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Committee lays over mental‑health workforce and regulation bill aimed at expanding case manager pipeline and reducing administrative burden
Summary
House File 98, a bipartisan mental‑health workforce and regulations bill, was amended and laid over after testimony from statewide providers that the measure would expand recruitment pipelines and reduce duplicative paperwork for case managers and ACT teams.
With about 10 minutes left in the session the committee heard House File 98, a mental‑health workforce and service‑regulation bill carried by Representative Fisher and Representative Gilman. The committee adopted an author's A2 amendment clarifying several technical and substantive changes and laid the bill over for possible inclusion in future legislation.
Representative Gilman summarized the amendment and the bill’s intent: expand eligible bachelor’s degree types and training pathways for targeted case management (TCM) staff, clarify allowed staff types for Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team leads (including…
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