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Committee hears bipartisan plan to streamline mental-health regulations and expand workforce pathways
Summary
Senate File 477 would update state mental-health statutes to reduce regulatory burdens, expand supervision pathways and create workforce pipelines; proponents described the bill as policy-only and requested a fiscal note to confirm there are no costs.
Senator Bolden outlined Senate File 477 as a package of statutory changes aimed at removing regulatory barriers that providers say divert staff time from direct care and hinder recruitment into the mental-health workforce.
The sponsor described the bill as the product of months of stakeholder work with the Department of Human Services and said proponents intend the bill to be policy-only and without new cost. “The intent for this bill is to be policy only with no cost,” Senator Bolden said; proponents added that any provision flagged by DHS as carrying a cost would be addressed.
Witnesses described elements…
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