This bill addresses health care for individuals who are involved with the criminal justice system.
This bill:
- defines terms;
- requires the Department of Health and Human Services (department) to contract with a telehealth psychiatric consultation provider to provide consultation services to staff responsible for inmates' psychiatric care;
- requires the department to convene a working group to study the department's needs regarding an electronic health record system for inmate health care and provide recommendations to the Health and Human Services Interim Committee;
- requires the department to contract with psychiatrists to meet staffing needs for correctional health services, except under certain circumstances;
- requires the department to provide an annual report to the Health and Human Services Interim Committee concerning the provision of comprehensive health care to inmates;
- requires the Department of Corrections and a local mental health authority to cooperate to have certain offenders assessed for available community-based services, and to take steps to connect an offender to appropriate community-based services based on the results of the assessment; and
- makes technical and conforming changes.
Recommended by: Health and Human Services Interim Committee

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 26B-1-235, 26B-1-410, 63A-17-307, 63I-2-264, 64-13-25.1, 77-27-5, 77-27-7
Substitute #1: 26B-1-235, 26B-1-410, 63A-17-307, 63I-2-264, 64-13-25.1, 77-27-5
Substitute #2: 17-43-301, 26B-1-235, 26B-1-410, 63A-17-307, 63I-2-264, 64-13-21, 64-13-25.1
Substitute #3: 17-43-301, 26B-1-235, 26B-1-410, 63A-17-307, 63I-2-264, 64-13-21, 64-13-25.1
Enrolled: 17-43-301, 26B-1-235, 26B-1-410, 63A-17-307, 64-13-21
Substitute #4: 17-43-301, 26B-1-235, 26B-1-410, 63A-17-307, 64-13-21