S257 - Appropriations Act of 2017. (SL 2017-57)

Overview: Sec. 11F.6 of S.L. 2017-57 amends a provision in the 2016 budget bill that directs the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to develop a statewide strategic plan for behavioral health services to be submitted to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services and the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Medicaid and NC Health Choice by January 1, 2018. This section adds a requirement that DHHS consider past and current studies and reports in development of the strategic plan. This section also directs DHHS to consider issues pertaining to the delivery of services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, which the 2016 budget bill previously had directed the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Medicaid and NC Health Choice to study, in development of the strategic plan.

This section became effective July 1, 2017.