Wash. Rev. Code § 71.24.011
Short title
This chapter may be known and cited as the community behavioral health services act.
Revised Code of Washington Chapter 71.24 — Community Behavioral Health Services Act
Washington · statute · Wash. Rev. Code ch. 71.24 · 136 active provisions
Wash. Rev. Code § 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…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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 access…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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.
Wash. Rev. Code § 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 behavior…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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.(2…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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 behaviora…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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 re…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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,…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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 collaborate…
Wash. Rev. Code § 71.24.064
Partnership access lines—Psychiatric consultation lines—Funding—Performance measures
(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 authority, in consultation with the University o…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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 mak…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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 J…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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) Al…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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 us…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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 wit…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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…
Wash. Rev. Code § 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…
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