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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

SB 541

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Relating to: opioid treatment programs and making an appropriation. (FE)

Drugs Health services, department of — Health

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the Department of Health Services (DHS) to create two or

three regional comprehensive opioid treatment programs to provide treatment for

opiate addiction in rural and underserved, high-need areas. In creating the

program, DHS must obtain and review proposals for opioid treatment programs in

accordance with its request-for-proposal procedures. These programs may not offer

methadone treatment.

An opioid treatment program, under the bill, must offer an assessment to

individuals in need of service to determine what type of treatment is needed. The

opioid treatment program must provide counseling, medication-assisted treatment,

and abstinence-based treatment. If a licensed residential program is necessary for

an individual, the opioid treatment program must transition the individual there.

The opioid treatment program must transition individuals who have completed

treatment to county-based or private post-treatment care. The bill also requires

DHS to submit annually, beginning approximately two years after the bill's effective

date, a progress report on the outcomes of the opioid treatment program to the Joint

Committee on Finance and appropriate standing committees of the legislature.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Darling (R) , Gudex (R) , Harsdorf (R) , Olsen (R)

26 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Billings (D) , Czaja (R) , Endsley (R) , Goyke (D) , Kahl (D) , Kleefisch (R) , Knodl (R) , Knudson (R) , Kooyenga (R) , Krug (R) , LeMahieu (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Marklein (R) , Murphy (R) , Nygren (R) , Petersen (R) , Petryk (R) , Richards (D) , Ringhand (D) , Rodriguez (R) , Swearingen (R) , T. Larson (R) , Tranel (R) , Wirch (D) , Zamarripa (D)

Votes

Senate: Report introduction and adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Feb 20, 2014 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Feb 20, 2014 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Feb 3, 2014 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Darling, Harsdorf, Gudex and Olsen; cosponsored by Representatives Nygren, Ballweg, Czaja, Endsley, Kleefisch, Knodl, Knudson, Kooyenga, Krug, T. Larson, LeMahieu, Loudenbeck, Marklein, Murphy, Petersen, Petryk, Rodriguez, Swearingen, Tranel, Billings, Goyke, Kahl, Richards, Ringhand and Zamarripa

  2. Feb 3, 2014 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Joint Committee on Finance

  3. Feb 4, 2014 · Senate

    Senator Wirch added as a coauthor

  4. Feb 10, 2014 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 19, 2014 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  6. Feb 19, 2014 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  7. Feb 20, 2014 · Senate

    Report introduction and adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  8. Feb 20, 2014 · Senate

    Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  9. Feb 20, 2014 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  10. Apr 8, 2014 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1