76-3501.
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76-3501. Establishment of south central regional mental health hospital; fee fund created; authority of secretary for aging and disability services; extension of state security hospital.
(a)South central regional mental health hospital is a state hospital that shall be open for the reception of patients, under the same rules and regulations as provided for by law for the government and regulation of the other state hospitals.
(b)There is hereby created in the state treasury the south central regional mental health hospital fee fund. Such fund shall be administered by the Kansas department for aging and disability services. The superintendent of south central regional mental health hospital shall remit all moneys received by or for the superintendent from charges made under K.S.A. 59-2006 , and amendments thereto, and other operations of such institution to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215 , and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the south central regional mental health hospital fee fund. All expenditures from such fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by such superintendent or by a person or persons designated by the superintendent.
(c)As authorized by section 74(a) of chapter 81 of the 2022 Session Laws of Kansas and Sec. 28(c) of chapter 97 of the 2022 Session Laws of Kansas, a regional state psychiatric hospital shall be established in Wichita, Kansas, for Sedgwick county and the surrounding regional area to expand access to mental health beds in south-central Kansas.
(d)The secretary for aging and disability services is authorized and directed to establish, equip and maintain, in connection with and as a part of the south central regional mental health hospital, suitable buildings for an extension to the state security hospital for the purpose of holding in custody, examining, treating and caring for such mentally ill persons as may be committed or ordered to the state security hospital by courts of criminal jurisdiction or inmates with mental illness who are transferred for care or treatment to the state security hospital from a correctional institution under the control of the secretary of corrections, or patients with a mental illness, other than minors, who are transferred for care or treatment to the state security hospital from any institution under the jurisdiction of the secretary for aging and disability services. The secretary for aging and disability services is hereby authorized and empowered to supervise and manage the extension to the state security hospital. The superintendent of the Larned state hospital shall act as the superintendent of the extension to the state security hospital.