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71.09.343 | Transition facilities—Contract between state and local governments. | (1) At the request of the local government of the city or county in which a secure community transition facility is initially sited after January 1, 2002, the department shall enter into a long-term contract memorializing the agreements between the state and the city or county for the operation of the facility. This co... |
71.09.344 | Transition facilities—Mitigation agreements. | (1) Subject to funds appropriated by the legislature, the department may enter into negotiation for a mitigation agreement with: (a) The county and/or city in which a secure community transition facility sited after January 1, 2002, is located; (b) Each community in which the persons from those facilities will reside o... |
71.09.345 | Alternative placement—Authority of court. | Nothing in chapter 12, Laws of 2001 2nd sp. sess. shall operate to restrict a court's authority to make less restrictive alternative placements to a committed person's individual residence or to a setting less restrictive than a secure community transition facility. A court-ordered less restrictive alternative placemen... |
71.09.350 | Examination and treatment only by certified providers—Exceptions. | (1) Examinations and treatment of sexually violent predators who are conditionally released to a less restrictive alternative under this chapter shall be conducted only by certified sex offender treatment providers or certified affiliate sex offender treatment providers under chapter 18.155 RCW unless the court or the ... |
71.09.360 | Treatment of persons on conditional release by certified providers in underserved counties—Notification. | To facilitate the equitable geographic distribution of conditional releases under this chapter, the department shall notify the secretary of health, or the secretary's designee, whenever a sex offender treatment provider in an underserved county has been contracted to provide treatment services to persons on conditiona... |
71.09.370 | Residents in total confinement—State identification cards. | (1) The department shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the department of licensing to allow residents in total confinement at the special commitment center to obtain a state identification card through a written identification verification letter completed by the special commitment center and delivered ... |
71.09.800 | Rules. | The secretary shall adopt rules under the administrative procedure act, chapter 34.05 RCW, for the oversight and operation of the program established pursuant to this chapter. Such rules shall include provisions for an annual inspection of the special commitment center; requirements for treatment plans and the retentio... |
71.09.903 | Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521. | For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married person... |
71.12.455 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Department" means the department of health. (2) "Elopement" means any situation in which an admitted patient of a private establishment who is cognitively, physically, mentally, emotionally, and/or chemical... |
71.12.460 | License to be obtained—Penalty. | (1) No person, association, county, municipality, public hospital district, or corporation, shall establish or keep, for compensation or hire, an establishment as defined in this chapter without first having obtained a license therefor from the department of health, complied with rules adopted under this chapter, and p... |
71.12.470 | License application—Fees. | Every application for a license shall be accompanied by a plan of the premises proposed to be occupied, describing the capacities of the buildings for the uses intended, the extent and location of grounds appurtenant thereto, and the number of patients proposed to be received therein, with such other information, and i... |
71.12.480 | Examination before granting license—Inspection and technical assistance to psychiatric hospitals after granting license. | (1) The department of health shall not grant any such license until it has made an examination of all phases of the operation of the establishment necessary to determine compliance with rules adopted under this chapter including the premises proposed to be licensed and is satisfied that the premises are substantially a... |
71.12.485 | Fire protection—Duties of chief of the Washington state patrol. | Standards for fire protection and the enforcement thereof, with respect to all establishments to be licensed hereunder, shall be the responsibility of the chief of the Washington state patrol, through the director of fire protection, who shall adopt such recognized standards as may be applicable to such establishments ... |
71.12.490 | Expiration and renewal of license. | All licenses issued under the provisions of this chapter shall expire on a date to be set by the department of health. No license issued pursuant to this chapter shall exceed thirty-six months in duration. Application for renewal of the license, accompanied by the necessary fee as established by the department of healt... |
71.12.500 | Examination of private establishments. | The department may at any time examine a licensed private establishment to determine whether it has failed or refused to comply with the requirements of this chapter, the standards or rules adopted under this chapter, or other applicable state or federal statutes or rules regulating private establishments.
[ 2024 c 121... |
71.12.510 | Examination and visitation in general. | The department of health may at any time cause any establishment as defined in this chapter to be visited and examined.
