2017 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 28 - Mental Health
RS 28:932 - Intervention and stabilization units; establishment and operation; duties of human services districts and authorities

§932. Intervention and stabilization units; establishment and operation; duties of human services districts and authorities

            A. Human services districts and authorities are hereby authorized to establish intervention and stabilization units in accordance with the provisions of this Section.

            B. Subject to appropriation for this purpose, a human services district or authority may establish and operate an intervention and stabilization unit in any parish that meets all of the following criteria:

            (1) The parish has a population of more than four hundred forty thousand according to the latest federal decennial census.

            (2) The parish experienced the closure of a hospital provided for in R.S. 17:1519.2 that had been operated by the Health Care Services Division of the LSU Health Sciences Center-New Orleans.

            C. Human services districts and authorities are hereby authorized, but are not required, to establish any intervention and stabilization unit pursuant to this Section. Any unit so established shall be licensed as a Level III (freestanding) crisis receiving center in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 28:22 and LAC 48:I.5301 et seq.

            D. No intervention and stabilization unit, as provided for in this Section, shall be established by any human services authority or district unless and until the legislature specifically appropriates funding for this purpose. Furthermore, no human services authority or district shall divert any monies appropriated to the authority or district for other purposes to establish or fund an intervention and stabilization unit.

            Acts 2016, No. 591, §1.