SB 254 BRAIN INJURY SERVICES

Sen Antoinette Sedillo-Lopez

Actions: [4] SCC/SEC/SFC-SCC [6]germane-SEC- DP-SFC

Scheduled: Not Scheduled

 Senate Bill 254 (SB 254):  This legislative act focuses on allocating funds for brain injury services, including increasing funding limits, establishing a registry, conducting surveillance, and providing education to healthcare professionals. The provisions also address the treatment of unspent balances to ensure transparency and accountability in fiscal management.   

 Senate Bill 254 (SB 254):  This legislative act focuses on allocating funds for brain injury services, including increasing funding limits, establishing a registry, conducting surveillance, and providing education to healthcare professionals. The provisions also address the treatment of unspent balances to ensure transparency and accountability in fiscal management.  

Senate Bill 254 (SB 254):  Section 1: Appropriations
•	Specifies the amounts and recipients of appropriations from the general fund for the specified fiscal years and purposes.
•	Allocates $2,500,000 to the Brain Injury Services Fund in fiscal year 2025 and subsequent fiscal years. 
•	This fund is intended to increase funding limits for eligible participants in statewide brain injury services programs.
•	Allocates $1,000,000 to the Brain Injury Services Fund in fiscal year 2025 and subsequent fiscal years. This fund is designated for establishing and supporting a brain injury registry, as recommended by the governor's commission on disability in response to Senate Memorial 30 of the first session of the fifty-sixth legislature.
•	Allocates $600,000 to the Department of Health in fiscal year 2025 for conducting surveillance of the prevalence and incidence of brain injury in the state.
•	Allocates $300,000 to the Health Care Authority Department in fiscal year 2025 to provide brain injury education to healthcare professionals, including mentorship and peer support, through a statewide virtual learning platform.

B. Specifies the treatment of unexpended or unencumbered balances at the end of fiscal years:
•	Balances from appropriations in Paragraphs (1) and (2) of Subsection A will not revert to the general fund.
•	Balances from appropriations in Paragraphs (3) and (4) of Subsection A will revert to the general fund at the end of fiscal year 2025 if unexpended or unencumbered.