[ 2000 c 93 s 26 ; 1959 c 25 s 71.12.510 . Prior: 1949 c 198 s 60 ; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 6953-59.] |
71.12.520 | Scope of examination. | Each such visit may include an inspection of every part of each establishment. The representatives of the department of health may make an examination of all records, methods of administration, the general and special dietary, the stores and methods of supply, and may cause an examination and diagnosis to be made of an... |
71.12.530 | Conference with management—Improvement. | The representatives of the department of health may, from time to time, at times and places designated by the department, meet the managers or responsible authorities of such establishments in conference, and consider in detail all questions of management and improvement of the establishments, and may send to them, fro... |
71.12.540 | Recommendations to be kept on file—Records of inmates.(Effective until June 30, 2027.) | The authorities of each establishment as defined in this chapter shall place on file in the office of the establishment the recommendations made by the department of health as a result of such visits, for the purpose of consultation by such authorities, and for reference by the department representatives upon their vis... |
71.12.545 | Cease and desist notices—Adjudicative proceedings. | (1) The department may give written notice to cease and desist to any person whom the department has reason to believe is engaged in the unlicensed operation of a private establishment. (2)(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the requirement to cease and desist unlicensed operation is effective 20 days aft... |
71.12.550 | Local authorities may also prescribe standards. | This chapter shall not prevent local authorities of any city, or city and county, within the reasonable exercise of the police power, from adopting rules and regulations, by ordinance or resolution, prescribing standards of sanitation, health and hygiene for establishments as defined in this chapter, which are not in c... |
71.12.560 | Voluntary patients—Receipt authorized—Application—Report. | The person in charge of any private institution, hospital, or sanatorium which is conducted for, or includes a department or ward conducted for, the care and treatment of persons who are mentally ill or deranged may receive therein as a voluntary patient any person suffering from mental illness or derangement who is a ... |
71.12.570 | Communications by patients—Rights. | No person in an establishment as defined in this chapter shall be restrained from sending written communications of the fact of his or her detention in such establishment to a friend, relative, or other person. The physician in charge of such person and the person in charge of such establishment shall send each such co... |
71.12.590 | Revocation of license for noncompliance—Exemption as to Christian Science establishments. | Failure to comply with any of the provisions of RCW 71.12.550 through 71.12.570 or the requirements of RCW 71.34.375 shall constitute grounds for revocation of license: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That nothing in this chapter or the rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto shall be construed as authorizing the supervision... |
71.12.595 | Suspension of license—Noncompliance with support order—Reissuance. | The department of health shall immediately suspend the license or certificate of a person who has been certified pursuant to RCW 74.20A.320 by the department of social and health services as a person who is not in compliance with a support order or a *residential or visitation order. If the person has continued to meet... |
71.12.640 | Prosecuting attorney shall prosecute violations. | The prosecuting attorney of every county shall, upon application by the department of social and health services, the department of health, or its authorized representatives, institute and conduct the prosecution of any action brought for the violation within his or her county of any of the provisions of this chapter.
... |
71.12.670 | Licensing, operation, inspection—Adoption of rules. | The department of health shall adopt rules for the licensing, operation, and inspections of establishments and institutions and the enforcement thereof.
[ 2000 c 93 s 28 .] |
71.12.680 | Pediatric transitional care services—Requirements. | (1) An establishment providing pediatric transitional care services to drug exposed infants must demonstrate that it is capable of providing services for children who: (a) Are no more than one year of age; (b) Have been exposed to drugs before birth; (c) Require twenty-four hour continuous residential care and skilled ... |
71.12.682 | Pediatric transitional care services—Rules not considered new service category. | For the purposes of this chapter, the rules for pediatric transitional care services are not considered as a new department of social and health services service category.
[ 2017 c 263 s 4 .]
Findings — Intent — 2017 c 263: See note following RCW 71.12.455 . |
71.12.684 | Pediatric transitional care services—Rules, requirements. | The secretary must, in consultation with the department of social and health services, adopt rules on pediatric transitional care services. The rules must: (1) Establish requirements for medical examinations and consultations which must be delivered by an appropriate health care professional; (2) Require twenty-four ho... |
71.12.686 | Pediatric transitional care services—Duties of the department of social and health services. | After referral by the department of social and health services of an infant to an establishment approved to provide pediatric transitional care services, the department of social and health services: (1) Retains primary responsibility for case management and must provide consultation to the establishment regarding all ... |
71.12.688 | Pediatric transitional care services—Facilities not subject to construction review. | Facilities that provide pediatric transitional care services that are in existence on July 23, 2017, are not subject to construction review by the department for initial licensure.
