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Committee rejects late-session $16 million regional psychiatric funding plan, cites staffing and planning concerns
Summary
The Human Services committee voted to recommend 'do not pass' on Senate Bill 2096, a proposal to appropriate $16 million for regional acute psychiatric treatment. Sponsors argued for closer-to-home services; opponents said the bill lacked vetted business plans and that workforce shortages make rapid build-out risky.
The Human Services committee recommended "do not pass" on Senate Bill 2096, a proposal that would have appropriated $16 million for regional acute psychiatric treatment. Representative Rohrer moved the committee's do-not-pass recommendation and Representative Hawley seconded; the clerk recorded the motion as carried by a roll-call vote reported as 9 yes, 1 no and 3 absent.
Sponsors described the proposal as an effort to expand psychiatric care closer to patients' homes. A sponsor said the $16 million figure in the bill matched the Senate allocation for a St.…
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