The Department of Social and Health Services would receive $650 million of this funding for construction of a new 350-bed forensic hospital at Lakewood, Wash.-based Western State Hospital. The hospital would use another $20.1 million to increase bed capacity at the hospital.
Another $141 million will be used for competitive grants and individual projects that create new community behavioral health capacity.
The total proposed budget for the state senate is $7.9 billion.
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