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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="10-406" title_number="10" title_name="Mental Health Law" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="State Facilities">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The following State facilities shall be maintained under the direction of the Administration:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Eastern Shore Hospital Center;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Regional Institutes for Children and Adolescents — Baltimore and Rockville;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Springfield Hospital Center;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Spring Grove Hospital Center; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Thomas B. Finan Hospital Center.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>As a facility is built or transferred to the Administration, the facility may be made a State facility.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>By January 1, 1985, the Department shall adopt rules and regulations for admission to all Regional Institutes for Children and Adolescents in cooperation with representatives from the advisory committees of the Regional Institutes for Children and Adolescents, the mental health advisory committees in each region, the local education agencies, and the Mental Health Association of Maryland.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In determining these rules and regulations, the Department shall provide that no bona fide candidate for admission may be rejected solely because of residence outside the regular catchment area served by the institution.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>In determining these rules and regulations, the Department shall provide that candidates for admission who reside in the regular catchment area served by the institution shall be granted priority in admissions to the institution.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Beginning in fiscal year 2007, the Department may not bill a local board of education for any services provided by the State at a regional institute for children and adolescents.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of this subsection:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Beginning in fiscal year 2007, the Department shall continue to provide the same scope of services at regional institutes for children and adolescents that were provided as of January 1, 2005; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A local board of education may make a contribution toward the cost of services provided by the State at a regional institute for children and adolescents.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Before a regional institute for children and adolescents may be closed, the Department shall submit a report to the Governor and, in accordance with § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, the Senate Finance Committee, the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, the House Health and Government Operations Committee, and the House Appropriations Committee, justifying the closure.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The report shall address:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The reasons for the closure;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The plan for serving the regional institute for children and adolescents target population after the closure;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The budgetary savings anticipated from the closure compared to the costs associated with serving the regional institute for children and adolescents target population in other settings;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The plan for assisting State employees displaced by the closure in finding other employment; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>The plan for the regional institute for children and adolescents facility.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The committees shall have 60 days to review and comment on the report.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