[ 2017 c 263 s 7 .]
Findings — Intent — 2017 c 263: See note following RCW 71.12.455 . |
71.12.700 | Psychiatric hospitals—Technical assistance. | (1) Any *psychiatric hospital may request from the department or the department may offer to any *psychiatric hospital technical assistance. The department may not provide technical assistance during an inspection or during the time between when an investigation of a *psychiatric hospital has been initiated and when su... |
71.12.710 | Private establishments—Noncompliance—Penalties. | (1) In any case in which the department finds that a private establishment has failed or refused to comply with the requirements of this chapter, the standards or rules adopted under this chapter, RCW 48.43.732 , or other applicable state or federal statutes or rules, the department may take one or more of the actions ... |
71.12.720 | Psychiatric hospitals—Reporting. | (1) Every *psychiatric hospital licensed under this chapter shall report to the department every patient elopement and every death that meets the circumstances specified in subsection (2) of this section that occurs on the hospital grounds within three days of the elopement or death to the department's complaint intake... |
71.12.730 | Psychiatric hospitals—Managed care organizations. | With respect to a person enrolled in medical assistance under chapter 74.09 RCW, a *psychiatric hospital shall make every effort to: (1) Inform the medicaid managed care organization in which the person is enrolled of the person's discharge or change in care plan on the following timelines: (a) For an anticipated disch... |
71.12.740 | Multistate nurse license—Conditions of employment. | (1) Beginning September 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, individuals that hold a multistate nurse license issued by a state other than Washington and are employed by establishments licensed under this chapter shall complete any demographic data surveys required by the board of nursing in rule as a condition of employm... |
71.12.900 | Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521. | For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married person... |
71.20.100 | 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 110 s 10 .] |
71.20.110 | Tax levy directed—Allocation of funds for federal matching funds purposes. | (1) In order to provide additional funds for the coordination and provision of community services for persons with developmental disabilities or mental health services, the county governing authority of each county in the state must budget and levy annually a tax in a sum equal to the amount which would be raised by a ... |
71.24.011 | Short title. | This chapter may be known and cited as the community behavioral health services act.
[ 2019 c 325 s 1001 ; 2019 c 314 s 24 ; 1982 c 204 s 1 .]
Effective date — 2019 c 325: "Except as provided in sections 6005 and 6007 of this act, this act takes effect January 1, 2020." [ 2019 c 325 s 6008 .]
Declaration — 2019 c 314: ... |
71.24.015 | Legislative intent—Community behavioral health system. | It is the intent of the legislature to establish a community behavioral health system which shall help people experiencing mental illness or a substance use disorder to retain a respected and productive position in the community. This will be accomplished through programs that focus on resilience and recovery, and prac... |
71.24.016 | Intent—Management of services—Work group on long-term involuntary inpatient care integration. | (1) The legislature intends that eastern and western state hospitals shall operate as clinical centers for handling the most complicated long-term care needs of patients with a primary diagnosis of mental disorder. It is further the intent of the legislature that the community behavioral health service delivery system ... |
71.24.025 | Definitions. | Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "23-hour crisis relief center" means a community-based facility or portion of a facility which is licensed or certified by the department of health and open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, offering acces... |
71.24.030 | Grants, purchasing of services, for community behavioral health programs. | The director is authorized to make grants and/or purchase services from counties, tribes, combinations of counties, or other entities, to establish and operate community behavioral health programs.
[ 2024 c 209 s 29 ; 2019 c 325 s 1005 ; 2018 c 201 s 4003 ; 2005 c 503 s 3 ; 2001 c 323 s 9 ; 1999 c 10 s 3 ; 1982 c 204 s... |
71.24.035 | Director's powers and duties as state behavioral health authority. | (1) The authority is designated as the state behavioral health authority which includes recognition as the single state authority for substance use disorders, state opioid treatment authority, and state mental health authority. (2) The director shall provide for public, client, tribal, and licensed or certified behavio... |
71.24.037 | Licensed or certified behavioral health agencies—Minimum standards—Inspections. | (1) The secretary shall license or certify any agency or facility that: (a) Submits payment of the fee established under RCW 43.70.110 and 43.70.250 ; and (b) submits a complete application that demonstrates the ability to comply with requirements for operating and maintaining an agency or facility in statute or rule. ... |
71.24.038 | Investigations and inspections—Violations—Penalties. | (1) The department shall review reports or other information alleging a failure to comply with this chapter or the standards and rules adopted under this chapter and may initiate investigations and enforcement actions based on those reports. (2) The department shall conduct inspections of licensed or certified behavior... |
71.24.045 | Behavioral health administrative services organization powers and duties. | (1) The behavioral health administrative services organization contracted with the authority pursuant to RCW 71.24.381 shall: (a) Administer crisis services for the assigned regional service area. Such services must include: (i) A behavioral health crisis hotline that operates 24 hours a day every day for its assigned ... |
71.24.061 | Children's mental health provider networks—Children's mental health evidence-based practice institute—Partnership access line pilot programs—Report to legislature. | (1) The authority shall provide flexibility to encourage licensed or certified community behavioral health agencies to subcontract with an adequate, culturally competent, and qualified children's mental health provider network. (2) To the extent that funds are specifically appropriated for this purpose or that nonstate... |
71.24.062 | Psychiatry consultation line—Implementation. | (1) To the extent that funds are specifically appropriated for this purpose or nonstate funds are available, the authority in collaboration with the University of Washington department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences shall implement a psychiatric consultation call center to provide emergency department providers,... |
71.24.063 | Partnership access lines—Psychiatric consultation lines—Data collection. | (1) The University of Washington department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences shall collect the following information for the partnership access line for moms described in RCW 71.24.061 (3)(a)(ii), and the psychiatric consultation line described in RCW 71.24.062 , in coordination with any hospital that it collabora... |
71.24.064 | Partnership access lines—Psychiatric consultation lines—Funding—Performance measures. | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 2254.SL ) ***
(1) Beginning July 1, 2021, the partnership access lines described in RCW 71.24.061 (3)(a), the psychiatric consultation line described in RCW 71.24.062 , and the first approach skills training program described in RCW 71.24.061 (3)(a)(iv) shall be funded as follows: (a) The au... |
71.24.066 | Partnership access line pilot programs—Determination to be made permanent—Long-term funding. | Using data from the reports required in RCW 71.24.061 (5), the legislature shall decide whether to make the partnership access line for moms and the partnership access line for kids referral and assistance [service] programs, as described in *RCW 71.24.061 (3)(a)(ii), permanent programs. If the legislature decides to m... |
71.24.067 | Partnership access lines—Psychiatric consultation lines—Review. | (1) The joint legislative audit and review committee shall conduct a review, in consultation with the authority, the University of Washington department of psychiatry and behavioral science[s,] and Seattle children's hospital, of the programs as described in RCW 71.24.061 (3)(a) and 71.24.062 , covering the period from... |
71.24.068 | Telebehavioral health access account. | The telebehavioral health access account is created in the state treasury. All receipts from collections under RCW 71.24.064 must be deposited into the account. Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation. Expenditures from the account may be used only for supporting telebehavioral health programs ident... |
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) ... |
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 c... |
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 ... |
71.24.115 | Recovery navigator programs. | (1) Each behavioral health administrative services organization shall establish recovery navigator programs with the goal of providing law enforcement and other criminal legal system personnel with a credible alternative to further legal system involvement for criminal activity that stems from unmet behavioral health n... |
71.24.125 | Grant program—Treatment services—Regional access standards. | (1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the authority shall establish a grant program to: (a) Provide treatment services for low-income individuals with substance use disorder who are not eligible for medical assistance programs under chapter 74.09 RCW, with priority for the u... |
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 wi... |
71.24.145 | Homeless outreach stabilization transition program—Psychiatric outreach—Contingency management resources—Substance misuse prevention effort—Grants. | (1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the authority shall establish a homeless outreach stabilization transition program to expand access to modified assertive community treatment services provided by multidisciplinary behavioral health outreach teams to serve people who are... |
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 aut... |
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 rel... |
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 s 20 .] |
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 s 1013 ; 2018 c 201 s 4011 ; 1982 c 204 s 11 .]
