File #: 2015-0407    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 10/19/2015 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: Final action: 11/23/2015
Enactment date: 12/4/2015 Enactment #: 18170
Title: AN ORDINANCE creating the King County behavioral health advisory board; amending Ordinance 16077, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.130.010, adding a new section to K.C.C. Title 2A and repealing Ordinance 131, Sections 1 through 7, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.32.010 and Ordinance 1846, Sections 2 through 7, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.32.110.
Sponsors: Dave Upthegrove
Indexes: Community and Human Services
Code sections: 2.130.010 - ., 2.32.010 - ., 2.32.110 - ., 2A - *
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 18170.pdf, 2. 2015-0407 legislative review form.pdf, 3. 2015-0407 transmittal letter.doc, 4. 2015-0407 fiscal note.xls, 5. 2015-0405_to_2015-0408_SR_Behavioral_Health.docx, 6. 2015-0405_to_2015-0408_SR_Dated_11-12-15_Behavioral_Health_2.docx, 7. 2015-0407_ATT3A_S1_BHAB_Striking_Amendment.docx, 8. 2015-0405_to_2015-0408_Revised_SR_Dated_11-12-15_Behavioral_Health_2.docx
Related files: 2024-0013
Staff: Aldebot-Green, Scarlett
Drafter
Clerk 11/17/2015
Title
AN ORDINANCE creating the King County behavioral health advisory board; amending Ordinance 16077, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.130.010, adding a new section to K.C.C. Title 2A and repealing Ordinance 131, Sections 1 through 7, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.32.010 and Ordinance 1846, Sections 2 through 7, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.32.110.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. On March 12, 2014, the Washington State Legislature passed Second Substitute Senate Bill 6312, "An Act relating to state purchasing of mental health and chemical dependency services." The bill became Chapter 225, Laws of Washington 2014. The act requires the integrated purchasing of mental health and substance use treatment services through managed care by April 1, 2016.
2. A behavioral health organization will replace the regional support network and county chemical dependency coordinator in King County. Integrated behavioral health services will begin April 1, 2016. King County, through the department of community and human services, behavioral health and recovery division, will operate the organization for the King County region.
3. The state requires that each behavioral health organization develop a single, integrated behavioral health advisory board. The first behavioral health advisory board meeting will be scheduled for April 2016.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. There is hereby added to K.C.C. Title 2A a new section to read as follows:
A. There is hereby created the King County behavioral health advisory board. The board shall act in an advisory capacity to the executive on behavioral health policy, programs and services. The board shall serve and function as the mental health advisory board pursuant to RCW 71.24.300 and alcoholism and other drug addiction board pursuant to RCW 70.96A.300 until such time as the statutory references to the boards are repealed.
B.1. The board shall be composed of no less than nine and ...

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