Official Text and Analysis.

Establishes managed care organizations and behavioral health administrative services organizations (BH-ASOs) to manage the community behavioral health system.

Prohibits a behavioral health administrative services organization (BH-ASO) from contracting with itself as a behavioral health agency, or contracting with a behavioral health agency that has administrative linkages to the BH-ASO in any manner that would give the agency a competitive advantage in obtaining or competing for contracts, except that a county or group of counties may provide designated crisis responder services, initial crisis services, criminal diversion services, hospital reentry services, and criminal reentry services if the county-administrated service has a clear separation of powers and duties separate from a county-run behavioral health administrative services organization and suitable accounting procedures to ensure the funding is traceable and accounted for separately from other funds.