Effective date — 2019 c 325... |
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 s 1014 ; 2018 c 201 s 4012 ; 1999 c 10 s 8 ; 1982 c 204 s 12 ; 1967 ex.s. c 111 s 22 .]
Effective date ... |
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 a... |
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 s 1016 ; 2014 c 225 s 38 ; 2001 c 323 s 16 ; 1982 c 204 s 14 ; 1967 ex.s. c 111 s 25 .]
Effective date — 2019 c 325: See note following RCW 71.24.011 ... |
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 cap... |
71.24.300 | Behavioral health administrative services organizations—Advisory boards—Inclusion of tribes—Roles and responsibilities. | (1) Each behavioral health administrative services organization shall appoint a behavioral health advisory board which shall review and provide comments on plans and policies developed under this chapter, provide local oversight regarding the activities of the behavioral health administrative services organization, and... |
71.24.335 | Reimbursement for behavioral health services provided through telemedicine or store and forward technology—Coverage requirements—Audio-only telemedicine. | (1) Upon initiation or renewal of a contract with the authority, behavioral health administrative services organizations and managed care organizations shall reimburse a provider for a behavioral health service provided to a covered person through telemedicine or store and forward technology if: (a) The behavioral heal... |
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 au... |
71.24.380 | Purchase of behavioral health services—Contracting—Requirements. | (1) The director shall purchase behavioral health services primarily through managed care contracting, but may continue to purchase behavioral health services directly from providers serving medicaid clients who are not enrolled in a managed care organization. (2) The director shall require that contracted managed care... |
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 chap... |
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 m... |
71.24.385 | Behavioral health administrative services and managed care organizations—Mental health and substance use disorder treatment programs—Development and design requirements. | (1) Within funds appropriated by the legislature for this purpose, behavioral health administrative services organizations and managed care organizations, as applicable, shall develop the means to serve the needs of people: (a) With mental disorders residing within the boundaries of their regional service area. Element... |
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 consume... |
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 ... |
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 stat... |
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, s... |
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 c... |
71.24.432 | Coordination with regional crisis response systems—Regional protocols—Recommendations. | Behavioral health administrative services organizations shall use their authorities under RCW 71.24.045 to establish coordination within the behavioral health crisis response system in each regional service area including, but not limited to, establishing comprehensive protocols for dispatching mobile rapid response cr... |
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, researc... |
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 ... |
71.24.455 | Offenders with mental illnesses—Contracts for specialized access and services. | (1) The director shall select and contract with a behavioral health administrative services organization, managed care organization, behavioral health agency, or private provider to provide specialized access and services to offenders with mental illness upon release from total confinement within the department of corr... |
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 rei... |
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 qu... |
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,... |
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 con... |
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 manage... |
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 qua... |
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 beh... |
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 autho... |
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 s 4037 ; 1989 c 270 s 7 . Formerly RCW 70.96A.043 .]
Findings — Intent — Effective date — 2018 c 201: See notes following RCW 41.05.018 . |
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... |
71.24.535 | Duties of authority. | The authority shall: (1) Develop, encourage, and foster statewide, regional, and local plans and programs for the prevention of alcoholism and other drug addiction, treatment of persons with substance use disorders and their families, persons incapacitated by alcohol or other psychoactive chemicals, and intoxicated per... |
71.24.540 | Drug courts. | The authority shall contract with behavioral health administrative services organizations, managed care organizations, or counties, as applicable, for the provision of substance use disorder treatment services ordered by a county-operated drug court.
[ 2019 c 325 s 1036 ; 2018 c 201 s 4040 ; 2016 sp.s. c 29 s 516 ; 199... |
71.24.545 | Comprehensive program for treatment—Regional facilities. | (1) The authority shall establish by appropriate means a comprehensive and coordinated program for the treatment of persons with substance use disorders and their families, persons incapacitated by alcohol or other psychoactive chemicals, and intoxicated persons. (2)(a) The program shall include, but not necessarily be... |
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