Minnesota Session Laws - 1986, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1986 

                        CHAPTER 428-H.F.No. 2081 
           An act relating to human services; directing the 
          commissioner of human services to create a mental 
          health service system; setting forth requirements for 
          a mental health service system; amending Minnesota 
          Statutes 1984, section 245.69, by adding a subdivision.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1984, section 245.69, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 1a.  [MENTAL HEALTH MISSION STATEMENT.] The 
commissioner of human services shall create and ensure a 
unified, accountable, comprehensive mental health service system 
that: 
    (a) recognizes the right of people with mental illness to 
control their own lives as fully as possible; 
    (b) promotes the independence and safety of people with 
mental illness; 
    (c) reduces chronicity of mental illness; 
    (d) reduces abuse of people with mental illness; 
    (e) provides services designed to: 
    (1) increase the level of functioning of people with mental 
illness or restore them to a previously held higher level of 
functioning, 
    (2) stabilize individuals with mental illness, 
    (3) prevent the development and deepening of mental 
illness, 
    (4) support and assist individuals in resolving emotional 
problems that impede their functioning, 
    (5) promote higher and more satisfying levels of emotional 
functioning, and 
    (6) promote sound mental health; and 
    (f) provides a quality of service that is effective, 
efficient, appropriate, and consistent with contemporary 
professional standards in the field of mental health. 
    The commissioner shall implement the goals and objectives 
of this subdivision by February 15, 1990.  By February 15, 1987, 
and annually after that until February 15, 1990, the 
commissioner shall report to the legislature on all steps taken 
and recommendations for full implementation of this subdivision 
and on additional resources needed to further implement this 
subdivision. 
    Approved March 24, 1986