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Committee advances bill to create multi‑agency team to speed placements for children stuck after crisis treatment
Summary
Lawmakers recommended do‑pass for House Bill 677 as amended to establish a multi‑agency “MATCH” team to identify appropriate placements for children who remain in crisis or psychiatric facilities after discharge is appropriate; the bill was amended to remove several sections and passed with funding language dependent on appropriations.
A House committee voted to recommend passage of House Bill 677 after Representative Dempsey described a pattern in which children who receive crisis or psychiatric care cannot be discharged because no guardian or placement is available. The measure would establish a multi‑agency treatment coordination team ("MATCH team") to find appropriate placements and require annual reporting to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.
"There's been a discovery recently that we have an awful lot of children that are stuck," Representative Dempsey said. She described children who spend several days in crisis treatment and then have nowhere appropriate to go, sometimes…
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