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AR Code § 20-47-708 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 7 - Arkansas System of Care for Behavioral Healthcare Services for Children and Youth Act|§ 20-47-708. Annual report

 The Department of Human Services shall report annually on progress to the:   (1) Governor;  (2) House Committee on Aging, Children and Youth, Legislative and Military Affairs and the Senate Committee on Children and Youth; and  (3) House Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor and the Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor.
AR Code § 20-47-709 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 7 - Arkansas System of Care for Behavioral Healthcare Services for Children and Youth Act|§ 20-47-709. Rules

 The Department of Human Services shall promulgate rules in accordance with the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq., as necessary to carry out this subchapter.
AR Code § 20-47-801 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 8 - Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Protocol Act of 2017|§ 20-47-801. Title

 This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Protocol Act of 2017”.
AR Code § 20-47-802 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 8 - Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Protocol Act of 2017|§ 20-47-802. Legislative intent

 (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly to create an established protocol for crisis intervention by law enforcement agencies and jail personnel, the court system, hospitals, healthcare providers, and mental health professionals to address the methods and procedures to be used by law enforcement agencies and jail personnel, the court system, hospitals, healthcare providers, and mental health professionals in engaging with an individual who demonstrates substantial likelihood of committing bodily harm against himself or herself, or against another person, and who is an individual with a behavioral health impairment, mental disability, mental illness, or other permanent or temporary behavioral health or mental impairment.  (b) Further, it is the intent of the General Assembly that the behavioral health crisis intervention protocol created under this subchapter and established to address engagement with a member of the public who is an individual with a behavioral health impairment results not in prosecution or incarceration but in a lawful detention of the individual until his or her behavioral health impairment is managed to the point that the individual is substantially less likely to commit a criminal or otherwise dangerous act.
AR Code § 20-47-804 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 8 - Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Protocol Act of 2017|§ 20-47-804. Crisis intervention protocol not exclusive — Voluntary stay at crisis stabilization unit

 (a) If during or after the initiation of a crisis intervention protocol under this subchapter a mental health professional or medical professional believes the individual being detained would benefit more from a longer commitment in a residential facility, the mental health professional or medical professional may institute commitment proceedings as authorized under § 20-47-201 et seq.  (b) If a commitment proceeding is initiated under § 20-47-201 et seq. in a court with jurisdiction, that proceeding shall control and any custodial detention or treatment as part of a crisis intervention protocol initiated under this subchapter shall cease in lieu of any commitment or treatment ordered by the court.  (c)  (1) A crisis intervention protocol may be ended before the maximum detention time of seventy-two (72) hours has elapsed, as described under § 20-47-810, by the law enforcement agency that has custody of the individual at its discretion if:  (A) The individual in custody under this subchapter agrees to remain at the crisis stabilization unit voluntarily;  (B) The detaining law enforcement agency reasonably believes that the individual would not be a danger to himself or herself or to others if he or she remained at the crisis stabilization unit voluntarily; and  (C) The crisis stabilization unit agrees to allow the individual to remain at the crisis stabilization unit.    (2)  (A) An individual who is released from custody and remains at a crisis stabilization unit voluntarily under this subsection is free to leave the crisis stabilization unit at any time.  (B) A crisis stabilization unit may:  (i) Discharge an individual who is released from custody and remains at the crisis stabilization unit voluntarily at its discretion; and  (ii) As part of the discharge process and subject to the consent of the person no longer in custody, provide the person with a follow-up treatment plan and a request that the person utilize the treatment plan, including subsequent appointments with a mental health professional.
AR Code § 20-47-806 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 8 - Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Protocol Act of 2017|§ 20-47-806. Crisis intervention protocol — Collaborative agreements

