WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                   Ch. 619

(v) Aftercare services.

(vi) Consultation services.

(vii) Education services.

(viii) Other preventive or rehabilitation
services or treatment.

(ix) Community residential programs for
children and adolescents.

(2) Research and training that are designed to
improve or extend these services are proper items of expense.

(b) (1) Services under this section shall be provided by
public agencies or, under contract, by nonprofit organizations
AND PRIVATE COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS.

(2) NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL PROHIBIT THE
SECRETARY FROM CONTRACTING WITH INDIVIDUAL LICENSED MENTAL HEALTH
CARE PROVIDERS, INCLUDING PSYCHIATRISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, SOCIAL
WORKERS, AND PSYCHIATRIC NURSES.

(C) THE SECRETARY SHALL CONTRACT WITH PRIVATE

COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO PROVIDE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH
SERVICES.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Secretary of
Health and Mental Hygiene shall develop by July 1, 1989, a plan,
including options for funding mechanisms, that will provide for
the privatization of community mental health center services by
contracting with nonprofit and private community-based
organizations and individual licensed mental health care
providers, including psychiatrists, psychologists, social
workers, and psychiatric nurses.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Secretary of
Health and Mental Hygiene shall present this plan to the General
Assembly, in accordance with § 2-1312 of the State Government
Article, by not later than October 1, 1989.

SECTION 2 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1988.

Approved May 27, 1988.                                     

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