PREFILED JAN 14 2019
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REFERENCE TITLE: behavioral health; dependent children; reports |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-fourth Legislature First Regular Session 2019
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HB 2067 |
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Introduced by Representative Barto
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AN ACT
Amending title 36, chapter 34, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 36‑3414; repealing Laws 2013, chapter 220, section 7, as amended by Laws 2016, chapter 273, section 1 and Laws 2018, chapter 152, section 1; relating to behavioral health services.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 36, chapter 34, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 36-3414, to read:
36-3414. Behavioral health services; financial and program accountability trends reports; factors
A. Beginning April 1, 2020, the administration shall prepare and issue a financial and program accountability trends report twice each year to the governor, the chairperson of the house of representatives health and human services committee and the chairperson of the senate health and human services committee, or their successor committees, the director of the joint legislative budget committee and the director of the governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting. The administration shall provide a copy of each report to the secretary of state. The report shall use the following accountability factors by geographic service areas for children enrolled in the comprehensive medical and dental program:
1. The number and percentage of children in the comprehensive medical and dental program who have received behavioral health services, excluding the original assessment, through a regional behavioral health authority as of the end of each month.
2. The number of new behavioral health cases opened each month, the total number of cases that remain open from the current and previous months and the total number of cases that have been closed each month.
3. The type of behavioral health services the children received and the costs of each of those services.
4. The number of notices of action received and for what reason and the outcome of those actions.
5. The number of notices of appeal filed and for what reason, the outcome of those appeals by the administrative law judge and the final decisions reached by the director of the administration.
B. Beginning on the last day of the month following the effective date of this act through December 31, 2022, the department of child safety shall issue a quarterly financial and program accountability trends report to the governor, the chairperson of the house of representatives health and human services committee and the chairperson of the senate health and human services committee, or their successor committees, the director of the joint legislative budget committee and the director of the governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting. The department shall submit a copy of each report to the secretary of state. Each report shall use the following accountability factors by county:
1. The number and percentage of children who are in foster care and who are title XIX eligible as of the end of each month.
2. The number of cases of new title XIX eligible children opened in each month, the total number of cases that remain open from the current and previous months and the total number of cases that have been closed in that month.
3. The amount of nontitle XIX expenditures by service type used by the department to supplement the behavioral health services received through the regional behavioral health authorities.
Sec. 2. Repeal
Laws 2013, chapter 220, section 7, as amended by Laws 2016, chapter 273, section 1 and Laws 2018, chapter 152, section 1, is repealed.