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71-5681 Legislative findings and declarations.

71-5681. Legislative findings and declarations.The Legislature hereby finds and declares that:(1) Eighty-eight of Nebraska's ninety-three counties are classified as mental and behavioral health profession shortage areas by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration and the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services;(2) The Department of Health and Human Services reports that seventy-four percent of the state's psychiatrists, psychologists, and licensed mental health practitioners live and practice in the urban areas of Omaha and Lincoln, which leaves the remaining seventy-two thousand square miles of Nebraska to be covered by approximately one-fourth of the professionals licensed to practice behavioral health in Nebraska;(3) Thirty-eight Nebraska counties have one or no licensed behavioral health professional; and (4) Reductions in federal funding will result in the elimination of over five thousand five hundred behavioral health patient visits in rural Nebraska. SourceLaws 2006, LB 994, § 39; Laws 2007, LB296, § 628.

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