SECTION 19. Early childhood investment opportunity grant program

[Text of section effective until July 1, 2021. Repealed by 2018, 208, Sec. 108. See 2018, 208, Sec. 109.]

Section 19. Subject to appropriation, the health policy commission, in consultation with the department of public health, shall create and administer an early childhood investment opportunity grant program for programs to support and care for families with substance exposed newborns, including the study of long-term effects of neonatal abstinence syndrome on children up to the age of 18. The program shall support a model that includes both medical services and traditionally non-reimbursed services and may support services provided in clinic settings or in-home visits. The commission shall report to the joint committee on mental health, substance use and recovery and the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than 12 months following completion of the grant program on the results of the programs and the findings of the study on the long-term effects of neonatal abstinence syndrome, including their effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability.