The Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute would stay open under a piece of legislation that has bipartisan support. It was announced Wednesday that leaders in the Iowa Senate Democratic Majority Caucus and Iowa House Republican Majority Caucus had agreed to support the legislation.

It provides funding to keep the Mount Pleasant facility open as it was at the beginning of the current fiscal year, when it was providing adult acute psychiatric and dual diagnosis substance abuse care. Final approval is up to Governor Terry Branstad.

Last month, State Representative Dave Heaton and another legislator reached an agreement with Branstad’s office and the Department of Human Services that keeps the facility state run and providing substance abuse services through December 15th. After the first of the year, the department will identify a substance abuse treatment provider in the private sector to provide dual diagnosis substance abuse care.

Under the governor’s budget, the institute was set to close  June 30th.