KY HB617 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on February 20 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-20 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on February 20 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-20 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 210 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Youth Mobile Crisis Response Program within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; set requirements for mobile crisis response teams; require the cabinet to develop protocols and issue a report to the Interim Joint Committees on Health Services and Families and Children; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; establish the Youth Behavioral Health Crisis Advisory Board; require behavioral health emergency services provided by a mobile crisis response team to be paid for by the state if a youth is uninsured or the services are not covered under his or her insurance plan; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require a health benefit or plan that provides benefits for mental health or substance abuse to provide coverage for behavioral health emergency services; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid to cover behavioral health emergency services; amend KRS 205.6485 to require behavioral health emergency services to be covered by the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program; amend KRS 164.2871 to require coverage for behavioral health emergency services under self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution; amend KRS 18A.225 to require coverage for behavioral health emergency services under the state employee health plan; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if deemed necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
Title
AN ACT relating to behavioral health services.
Sponsors
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-20 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2024-02-20 | House | introduced in House |
Subjects
Actuarial Analysis
Advisory Boards, Commissions, and Committees
Children and Minors
Diseases
Education, Higher
Effective Dates, Delayed
Health and Medical Services
Insurance, Health
Local Mandate
Medicaid
Mental Disability
Mental Health
Public Health
Public Medical Assistance
State Agencies
State Employees
Substance Abuse
Advisory Boards, Commissions, and Committees
Children and Minors
Diseases
Education, Higher
Effective Dates, Delayed
Health and Medical Services
Insurance, Health
Local Mandate
Medicaid
Mental Disability
Mental Health
Public Health
Public Medical Assistance
State Agencies
State Employees
Substance Abuse
