To authorize the omnibus treatment of mental and substance abuse disorders act of 2005. Appropriates funding to the department of social and health services to provide vendor rate increases for inpatient mental health providers, children’s long-term inpatient treatment providers, and chemical dependency treatment providers.   Official Text and Analysis.

To make terminology consistent across provisions and chapters; remove duplicative sections; include necessary cross-reference corrections; include a pilot evaluation of clubhouse programs; include notice to the department of Correction in appropriate cases; refine the criteria for admission to and for operating an enhanced services facility; and require department of Social and Health Services to enter agreements to assure that eligible persons leaving jail, prison, or institutions of mental disease have swift eligibility determinations and, when possible, leave confinement with eligibility and enrollment in place.

To clarify and modify language throughout the bill. The requirement for counties to have therapeutic courts is limited only to those counties that impose the new county sales tax in the bill. Provisions for vendor rate increases prioritized for providers using best practices are dropped. The county tax may also be used for therapeutic courts. The null and void clauses are made much more specific.

To amend the involuntary medication language to reflect ongoing work with the hospitals and DSHS; It requires the integrated screening and assessment be developed in consultation with the team charged with developing the state plan for co-occurring disorders. Starting in 2007, vendor rate increases for mental health and chemical dependency providers be prioritized to those who have maximized the use of best practices.

To authorize the omnibus treatment of mental and substance abuse disorders act of 2005.

By the House Health Care Committee, to delete the requirement that the Department maintain one state hospital bed for every 10 beds established in the community. The unified ITA that is proposed to go into effect in July 2009 is deleted. The ability of a parent to seek mental health treatment for their child is clarified. Additional standards and requirements related to clients and staff of enhanced services facilities are provided. Additional sections of the bill that have a fiscal impact are provided null and void clauses.

By the House Appropriations Committee, to correct an internal reference in the House Health Care Committee's amendment related to a null and void clause.

To strike everything after the enacting clause and insert a new bill.

To remove the sales and use tax. (KNUT 119).

To provide additional rights to a person who may be placed in an enhanced services facility. (KNUT 113).

To provide a more specific time frame for the review of treatment plans and requires discharge planning to begin immediately upon placement. (KNUT 115).

To add the Washington Protection and Advocacy System (WPAS) to the list of advocates a resident may contact without being discriminated or retaliated against. It requires facilities to post contact information for the WPAS. (KNUT 116).

To delete the study of long-term cost-effectiveness of investing in treatment. The study was estimated to cost $333,000 in the 2005-07 biennium. (KNUT 118).

But the Senate refused to concur in House amendments and asks the House to recede from amendments.

And the House insists on its position, and asks the Senate for a conference to negotiate. The House appoints Reps. Cody, Green, and Bailey to a conference committee.

And the Senate appoints Sens. Hargrove, Regala, and Stevens to the conference committee.

And the conference committee report is adopted.

As recommended by the conference committee.

To adopt the recommendations of the conference committee.

To authorize the omnibus treatment of mental and substance abuse disorders act of 2005. The governor vetoed Sections 402, 603, 604, and 806.