2008 House Bill 6077

Mental health reform package

Introduced in the House

May 7, 2008

Introduced by Rep. Mark Meadows (D-69)

To require the Department of Community Health to establish priorities based on the type of condition for the provision of government-funded mental health services. The order of priority would be patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, delusional disorder, psychotic disorder not attributable to general medical condition, or one of several specified “borderline personality disorders”.

Referred to the Committee on Health Policy