SHB 2127 -
By Representative Hinkle
FAILED 02/28/2012
Beginning on page 48, line 19, strike all of section 204 and insert the following:
"Sec. 204 2011 2nd sp.s. c 9 s 204 (uncodified) is amended to
read as follows:
FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES -- MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM
(1) COMMUNITY SERVICES/REGIONAL SUPPORT NETWORKS
General Fund -- State Appropriation (FY 2012) . . . . . . . . . . . . (($317,392,000))
$316,380,000
General Fund -- State Appropriation (FY 2013) . . . . . . . . . . . . (($322,982,000))
$320,482,000
General Fund -- Federal Appropriation . . . . . . . . . . . . (($448,732,000))
$449,801,000
General Fund -- Private/Local Appropriation . . . . . . . . . . . . $17,864,000
Hospital Safety Net Assessment Fund--State
Appropriation . . . . . . . . . . . . (($6,802,000))
$5,251,000
TOTAL APPROPRIATION . . . . . . . . . . . . (($1,113,772,000))
$1,109,778,000
The appropriations in this subsection are subject to the following
conditions and limitations:
(a) (($109,342,000)) $107,988,000 of the general fund--state
appropriation for fiscal year 2012 and (($109,341,000)) $106,091,000 of
the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal year 2013 are provided
solely for persons and services not covered by the medicaid program.
This is a reduction ((of $4,348,000 each fiscal year)) from the
nonmedicaid funding that was allocated for expenditure by regional
support networks during fiscal year 2011 prior to supplemental budget
reductions. This (($4,348,000)) reduction shall be distributed among
regional support networks proportional to each network's share of the
total state population. To the extent possible, levels of regional
support network spending shall be maintained in the following priority
order: (i) Crisis and commitment services; (ii) community inpatient
services; and (iii) residential care services, including personal care
and emergency housing assistance.
(b) $6,590,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal
year 2012, $6,590,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for
fiscal year 2013, and $7,620,000 of the general fund--federal
appropriation are provided solely for the department and regional
support networks to continue to contract for implementation of high-intensity programs for assertive community treatment (PACT) teams. In
determining the proportion of medicaid and nonmedicaid funding provided
to regional support networks with PACT teams, the department shall
consider the differences between regional support networks in the
percentages of services and other costs associated with the teams that
are not reimbursable under medicaid. The department may allow regional
support networks which have nonmedicaid reimbursable costs that are
higher than the nonmedicaid allocation they receive under this section
to supplement these funds with local dollars or funds received under
section 204(1)(a) of this act. The department and regional support
networks shall maintain consistency with all essential elements of the
PACT evidence-based practice model in programs funded under this
section.
(c) $5,850,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal
year 2012, $5,850,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for
fiscal year 2013, and $1,300,000 of the general fund--federal
appropriation are provided solely for the western Washington regional
support networks to provide either community- or hospital campus-based
services for persons who require the level of care previously provided
by the program for adaptive living skills (PALS) at western state
hospital.
(d) The number of nonforensic beds allocated for use by regional
support networks at eastern state hospital shall be 192 per day. The
number of nonforensic beds allocated for use by regional support
networks at western state hospital shall be 557 per day through June
2012, 527 per day from July 2012 through September 2012, and 497 per
day from October 2012 through the end of fiscal year 2013.
(e) From the general fund--state appropriations in this subsection,
the secretary of social and health services shall assure that regional
support networks reimburse the aging and disability services
administration for the general fund--state cost of medicaid personal
care services that enrolled regional support network consumers use
because of their psychiatric disability.
(f) $4,582,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal
year 2012 and $4,582,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for
fiscal year 2013 are provided solely for mental health services for
mentally ill offenders while confined in a county or city jail and for
facilitating access to programs that offer mental health services upon
release from confinement.
(g) The department is authorized to continue to contract directly,
rather than through contracts with regional support networks, for
children's long-term inpatient facility services.
(h) $750,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal
year 2012 and $750,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for
fiscal year 2013 are provided solely to continue performance-based
incentive contracts to provide appropriate community support services
for individuals with severe mental illness who were discharged from the
state hospitals as part of the expanding community services initiative.
