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Section 2yyyy - Substance Use Disorder Federal Reinvestment Trust Fund

MA Gen L ch 29 § 2yyyy (2019) (N/A)
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[Text of section effective until June 30, 2023. Repealed by 2017, 110, Sec. 9. See, 2017, 110, Sec. 58.]

Section 2YYYY. In order to implement MassHealth's substance use disorder section 1115 waiver demonstration project and to enhance and expand substance use disorder services, there shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate fund to be known as the Substance Use Disorder Federal Reinvestment Trust Fund, in this section called the fund. There shall be credited to the fund revenues equal to the amount of federal financial participation received by the Commonwealth's General Fund for expenditures for residential recovery services, transitional support services, family recovery services, recovery support navigator services, recovery coach services and other new or expanded substance use disorder treatment services and any other federal reimbursements, grants, premiums, gifts, interest or other contributions from any source received that are specifically designated to be credited to the fund. The secretary of health and human services shall be the trustee of the fund.

The secretary may expend, without further appropriation, not more than $21 million each year from the fund to expand the residential treatment system to treat individuals with a substance use disorder or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder; not more than $14 million each year from the fund to expand access to medication assisted treatment; not more than $8 million each year from the fund to expand access to recovery treatment support services; and not more than $4 million each year from the fund to implement a standardized American Society of Addiction Medicine assessment and care planning tool across substance use treatment providers. For the purpose of accommodating timing discrepancies between the receipt of revenues and related expenditures, the fund may incur expenses, and the comptroller shall certify for payment, amounts not to exceed the most recent revenue estimate as certified by the MassHealth director, as reported in the state accounting system. Amounts credited to the fund shall not be subject to further appropriation and monies remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund and shall be available for expenditure in the subsequent fiscal year.

The secretary shall report annually, on or before August 1, to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the senate and house chairs of the joint committee on mental health, substance use and recovery on the revenue and expenditure activity within the trust fund.

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