BILL · 2013–14 SESSION · LATEST VERSION E2SHB 1522
HB 1522: Behavioral health services
Improving behavioral health services provided to adults in Washington state.
Summary
The financing, administration, and delivery of public behavioral health services must be designed to achieve improved outcomes for adult clients through increased use and development of evidence-based, research-based, and promising practices.
From the Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill Report (Orig.) (E2SHB 1522), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
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AN ACT Relating to improving behavioral health services provided to adults in Washington state by defining outcomes for adult behavioral health services, increasing use of evidence-based, research-based, and promising practices for the provision of adult behavioral health services, implementing a strategy for the improvement of the adult behavioral health system, reviewing the provision of forensic mental health services, procuring enhanced services facility services, and requiring timely hospital discharge under the involuntary treatment act when a person no longer requires active psychiatric treatment in a hospital;