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Senators passed a measure May 22 relating
to children’s behavioral health.
LB 542, introduced by Omaha Senator John
Synowiecki, creates the Children’s Behavioral Health
Task Force and sets evaluation and treatment procedures for
the behavioral health centers in Kearney and Geneva.
LB 542 requires youth development centers
to evaluate each patient and develop individualized plans
of treatment that may or may not include a referral to the
Hastings Regional Center.
The bill also creates a task force to study
children’s behavioral health policy in the state. The
task force will include, among others, the chairpersons of
the Health and Human Services and Appropriations committees,
a member of the Behavioral Health Oversight Commission, consumers
of behavioral health services, a juvenile court judge and
representatives from the state Department of Health and Human
Services. The task force will prepare a report and recommendations
for a statewide behavioral health plan and present it to the
Legislature by Dec. 4.
LB 542 passed on a 46-0 vote.
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