 (a) A proposed crisis intervention protocol and crisis intervention team shall include necessary collaborative agreements among the participating hospitals, community health centers, mental health service providers, participating law enforcement agencies, and the facility that is designated as the crisis stabilization unit for the crisis stabilization unit catchment area.  (b)  (1) A collaborative agreement under subsection (a) of this section shall specify that the facility designated under the collaborative agreement as the crisis stabilization unit is required to accept for screening and triage an individual who is in the custody of or detained by a law enforcement agency if:  (A) The law enforcement agency employs:  (i) A crisis intervention team officer operating within the crisis stabilization unit catchment area, whether in the field or at a local detention facility; or  (ii) A crisis intervention team officer operating within the crisis stabilization unit catchment area and has entered into an agreement with another law enforcement agency to transport an individual to a crisis stabilization unit; and    (B) The individual has been taken into custody or is detained because the individual demonstrates the substantial likelihood of committing bodily harm against himself or herself or against another person.    (2) A participating partner that is not a law enforcement agency as part of a collaborative agreement under this section shall indemnify a participating law enforcement agency against all acts of negligence that may occur in the course of and scope of the application of a crisis intervention protocol toward another person.
AR Code § 20-47-807 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 8 - Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Protocol Act of 2017|§ 20-47-807. Crisis stabilization units — Operations

 (a)  (1) The internal operation of a crisis stabilization unit shall be governed by the administration of a facility designated as the crisis stabilization unit and regulated by the Department of Human Services or a division of the department.  (2) All collaborative agreements under § 20-47-806(a) shall be in compliance with the regulatory authorities under subdivision (a)(1) of this section.    (b)  (1) A facility operating as a crisis stabilization unit under a crisis intervention protocol shall appoint a unit director to oversee the operation of the facility-based service.  (2) The unit director shall assure that the services provided are within the guidelines established by the collaborative agreements under § 20-47-806(a).    (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this subchapter does not create an entitlement for any individual to receive psychiatric emergency services at a crisis stabilization unit.
AR Code § 20-47-808 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 8 - Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Protocol Act of 2017|§ 20-47-808. Determination of need to initiate crisis intervention protocol

 (a)  (1) If a crisis intervention team officer determines that an individual with a behavioral health impairment demonstrates a substantial likelihood of committing bodily harm to himself or herself or to another person, the crisis intervention team officer may take the individual into custody for the purpose of transporting the individual to the designated crisis stabilization unit serving the crisis stabilization unit catchment area in which the officer has jurisdiction.  (2) The crisis intervention team officer shall certify in writing the reasons for taking the individual into custody.    (b)  (1) Only a crisis intervention team officer with jurisdictional authority to operate within a crisis stabilization unit catchment area may determine whether a person in custody should be transported to the crisis stabilization unit for that crisis stabilization unit catchment area.  (2) However, any law enforcement officer may transport the person to the crisis stabilization unit for that crisis stabilization unit catchment area when the determination under subdivision (b)(1) of this section has been made.    (c)  (1) An individual transported by a crisis intervention team officer to the crisis stabilization unit or an individual referred by the community mental health center under the guidelines of a collaborative agreement under § 20-47-806(a) shall be examined by a physician, psychiatric nurse practitioner, psychiatric physician assistant, or mental health professional.  (2) If the individual does not consent to voluntary evaluation and treatment and the physician, psychiatric nurse practitioner, psychiatric physician assistant, or mental health professional determines that the individual is an individual with a behavioral health impairment, the physician, psychiatric nurse practitioner, psychiatric physician assistant, or mental health professional shall then determine if that individual may be held under the crisis intervention protocol as set out in this subchapter.  (3) If the physician, psychiatric nurse practitioner, psychiatric physician assistant, or mental health professional determines that the individual demonstrates a substantial likelihood of committing bodily harm against himself or herself or against another person because of a behavioral health impairment caused by alcohol or a controlled substance and that there is no reasonable less restrictive alternative, the individual may be held at the crisis stabilization unit until the behavioral health impairment has resolved and the individual no longer demonstrates a substantial likelihood of committing bodily harm to himself or herself or against another person.
AR Code § 20-47-809 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 8 - Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Protocol Act of 2017|§ 20-47-809. Implementation of psychiatric emergency services

