This bill addresses correctional health services.
This bill:
- requires the Department of Health and Human Services (department) to contract for a new electronic health record system for inmate care, based on recommendations of a working group;
- provides that money appropriated to the department to pay for unanticipated high-cost correctional health expenses is non-lapsing;
- requires the department, in consultation with the Department of Corrections, to prepare and implement a plan for providing substance use disorder treatment to all inmates who suffer from a substance use disorder, and requires the Department of Corrections to cooperate with the department in providing medication assisted treatment in accordance with that plan;
- requires health care facilities that are owned or operated by the department to meet requirements for certain accreditation by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care;
- allows the Board of Pardons and Parole (board) to appoint a designated examiner and to consider designated examiners' reports when considering when and under what conditions an offender may be paroled, and allows the board to require assisted outpatient treatment as a condition of parole;
- defines terms; and
- makes technical and conforming changes.
Recommended by: Health and Human Services Interim Committee

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 26B-4-903, 63I-2-264, 64-13-25.1, 64-13-39, 77-27-5, 77-27-7