§ 28:932 — Intervention and stabilization units; establishment and operation; duties of human

§932. Intervention and stabilization units; establishment and operation; duties of human
services districts and authorities
A. Human services districts and authorities are hereby authorized to establish
intervention and stabilization units in accordance with the provisions of this Section.
B. Subject to appropriation for this purpose, a human services district or authority
may establish and operate an intervention and stabilization unit in any parish that meets all
of the following criteria:
(1) The parish has a population of more than four hundred forty thousand according
to the latest federal decennial census.
(2) The parish experienced the closure of a hospital provided for in R.S. 17:1519.2
that had been operated by the health care services division of the LSU Health Sciences
Center-New Orleans.
C. Human services districts and authorities are hereby authorized, but are not
required, to establish any intervention and stabilization unit pursuant to this Section. Any
unit so established shall be licensed as a Level III (freestanding) crisis receiving center in
accordance with the provisions of R.S. 28:22 and LAC 48:I.5301 et seq.
D. No intervention and stabilization unit, as provided for in this Section, shall be
established by any human services authority or district unless and until the legislature
specifically appropriates funding for this purpose. Furthermore, no human services authority
or district shall divert any monies appropriated to the authority or district for other purposes
to establish or fund an intervention and stabilization unit.

Legislative History

Acts 2016, No. 591, §1; Acts 2018, No. 206, §1.