 (a)  (1) To implement psychiatric emergency services under a crisis intervention protocol under this subchapter, a crisis stabilization unit shall request licensure from the Department of Human Services for the number of extended observation beds that are required to adequately serve the designated crisis stabilization unit catchment area.  (2) A license for the requested extended observation beds is required before the crisis stabilization unit may put the extended observation beds into service for patients.    (b) If the Department of Human Services determines that psychiatric emergency services under this subchapter are adequate to provide for the privacy and safety of all patients receiving services in the crisis stabilization unit, the Department of Human Services may approve the location of one (1) or more of the extended observation beds within another area of the single point of entry rather than in proximity to the emergency department.  (c) Each psychiatric emergency service shall provide or contract to provide qualified physicians, licensed mental health professionals, psychiatric nurse practitioners, psychiatric physician assistants, and ancillary personnel necessary to provide services twenty-four (24) hours per day, seven (7) days per week.  (d)  (1) A psychiatric emergency service provided by a crisis stabilization unit shall have at least one (1) physician, one (1) psychiatric nurse practitioner, one (1) psychiatric physician assistant, or one (1) mental health professional who is a member of the staff of the crisis stabilization unit and who is on duty and available at all times.  (2) However, the medical director of the psychiatric emergency service may waive the requirement under subdivision (d)(1) of this section if provisions are made for:  (A) A physician in the emergency department to assume responsibility and provide initial evaluation and treatment of an individual with a behavioral health impairment in the custody of a crisis intervention team officer or referred by the community mental health center;  (B) A licensed mental health professional to screen and assess an individual with a behavioral health impairment within thirty (30) minutes of notification that the individual has arrived; and  (C) The physician, psychiatric nurse practitioner, psychiatric physician assistant, or mental health professional on call for the psychiatric emergency service to evaluate the individual with a behavioral health impairment onsite within twelve (12) hours of the individual's admission.    (3) A crisis stabilization unit is encouraged to use telemedicine under this subchapter to the extent it is effective and authorized by state law.
AR Code § 20-47-810 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 8 - Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Protocol Act of 2017|§ 20-47-810. Seventy-two-hour maximum time of detention

 (a) An individual with a behavioral health impairment who is admitted to a psychiatric emergency service under a crisis intervention protocol under this subchapter shall have a final disposition within a maximum of seventy-two (72) hours or be released from custody.  (b) If the individual with a behavioral health impairment cannot be stabilized within seventy-two (72) hours of entering into a crisis intervention protocol, a participating partner may institute commitment proceedings as authorized under § 20-47-201 et seq.  (c) An individual who has been released from custody and has chosen to stay at a crisis stabilization unit voluntarily under § 20-47-804(c) is not bound by the seventy-two-hour maximum time of detention under this section.  (d) As part of the discharge process after the seventy-two-hour hold has expired and the individual is being released from custody, and subject to the consent of the individual no longer in custody, a crisis stabilization unit may provide the individual with a follow-up treatment plan and a request that the individual utilize the treatment plan, including subsequent appointments with a mental health professional.
AR Code § 20-47-811 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 8 - Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Protocol Act of 2017|§ 20-47-811. Immunity from liability

 A person acting in good faith in connection with the detention of an individual with a behavioral health impairment under the crisis intervention protocol as set out in this subchapter is immune from civil or criminal liability for those acts.
AR Code § 20-47-812 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 8 - Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Protocol Act of 2017|§ 20-47-812. Development of crisis intervention protocols

 (a)  (1) A director of a community mental health center shall actively encourage hospitals, community mental health centers, mental health services providers, and other mental health professionals to develop psychiatric emergency services.  (2) If a collaborative agreement can be negotiated with a hospital, community mental health center, or other healthcare facility that can provide a comprehensive psychiatric emergency service, that hospital, community mental health center, or other healthcare facility shall be given priority when designating the single point of entry.    (b) The Department of Human Services shall encourage community mental health center directors to actively work with hospitals, mental health services providers, other mental health professionals, and law enforcement agencies to develop a crisis intervention protocol and associated crisis intervention teams and psychiatric emergency services and shall facilitate the development of those collaborations.
AR Code § 20-47-813 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 8 - Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Protocol Act of 2017|§ 20-47-813. Rulemaking authority