These funds will be used to enhance community residential and support
services provided by regional support networks through other state and
federal funding.
(i) $1,125,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal
year 2012 and $1,125,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for
fiscal year 2013 are provided solely for the Spokane regional support
network to implement services to reduce utilization and the census at
eastern state hospital. Such services shall include:
(i) High intensity treatment team for persons who are high
utilizers of psychiatric inpatient services, including those with co-occurring disorders and other special needs;
(ii) Crisis outreach and diversion services to stabilize in the
community individuals in crisis who are at risk of requiring inpatient
care or jail services;
(iii) Mental health services provided in nursing facilities to
individuals with dementia, and consultation to facility staff treating
those individuals; and
(iv) Services at the sixteen-bed evaluation and treatment facility.
At least annually, the Spokane regional support network shall
assess the effectiveness of these services in reducing utilization at
eastern state hospital, identify services that are not optimally
effective, and modify those services to improve their effectiveness.
(j) $1,529,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal
year 2012 and $1,529,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for
fiscal year 2013 are provided solely to reimburse Pierce and Spokane
counties for the cost of conducting 180-day commitment hearings at the
state psychiatric hospitals.
(k) Regional support networks may use local funds to earn
additional federal medicaid match, provided the locally matched rate
does not exceed the upper-bound of their federally allowable rate
range, and provided that the enhanced funding is used only to provide
medicaid state plan or waiver services to medicaid clients.
Additionally, regional support networks may use a portion of the state
funds allocated in accordance with (a) of this subsection to earn
additional medicaid match, but only to the extent that the application
of such funds to medicaid services does not diminish the level of
crisis and commitment, community inpatient, residential care, and
outpatient services presently available to persons not eligible for
medicaid.
(l) Given the recent approval of federal medicaid matching funds
for the disability lifeline and the alcohol and drug abuse treatment
support act programs, the department shall charge regional support
networks for only the state share rather than the total cost of
community psychiatric hospitalization for persons enrolled in those
programs.
(m) $750,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal
year 2012, $750,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal
year 2013, and $1,500,000 of the general fund--federal appropriation
are provided solely to adjust regional support network capitation rates
to account for the per diem rates actually paid for psychiatric care
provided at hospitals participating in the certified public expenditure
program operated pursuant to section 213 of this act.
(2) INSTITUTIONAL SERVICES
General Fund -- State Appropriation (FY 2012) . . . . . . . . . . . . (($115,317,000))
$115,146,000
General Fund -- State Appropriation (FY 2013) . . . . . . . . . . . . (($114,111,000))
$108,574,000
General Fund -- Federal Appropriation . . . . . . . . . . . . (($153,324,000))
$154,002,000
General Fund -- Private/Local Appropriation . . . . . . . . . . . . (($67,325,000))
$67,416,000
TOTAL APPROPRIATION . . . . . . . . . . . . (($450,077,000))
$445,138,000
The appropriations in this subsection are subject to the following
conditions and limitations:
(a) The state psychiatric hospitals may use funds appropriated in
this subsection to purchase goods and supplies through hospital group
purchasing organizations when it is cost-effective to do so.
(b) $231,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal
year 2012 and $231,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for
fiscal year 2013 are provided solely for a community partnership
between western state hospital and the city of Lakewood to support
community policing efforts in the Lakewood community surrounding
western state hospital. The amounts provided in this subsection (2)(b)
are for the salaries, benefits, supplies, and equipment for one full-time investigator, one full-time police officer, and one full-time
community service officer at the city of Lakewood.
(c) $45,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal
year 2012 and $45,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for
fiscal year 2013 are provided solely for payment to the city of
Lakewood for police services provided by the city at western state
hospital and adjacent areas.
(d) $20,000,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal
year 2012 and $20,000,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for
fiscal year 2013 are provided solely to maintain staffed capacity to
serve an average daily census in forensic wards at western state
hospital of 270 patients per day.
