E Relating to mental health ARTICLE 1 SUICIDE PREVENTIONRequiring the commissioner of health to make suicide prevention an important public health goal of the state, to conduct suicide prevention activities to accomplish the goal and to implement a suicide prevention plan in collaboration with the departments of public safety and children, families and learning and other appropriate agencies, organizations and institutions; requiring the commissioner to create or contract for an ongoing public education campaign to raise awareness of suicide as a public health issue, specifying certain campaign requirements, requiring the commissioner to establish partnerships with media vendors for implementation purposes and to disseminate education materials to state and local officials and policymakers; requiring the commissioner to establish grant programs for certain community based programs including programs in schools and workplaces and for professional preservice or continuing education programs targeted toward school staff, health care and mental health providers, corrections and law enforcement personnel, social services providers and members of faith based professions; requiring the commissioner to collect and annually report on certain suicide and suicidal behavior data and to make grants and assist entities in seeking nonstate funding sources for certain research on suicide prevention and intervention, to periodically survey and evaluate the suicide prevention and intervention polices and practices of institutions licensed by the state, to study current practices of determining and reporting suicides and make recommendations to professionals and organizations for accurate reporting and to periodically evaluate the impact and outcomes from implementation of the suicide prevention plan and report the results biennially to the legislature; prohibiting the commissioner of public safety from including suicide statistics in crime statistics compilations; requiring the commissioner of health to study the existing suicide crisis response system to identify gaps in intervention and services, to determine costs and to provide recommendations to the legislature by a certain date; appropriating money to the commissioner of health for implementation of the suicide prevention plan and for certain related education and outreach activities ARTICLE 2 CORRECTIONSRequiring the commissioner of corrections to offer to develop discharge plans for community based services for offenders with serious and persistent mental illness released from correctional facilities, specifying certain plan content requirements, authorizing county human services departments or providers authorized by the county to invoice the commissioner of human services for offenders with serious and persistent mental illness discharged from prison and receiving the services; requiring the commissioner in collaboration with the commissioner of human services to establish a pilot project grant program to provide startup funding for a certain number of counties to provide transitional housing and other community support services for former state inmates diagnosed with serious mental illness, specifying certain comprehensive plan requirements and requiring a pilot project effectiveness report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the commissioner of corrections in collaboration with the commissioner of human services to plan, develop and implement a study to assess and identify barriers to successful reintegration into the community of offenders awaiting discharge from correctional facilities with certain brain conditions, specifying certain study requirements, requiring the commissioner of corrections to incorporate recommendations to improve reintegration and to reduce recidivism through a discharge planning process referring discharged offenders to appropriate community services, requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; appropriating money to the mental health division of the department of corrections for hiring or contracting for additional mental health services and treatment in state correctional facilities, for development of discharge plans, for transitional housing services and to the commissioner of human services to reimburse invoices ARTICLE 3 REIMBURSEMENT RATESRequiring and providing for the commissioner of human services to annually adjust for inflation reimbursement rates for adult residential program and adult and family community support grants, requiring use of a certain percentage of the increase to increase compensation paid to certain employees, specifying certain provider compliance plan requirements; providing for funding of county regional treatment center care or diversion programs based on population decreases, specifying certain duties of the commissioner and certain authorized uses of the funds; providing medical assistance (MA) reimbursement for medication management provided by certain mental health services; increasing the medical assistance reimbursement rate for certain mental health clinics, requiring the commissioner to implement a settle up procedure to pay community health centers and mental health clinics for services provided to prepaid medical assistance or general assistance medical care (GAMC) and MinnesotaCare enrollees; appropriating money to the commissioner for the grant increases and for the payments to counties ARTICLE 4 COVERED SERVICES Defining or redefining certain terms under the adult and children's mental health acts and requiring county boards to provide or contract for mental health crisis services to certain residents experiencing a mental health crisis or emergency; providing for team case management services for certain children with severe emotional disturbance; authorizing community support services programs to administer programs to reimburse individuals and organizations for transporting adults with serious and persistent mental illness to health care and social services; requiring and providing for appropriate settings for children to receive mental health services; requiring the commissioner to establish a continuing care benefit program for acute care hospital inpatient treatment of persons with mental illness, requiring commissioner establishment of admissions criteria and prohibiting the commissioner from requiring civil commitment or petition as a condition of admission, specifying certain notice requirements; requiring medical assistance (MA) coverage of special transportation services necessary to obtain services not covered by medical assistance under certain conditions, continuing care benefits, certain community support services, certain mental health evaluation and management services and mental health crisis services; expanding authorized uses of community support services grants for persons with serious and persistent mental illness under the community social services act to the acquisition of passenger vehicles by nonprofit community mental health providers to transport adults with mental illness to health care and social services; requiring health plan coverage of referral of children determined to be in need of protection or services to certain special services; requiring the commissioner to establish a pilot program to provide advocacy services to children with severe emotional disturbance and to study acute care hospital inpatient treatment length of stay for medicare eligible persons with mental illness and make recommendations to the legislature by a certain date; appropriating money to the commissioner for funding to county boards for vehicle purchases, for grants to community support services programs for transportation costs, for increased funding for state mental health grants for inpatient hospital services to persons with mental illness, for the pilot program, for crisis services and for increased funding to county boards for certain CSSA services and for reimbursement to mental health providers for certain services ARTICLE 5 HEALTH PLAN COVERAGEProhibiting health plans from excluding or reducing coverage for enrollees attempting suicide; requiring health plans to provide coverage for drugs prescribed to treat emotional disturbance or mental illness regardless of the formulary of the health plan, authorizing continuation of coverage for individuals receiving prescribed drugs to treat diagnosed mental illness or emotional disturbance without the imposition of special deductibles, copayments, coinsurance or other special payment requirements after certain health plan changes under certain conditions; requiring coverage for court ordered mental health services ARTICLE 6 OTHER MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES Requiring the commissioner of human services to by rule establish staff ratios and training requirements for mental health and support units in regional treatment centers; requiring and providing for the commissioner to develop a payment system for adult residential services grants and report to the legislature by a certain date; specifying certain commissioner behavioral health care expenditures information collection and dissemination requirements under the medical assistance (MA) prepayment demonstration project; requiring the commissioner to develop plans to improve delivery of services to individuals with certain dual diagnoses for presentation to the legislature by a certain later date, specifying certain plans content requirements (mk, ja)