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Commissioners Signal Support for House Bill 1813 on Crisis Services Funding; Commissioner to Testify
Summary
Commissioners discussed support for House Bill 1813, which would streamline local management of certain behavioral-health crisis funding and designated crisis responder (DCR) services; a commissioner offered to testify and asked for board concurrence so lobbyists and testimony can note county backing.
Commissioner Rachel Grant and other commissioners discussed supporting House Bill 1813, legislation described in the meeting as updating statutory language so local jurisdictions can manage Medicaid-funded crisis-services components (designated crisis responders, mobile crisis teams and wraparound funding) and to allow local management of associated Medicaid funding.
Commissioner Grant said representatives and other local advocates are backing the bill; county staff and a commissioner who previously worked in state budget management said the change would allow the county greater flexibility to manage local crisis services and funding. Two commissioners asked for board concurrence so testimony to the state Legislature could reference that the county supports the bill; one commissioner volunteered to testify and requested the board’s endorsement ahead of a planned testimony time.
Commissioners asked staff and the county’s lobbyists to track the bill and to note commissioner support if testimony is delivered. The board did not take a formal legislative position on the record at the Feb. 11 agenda-setting session, but commissioners expressed support and planned to confirm concurrence during the commissioners’ 11 a.m. check-in later the same day.
