HB 2398 - DIGEST

     Directs the department to contract with a qualified vendor to provide secure level II inpatient treatment services for female youth.  The treatment services shall target high-risk female youth who are incapacitated by alcohol or other drugs, have impaired judgment rendering them incapable of realizing and making rational decisions with respect to need of treatment, and present a likelihood of serious harm to self or others.

     Makes an appropriation of one million twenty-two thousand dollars to carry out the purposes of the act.