Bill > HB0248

This bill makes several changes to the Utah Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program, which provides comprehensive community-based mental health services to individuals with serious mental illness. The key provisions include: 1. Requiring the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health to create a long-term, statewide ACT team plan that identifies current and future needs, barriers to establishing ACT teams, and resources required to provide ACT services in areas where teams do not currently exist. The division must also report to the Health and Human Services Interim Committee on the plan and related data. 2. Expanding the grant program for developing ACT teams, including prioritizing grants based on the entity's ability to provide housing and evidence of future program sustainability, and requiring coordination with local homeless and criminal justice councils. 3. Appropriating $1 million in one-time funding for the Department of Health and Human Services to award grants for the development of ACT teams under the expanded grant program. 4. Repealing certain provisions related to the Behavioral Health Crisis Response Commission on July 1, 2024, as it relates to the Utah Assertive Community Treatment Act.

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