AB 2233: Behavioral health treatment plans.

The bill aims to protect individuals with pervasive developmental disorder or autism by requiring health care service plans and health insurers to provide coverage for behavioral health treatment without imposing restrictions on authorized treatment hours. This means that authorized treatment hours must remain available for use throughout the 6-month authorization period. The bill also prohibits health care service plans and health insurers from imposing restrictions on the utilization of authorized treatment hours, and makes a willful violation of these provisions a crime. As a result, the state will be required to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state.