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CERTIFICATE OF NEED REQUIREMENTS <br /> Oppose legislation to remove Certificate of Need as a prerequisite for <br /> establishing a new home health agency. <br /> • <br /> MENTAL HEALTH FUNDING SYSTEM <br /> ,Support actions of the Mental Health Study Commission to restructure <br /> ' the mental health funding systemp provided that these actions do not <br /> impose mandated levels of local financial support and do not binder <br /> local flexibility. <br /> . <br /> SUBSTANCE ABUSE <br /> Support appropriations to provide new state funding for expansion and <br /> development of community-based intervention and treatment programs for- <br /> substance abusers, with particular emphasis on services to <br /> adolescents. <br /> ALCOHOL ABUSE SERVICES - <br /> Support the levy of an additional state tax on beer and wine sales to <br /> help fund alcohol abuse services. <br /> SERVICES FOR MENTALLY ILL, MENTALLY RETARDED AND EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED <br /> Support increased state funds for community services for children, <br /> including the emotionally disturbed as well as the mentally retarded <br /> for whom assistance is needed in the transition into adult programs, <br /> and for the chronically mentally ill. <br /> MENTAL HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE <br /> Support legislation to require private health insurers to provide for <br /> adequate mental health coverage. _ <br /> • <br /> INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS - - <br /> STATE REIMBURSEMENT FOR COUNTIES HOLDING FEMALE PRISONERS <br /> Seek legislation to require the state to reimburse counties for <br /> holding female misdemeanants when the sentence _is confinement for 31. <br /> to 180 days. <br />