HB147:

Local correctional facilities and lock-ups; minimum standards.

Bill Summary:

Minimum standards for local correctional facilities and
lock-ups; individuals in need of behavioral health or developmental services.
Requires the State Board of
Local and Regional Jails (the Board) to establish minimum standards for
identification and care of individuals with developmental disabilities in local
correctional facilities and procedures for enforcing such minimum standards,
including requirements for (i) screening of individuals committed to local
correctional facilities for developmental disabilities,
(ii) referral of individuals committed to local correctional facilities for
whom a screening indicates reason to believe the person may have a
developmental disability to an appropriate provider for an assessment to
determine whether the individual has a developmental disability and is in need
of developmental services, and (iii) transfer of an
individual determined to have a developmental disability and to be in need of
developmental services from a local correctional facility
to a facility at which appropriate developmental services are provided within
72 hours of completion of the assessment. The bill also requires the Board to
amend standards governing the delivery of behavioral health services in local
correctional facilities and lock-ups to provide that if an individual is
assessed as being in need of behavioral health services, such individual shall
be transferred from the local correctional facility or lock-up to a behavioral
health facility within 72 hours of the assessment. Currently, standards
governing behavioral health services in local correctional facilities and
lock-ups require that if a person is assessed as being in need of behavioral
health services, the local correctional facility or lock-up shall provide such
services.