Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:932 – A. Human services districts and authorities are hereby authorized to establish intervention and stabilization units in accordance with the provisions of this Section.
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:932
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- intervention and stabilization unit: means a type of crisis receiving center in which a staff of mental health and behavioral health specialists provide a high level of screening and assessment to people experiencing mental health or behavioral health crises. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:931
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 La. Rev. Stat. 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 La. Rev. Stat. 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; Acts 2018, No. 206, §1.