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Introduced Session

Legislative Counsel's Digest: Section 5 of this bill creates the Northern, Washoe, Rural and Southern Behavioral Health Regions, each consisting of certain cities and counties in this State. Section 6 of this bill creates a regional behavioral health policy board for each of the four regions. Section 6 also provides that the membership of each policy board consists of 13 persons, including: (1) six members appointed by the Governor or his or her designee; (2) three members appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly; (3) three members appointed by the Majority Leader of the Senate; and (4) one member appointed by the Legislative Commission. Section 10 of this bill staggers the terms for the appointed members of each policy board. Section 7 of this bill requires each policy board to: (1) advise the Department, the Division of Public and Behavioral Health and the Commission on Behavioral Health of the Department on certain regional behavioral health issues; (2) promote improvements in the delivery of behavioral health services in the behavioral health region; (3) coordinate and exchange information with other policy boards to provide unified recommendations to the Department, Division and Commission regarding behavioral health services in their respective behavioral health region; (4) review data collection and reporting standards relating to behavioral health information; and (5) submit a report to the Commission which includes the priorities and needs of the policy board s behavioral health region. Section 8 of this bill revises the requirements of the report submitted by the Commission annually to the Governor and biennially to the Legislature to include: (1) recommendations from each policy board; (2) the epidemiologic profiles of substance use and abuse, problem gambling and suicide; (3) relevant behavioral health prevalence data for each behavioral health region; and (4) the health priorities set for each behavioral health region. Sections 8.3 and 8.7 of this bill authorize each policy board to request for each regular session of the Legislature the drafting of not more than one legislative measure which relates to matters within the scope of a policy board.

AI Summary

Paul Anderson (R),  Nelson Araujo (D),  Teresa Benitez-Thompson (D),  Irene Bustamante Adams (D),  Yvanna Cancela (D),  Maggie Carlton (D),  Aaron Ford (D),  Jason Frierson (D),  Cresent Hardy (R),  Becky Harris (R),  Amber Joiner (D),  Ben Kieckhefer (R),  Mark Manendo (D),  Daniele Monroe-Moreno (D),  James Oscarson (R),  Julia Ratti (D),  Heidi Seevers Gansert (R),  Michael Sprinkle (D),  Tyrone Thompson (D),  Joyce Woodhouse (D),  Steve Yeager (D), 

Approved by the Governor. Chapter 479. (on 06/08/2017)

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