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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act. › 71.24.100 - County-run behavioral health administrative services organizations—Joint operating agreements—Requirements.

RCW 71.24.100
County-run behavioral health administrative services organizations—Joint operating agreements—Requirements.
(1) A county authority or a group of county authorities may enter into a joint operating agreement to submit a request to contract with the authority to operate a behavioral health administrative services organization whose boundaries are consistent with the regional service areas established under RCW 74.09.870.
(2) All counties within the regional service area must mutually agree to enter into a contract with the authority to become a behavioral health administrative services organization and appoint a single fiscal agent for the regional service area. Similarly, in order to terminate such contract, all counties that are contracted with the authority as a behavioral health administrative services organization must mutually agree to terminate the contract with the authority.
(3) Once the authority receives a request from a county or a group of counties within a regional service area to be the designated behavioral health administrative services organization, the authority must promptly collaborate with the county or group of counties within that regional service area to determine the most feasible implementation date and coordinate readiness reviews.
(4) No behavioral health administrative services organization may contract with itself as a behavioral health agency, or contract with a behavioral health agency that has administrative linkages to the behavioral health administrative services organization in any manner that would give the agency a competitive advantage in obtaining or competing for contracts, except that a county or group of counties may provide designated crisis responder services, initial crisis services, criminal diversion services, hospital reentry services, and criminal reentry services. The county-administered service must have a clear separation of powers and duties separate from a county-run behavioral health administrative services organization and suitable accounting procedures must be followed to ensure the funding is traceable and accounted for separately from other funds.
(5) Nothing in this section limits the authority's ability to take remedial actions up to and including termination of a contract in order to enforce contract terms or to remedy nonperformance of contractual duties.
[ 2019 c 325 § 1010; 2018 c 201 § 4008; 2014 c 225 § 14; 2012 c 117 § 442; 2005 c 503 § 9; 1982 c 204 § 7; 1967 ex.s. c 111 § 10.]
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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act. › 71.24.112 - Health engagement hubs pilot program.

RCW 71.24.112
Health engagement hubs pilot program.
(1)(a) The authority shall implement a pilot program for health engagement hubs by August 1, 2024. The pilot program will test the functionality and operability of health engagement hubs, including whether and how to incorporate and build on existing medical, harm reduction, treatment, and social services in order to create an all-in-one location where people who use drugs can access such services.
(b) Subject to amounts appropriated, the authority shall establish pilot programs on at least two sites, with one site located in an urban area and one located in a rural area.
(c) The authority shall report on the pilot program results, including recommendations for expansion, and rules and payment structures, to the legislature no later than August 1, 2026.
(2) The authority shall develop payment structures for health engagement hubs by June 30, 2024. Subject to the availability of funds appropriated for this purpose, and to the extent allowed under federal law, the authority shall direct medicaid managed care organizations to adopt a value-based bundled payment methodology in contracts with health engagement hubs and other opioid treatment providers. The authority shall not implement this requirement in managed care contracts unless expressly authorized by the legislature.
(3) A health engagement hub is intended to:
(a) Serve as an all-in-one location where people 18 years of age or older who use drugs can access a range of medical, harm reduction, treatment, and social services;
(b) Be affiliated with existing syringe service programs, federally qualified health centers, community health centers, overdose prevention sites, safe consumption sites, patient-centered medical homes, tribal behavioral health programs, peer run organizations such as clubhouses, services for unhoused people, supportive housing, and opioid treatment programs including mobile and fixed-site medication units established under an opioid treatment program, or other appropriate entity;
(c) Provide referrals or access to methadone and other medications for opioid use disorder;
(d) Function as a patient-centered medical home by offering high-quality, cost-effective patient-centered care, including wound care;
(e) Provide harm reduction services and supplies; and
(f) Provide linkage to housing, transportation, and other support services.
[ 2023 sp.s. c 1 § 26.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act. › 71.24.113 - Grant program—Employment and education opportunities for persons recovering from a substance use disorder.

RCW 71.24.113
Grant program—Employment and education opportunities for persons recovering from a substance use disorder.
Subject to funding provided for this specific purpose, the authority shall establish a grant program for providers of employment, education, training, certification, and other supportive programs designed to provide persons recovering from a substance use disorder with employment and education opportunities. The grant program shall employ a low-barrier application and give priority to programs that engage with Black, indigenous, persons of color, and other historically underserved communities.
[ 2023 sp.s. c 1 § 27.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act. › 71.24.135 - Expanded recovery support services program—Regional expanded recovery plans.

