HJ 779

Bill Subjects

Behavioral Health And Developmental Services Commissions, Boards And Institutions Generally Health Prisons And Other Methods Of Correction Study Commissions, Committees And Reports

Abstract

Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study the impact of requiring community services boards to provide mental health services in jails, including the benefits and costs of requiring community services boards to provide mental health services to inmates of jails in the Commonwealth and barriers to requiring community services boards to provide mental health services to inmates of jails in the Commonwealth, and to make recommendations as to whether community services boards should be required to provide mental health services to inmates in jails.