HB 2663-S - DIGEST

(SUBSTITUTED FOR - SEE 2ND SUB)

     Directs the department of social and health services to create a pilot program to provide atypical antipsychotic medications to the following underserved populations who meet one or more of these qualifications:  (1) Persons in crisis who are not medicaid eligible;

     (2) working poor under two hundred percent of the federal poverty level and who are not medicaid eligible and need continued access to antipsychotic medications;

     (3) persons transitioning from jail and from department of corrections facilities to medicaid eligibility; and

     (4) persons in jail.

     Makes an appropriation of one million dollars from the general fund to the department of social and health services for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, to carry out the purposes of this act.

     Provides that the act shall be null and void if appropriations are not approved.