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| ACCOUNT | FY2016 Conference |
FY2016 Vetoes |
FY2016 Overrides |
FY2016 GAA |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5011-0100 | Department of Mental Health Administration and Operations | 28,570 | 0 | 0 | 28,570 |
| 5042-5000 | Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services | 87,035 | -150 | 150 | 87,035 |
| 5046-0000 | Adult Mental Health and Support Services | 375,350 | -875 | 875 | 375,350 |
| 5046-0005 | Adult Community Based Placements | 4,000 | 0 | 0 | 4,000 |
| 5046-2000 | Statewide Homelessness Support Services | 21,135 | 0 | 0 | 21,135 |
| 5046-4000 | CHOICE Program Retained Revenue | 125 | 0 | 0 | 125 |
| 5047-0001 | Emergency Services and Mental Health Care | 24,258 | 0 | 0 | 24,258 |
| 5055-0000 | Forensic Services Program for Mentally Ill Persons | 9,183 | 0 | 0 | 9,183 |
| 5095-0015 | Inpatient Facilities and Community Based Mental Health | 190,325 | 0 | 0 | 190,325 |
| 5095-1016 | Occupancy Fees Retained Revenue | 500 | 0 | 0 | 500 |
| TOTAL | 740,482 | -1,025 | 1,025 | 740,482 | |
| account | description | amount | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH | 744,382,327 | |||||||||
| Direct Appropriations | ||||||||||
| 5011-0100 | Department of Mental Health Administration and Operations
For the operation of the department of mental health |
28,570,221 | ||||||||
| 5042-5000 | Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
For child and adolescent services, including the costs of psychiatric and related services provided to children and adolescents determined to be medically-ready for discharge from acute hospital units or mental health facilities and who are experiencing unnecessary delays in being discharged due to the lack of more appropriate settings; provided, that for the purpose of funding those services, the commissioner of mental health may allocate funds from the amount appropriated in this item to other departments within the executive office of health and human services; provided further, that the department shall not refer or discharge a child or adolescent to the custody or care of the department of children and families until the department of mental health forwards its assessment and recommendation as to whether the child or adolescent is appropriate for foster care or, due to severe emotional disturbance, is more appropriate for group care; provided further, that not less than $55,000 shall be expended for the Northwestern Juvenile Fire Intervention Response Education and Safety Partnership, Inc. for a juvenile firesetter intervention and prevention program in Hampshire and Franklin counties, the town of Athol and the city of Holyoke; provided further, that the department shall expend not less than $3,600,000 for the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project; provided further, that not less than $500,000 of this sum shall be expended to expand the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project for Moms statewide to address mental health concerns in pregnant and postpartum women; provided further, that amounts expended from this item for the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project that are related to services provided on behalf of commercially insured clients shall be assessed by the commissioner of mental health on surcharge payors, as defined in section 64 of chapter 118E of the General Laws, and shall be collected in a manner consistent with the department of mental health's regulations; provided further, that the department shall develop and conduct an anonymous survey of all legal guardians of children or adolescents for whom it provides services in calendar year 2015 for the purpose of developing future programming, determining gaps in service and modernizing the overall distribution of services to meet the needs of families instead of county structures; provided further, that the department shall report not later than March 1, 2016 to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the joint committee on mental health and substance abuse on the results of the survey and any identified changes the department shall need to address in fiscal year 2017; and provided further, that the department shall expend not less than $150,000 for the Arlington Youth Counseling Center |
87,034,610 | ||||||||
| 5046-0000 | Adult Mental Health and Support Services
For adult mental health and support services; provided, that the department may allocate funds in an amount not to exceed $5,000,000 from item 5095-0015 to this item, as necessary, under allocation plans submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means 30 days before any such transfer, for residential and day services for clients formerly receiving care at department facilities; provided further, that the department shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means on the distribution of funds per adult and child planning population and the types of services received in each region for fiscal year 2016, not later than February 1, 2016; provided further, that the department shall maintain in fiscal year 2016 the community-based placements established under item 5046-0005 in chapter 165 of the acts of 2014; provided further, that not less than $1,300,000 shall be expended for jail diversion programs; provided further, that the department shall expend not less than $250,000 to continue an assisted outpatient treatment pilot program that began in fiscal year 2015 to treat residents who suffer from serious and persistent mental illness and experience repeated interaction with law enforcement or have a high rate of recurring hospitalization due to their mental illness either through a voluntary agreement with the resident or by a court order mandating that the resident receive the treatment described in this program; provided further, that the department shall report not later than March 1, 2016 to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the joint committee on mental health and substance abuse on the progress and results of the program and any identified barriers and challenges to treatment for the aforementioned treatment group; provided further, that not less than $150,000 shall be expended for the International Institute of New England for culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health services for immigrants and refugees; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the Interface referral service of William James College, Inc., formerly known as Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, in Plymouth county; and provided further, that the department shall expend for clubhouses not less than the amount of 2015 expenditures for clubhouses
|
375,349,785 | ||||||||
| 5046-0005 | Adult Community Based Placements
For adult mental health community-based placements; provided, that funds shall be used to expand community-based placements for discharge ready individuals currently in the department's continuing care facilities; and provided further, that the annualized cost of these placements in fiscal year 2017 shall not exceed the amount appropriated in this item
|
4,000,000 | ||||||||
| 5046-2000 | Statewide Homelessness Support Services
For homelessness services |
21,134,979 | ||||||||
