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This section increases funding for the Mental Health Crisis Response Partnership Pilot Program to $10 million for each of fiscal years 2025 and 2026 and $100 million for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2029 (from $10 million for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2029). The program awards competitive grants to States, localities, territories, Indian Tribes, and Tribal organizations to establish or enhance mobile crisis response teams that divert mental health and substance use disorder crises from law enforcement.
This section expands the Medicaid state option for community-based mobile crisis intervention services to permanently include regional and local lifeline call center operations and services furnished by crisis receiving and stabilization facilities. It sets the federal medical assistance percentage at 85 percent for these services and appropriates $5 million for related planning grants. It defines a crisis receiving and stabilization facility as one providing 23-hour observation chairs or beds, 48-hour stabilization psychiatric beds, 24/7 access on a sliding scale without rejecting patients based on ability to pay or other factors, no-wrong-door admission, and average stays under 150 hours.