(3) SPECIAL PROJECTS
General Fund -- State Appropriation (FY 2012) . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,168,000
General Fund -- State Appropriation (FY 2013) . . . . . . . . . . . . (($1,164,000))
$1,726,000
General Fund -- Federal Appropriation . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,109,000
General Fund--Private/Local Appropriation . . . . . . . . . . . . $700,000
TOTAL APPROPRIATION . . . . . . . . . . . . (($7,141,000))
$7,703,000
The appropriations in this subsection are subject to the following
conditions and limitations:
(a) $1,161,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal
year 2012 and $1,161,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for
fiscal year 2013 are provided solely for children's evidence based
mental health services. Funding is sufficient to continue serving
children at the same levels as fiscal year 2009.
(b) $700,000 of the general fund--private/local appropriation is
provided solely for the University of Washington's evidence based
practice institute which supports the identification, evaluation, and
implementation of evidence-based or promising practices for serving
children and youth with mental health disorders. The department shall
enter into an interagency agreement with the office of the attorney
general for expenditure of $700,000 of the state's proceeds of the cy
pres settlement in State of Washington v. AstraZeneca (Seroquel) for
this purpose.
(c) $55,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal
year 2013 is provided solely for the department to contract with the
evidence-based practice institute to consult with the department and
the Washington state institute for public policy in efforts to identify
and expand the use of evidence-based practices for mental health
prevention and treatment services to children in accordance with
Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill No. 2536 (children
services/delivery). Funding provided in this subsection may not be
used to pay for costs of the director of the institute and shall lapse
if Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill No. 2536 (children
services/delivery) is not enacted by June 30, 2012.
(d) $509,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal
year 2013 is provided solely for training costs associated with
implementation of Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill No. 2536
(children services/delivery). The amounts provided in this subsection
must be used for coordinated evidence-based practice training to
programs providing mental health, child welfare, and juvenile justice
services to children. If Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill No.
2536 (children services/delivery) is not enacted by June 30, 2012, the
amount provided in this subsection shall lapse.
(4) PROGRAM SUPPORT
General Fund -- State Appropriation (FY 2012) . . . . . . . . . . . . (($4,476,000))
$4,486,000
General Fund -- State Appropriation (FY 2013) . . . . . . . . . . . . (($4,261,000))
$4,385,000
General Fund -- Federal Appropriation . . . . . . . . . . . . (($7,227,000))
$7,309,000
General Fund--Private/Local Appropriation . . . . . . . . . . . . $446,000
TOTAL APPROPRIATION . . . . . . . . . . . . (($16,410,000))
$16,626,000
(a) The appropriations in this subsection are subject to the
following conditions and limitations: In accordance with RCW
43.20B.110, 43.135.055, and 71.24.035, the department is authorized to
increase license and certification fees in fiscal years 2012 and 2013
to support the costs of the regulatory program. The fee schedule
increases must be developed so that the maximum amount of additional
fees paid by providers statewide in the 2011-2013 fiscal biennium is
$446,000. The department's fee schedule shall have differential rates
for providers with proof of accreditation from organizations that the
department has determined to have substantially equivalent standards to
those of the department, including but not limited to the joint
commission on accreditation of health care organizations, the
commission on accreditation of rehabilitation facilities, and the
council on accreditation. To reflect the reduced costs associated with
regulation of accredited programs, the department's fees for
organizations with such proof of accreditation must reflect the lower
costs of licensing for these programs than for other organizations
which are not accredited.
(b) $19,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal
year 2012, $17,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal
year 2013, and $34,000 of the general fund--federal appropriation are
provided solely to support a partnership among the department of social
and health services, the department of health, and agencies that
deliver medical care and behavioral health services in Cowlitz county.
The partnership shall identify and recommend strategies for resolving
regulatory, licensing, data management, reporting, and funding barriers
to more effective integration of primary medical and behavioral health
care services in the county.
(c) $105,000 of the general fund--state appropriation for fiscal
year 2013 and $68,000 of the general fund--federal appropriation are
provided solely for staffing costs associated with implementation of
Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill No. 2536 (children
services/delivery). The amounts provided in this subsection must be
used for coordinated evidence-based practice implementation amongst the
department's programs providing mental health, child welfare, and
juvenile justice services to children. If Engrossed Second Substitute
House Bill No. 2536 (children services/delivery) is not enacted by June
30, 2012, the amounts provided in this subsection shall lapse."
On page 208, after line 25, insert the following:
"NEW SECTION. Sec. 724 A new section is added to 2011 1st sp.s.
c 50 (uncodified) to read as follows:
FOR THE OFFICE OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT--GOODS AND SERVICES
General Fund--State Appropriation (FY 2012) . . . . . . . . . . . . ($1,644,000)
General Fund--State Appropriation (FY 2013) . . . . . . . . . . . . ($6,580,000)
TOTAL APPROPRIATION . . . . . . . . . . . . ($8,224,000)
The appropriations in this section are solely for the purposes
designated in this section and are subject to the following conditions
and limitations:
(1) Appropriations are adjusted to reflect savings associated with
a 10 percent reduction in expenditures related to goods and services.
(2) The office of financial management shall update agency
appropriation schedules to reflect the changes to funding levels in
this section as identified by agency and in the amounts specified in
LEAP Document HW2-2012 dated February 17, 2012.
(3) For agencies with appropriations from accounts other than the
general fund--state, the office of financial management shall work with
agencies to achieve potential savings in other accounts.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 725 A new section is added to 2011 1st sp.s.
c 50 (uncodified) to read as follows:
FOR THE OFFICE OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT--PERSONAL SERVICE CONTRACTS
General Fund--State Appropriation (FY 2012) . . . . . . . . . . . . ($1,076,000)
General Fund--State Appropriation (FY 2013) . . . . . . . . . . . . ($4,311,000)
TOTAL APPROPRIATION . . . . . . . . . . . . ($5,387,000)
The appropriations in this section are solely for the purposes
designated in this section and are subject to the following conditions
and limitations:
(1) Appropriations are adjusted to reflect savings associated with
a 20 percent reduction in expenditures related to personal service
contracts.
(2) The office of financial management shall update agency
appropriation schedules to reflect the changes to funding levels in
this section as identified by agency and in the amounts specified in
LEAP Document PSC-2012 dated February 17, 2012.
(3) For agencies with appropriations from accounts other than the
general fund--state, the office of financial management shall work with
agencies to achieve potential savings in other accounts."
Correct the title.
EFFECT: There is a net increase in general fund--state of $12.8
million and total funds of $20.0 million. A number of changes are made
to mental health funding including 1) Regional Support Network (RSN)
Medicaid capitation rate funding is reduced by 1 percent through
consolidation of RSNs in accordance with House Bill 2139 (regional
support networks) rather than being reduced by approximately 3.5
percent with no savings assumed from consolidation; 2) a portion of RSN
non-Medicaid funding is restored so that the reduction is 3.0 percent
rather than 5.2 percent; 3) funding for Spokane RSN to develop
community alternatives for state hospital patients is restored rather
than being eliminated; 4) funding is provided for 4 FTEs to increase
resources available for forensic evaluations in jails; 5) funding for
headquarters is restored to current levels rather than being reduced by
5 FTEs; 6) funding for services to individuals with mental illnesses in
or transitioning from jails is restored rather than being reduced by 50
percent; and 7) a requirement for the department to report outcome data
on individuals in jail who are referred for regional support network
services is eliminated.
Office of Financial Management--Special Appropriations: OFM must
reduce agency allotments to reflect savings associated with a 10%
reduction in agency purchases of goods and services and a 20% reduction
in agency expenditures for personal services contracts.
FISCAL IMPACT:
DSHS--Mental Health Division: Increases General Fund--State by
$12,804,000. Increases General Fund--Federal by $7,079,000. Increases
General Fund--Private/Local by $91,000.
OFM--Special Appropriations: Reduces General Fund--State by
$13,611,000.
NET GFS FISCAL IMPACT: Decreases General Fund--State by $807,000.