2022 Special Committee on Mental Health Beds

Agenda/Minutes  • Resources • Final Report

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Senate	House
Sen. Carolyn McGinn, Chairperson Sen. Rick Billinger Sen. J.R. Claeys Sen. Tom Hawk Sen. Richard Hilderbrand	Rep. Brenda Landwehr, Vice-chairperson Rep. Will Carpenter Rep. Henry Helgerson Rep. Kyle Hoffman Rep. Troy Waymaster Rep. Kathy Wolfe Moore
Kansas Legislative Research Dept.	Office of Revisor of Statutes
Connor Stangler Dayton LaMunyon Megan Leopold	Scott Abbott Eileen Ma Jenna Moyer
Committee Assistant

Study Topic

Review the need for inpatient psychiatric hospital beds and develop a long-term plan to address mental health needs, review the regional bed expansion plan and how the beds would be constructed, review best practice providing the operation and oversight of the expanded beds, review the long-term fiscal impact of the additional beds, and study and develop a plan for providing a 50-bed facility with acute inpatient psychiatric beds and adult forensic beds in the Sedgwick county regional area.

Approved Meeting Days: 3 days