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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2663
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State of Washington 56th Legislature 2000 Regular Session
By House Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Representatives Alexander, Schual‑Berke, Parlette, Cody, Reardon, Ericksen, Morris, Tokuda, Benson, Doumit, Pflug, Kessler, Ruderman, Rockefeller, Edmonds, Santos, O'Brien, Hurst and Esser)
Read first time 02/04/2000. Referred to Committee on .
AN ACT Relating to the distribution of atypical antipsychotic medications to underserved populations; creating new sections; and making an appropriation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) The department of social and health services shall create a pilot program to provide atypical antipsychotic medications to the following underserved populations who meet one or more of these qualifications:
(a) Persons in crisis who are not medicaid eligible;
(b) Working poor under two hundred percent of the federal poverty level and who are not medicaid eligible and need continued access to antipsychotic medications;
(c) Persons transitioning from jail and from department of corrections facilities to medicaid eligibility; and
(d) Persons in jail.
(2) This pilot program shall consist of not less than less than two grants awarded to regional support networks.
(3) To be eligible for a grant under this program, the department shall establish a competitive application process specifying the population to be served and the reimbursement and distribution mechanism to be used. The department shall evaluate the applications and award grants based on programs that optimize the number of individuals served within available resources.
(4) Funding for this program shall be used to provide these persons with atypical antipsychotic medications and any associated laboratory testing related to the use of these medications.
(5) Funding for this grant program is to be separate from the regional support network allocation formula. The department shall report to the legislature on the results of this program by December 1, 2001.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. The sum of one million dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated 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.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. If specific funding for the purposes of this act is not provided by June 30, 2000, in the omnibus appropriations act, this act is null and void.
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