SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1894

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BRINGER.

4661L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To repeal section 630.220, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to collection of payment for certain mental health services.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 630.220, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 630.220, to read as follows:

            630.220. For all debts and demands whatsoever to any of the residential facilities or day programs subject to the control of the department, and for all damages for failure of contract, for trespass and other wrongs to a facility operated by the department, or any of its property thereof, real or personal, actions in any court of competent jurisdiction may be maintained in the name of the director. Interest shall be recovered on any and all sums due any facility or program operated or funded by the department on account of any patient or resident thereof, the account therefor, certified by the [head of the facility, with the seal of the institution attached,] director or the director's designee shall be prima facie evidence of the amount due.

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