RCW 71.24.135
Expanded recovery support services program—Regional expanded recovery plans.
(1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the authority shall establish the expanded recovery support services program to increase access to recovery services for individuals in recovery from substance use disorder.
(2) In establishing the program, the authority shall consult with the substance use recovery services advisory committee established in RCW 71.24.546, behavioral health administrative services organizations, regional behavioral health providers, and regional community organizations that support individuals in recovery from substance use disorders, including individuals with co-occurring substance use disorders and mental health conditions, to adopt regional expanded recovery plans that are consistent with the substance use recovery services plan developed under RCW 71.24.546 to provide sufficient access for youth and adults to meet each region's needs for:
(a) Recovery housing;
(b) Employment pathways, support, training, and job placement, including evidence-based supported employment program services;
(c) Education pathways, including recovery high schools and collegiate recovery programs;
(d) Recovery coaching and substance use disorder peer support;
(e) Social connectedness initiatives, including the recovery café model;
(f) Family support services, including family reconciliation services;
(g) Technology-based recovery support services;
(h) Transportation assistance; and
(i) Legal support services.
(3) Funds in the expanded recovery support services program must be used to reimburse providers for the provision of services to individuals in recovery from substance use disorders, including individuals with co-occurring substance use disorders and mental health conditions. In addition, the funds may be used to provide assistance to organizations to establish or expand recovery support services as reasonably necessary and feasible to increase the availability of services to achieve the regional expanded recovery plans developed under subsection (2) of this section, including such items as training and recruitment of personnel, reasonable modifications to existing facilities to accommodate additional clients, and similar forms of assistance.
(4) The authority must establish regional expanded recovery plans under subsection (2) of this section, subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, by January 1, 2023, and begin distributing grant funds by March 1, 2023.
[ 2021 c 311 § 4.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2021 c 311 §§ 1-11 and 13-21: See note following RCW 71.24.115.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act. › 71.24.155 - Grants to behavioral health administrative services, managed care organizations, and Indian health care providers—Accounting.

RCW 71.24.155
Grants to behavioral health administrative services, managed care organizations, and Indian health care providers—Accounting.
Grants shall be made by the authority to behavioral health administrative services organizations, managed care organizations for community behavioral health programs, and Indian health care providers who have community behavioral health programs totaling not less than ninety-five percent of available resources. The authority may use up to forty percent of the remaining five percent to provide community demonstration projects, including early intervention or primary prevention programs for children, and the remainder shall be for emergency needs and technical assistance under this chapter.
[ 2020 c 256 § 203; 2019 c 325 § 1011; 2018 c 201 § 4009; 2014 c 225 § 36; 2001 c 323 § 14; 1987 c 505 § 65; 1986 c 274 § 9; 1982 c 204 § 9.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2020 c 256 § 203: "Section 203 of this act takes effect July 1, 2021." [ 2020 c 256 § 503.]
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.
Effective date—1986 c 274 §§ 1, 2, 3, 5, and 9: See note following RCW 71.24.015.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act. › 71.24.160 - Proof as to uses made of state funds—Use of maintenance of effort funds.

RCW 71.24.160
Proof as to uses made of state funds—Use of maintenance of effort funds.
The behavioral health administrative services organizations shall make satisfactory showing to the director that state funds shall in no case be used to replace local funds from any source being used to finance mental health services prior to January 1, 1990. Maintenance of effort funds devoted to judicial services related to involuntary commitment reimbursed under RCW 71.05.730 must be expended for other purposes that further treatment for mental health and substance use disorders.
[ 2019 c 325 § 1012; 2018 c 201 § 4010; 2014 c 225 § 37; 2011 c 343 § 6; 2001 c 323 § 15; 1989 c 205 § 7; 1982 c 204 § 10; 1967 ex.s. c 111 § 16.]
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.
Intent—Effective date—2011 c 343: See notes following RCW 71.05.730.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act. › 71.24.200 - Expenditures of county funds subject to county fiscal laws.

RCW 71.24.200
Expenditures of county funds subject to county fiscal laws.
Expenditures of county funds under this chapter shall be subject to the provisions of chapter 36.40 RCW and other statutes relating to expenditures by counties.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 111 § 20.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › 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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › 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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › 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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › 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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › 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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › 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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › 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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act. › 71.24.383 - Managed care organization contracting—Requirements.

RCW 71.24.383
Managed care organization contracting—Requirements.
By January 1, 2023, the authority shall require that any contract with a managed care organization include a requirement to provide housing-related care coordination services for enrollees who need such services upon being discharged from inpatient behavioral health settings as allowed by the centers for medicare and medicaid services.
[ 2022 c 215 § 3.]
NOTES:
Finding—Intent—2022 c 215: See note following RCW 70.320.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › 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.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › 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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › 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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › 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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › 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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › 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.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › 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.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › 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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act. › 71.24.470 - Reentry community services program—Contract for case management—Use of appropriated funds.

