* § 97-dddd. Community mental health support and workforce
reinvestment account. 1. There is hereby created in the custody of the
state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance an
account of the special revenue fund to be known as the community mental
health support and workforce reinvestment account.

2. The commissioner of the office of mental health shall notify the
director of the budget when the number of children's psychiatric center
beds or adult, non-geriatric psychiatric center beds closed in any one
year exceeds the number of beds projected to be closed by the office of
mental health in the executive budget request submitted in the year
prior to the fiscal year for which the executive budget is being
submitted. Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the
contrary the director of the budget shall then transfer the amount of
actual state operations general fund appropriation reductions, including
personal service and nonpersonal service, directly attributed to the
closure of such beds, to the state comptroller who shall then credit
such appropriation reductions to the community mental health support and
workforce reinvestment account. The per bed appropriation reduction
shall be no less than one hundred ten thousand dollars on a full annual
basis.

3. Moneys of this account, following appropriation by the legislature,
shall be available to the office of mental health for disbursement to
local governments and not-for-profit operated mental health agencies for
services and expenses of community support and workforce reinvestment.

* NB Repealed March 31, 2024