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criminal justice system to appropriate community based treatment. The 1 pilot shall allow for police officers to place involuntary holds for 2 up to 12 hours for persons placed at the facility in accordance with 3 RCW 10.31.110. The amounts provided must be used to pay for the cost 4 of services at the site not covered under the medicaid program. The 5 authority must submit a report to the office of financial management 6 and the appropriate committees of the legislature by December 1, 7 2022, including the following information: 8 (a) The total number of individuals served in the crisis 9 stabilization center broken out by those served on a voluntary basis 10 versus those served under involuntary treatment holds placed pursuant 11 to RCW 10.31.110; 12 (b) A summary of the outcomes for each of the groups identified 13 in (a) of this subsection; and 14 (c) Identification of methods to incentivize or require managed 15 care organizations to implement payment models for crisis 16 stabilization providers that recognize the need for the facilities to 17 operate at full staffing regardless of fluctuations in daily census. 18 (53) $1,250,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for 19 fiscal year 2022 and $1,250,000 of the general fund—state 20 appropriation for fiscal year 2023 are provided solely for the 21 authority to contract with the King county behavioral health 22 administrative services organization to maintain children's crisis 23 outreach response system services that were previously funded through 24 the department of children, youth, and families. The authority, in 25 consultation with the behavioral health administrative services 26 organization, medicaid managed care organizations, and the actuaries 27 responsible for developing medicaid managed care rates, must work to 28 maximize federal funding provided for the children's crisis outreach 29 response system program and submit a report to the office of 30 financial management and the appropriate committees of the 31 legislature by December 1, 2021, on the status of these efforts and 32 the associated savings in state funds. 33 (54) $881,000 of the general fund— state appropriation for fiscal 34 year 2022 and $881,000 of the general fund—state for fiscal year 2023 35 are provided on a one-time basis solely for maintaining and 36 increasing resources for peer support programs and for the authority 37 to contract with an organization to assist with the recruitment of 38 individuals to work as behavioral health peers with a specific focus 39 p. 1022 ESSB 5187.SL