FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 168
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR BLAND.
Pre-filed December 1, 2000, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
0452S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 630.405, RSMo 2000, relating to mental health patient services, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 630.405, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 630.405, to read as follows:
630.405. 1. The department may purchase services for patients, residents or clients from private and public vendors in this state with funds appropriated for this purpose.
2. Services that may be purchased may include prevention, diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, habilitation, rehabilitation, transportation and other special services for persons affected by mental disorders, mental illness, mental retardation, developmental disabilities or alcohol or drug abuse.
3. The commissioner of administration, in consultation with the director, shall promulgate rules establishing procedures consistent with the usual state purchasing procedures under chapter 34, RSMo, for the purchase of services under this section. The commissioner may authorize the department to purchase any technical service which, in his judgment, can best be purchased direct under chapter 34, RSMo. The commissioner shall cooperate with the department to purchase timely services appropriate to the needs of the patients, residents or clients of the department.
4. The commissioner of administration may promulgate rules for a waiver of chapter 34, RSMo, bidding procedures for the purchase of services for patients, residents and clients with funds appropriated for that purpose if, in the commissioner's judgment, such services can best be purchased directly by the department.
5. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority of this section shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of [section 536.024] chapter 536, RSMo.