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SECTION I – DESCRIPTION OF STATE SERVICE SYSTEM<br />

LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVES & CHANGES<br />

<strong>LOUISIANA</strong> FY 2011 - ADULT & CHILD/ YOUTH PLAN<br />

LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVES AND CHANGES<br />

Implementation of several legislative initiatives from last year‟s legislative session, the 2009 Fiscal<br />

Only Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature included:<br />

ACT 384: Completed. Transfers the office of mental health and office for addictive<br />

disorders into a newly-created office of behavioral health..<br />

ACT 230: Completed. Allows the Department of <strong>Health</strong> and Hospitals, upon court order, to<br />

use restraints on certain children during transport..<br />

ACT 251: Completed. Transfers the regulation of medical psychologists from the State<br />

Board of Examiners of Psychologists to the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners<br />

and provides for requirements for and rights acquired by licensure, prescribing drugs, and<br />

other regulations for such profession..<br />

Within the fiscal budget bill was contained language that allowed OMH to close the New<br />

Orleans Adolescent Hospital (NOAH). This was completed last year by moving the few<br />

child and adolescent patients to Southeast Louisiana Hospital (SELH) and also the adult<br />

acute unit patients at NOAH were moved to the adult acute units at SELH. The savings in<br />

operational costs allowed for the opening of three new community mental health clinics for<br />

children and adolescents in locations convenient to consumers in the New Orleans area.<br />

The 2010 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature that ended June 21, 2010, had 2,301 bills<br />

filed and 849 resolutions. Bills that passed the 2010 Louisiana Legislature that may impact persons<br />

with mental illness are as follows:<br />

ACT 419: Provides relative to standards for inpatient hospitalization at Feliciana Forensic<br />

Facility when a person is charged with certain felonies and misdemeanors.. In this case, this<br />

law modifies under what circumstances a person can be determined to be incompetent to<br />

proceed to trial and receive competency restoration services in an outpatient setting rather<br />

than being required to be hospitalized in the forensic hospital. It also establishes criteria by<br />

which a person determined not to be restorable can be released to the community vs. being<br />

required to be hospitalized.<br />

HSR5: Requests the House Committee on <strong>Health</strong> and Welfare to study potential reforms to<br />

this state's system of child and adolescent psychiatric care.<br />

ACT 894: Provides relative to the conduct of examinations and execution of emergency<br />

commitment certificates in certain parishes. Actually permits the coroner in one LA parish<br />

to perform evaluations for an emergency certificate via teleconference under certain<br />

circumstances.<br />

ACT 907: Create a Coroner's Strategic Initiative for a <strong>Health</strong> Information and Intervention<br />

Program in the office of the coroner in each parish. Actually only allows for the creation of a<br />

community service arm of the coroner‟s office in one LA parish. Requires hospitals within<br />

this parish to provide information of this service to persons being discharged.<br />

PART C <strong>LOUISIANA</strong> FY 2011 PAGE 59<br />

ADULT & CHILD/ YOUTH – DESCRIPTION OF STATE SERVICE SYSTEM<br />

LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVES & CHANGES

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