Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada AB380: Revises provisions relating to mobile crisis teams. (BDR 39-1062)
Status: Chaptered, May 30, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to behavioral health; revising requirements governing mobile crisis teams that may be established to provide community-based intervention services to certain persons experiencing a behavioral health crisis; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing federal law establishes the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline program, including the establishment of a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline that may be accessed by dialing the digits 9-8-8. (42 U.S.C…
From the enrolled text, May 26, 2025:
AN ACT relating to behavioral health; revising requirements governing mobile crisis teams that may be established to provide community-based intervention services to certain persons experiencing a behavioral health crisis; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing federal law establishes the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline program, including the establishment of a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline that may be accessed by dialing the digits 9-8-8. (42 U.S.C. § 290bb-36c) Existing law requires the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services to encourage the establishment of and, to the extent that money is available, establish mobile crisis teams to provide community-based intervention for persons who are considering suicide or otherwise in a behavioral health crisis and who access the 9-8-8 hotline. Existing law requires such a mobile crisis team to: (1) be based in the jurisdiction that the team serves and consist of persons professionally qualified in the field of behavioral health and providers of peer recovery support services; (2) be established by a provider of emergency medical services and consist of persons professionally qualified in the field of behavioral health and providers of peer recovery support services; or (3) be established by a law enforcement agency and include law enforcement agents, persons professionally qualified in the field …