2025 bills / H.B. 39
H.B. 39 Correctional Health Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill requires the state Department of Health and Human Services to contract with a telehealth provider for psychiatric consultation for staff caring for inmates, and to contract with psychiatrists to meet correctional health staffing needs in most cases. It also requires a working group to study an electronic health record system for inmate care, an annual report to a legislative committee, and cooperation between the Department of Corrections and local mental health authorities to assess certain offenders and connect them to community services.
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Official description
- defines terms
- requires the Department of Health and Human Services (department) to contract with a telehealth psychiatric consultation provider to provide consultation services to staff responsible for inmates' psychiatric care
- requires the department to convene a working group to study the department's needs regarding an electronic health record system for inmate health care and provide recommendations to the Health and Human Services Interim Committee
- requires the department to contract with psychiatrists to meet staffing needs for correctional health services, except under certain circumstances
- requires the department to provide an annual report to the Health and Human Services Interim Committee concerning the provision of comprehensive health care to inmates
- requires the Department of Corrections and a local mental health authority to cooperate to have certain offenders assessed for available community-based services, and to take steps to connect an offender to appropriate community-based services based on the results of the assessment
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 39 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 39 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 10 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Health and Human Services Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 10, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 10, 2025Who voted how
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how
- 72 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how