S-3097

   Amend Senate File 526 as follows:
   1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
   <Section 1.  DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES —— MOBILE CRISIS RESPONSE SERVICES —— APPROPRIATION.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the department of human services for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2022, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
   For mobile crisis response services provided in mental health and disability services regions established under section 331.389:
   ...................................................................... $  2,100,000

   Moneys appropriated in this section shall be used by mental health and disability services regions for the purpose of funding mobile crisis response services provided in mental health and disability services regions in order to allow a region’s mobile crisis response units to respond to situations where a person is experiencing a mental health crisis, provide triage to a person experiencing a mental health crisis in the field, and transport a person experiencing a mental health crisis to an appropriate facility. 
   As a condition of receiving moneys appropriated in this section, persons providing mobile crisis response services shall be licensed social workers or, at a minimum, have training specifically in de-escalating situations where a person is experiencing a serious mental health crisis and in triage protocols.>
   2.  Title page, by striking lines 1 through 3 and inserting <An Act relating to mobile crisis response services provided in mental health and disability services regions, and making an appropriation.>

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JEFF EDLER