Mental health education in schools

Creates a new state license type, 'Complex Care Residential Homes,' establishing a regulatory framework for home-like residential settings that provide multi-disciplinary care to Alaskans with severe, complex behavioral health and medical needs who don't fit existing residential care categories. A companion bill, SB 76, carried the same framework. The effective date is July 1, 2027.

Appropriates roughly $245.6 million for Alaska's integrated comprehensive mental health program, funding legal and advocacy services, community residential centers, corrections health services, and the Alaska Psychiatric Institute, among other mental health programs.

Beginning with the 2027-28 school year, allows Washington school districts and private schools to keep a shared supply of prescribed albuterol for students experiencing respiratory symptoms. A standing order must accompany the prescription. A school nurse or designated trained staff member may administer it when the student has a prescription on file. If no prescription is on file, only a school nurse may administer it. Parents or guardians must be notified immediately. The law authorizes this school supply; it does not require every school to stock it.