| 5047-0001 | Emergency Services and Mental Health Care
For emergency service programs and acute inpatient mental health care services; provided, that there shall not be a reduction in services in the southeast area related to the alignment of state-operated emergency services; provided further, that the department shall require a performance specification to be developed for safe aftercare options for adults upon release from acute inpatient mental health care services; provided further, that the emergency service programs shall take all reasonable steps to identify and invoice the third-party insurer of all persons serviced by the programs; and provided further, that any change in state-operated emergency services in the southeast area shall comply with sections 52 to 55, inclusive, of chapter 7 of the General Laws |
24,258,428 | ||||||||
| 5055-0000 | Forensic Services Program for Mentally Ill Persons
For forensic services provided by the department; provided, that funds may be expended for juvenile court clinics |
9,183,472 | ||||||||
| 5095-0015 | Inpatient Facilities and Community Based Mental Health
For the operation of hospital facilities and community-based mental health services; provided, that in order to comply with the decision in Olmstead v. L.C. ex rel. Zimring, 527 U.S. 581 (1999) and to enhance care for clients served by the department, the department shall discharge clients residing in the inpatient facilities to residential services in the community when the following criteria are met: (i) the client is deemed clinically suited for a more integrated setting; (ii) community residential service capacity and resources available are sufficient to provide each client with an equal or improved level of service; and (iii) the cost to the commonwealth of serving the client in the community is less than or equal to the cost of serving the client in inpatient care; provided further, that any client transferred to another inpatient facility as the result of a facility closure shall receive a level of care that is equal to or greater than the care that had been received at the closed facility; provided further, that the department may allocate funds in an amount not to exceed $5,000,000 from this item to item 5046-0000, as necessary, under allocation plans submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means 30 days before any transfer for residential and day services for clients formerly receiving inpatient care at the centers and facilities; provided further, that the department shall maintain no fewer inpatient beds in fiscal year 2016 than were maintained in fiscal year 2015; provided further, that the department shall maintain no fewer than 671 inpatient beds in its system in fiscal year 2016; provided further, that of these 671 beds, 45 beds shall be continuing care inpatient beds on the campus of Taunton State Hospital; provided further, that within the existing appropriation the department may operate more beds at Taunton State Hospital; provided further, that the department shall operate not fewer than 260 adult continuing care inpatient beds at Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital; provided further, that the department shall not take action in fiscal year 2016 to reduce the number of state-operated continuing care inpatient beds or other state-operated programs on the Taunton State Hospital campus or relocate administrative hospital services associated with the operation of the hospital off-campus; provided further, that the department shall not enter into new vendor-operated lease agreements or agreements for expansion of existing vendor-operated programs; provided further, that the department shall not enter into new interagency agreements or expansion of existing interagency agreements, programs or facilities until the department, in conjunction with the division of capital asset management and maintenance, has developed a comprehensive long-term use master plan for the campus, not sooner than March 2, 2016, with appropriate community input that is consistent with maintaining publicly-provided mental health services currently delivered on campus; provided further, that the plan shall include maintaining existing affiliations with institutions of higher education and possible future relationships with those institutions and others to maintain the sustainability of the campus; provided further, that nothing in the plan shall be inconsistent with maintaining the campus of Taunton State Hospital as a publicly-run mental health facility or prohibit the inclusion of behavioral health programs or publicly-run pilot programs to meet the needs of servicing individuals with mental health, behavioral health and those dual-diagnosed on the campus as part of the comprehensive master plan; and provided further, that the plan shall be submitted to the executive office for administration and finance, the executive office of health and human services, the joint committee on mental health and substance abuse and the house and senate committees on ways and means |
190,325,165 | ||||||||
| account | description | amount |
|---|---|---|
| Retained Revenues | ||
| 5046-4000 | CHOICE Program Retained Revenue
For the department of mental health, which may expend not more than $125,000 in revenues collected from occupancy fees charged to the tenants in the creative housing option in community environments, the CHOICE program authorized by chapter 167 of the acts of 1987; provided, that all fees collected under that program shall be expended for the routine maintenance and repair of facilities in the CHOICE program |
125,000 |
| 5095-1016 | Occupancy Fees Retained Revenue
For the department of mental health, which may expend not more than $500,000 in revenues collected from occupancy fees charged to the tenants of the state hospitals; provided, that all fees collected shall be expended to support the costs to sustain operations of the state hospital facilities; and provided further, that for the purpose of accommodating timing discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, the department may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate as reported in the state accounting system |
500,000 |
| account | description | amount |
|---|---|---|
| Federal Grant Spending | 3,900,667 | |
| 5012-9122 | Project for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Project for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness |
1,558,000 |
| 5012-9162 | Transition Age Youth and Young Adult Care
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Transition Age Youth and Young Adult Care |
994,311 |
| 5012-9170 | Mission Integrated Re-Entry and Peer Support
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Mission - I RAPS |
75,000 |
| 5012-9171 | NITT Healthy Transitions
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Healthy Transitions |
700,000 |
| 5012-9172 | Court Related Enhanced Services
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Court Related Enhanced Services for Treatment (CREST) |
348,142 |
| 5046-9102 | Shelter Plus Care Program
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Shelter Plus Care Program |
225,214 |
| account | description | amount |
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