Chapter

COMMUNITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES ACT

RCW 71.24.011— Short title.
RCW 71.24.015— Legislative intent—Community behavioral health system.
RCW 71.24.016— Intent—Management of services—Work group on long-term involuntary inpatient care integration.
RCW 71.24.025— Definitions.
RCW 71.24.030— Grants, purchasing of services, for community behavioral health programs.
RCW 71.24.035— Director's powers and duties as state behavioral health authority.
RCW 71.24.037— Licensed or certified behavioral health agencies—Minimum standards—Inspections.
RCW 71.24.038— Investigations and inspections—Violations—Penalties.
RCW 71.24.045— Behavioral health administrative services organization powers and duties.
RCW 71.24.061— Children's mental health provider networks—Children's mental health evidence-based practice institute—Partnership access line pilot programs—Report to legislature.
RCW 71.24.062— Psychiatry consultation line—Implementation.
RCW 71.24.063— Partnership access lines—Psychiatric consultation lines—Data collection.
RCW 71.24.064— Partnership access lines—Psychiatric consultation lines—Funding—Performance measures.
RCW 71.24.066— Partnership access line pilot programs—Determination to be made permanent—Long-term funding.
RCW 71.24.067— Partnership access lines—Psychiatric consultation lines—Review.
RCW 71.24.068— Telebehavioral health access account.
RCW 71.24.100— County-run behavioral health administrative services organizations—Joint operating agreements—Requirements.
RCW 71.24.112— Health engagement hubs pilot program.
RCW 71.24.113— Grant program—Employment and education opportunities for persons recovering from a substance use disorder.
RCW 71.24.115— Recovery navigator programs.
RCW 71.24.125— Grant program—Treatment services—Regional access standards.
RCW 71.24.135— Expanded recovery support services program—Regional expanded recovery plans.
RCW 71.24.145— Homeless outreach stabilization transition program—Psychiatric outreach—Contingency management resources—Substance misuse prevention effort—Grants.
RCW 71.24.155— Grants to behavioral health administrative services, managed care organizations, and Indian health care providers—Accounting.
RCW 71.24.160— Proof as to uses made of state funds—Use of maintenance of effort funds.
RCW 71.24.200— Expenditures of county funds subject to county fiscal laws.
RCW 71.24.215— Sliding-scale fee schedules for clients receiving behavioral health services.
RCW 71.24.220— State grants may be withheld for noncompliance with chapter or related rules.
RCW 71.24.240— Eligibility for funding—Community behavioral health program plans to be approved by director prior to submittal to federal agency.
RCW 71.24.250— Behavioral health administrative services organizations—Receipt of gifts and grants.
RCW 71.24.260— Waiver of postgraduate educational requirements—Mental health professionals.
RCW 71.24.300— Behavioral health administrative services organizations—Advisory boards—Inclusion of tribes—Roles and responsibilities.
RCW 71.24.335— Reimbursement for behavioral health services provided through telemedicine or store and forward technology—Coverage requirements—Audio-only telemedicine.
RCW 71.24.370— Behavioral health services contracts—Limitation on state liability.
RCW 71.24.380— Purchase of behavioral health services—Contracting—Requirements.
RCW 71.24.381— Contracting for crisis services and medically necessary physical and behavioral health services.
RCW 71.24.383— Managed care organization contracting—Requirements.
RCW 71.24.385— Behavioral health administrative services and managed care organizations—Mental health and substance use disorder treatment programs—Development and design requirements.
RCW 71.24.400— Streamlining delivery system—Finding.
RCW 71.24.405— Streamlining delivery system.
RCW 71.24.415— Streamlining delivery system—Authority duties to achieve outcomes.
RCW 71.24.420— Expenditure of funds for operation of service delivery system—Appropriation levels—Outcome and performance measures—Report.
RCW 71.24.430— Coordination of services for behavioral health clients—Collaborative service delivery.
RCW 71.24.432— Coordination with regional crisis response systems—Regional protocols—Recommendations.
