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Bill Text - SB-65 Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program. skip to content home accessibility FAQ feedback sitemap login x Quick Search: Bill Number Bill Keyword Home Bill Information California Law Publications Other Resources My Subscriptions My Favorites Bill Information >> Bill Search >> Text Bill Text Bill Information PDF2 Bill PDF | Add To My Favorites | Version: 01/04/23 - Introduced SB-65 Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program. (2023-2024) Text >> Votes >> History >> Bill Analysis >> Today's Law As Amended >> Compare Versions >> Status >> Comments To Author >> Add To My Favorites >> SHARE THIS: Date Published: 01/04/2023 09:00 PM SB65:v99#DOCUMENT Bill Start CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 65 Introduced by Senator Ochoa Bogh (Coauthors: Senators Grove and Jones) January 04, 2023 An act to amend Section 5960.05 of, and to add Section 5960.41 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to behavioral health, and making an appropriation therefor. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 65, as introduced, Ochoa Bogh. Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program. Existing law authorizes the State Department of Health Care Services to, subject to an appropriation, establish a Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program. Existing law authorizes the department, pursuant to this program, to award competitive grants to qualified entities to construct, acquire, and rehabilitate real estate assets or to invest in needed mobile crisis infrastructure to expand the community continuum of behavioral health treatment resources to build or expand the capacity of various treatment and rehabilitation options for persons with behavioral health disorders, as specified. This bill would authorize the department, in awarding the above-described grants, to give preference to qualified entities that are intending to place their projects in specified facilities or properties. The bill would appropriate $1,000,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for the purpose of implementing the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program, for encumbrance during the 2023–24 to 2025–26, inclusive, fiscal years. Digest Key Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: YES Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill Text The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 5960.05 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read: 5960.05. (a) If the department establishes the program pursuant to this chapter, the department may award competitive grants to qualified entities to construct, acquire, and rehabilitate real estate assets or to invest in needed mobile crisis infrastructure to expand the community continuum of behavioral health treatment resources to build new capacity or expand existing capacity for short-term crisis stabilization, acute and subacute care, crisis residential, community-based mental health residential, substance use disorder residential, peer respite, mobile crisis, community and outpatient behavioral health services, and other clinically enriched longer term treatment and rehabilitation options for persons with behavioral health disorders in the least restrictive and least costly setting. (b) In awarding grants pursuant to subdivision (a), the department may give a preference to qualified entities that are intending to place their projects in any of the following facilities or properties: (1) Recently closed hospitals. (2) Recently closed skilled nursing facilities. (3) Unused city, county, or state properties. (4) Facilities that are colocated or near state or local housing program sites. (5) Recently closed or unused city or county jail facilities. (c) For purposes of this section, “recently closed hospitals” means hospitals that have been closed for at least two years. SEC. 2. Section 5960.41 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read: 5960.41. The sum of one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the department for the purpose of implementing this chapter, for encumbrance during the 2023–24 to 2025–26, inclusive, fiscal years.

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