Community treatment facilities.

Existing law requires the State Department of State Hospitals to establish, by regulation, specified program standards for any facility licensed as a community treatment facility and authorizes the State Department of Health Care Services to adopt or amend regulations pertaining to these program standards. Existing law requires only seriously emotionally disturbed children for whom other less restrictive mental health interventions have been tried, or who are currently placed in an acute psychiatric hospital or state hospital or in a facility outside the state for mental health treatment, and who may require periods of containment to participate in, and benefit from, mental health treatment to be placed in a community treatment facility. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions.