following RCW 41.05.018.Effective date—2014 c 225: See note following RCW 71.24.016.Finding—Purpose—Intent—Severability—Part headings not law—Effective dates—2006 c 333: See notes following RCW 71.24.016.
WA Rev Code § 71.24.381 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 71 - Mental Illness|Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.|71.24.381 - Contracting for crisis services and medically necessary physical and behavioral health services.

RCW 71.24.381 Contracting for crisis services and medically necessary physical and behavioral health services.(1) The authority shall contract with one or more behavioral health administrative services organizations to carry out the duties and responsibilities set forth in this chapter and chapter 71.05 RCW to provide crisis services to assigned regional service areas.(2) For clients eligible for medical assistance under chapter 74.09 RCW, the authority shall contract with one or more managed care organizations as set forth in RCW 71.24.380 and 74.09.871 to provide medically necessary physical and behavioral health services.[ 2019 c 325 § 1046.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 325: See note following RCW 71.24.011.
WA Rev Code § 71.24.400 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 71 - Mental Illness|Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.|71.24.400 - Streamlining delivery system—Finding.

RCW 71.24.400 Streamlining delivery system—Finding.The legislature finds that the current complex set of federal, state, and local rules and regulations, audited and administered at multiple levels, which affect the community mental health service delivery system, focus primarily on the process of providing mental health services and do not sufficiently address consumer and system outcomes. The legislature finds that the authority and the community mental health service delivery system must make ongoing efforts to achieve the purposes set forth in RCW 71.24.015 related to reduced administrative layering, duplication, elimination of process measures not specifically required by the federal government for the receipt of federal funds, and reduced administrative costs.[ 2018 c 201 § 4024; 2001 c 323 § 18; 1999 c 10 § 10; 1995 c 96 § 1; 1994 c 259 § 1.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—Effective date—2018 c 201: See notes following RCW 41.05.018.Purpose—Intent—1999 c 10: See note following RCW 71.24.025.Effective date—1995 c 96: "This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately [April 18, 1995]." [ 1995 c 96 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 71.24.405 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 71 - Mental Illness|Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.|71.24.405 - Streamlining delivery system.

RCW 71.24.405 Streamlining delivery system.The authority shall work comprehensively and collaboratively with behavioral health administrative services organizations and with local behavioral health service providers to create innovative and streamlined community behavioral health service delivery systems and to capture the diversity of the community behavioral health service delivery system. The authority shall periodically:(1) Identify, review, and catalog all rules, regulations, duplicative administrative and monitoring functions, and other requirements that lead to inefficiencies in the community behavioral health service delivery system and, if possible, eliminate the requirements;(2) Review regulations, contracts, and reporting requirements to ensure achievement of outcomes for behavioral health adult and children clients under RCW 71.24.435;(3) Involve behavioral health consumers and their representatives; and(4) Provide for an independent evaluation component to measure the success of the authority in fully implementing the provisions of RCW 71.24.400 and this section.[ 2019 c 325 § 1024; 2018 c 201 § 4025; 2014 c 225 § 53; 2001 c 323 § 19; 1999 c 10 § 11; 1995 c 96 § 2; 1994 c 259 § 2.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 325: See note following RCW 71.24.011.Findings—Intent—Effective date—2018 c 201: See notes following RCW 41.05.018.Effective date—2014 c 225: See note following RCW 71.24.016.Purpose—Intent—1999 c 10: See note following RCW 71.24.025.Effective date—1995 c 96: See note following RCW 71.24.400.
WA Rev Code § 71.24.415 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 71 - Mental Illness|Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.|71.24.415 - Streamlining delivery system—Authority duties to achieve outcomes.

RCW 71.24.415 Streamlining delivery system—Authority duties to achieve outcomes.To carry out the purposes specified in RCW 71.24.400, the authority is encouraged to utilize its authority to eliminate any unnecessary rules, regulations, standards, or contracts, to immediately eliminate duplication of audits or any other unnecessarily duplicated functions, and to seek any waivers of federal or state rules or regulations necessary to achieve the purpose of streamlining the community mental health service delivery system and infusing it with incentives that reward efficiency, positive outcomes for clients, and quality services.[ 2018 c 201 § 4026; 1999 c 10 § 12; 1995 c 96 § 3; 1994 c 259 § 4.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—Effective date—2018 c 201: See notes following RCW 41.05.018.Purpose—Intent—1999 c 10: See note following RCW 71.24.025.Effective date—1995 c 96: See note following RCW 71.24.400.
WA Rev Code § 71.24.420 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 71 - Mental Illness|Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.|71.24.420 - Expenditure of funds for operation of service delivery system—Appropriation levels—Outcome and performance measures—Report.

RCW 71.24.420 Expenditure of funds for operation of service delivery system—Appropriation levels—Outcome and performance measures—Report.The authority shall operate the community behavioral health service delivery system authorized under this chapter within the following constraints:(1) The full amount of federal funds for community behavioral health system services, plus qualifying state expenditures as appropriated in the biennial operating budget, shall be appropriated to the authority each year in the biennial appropriations act to carry out the provisions of the community behavioral health service delivery system authorized in this chapter.(2) The authority may expend funds defined in subsection (1) of this section in any manner that will effectively accomplish the outcome measures established in RCW 71.24.435 and 71.36.025 and performance measures linked to those outcomes.(3) The authority shall implement strategies that accomplish the outcome measures established in RCW 71.24.435, 70.320.020, and 71.36.025 and performance measures linked to those outcomes.(4) The authority shall monitor expenditures against the appropriation levels provided for in subsection (1) of this section and report to the governor's office and the appropriate committees of the legislature once every two years, on or about December 1st, on each even-numbered year.[ 2019 c 325 § 1025; 2018 c 201 § 4027; 2014 c 225 § 17; 2001 c 323 § 2.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 325: See note following RCW 71.24.011.Findings—Intent—Effective date—2018 c 201: See notes following RCW 41.05.018.Effective date—2014 c 225: See note following RCW 71.24.016.
WA Rev Code § 71.24.430 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 71 - Mental Illness|Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.|71.24.430 - Coordination of services for behavioral health clients—Collaborative service delivery.

RCW 71.24.430 Coordination of services for behavioral health clients—Collaborative service delivery.(1) The authority shall ensure the coordination of allied services for behavioral health clients. The authority shall implement strategies for resolving organizational, regulatory, and funding issues at all levels of the system, including the state, the behavioral health administrative services organizations, managed care organizations, and local service providers.(2) The authority shall propose, in operating budget requests, transfers of funding among programs to support collaborative service delivery to persons who require services from multiple department of social and health services and authority programs. The authority shall provide status reports as requested by the legislature.[ 2019 c 325 § 1026; 2018 c 201 § 4028; 2014 c 225 § 54; 2001 c 323 § 3.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 325: See note following RCW 71.24.011.Findings—Intent—Effective date—2018 c 201: See notes following RCW 41.05.018.Effective date—2014 c 225: See note following RCW 71.24.016.
WA Rev Code § 71.24.435 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 71 - Mental Illness|Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.|71.24.435 - Behavioral health system—Improvement strategy.

RCW 71.24.435 Behavioral health system—Improvement strategy.(1) The systems responsible for financing, administration, and delivery of publicly funded mental health and substance use disorder services to adults must be designed and administered to achieve improved outcomes for adult clients served by those systems through increased use and development of evidence-based, research-based, and promising practices, as defined in RCW 71.24.025. For purposes of this section, client outcomes include: Improved health status; increased participation in employment and education; reduced involvement with the criminal justice system; enhanced safety and access to treatment for forensic patients; reduction in avoidable utilization of and costs associated with hospital, emergency room, and crisis services; increased housing stability; improved quality of life, including measures of recovery and resilience; and decreased population level disparities in access to treatment and treatment outcomes.(2) The authority must implement a strategy for the improvement of the behavioral health system.[ 2019 c 325 § 5010; 2014 c 225 § 64; 2013 c 338 § 2. Formerly RCW 43.20A.895.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 325: See note following RCW 71.24.011.Effective date—2014 c 225: See note following RCW 71.24.016.Effective date—2014 c 225 § 1: "Section 1 of this act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately [April 4, 2014]." [ 2014 c 225 § 111.]
WA Rev Code § 71.24.450 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 71 - Mental Illness|Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.|71.24.450 - Offenders with mental illnesses—Findings and intent.

RCW 71.24.450 Offenders with mental illnesses—Findings and intent.(1) Many offenders with acute and chronic mental illness are delayed in their release from Washington correctional facilities due to their inability to access reasonable treatment and living accommodations prior to the maximum expiration of their sentences. Often the offender reaches the end of his or her sentence and is released without any follow-up care, funds, or housing. These delays are costly to the state, often lead to psychiatric relapse, and result in unnecessary risk to the public.Many of these offenders lack the skills or emotional stability to maintain employment or even complete applications to receive entitlement funding. Housing and appropriate treatment are difficult to obtain.This lack of resources, funding, treatment, and housing creates additional stress for the offender with mental illness, impairing self-control and judgment. When the mental illness is instrumental in the offender's patterns of crime, such stresses may lead to a worsening of his or her illness, reoffending, and a threat to public safety.(2) It is the intent of the legislature to create a program to provide for postrelease mental health care and housing for a select group of offenders with mental illness entering community living, in order to reduce incarceration costs, increase public safety, and enhance the offender's quality of life.[ 2019 c 325 § 1027; 1997 c 342 § 1.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 325: See note following RCW 71.24.011.Severability—1997 c 342: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 1997 c 342 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 71.24.460 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 71 - Mental Illness|Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.|71.24.460 - Offenders with mental illnesses—Report to legislature.

RCW 71.24.460 Offenders with mental illnesses—Report to legislature.The authority, in collaboration with the department of corrections and the oversight committee created in RCW 71.24.455, shall track outcomes and submit to the legislature annual reports regarding services and outcomes. The reports shall include the following: (1) A statistical analysis regarding the reoffense and reinstitutionalization rate by the enrollees in the program set forth in RCW 71.24.455; (2) a quantitative description of the services provided in the program set forth in RCW 71.24.455; and (3) recommendations for any needed modifications in the services and funding levels to increase the effectiveness of the program set forth in RCW 71.24.455.[ 2019 c 325 § 1029; 2018 c 201 § 4030; 1999 c 10 § 13; 1997 c 342 § 4.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 325: See note following RCW 71.24.011.Findings—Intent—Effective date—2018 c 201: See notes following RCW 41.05.018.Purpose—Intent—1999 c 10: See note following RCW 71.24.025.Severability—1997 c 342: See note following RCW 71.24.450.
WA Rev Code § 71.24.470 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 71 - Mental Illness|Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.|71.24.470 - Persons with mental illness who are believed to present a danger to themselves or others—Contract for case management—Use of appropriated funds.

RCW 71.24.470 Persons with mental illness who are believed to present a danger to themselves or others—Contract for case management—Use of appropriated funds.(1) The director shall contract, to the extent that funds are appropriated for this purpose, for case management services and such other services as the director deems necessary to assist persons identified under RCW 72.09.370 for participation in the reentry community services program. The contracts may be with any qualified and appropriate entities. The director shall ensure the authority has coverage in all counties of the state for the purposes of providing reentry community services program services.(2) The case manager has the authority to assist these persons in obtaining the services, as set forth in the plan created under RCW 72.09.370(2), for up to five years. The services may include coordination of mental health services, assistance with unfunded medical expenses, assistance obtaining substance use disorder treatment, housing, employment services, educational or vocational training, independent living skills, parenting education, anger management services, peer services, and such other services as the case manager deems necessary.(3) The legislature intends that funds appropriated for the purposes of RCW 72.09.370, 71.05.145, and 71.05.212, and this section are to supplement and not to supplant general funding. Funds appropriated to implement RCW 72.09.370, 71.05.145, and 71.05.212, and this section are not to be considered available resources as defined in RCW 71.24.025 and are not subject to the priorities, terms, or conditions in the appropriations act established pursuant to RCW 71.24.035.(4) The reentry community services program was formerly known as the community integration assistance program.[ 2021 c 243 § 7; 2019 c 325 § 1030; 2018 c 201 § 4031; 2014 c 225 § 44; 2009 c 319 § 1; 1999 c 214 § 9.]NOTES:Findings—2021 c 243: See note following RCW 74.09.670.Effective date—2019 c 325: See note following RCW 71.24.011.Findings—Intent—Effective date—2018 c 201: See notes following RCW 41.05.018.Effective date—2014 c 225: See note following RCW 71.24.016.Intent—Effective date—1999 c 214: See notes following RCW 72.09.370.