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services and also consider reasonable levels of operating reserves. 1 The authority must monitor and ensure that behavioral health 2 administrative service organization reserves do not exceed maximum 3 levels. The authority must monitor revenue and expenditure reports 4 and must require a behavioral health administrative service 5 organization to submit a corrective action plan on how it will spend 6 its excess reserves within a reasonable period of time, when its 7 reported reserves exceed maximum levels established under the 8 contract. The authority must review and approve such plans and 9 monitor to ensure compliance. If the authority determines that a 10 behavioral health administrative service organization has failed to 11 provide an adequate excess reserve corrective action plan or is not 12 complying with an approved plan, the authority must reduce payments 13 to the entity in accordance with remedial actions provisions included 14 in the contract. These reductions in payments must continue until the 15 authority determines that the entity has come into substantial 16 compliance with an approved excess reserve corrective action plan. 17 The authority must submit to the office of financial management and 18 the appropriate committees of the legislature, each December of the 19 biennium, the minimum and maximum reserve levels established in 20 contract for each of the behavioral health administrative service 21 organizations for the prior fiscal year and the actual reserve levels 22 reported at the end of the fiscal year. 23 (14) During the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium, any amounts provided 24 in this section that are used for case management services for 25 pregnant and parenting women must be contracted directly between the 26 authority and pregnant and parenting women case management providers. 27 (15) $3,500,000 of the general fund—federal appropriation is 28 provided solely for the continued funding of existing county drug and 29 alcohol use prevention programs. 30 (16) Within the amounts appropriated in this section, the 31 authority may contract with the University of Washington and 32 community-based providers for the provision of the parent-child 33 assistance program or other specialized chemical dependency case 34 management providers for pregnant, postpartum, and parenting women. 35 For all contractors: (a) Service and other outcome data must be 36 provided to the authority by request; and (b) indirect charges for 37 administering the program must not exceed 10 percent of the total 38 contract amount. 39 p. 252 ESSB 5187.SL