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secure state mental health facilities (now: secure behavioral health residential facilities) |
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State of Arizona Senate Fifty-sixth Legislature Second Regular Session 2024
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SENATE BILL 1678 |
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An Act
amending section 36-425.06, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to dangerous and incompetent persons.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 36-425.06, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
36-425.06. Secure behavioral health residential facilities; license; annual reports; definition
A. The department shall license secure behavioral health residential facilities to provide secure twenty-four-hour on-site supportive treatment and supervision by staff with behavioral health training for persons who have been determined to be seriously mentally ill, who are chronically resistant to treatment for a mental disorder and who are placed in the facility pursuant to a court order issued pursuant to section 36-550.09 or who have been committed pursuant to a court order issued pursuant to section 13-4521. A secure behavioral health residential facility may provide services only to persons placed in or committed to the facility pursuant to a court order issued pursuant to section 36-550.09 or 13-4521 and may not provide services to any other persons on that facility's premises. A secure behavioral health residential facility may not have more than sixteen beds. A secure behavioral health residential facility that provides services to persons who are:
1. Placed in the secure behavioral health residential facility pursuant to a court order issued pursuant to section 36-550.09 may not provide services to any other persons on that facility's premises.
2. Committed to the secure behavioral health residential facility pursuant to a court order issued pursuant to section 13-4521 may not provide services to any other persons on that facility's premises.
B. On or before September 1 of each year: ,
1. The director of the Arizona health care cost containment system administration shall submit a report to the governor, the legislature and the supreme court that includes all of the following information:
1. (a) An accounting of where the monies appropriated to the Arizona health care cost containment system administration for secure behavioral health residential facilities were used during the previous year.
2. (b) The number of available beds in each secure behavioral health residential facility for persons who are placed pursuant to section 36-550.09.
2. The Arizona health care cost containment system shall submit a report to the governor, the legislature and the supreme court on the number of available beds in each secure behavioral health residential facility for persons who are committed pursuant to section 13-4521.
C. For the purposes of this section, "secure" means premises that limit a patient's egress in the least restrictive manner consistent with the patient's court-ordered treatment plan.
(ENACTED WITHOUT THE EMERGENCY)
Sec. 2. Emergency
This act is an emergency measure that is necessary to preserve the public peace, health or safety and is operative immediately as provided by law.