AB201A - Revises provisions relating to planning for the provision of behavioral health care. (BDR 39-325)

AN ACT relating to behavioral health; requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to provide certain oversight and make certain recommendations concerning the children's behavioral health system of care; adding certain members to the subcommittee on the mental health of children of the Commission on Behavioral Health; prescribing certain duties of a regional behavioral health policy board; requiring a mental health consortium to submit certain documents to the Administrator of the Division of Child and Family Services of the Department; clarifying the authority of the State Board of Health to require the licensing of certain facilities; requiring the Legislative Committee on Senior Citizens, Veterans and Adults With Special Needs to conduct a study of the feasibility of formulating and operating a comprehensive state plan to provide behavioral health services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.