 The Department of Human Services is authorized to utilize rulemaking in order to properly implement the provisions of this subchapter concerning the certification of a nonhospital crisis stabilization unit.
AR Code § 20-47-901 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 9 - Rehabilitative Services for Persons with Mental Illness|§ 20-47-901. Legislative findings and intent

 (a) The General Assembly finds that:  (1) There are more than three hundred (300) outpatient service sites in the state for the delivery of rehabilitative services for persons with mental illness;  (2) There is no information that any eligible Medicaid beneficiary has experienced or is experiencing difficulty obtaining medically necessary rehabilitative services for persons with mental illness;  (3) The Arkansas Medicaid Program has projected that there will be insufficient state general revenues available to maintain the current level of services beginning in state fiscal year 2017; and  (4) Federal funding incentives are not available for the expansion of rehabilitative services for persons with mental illness.    (b) The intent of this subchapter is to avoid unnecessary expansion in costs and services related to rehabilitative services for persons with mental illness.
AR Code § 20-47-902 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 9 - Rehabilitative Services for Persons with Mental Illness|§ 20-47-902. Definition

 As used in this subchapter, “rehabilitative services for persons with mental illness” means an array of clinical services for individuals with mental illness intended to provide core mental health services for the treatment and prevention of mental disorders in Medicaid recipients.
AR Code § 20-47-903 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 9 - Rehabilitative Services for Persons with Mental Illness|§ 20-47-903. Certification — Moratorium

 (a) The Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services shall:  (1) Process a certification request for a site for rehabilitative services for persons with mental illness within ninety (90) calendar days of receiving all information that is necessary to review and process the certification request; and  (2) Notify a prospective provider of rehabilitative services for persons with mental illness or an existing provider of rehabilitative services for persons with mental illness in writing of the certification determination and furnish a copy to the Division of Medical Services of the Department of Human Services.    (b)  (1) Certification of a site for rehabilitative services for persons with mental illness that was not certified as of October 31, 2008, shall be suspended unless:  (A) The site had a pending application under review by the Division of Behavioral Health Services on October 31, 2008;  (B) The site is a replacement site opened by an existing provider of rehabilitative services for persons with mental illness to provide continuity of rehabilitative services for persons with mental illness when the provider of rehabilitative services for persons with mental illness is terminating services at a currently certified and operating site; or  (C) The site is an existing operation.    (2) This moratorium shall remain in effect until January 1, 2018.    (c)  (1) If the Director of the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services determines that the suspension is causing an undue hardship on a person with mental illness, the director may authorize a reasonable accommodation.  (2) An undue hardship may exist if medically necessary services become unavailable due to the closure of a site for rehabilitative services for persons with mental illness or the ceasing of operations of a provider of rehabilitative services for persons with mental illness.    (d) The suspension shall not prohibit an existing provider of rehabilitative services for persons with mental illness from delivering rehabilitative services for persons with mental illness in a public school.
AR Code § 20-47-1001 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 10 - Mental Health Services for Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Bill of Rights Act|§ 20-47-1001. Title

 This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Mental Health Services for Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Bill of Rights Act”.
AR Code § 20-47-1004 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 3 - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness|Subchapter 10 - Mental Health Services for Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Bill of Rights Act|§ 20-47-1004. Discrimination

 (a) A certified mental health professional shall:  (1) Offer culturally affirmative mental health services and linguistically appropriate mental health services to a client in the client's primary communication method; and  (2) Not deny access to culturally affirmative mental health services and linguistically appropriate mental health services to a client in the client's primary communication method to a client due to the client's having:  (A) Residual hearing ability, whether or not supported by amplification or other hearing assistive technology; or  (B) Previous experience with some other communication method.      (b) This section does not:  (1) Prevent a client from receiving mental health services in more than one (1) communication method; or  (2) Require a client to receive culturally affirmative mental health services and linguistically appropriate mental health services.