RCW 71.24.435— Behavioral health system—Improvement strategy.
RCW 71.24.450— Offenders with mental illnesses—Findings and intent.
RCW 71.24.455— Offenders with mental illnesses—Contracts for specialized access and services.
RCW 71.24.460— Offenders with mental illnesses—Report to legislature.
RCW 71.24.470— Reentry community services program—Contract for case management—Use of appropriated funds.
RCW 71.24.480— Reentry community services program—Limitation on liability due to treatment—Reporting requirements.
RCW 71.24.490— Evaluation and treatment services—Capacity needs—Behavioral health administrative services and managed care organizations.
RCW 71.24.500— Written guidance and trainings—Managed care—Incarcerated and involuntarily hospitalized persons.
RCW 71.24.510— Integrated comprehensive screening and assessment process—Implementation.
RCW 71.24.520— Substance use disorder program authority.
RCW 71.24.522— Substance use disorder—Training for parents of adolescents and transition age youth.
RCW 71.24.525— Agreements authorized under the interlocal cooperation act.
RCW 71.24.530— Local funding and donative funding requirements—Facilities, plans, programs.
RCW 71.24.535— Duties of authority.
RCW 71.24.540— Drug courts.
RCW 71.24.545— Comprehensive program for treatment—Regional facilities.
RCW 71.24.546— Substance use recovery services plan—Substance use recovery services advisory committee—Rules—Report. (Expires December 31, 2026.)
RCW 71.24.550— City, town, or county without facility—Contribution of liquor taxes prerequisite to use of another's facility.
RCW 71.24.555— Liquor taxes and profits—City and county eligibility conditioned.
RCW 71.24.560— Opioid treatment programs—Pregnant individuals—Information and education.
RCW 71.24.565— Acceptance for approved treatment—Rules.
RCW 71.24.570— Emergency service patrol—Establishment—Rules.
RCW 71.24.575— Criminal laws limitations.
RCW 71.24.580— Criminal justice treatment account.
RCW 71.24.585— Opioid and substance use disorder treatment—State response.
RCW 71.24.587— Opioid use disorder treatment—Possession or use of lawfully prescribed medication—Declaration by state.
RCW 71.24.589— Law enforcement assisted diversion—Grant program.
RCW 71.24.590— Opioid treatment—Program licensing or certification by department, department duties—Use of medications by program—Definition.
RCW 71.24.593— Opioid use disorder treatment—Care of individuals and their newborns—Authority recommendations required.
RCW 71.24.594— Opioid overdose reversal medications—Education—Distribution—Labeling—Liability.
RCW 71.24.595— Statewide treatment and operating standards for opioid treatment programs—Evaluation and report.
RCW 71.24.597— Opioid overdose reversal medication—Coordinated purchasing and distribution.
RCW 71.24.598— Drug overdose response team.
RCW 71.24.599— Opioid use disorder—City and county jails—Funding.
RCW 71.24.600— Inability to contribute to cost of services no bar to admission—Authority may limit admissions for nonmedicaid clients.
RCW 71.24.605— Fetal alcohol screening and assessment services.
RCW 71.24.610— Interagency agreement on prenatal substance exposure programs.
RCW 71.24.612— Prenatal substance exposure—Recommendations.
RCW 71.24.614— Prenatal substance exposure—Contracting.
RCW 71.24.615— Chemical dependency treatment expenditures—Prioritization.
RCW 71.24.618— Withdrawal management services—Substance use disorder treatment services—Prior authorization—Utilization review—Medical necessity review.
RCW 71.24.619— Standard set of criteria—Authority review.
RCW 71.24.621— Withdrawal management services—Requirements for limiting medication usage.
RCW 71.24.625— Uniform application of chapter—Training for designated crisis responders.
RCW 71.24.630— Integrated, comprehensive screening and assessment process for substance use and mental disorders.
RCW 71.24.635— Cannabis consumption—Health care provider guidance—Promotion of reduction and cessation programs for populations at risk of serious complications—Request for proposal—Report. (Expires December 31, 2028.)
