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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 779 Offered January 17, 2017 Directing the Joint Commission on Health Care to study the impact of requiring community services boards to provide mental health services in jails. Report. ---------- Patron-- Holcomb ---------- Unanimous consent to introduce ---------- Referred to Committee on Rules ----------

WHEREAS, the Commonwealth has a constitutional obligation to provide adequate medical care, including mental health services, to inmates of jails in the Commonwealth; and

WHEREAS, mental health services in jails and prisons may be provided through contracts with providers of prison service generally or health care services specifically or directly through state employees providing health care services at prison and jail facilities; and

WHEREAS, community services boards are the publicly funded providers of mental health services in the Commonwealth; and

WHEREAS, some community services boards provide mental health services to inmates in jails while others do not; and

WHEREAS, requiring all community services boards to provide mental health services to inmates in jails may provide numerous benefits to the Commonwealth; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the Joint Commission on Health Care be directed to study the impact of requiring community services boards to provide mental health services in jails.

In conducting its study, the Joint Commission on Health Care shall identify the localities in which community services boards are currently providing mental health services to inmates in jails, identify 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 make recommendations as to whether community services boards should be required to provide mental health services to inmates in jails in the Commonwealth.

All agencies of the Commonwealth shall provide assistance to the Joint Commission on Health Care for this study, upon request.

The Joint Commission on Health Care shall complete its meetings for the first year by November 30, 2017, and for the second year by November 30, 2018, and the chairman shall submit to the Division of Legislative Automated Systems an executive summary of its findings and recommendations no later than the first day of the next Regular Session of the General Assembly for each year. Each executive summary shall state whether the Joint Commission on Health Care intends to submit to the General Assembly and the Governor a report of its findings and recommendations for publication as a House or Senate document. The executive summaries and reports shall be submitted as provided in the procedures of the Division of Legislative Automated Systems for the processing of legislative documents and reports and shall be posted on the General Assembly's website.