The Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services shall, with funds appropriated for community residential mental health facilities, develop and implement procedures that offer all residential care facilities that meet licensure requirements the opportunity to become certified and to contract for socialization or other supportive assistance services to residents authorized by the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services as needing those services. The funds provided for each client for supportive assistance or socialization shall follow the client in any residential setting.
Added by Laws 1993, c. 269, § 23, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.