RCW 71.24.640— Standards for certification or licensure of evaluation and treatment facilities.
RCW 71.24.645— Standards for certification or licensure of crisis stabilization units.
RCW 71.24.648— Standards for certification or licensure of intensive behavioral health treatment facilities.
RCW 71.24.649— Standards for certification or licensure of mental health peer-run respite centers.
RCW 71.24.650— Standards for certification or licensure of a clubhouse.
RCW 71.24.657— Recovery residences—Funding—Voucher program—Outreach—Training.
RCW 71.24.660— Recovery residences—Referrals by licensed or certified service providers.
RCW 71.24.665— Psychiatric treatment, evaluation, and bed utilization for American Indians and Alaska Natives—Report by authority.
RCW 71.24.670— Substance use disorder treatment facilities and entities—Record sharing.
RCW 71.24.700— Long-term inpatient care and mental health placements—Contracting with community hospitals and evaluation and treatment facilities.
RCW 71.24.710— Reentry services—Work group.
RCW 71.24.715— Reentry services—Waiver application.
RCW 71.24.720— Less restrictive alternative treatment—Transition teams.
RCW 71.24.845— Transfer of clients between behavioral health administrative services organizations—Uniform transfer agreement.
RCW 71.24.847— Transfer of clients—Policy and statistic reporting.
RCW 71.24.850— Regional service areas—Report—Managed care integration.
RCW 71.24.852— Intensive behavioral health treatment facilities—Resident rights and access to ombuds services—Recommendations to governor and legislature.
RCW 71.24.855— Finding—Intent—State hospitals.
RCW 71.24.861— Behavioral health system coordination committee.
RCW 71.24.870— Behavioral health services—Adoption of rules—Audit.
RCW 71.24.872— Regulatory parity between primary care and behavioral health care settings—Initial documentation requirements for patients—Administrative burdensomeness.
RCW 71.24.880— Interlocal leadership structure—Transition to fully integrated managed care within a regional service area.
RCW 71.24.885— Medicaid rate increases—Review authority—Reporting.
RCW 71.24.887— Training support grants for community mental health providers—Behavioral health workforce pilot program.
RCW 71.24.890— National 988 system—Designated 988 contact hubs—Technology and platform development—Agency collaboration.
RCW 71.24.892— National 988 system—Crisis response improvement strategy committee—Membership—Steering committee—Reports. (Expires December 31, 2026.)
RCW 71.24.894— National 988 system—Department reporting—Audit.
RCW 71.24.896— National 988 system—Duties owed to public—Independent contractors.
RCW 71.24.898— National 988 system—Technical and operational plan.
RCW 71.24.899— National 988 system—Informational materials—Social media campaign.
RCW 71.24.903— Mobile rapid response crisis team endorsement.
RCW 71.24.905— Co-response services.
RCW 71.24.906— National 988 system—Needs assessment—Recommendations—Report.
RCW 71.24.907— National 988 system—Limitation of liability.
RCW 71.24.908— Data integration platform to support diversion efforts—Development and implementation—Exempt from public disclosure.
RCW 71.24.909— Washington state institute for public policy study on recovery navigator programs and law enforcement assisted diversion programs.
RCW 71.24.910— Balance billing violations—Discipline.
RCW 71.24.911— Statewide behavioral health treatment and recovery support services mapping tool.
RCW 71.24.912— Work group—Systems, policies, and processes related to intake, screening, and assessment for substance use disorders.
RCW 71.24.913— Substance use disorders—Comprehensive assessments, reports.
RCW 71.24.915— Crisis continuum of care forum.
RCW 71.24.916— 23-hour crisis relief centers—Licensing and certification—Rules—Standards.
RCW 71.24.920— Certified peer support specialists—Courses of instruction—Duties.
RCW 71.24.922— Certified peer support specialists—Supervision caseload reduction.
RCW 71.24.924— Certified peer support specialists—Billing.