Summary:

 House Bill 115  ( HB115) relates to behavioral health by making an appropriation to the Health Care Authority to provide funding for residential treatment services. 

Legislation Overview:

 House Bill 115 (HB115) states that Eight hundred fifty-nine thousand dollars ($859,000) is appropriated from the General Fund to the Health Care Authority for expenditure in Fiscal Year 2026 to provide funding to an organization located in Dona Ana county that uses a Soteria model to provide long-term residential treatment services for people diagnosed with serious mental illness and psychosis.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of Fiscal Year 2026 shall revert to the General Fund.
Soteria houses provide a community space for people experiencing mental distress or crisis and have no restraint facilities. Loren Mosher, founder of the first Soteria house, believed that people with schizophrenia did, in fact, recover from the illness without the use of neuroleptics in a supportive home-like environment. 

 

Amendments:

 February 3,2025 in HHSC
HHHCa/HB115 :The Health and Human Services Committee amends House Bill 115 as follows: The sum of “Eight hundred fifty-nine thousand dollars ($859,000)” has been replaced by the sum of “Two million seven hundred thousand dollars, ($2,700,000)”.
HB115a has been referred to the Appropriations Committee.