SB 5667-S - DIGEST

 

                        (SUBSTITUTED FOR - SEE 2ND SUB)

 

      Authorizes the access to short-term inpatient psychiatric care for patients enrolled in community support or residential services.

      Requires regional support networks to establish procedures to assure access to sufficient additional local evaluation and treatment facilities to meet the requirements of chapter 71.24 RCW.

      Makes appropriations of fifteen million five hundred thousand dollars to carry out the purposes of the act.