Licensing and complaint procedures for certain community-based residential facilities. (FE)

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill requires counties that contract with a community-based residential facility to serve certain client groups, including those with serious and persistent mental illness, those in supervised release from commitment as a sexually violent person, or those under the legal custody of a government correctional agency or under the legal jurisdiction of a criminal court, to 1) send public notices to local elected officials and certain residents living near the proposed facility about the proposed facility, and 2) hold at least one public listening session and informational hearing about the proposed CBRF before the Department of Health Services may license the CBRF. The bill also requires DHS to make available certain information regarding applicants for CBRF licenses and complaints regarding CBRFs. Finally, the bill requires that a county holding a contract with a CBRF is responsible for providing or reimbursing the costs for providing a law enforcement response to that CBRF.

Who's behind it

Christine Sinicki, a Democrat, is its author⁠.