FIRST RESPONDER MENTAL HEALTH GRANT ACT

Session: 102nd General Assembly
Year: 2021
Bill #: HB1321
Category: Labor, Personnel and Pensions
Position:
Mandate?
Revenue Loss?
Authority Preemption?

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Summary as Introduced

Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "care and custody".

Staff Analysis

Creates the First Responder Mental Health Grant Program Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation, there is created within the Department of Human Services a First Responder Behavioral Health Grant Program to provide grants to the following recipients: (1) units of local government; (2) law enforcement agencies; (3) fire protection districts; (4) school districts; (5) public or private hospitals; or (6) ambulance services that employ first responders.



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