March 3, 2004, Introduced by Senators BRATER, JACOBS, BERNERO, CHERRY and GEORGE and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
A bill to amend 1974 PA 258, entitled
"Mental health code,"
by amending section 208 (MCL 330.1208), as amended by 1995 PA
290.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
1 Sec. 208. (1) Services provided by a community mental
2 health services program shall be directed to individuals who have
3 a serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or
4 developmental disability.
5 (2) Services may be directed to individuals who have other
6 mental disorders that meet criteria specified in the most recent
7 diagnostic and statistical manual of mental health disorders
8 published by the American psychiatric association and may also be
9 directed to the prevention of mental disability and the promotion
10 of mental health. Resources that have been specifically
1 designated to community mental health services programs for
2 services to individuals with dementia, alcoholism, or substance
3 abuse or for the prevention of mental disability and the
4 promotion of mental health shall be utilized for those specific
5 purposes.
6 (3) Priority shall be
given to the provision of providing
7 services to individuals
all of the following:
8 (a) Individuals with the most severe forms of serious mental
9 illness, serious emotional disturbance, and developmental
10 disability. Priority
shall also be given to the provision of
11 services to
individuals
12 (b) Individuals with a serious mental illness, serious
13 emotional disturbance, or developmental disability in urgent or
14 emergency situations.
15 (c) Individuals who have been ordered to obtain mental health
16 services under section 85 of chapter VII of the code of criminal
17 procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 767.85.
18 (4) An individual shall not be denied a service because an
19 individual who is financially liable is unable to pay for the
20 service.
21 Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take
22 effect unless Senate Bill No. 1070
23 of the 92nd Legislature is enacted into
24 law.