FY2025-2026 Mental health program budget

Creates a new state license type, 'Complex Care Residential Homes,' establishing a regulatory framework for home-like residential settings that provide multi-disciplinary care to Alaskans with severe, complex behavioral health and medical needs who don't fit existing residential care categories. A companion bill, SB 76, carried the same framework. The effective date is July 1, 2027.

Would have directed the Alaska Department of Education to develop guidelines for age-appropriate mental health instruction in K-12 schools, with districts required to give parents two weeks' notice before such lessons. Governor Dunleavy vetoed the bill, and a legislative attempt to override the veto fell two votes short (38-22).

Addresses barriers that keep residents from accessing primary care, mental health services, and hospital care.