RCW 71.24.470
Reentry community services program—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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act. › 71.24.480 - Reentry community services program—Limitation on liability due to treatment—Reporting requirements.

RCW 71.24.480
Reentry community services program—Limitation on liability due to treatment—Reporting requirements.
(1) A licensed or certified behavioral health agency acting in the course of the agency's duties under this chapter and its individual employees are not liable for civil damages resulting from the injury or death of another caused by a participant in the reentry community services program who is a client of the agency, unless the act or omission of the agency or employee constitutes:
(a) Gross negligence;
(b) Willful or wanton misconduct; or
(c) A breach of the duty to warn of and protect from a client's threatened violent behavior if the client has communicated a serious threat of physical violence against a reasonably ascertainable victim or victims.
(2) In addition to any other requirements to report violations, the licensed or certified behavioral health agency shall report a reentry community services program participant's expressions of intent to harm or other predatory behavior, regardless of whether there is an ascertainable victim, in progress reports and other established processes that enable courts and supervising entities to assess and address the progress and appropriateness of treatment.
(3) A licensed or certified behavioral health agency's mere act of treating a participant in the reentry community services program is not negligence. Nothing in this subsection alters the licensed or certified behavioral health agency's normal duty of care with regard to the client.
(4) The limited liability provided by this section applies only to the conduct of licensed or certified behavioral health agencies and their employees and does not apply to conduct of the state.
(5) For purposes of this section, "participant in the reentry community services program" means a person who has been identified under RCW 72.09.370 as a person who: (a) Is reasonably believed to present a danger to himself or herself or others if released to the community without supportive services; and (b) has a mental disorder.
[ 2021 c 243 § 8; 2019 c 325 § 1031; 2018 c 201 § 4032; 2014 c 225 § 45; 2009 c 319 § 2; 2002 c 173 § 1.]
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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act. › 71.24.490 - Evaluation and treatment services—Capacity needs—Behavioral health administrative services and managed care organizations.

RCW 71.24.490
Evaluation and treatment services—Capacity needs—Behavioral health administrative services and managed care organizations.
The authority must collaborate with behavioral health administrative services organizations, managed care organizations, and the Washington state institute for public policy to estimate the capacity needs for evaluation and treatment services within each regional service area. Estimated capacity needs shall include consideration of the average occupancy rates needed to provide an adequate network of evaluation and treatment services to ensure access to treatment. Behavioral health administrative services organizations and managed care organizations must develop and maintain an adequate plan to provide for evaluation and treatment needs.
[ 2019 c 325 § 1032; 2018 c 201 § 4033; 2015 c 269 § 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.
Effective date—2015 c 269 §§ 1-9 and 11-13: See note following RCW 71.05.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act. › 71.24.500 - Written guidance and trainings—Managed care—Incarcerated and involuntarily hospitalized persons.

RCW 71.24.500
Written guidance and trainings—Managed care—Incarcerated and involuntarily hospitalized persons.
The authority shall periodically publish written guidance and provide trainings to behavioral health administrative services organizations, managed care organizations, and behavioral health providers related to how these organizations may provide outreach, assistance, transition planning, and rehabilitation case management reimbursable under federal law to persons who are incarcerated, involuntarily hospitalized, or in the process of transitioning out of one of these services. The guidance and trainings may also highlight preventive activities not reimbursable under federal law which may be cost-effective in a managed care environment. The purpose of this written guidance and trainings is to champion best clinical practices including, where appropriate, use of care coordination and long-acting injectable psychotropic medication, and to assist the health community to leverage federal funds and standardize payment and reporting procedures.
[ 2019 c 325 § 1033; 2018 c 201 § 4034; 2016 c 154 § 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.
Intent—2016 c 154: See note following RCW 74.09.670.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act. › 71.24.510 - Integrated comprehensive screening and assessment process—Implementation.

RCW 71.24.510
Integrated comprehensive screening and assessment process—Implementation.
(1) All persons providing treatment under this chapter shall also implement the integrated comprehensive screening and assessment process for substance use and mental disorders adopted pursuant to RCW 71.24.630 and shall document the numbers of clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders based on a quadrant system of low and high needs.
(2) Treatment providers contracted to provide treatment under this chapter who fail to implement the integrated comprehensive screening and assessment process for substance use and mental disorders are subject to contractual penalties established under RCW 71.24.630.
[ 2016 sp.s. c 29 § 512; 2005 c 504 § 302. Formerly RCW 70.96A.035.]
NOTES:
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.
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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act. › 71.24.520 - Substance use disorder program authority.

RCW 71.24.520
Substance use disorder program authority.
The authority, in the operation of the substance use disorder program, may:
(1) Plan, establish, and maintain prevention and treatment programs as necessary or desirable;
(2) Make contracts necessary or incidental to the performance of its duties and the execution of its powers, including managed care contracts for behavioral health services, contracts entered into under RCW 74.09.522, and contracts with public and private agencies, organizations, and individuals to pay them for services rendered or furnished to persons with substance use disorders, persons incapacitated by alcohol or other psychoactive chemicals, or intoxicated persons;
(3) Enter into agreements for monitoring of verification of qualifications of counselors employed by approved treatment programs;
(4) Adopt rules under chapter 34.05 RCW to carry out the provisions and purposes of this chapter and contract, cooperate, and coordinate with other public or private agencies or individuals for those purposes;
(5) Solicit and accept for use any gift of money or property made by will or otherwise, and any grant of money, services, or property from the federal government, the state, or any political subdivision thereof or any private source, and do all things necessary to cooperate with the federal government or any of its agencies in making an application for any grant;
(6) Administer or supervise the administration of the provisions relating to persons with substance use disorders and intoxicated persons of any state plan submitted for federal funding pursuant to federal health, welfare, or treatment legislation;
(7) Coordinate its activities and cooperate with substance use disorder programs in this and other states, and make contracts and other joint or cooperative arrangements with state, local, or private agencies in this and other states for the treatment of persons with substance use disorders and their families, persons incapacitated by alcohol or other psychoactive chemicals, and intoxicated persons and for the common advancement of substance use disorder programs;
(8) Keep records and engage in research and the gathering of relevant statistics;
(9) Do other acts and things necessary or convenient to execute the authority expressly granted to it;
(10) Acquire, hold, or dispose of real property or any interest therein, and construct, lease, or otherwise provide treatment programs.
[ 2019 c 325 § 1034; 2018 c 201 § 4036; 2014 c 225 § 22; 1989 c 270 § 5; 1988 c 193 § 2; 1972 ex.s. c 122 § 4. Formerly RCW 70.96A.040.]
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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act. › 71.24.522 - Substance use disorder—Training for parents of adolescents and transition age youth.

RCW 71.24.522
Substance use disorder—Training for parents of adolescents and transition age youth.
(1) The authority, in consultation with the department of children, youth, and families, shall develop a training for parents of adolescents and transition age youth with substance use disorders by June 30, 2024, which training must build on and be consistent and compatible with existing training developed by the authority for families impacted by substance use disorder, and addressing the following:
(a) Science and education related to substance use disorders and recovery;
(b) Adaptive and functional communication strategies for communication with a loved one about their substance use disorder, including positive communication skills and strategies to influence motivation and behavioral change;
(c) Self-care and means of obtaining support;
(d) Means to obtain opioid overdose reversal medication when appropriate and instruction on proper use; and
(e) Suicide prevention.
(2) The authority and the department of children, youth, and families shall make this training publicly available, and the department of children, youth, and families must promote the training to licensed foster parents and caregivers, including any tribally licensed foster parents and tribal caregivers.
[ 2023 sp.s. c 1 § 20.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act. › 71.24.525 - Agreements authorized under the interlocal cooperation act.

RCW 71.24.525
Agreements authorized under the interlocal cooperation act.
Pursuant to the interlocal cooperation act, chapter 39.34 RCW, the authority may enter into agreements to accomplish the purposes of this chapter.
[ 2018 c 201 § 4037; 1989 c 270 § 7. Formerly RCW 70.96A.043.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—Effective date—2018 c 201: See notes following RCW 41.05.018.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 71 - Behavioral Health › Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act. › 71.24.530 - Local funding and donative funding requirements—Facilities, plans, programs.

RCW 71.24.530
Local funding and donative funding requirements—Facilities, plans, programs.
Except as provided in this chapter, the director shall not approve any substance use disorder facility, plan, or program for financial assistance under RCW 71.24.520 unless at least ten percent of the amount spent for the facility, plan, or program is provided from local public or private sources. When deemed necessary to maintain public standards of care in the substance use disorder facility, plan, or program, the director may require the substance use disorder facility, plan, or program to provide up to fifty percent of the total spent for the program through fees, gifts, contributions, or volunteer services. The director shall determine the value of the gifts, contributions, and volunteer services.
[ 2018 c 201 § 4038; 2016 sp.s. c 29 § 515; 1989 c 270 § 11. Formerly RCW 70.96A.047.]
NOTES:
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.