Rep. Norm Thurston — Voting Record

Bill

Number

H.B. 29 Third Substitute (2023GS)

Sponsor

Rep. Stoddard, A.

Final action

House/ filed 3/3/2023

Outcome

Failed / filed without passage

Summary

What it does

• This bill:
• establishes a grant program, administered by the Division of Integrated Healthcare, to fund an appropriate response to an individual experiencing a mental health crisis through new or expanded crisis intervention or mobile crisis outreach teams;
• provides that the division shall certify the teams, looking to national models for input;
• requires teams created or expanded through the program to work in partnership to implement or enhance a local crisis response model and system; and
• requires tracking and reporting of activities and outcomes funded through the program.

Every vote on this bill

Bill text

MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
CO-RESPONSE
GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Chief Sponsor: Andrew Stoddard
Senate Sponsor: 
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LONG TITLE
Committee Note:
The Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee recommended this bill.
Legislative Vote: 14 voting for 0 voting against 3 absent
General Description:
This bill creates a grant program for expanded mobile crisis intervention teams to be
administered by the Division of Integrated Healthcare.
Highlighted Provisions:
This bill:
▸ establishes a grant program, administered by the Division of Integrated Healthcare,
to fund an appropriate response to an individual experiencing a mental health crisis
through new or expanded crisis intervention or mobile crisis outreach teams;
▸ provides that the division shall certify the teams, looking to national models for
input;
▸ requires teams created or expanded through the program to work in partnership to
implement or enhance a local crisis response model and system; and
▸ requires tracking and reporting of activities and outcomes funded through the
program.
Money Appropriated in this Bill:
None
Other Special Clauses:
None
Utah Code Sections Affected:
ENACTS:
26B-4-102
, Utah Code Annotated 1953
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 
26B-4-102
 is enacted to read:
 26B-4-102.
Mental health crisis response grant program.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Best practice crisis intervention team" means a team of officers and mental health
professionals certified by the division.
(b) "Division" means the Division of Integrated Healthcare created in Section
26B-1-204
.
(c) "Local law enforcement agency" means the same as that term is defined in Section
53-13-101
.
(d) "Local mental health authority" means the same as that term is defined in Section
62A-15-102
.
(e) "Mobile crisis outreach team" means the same as that term is defined in Section
62A-15-102
.
(2) The division shall establish and administer a grant program for:
(a) local law enforcement agencies to create or expand best practice crisis intervention
teams in partnership with mobile crisis outreach teams; and
(b) local mental health authorities to create or expand mobile crisis outreach teams.
(3) The partnership with mobile crisis outreach teams is a response model that deploys
a mental health clinician and a certified peer support specialist in response to an incident where
an individual needs assistance and the incident does not involve:
(a) injury;
(b) violence; or
(c) a weapon.
(4) The goal of the partnership for incident responses is an outcome for the individual
in crisis that may:
(a) reduce the possibility of commitment, hospitalization, or incarceration; and
(b) increase engagements with appropriate community resources and services.
(5) The division shall establish data tracking and reporting requirements for a local law
enforcement agency or local mental health authority that receives a grant through the program
described in Subsection (2), which shall include:
(a) activities;
(b) outcomes; and
(c) collaborations.
(6) The division shall:
(a) make rules in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter3, Utah Administrative
Rulemaking Act, establishing standards, qualifications, and training requirements for the
certification of teams described in Subsection (1)(a); and
(b) incorporate national models for standards, qualifications, and training requirements
for team certification.