Emergency mental health services provisions modifications, mobile crisis intervention co-payments, coinsurance and deductibles elimination provision, and appropriation

This bill eliminates co-payments, coinsurance, and deductibles for mobile crisis intervention services in Minnesota, directly affecting individuals seeking emergency mental health care. It modifies Minnesota Statutes § 245.469 to require counties to provide emergency mental health services without charging clients, including immediate access to mental health professionals during business hours and toll-free access outside those hours. The bill mandates that non-business-hour services must still have mental health professionals available for on-call assessment within 30 minutes and establishes requirements for training and data reporting. It also appropriates funding to expand crisis services, including 24/7 telephone consultation for mobile crisis teams and grants to build new crisis residential capacity. These changes aim to remove financial barriers to timely mental health crisis care for all Minnesotans.