HB 1191

Title: Marcus alert system; optional participation.
Author: Margaret Bevans Ransone

Summary
Marcus alert system; optional participation. Provides that participation in the Marcus alert system is optional for localities and that no locality, community services board, or behavioral health authority is required to participate in the Marcus alert system. The bill also revises reporting requirements related to the Marcus alert system and comprehensive crisis system to include a requirement that the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services include in its annual report a statement of the barriers to establishment of local Marcus alert programs and community care or mobile crisis teams in areas of the Commonwealth that have opted to not establish such programs and teams and a plan for addressing such barriers to increase the number of such programs and teams in the Commonwealth.

Status
House: Committee Referral Pending

Bill Documents
HB 1191 - Presented and ordered printed 22103509D
2022-01-17 - HB 1191 (Presented and ordered printed 22103509D)