HB1958 - Tennessee - Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities, Dept. Of, Mental Illness

Companion Bill SB1413. Mental Illness - Directs state to strive to avoid gaps in mental health care services and to endeavor to achieve a delivery system that ensures services are available to recipients on a substantially equitable basis, regardless of place of residence within the state; requires commissioner of finance and administration to report to general assembly regarding equity in the service delivery system. - Amends TCA Title 33. Fiscal Summary for HB1958 / *SB1413Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for HB1958 / *SB1413 ON MAY 10, 2007, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 1958, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill. Present law provides that it is the goal of the state to develop and maintain a system of mental health care that provides a comprehensive array of quality prevention,[...]

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