Establishes the committee to continue to examine the treatment of persons with mental illness who are involved in the criminal justice system. Requires the committee to report annually to the general assembly on the issues studied and to propose legislative changes based on recommendations from the task force examining the treatment of persons with mental illness who are involved in the criminal justice system.
Authorizes the director of research of the legislative council, the director of the office of legislative legal services, the director of the division of criminal justice within the department of public safety, and the executive directors of the departments represented in the task force to supply staff assistance to the committee as deemed appropriate.
Repeals the committee and the task force, effective July 1, 2003.
Appropriates $37,425 and 0.6 FTE to the department of public safety for allocation to the division of criminal justice for the implementation of this act. Appropriates $19,896 and 0.4 FTE to the legislative department for implementation of this act.
APPROVED by Governor
June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE June 1, 2000
H.B. 00-1034 Mentally ill - juveniles - intensive treatment management pilot program - appropriation. Creates community-based intensive treatment management pilot programs ("pilot program") to provide supervision and management services to mentally ill juveniles who are involved in the criminal justice system. Prohibits any juvenile who is adjudicated for a class 1 felony or first or second degree sexual assault from participating in a pilot program.
Instructs the department of human services ("department") to issue a request for proposals and to select 2 entities, one in a rural community and one in an urban community, to operate a pilot program. Identifies specific requirements for the proposal, including demonstration that the pilot program would operate as a collaborative effort among specified agencies. Authorizes the department to adopt guidelines as necessary to implement the act. Allows the state board of human services, by rule, to define the target population for the pilot program. Specifies the services to be provided by the pilot program. Requires the selected entities and the collaborative agencies to participate in the cost of the pilot program by providing funding or services in an amount equal to the amount of state general fund moneys appropriated to the pilot program.
Requires each entity operating a pilot program to report annually to the department concerning the operation of the program. Directs the department to submit an annual report to the general assembly. Requires the department to forward the information received to the division of criminal justice, and directs the division of criminal justice to submit a biennial report including specified information to the department and to the joint budget committee and the judiciary committees of the senate and the house of representatives. Repeals the act, effective July 1, 2007.
Appropriates $160,000 to the department of human services and $15,000 to the department of public safety for allocation to the division of criminal justice for implementation of the act. Adjusts the appropriation in the general appropriation act.
APPROVED by Governor
June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE June 1, 2000
H.B. 00-1207 Mentally ill - persons - transfer to facilities outside of Colorado - pilot project - repeal. Authorizes a pilot project in which the executive director of the department of human services ("executive director") or a designee is allowed to approve and designate a facility located in an adjoining state for the purposes of providing emergency mental health treatment or short- or long-term mental health treatment. Directs that such pilot project shall only be implemented in a rural area in the southwest corner of the state but may be expanded to serve another area or areas if the executive director or a designee finds that there is a demonstrated need in another area of the state. Requires the department of human services ("department") to report such need for expansion to the house and senate health, environment, welfare, and institutions committees.
Allows the approval and designation of a facility in another state adjoining the site of the pilot project only if the facility and the adjoining state meet specified requirements. Directs that if the facility to be approved and designated is a private facility, the consent of the private facility to the enforcement of standards set by the adjoining state shall be a prerequisite to the approval and designation.
Requires the department to conduct a review of the pilot project and submit a report to the house and senate health, environment, welfare, and institutions committees every 2 years. Repeals the pilot project, effective July 1, 2007.
Under the pilot project, authorizes the transfer of a patient who is involuntarily committed or certified for mental health treatment to an out-of-state facility if specified conditions are met.
States that any patient transferred out of state shall be deemed to be in the custody of the out-of-state facility to the same extent and subject to the same limitations as if the patient had been ordered to be placed in custody in a facility located in this state. States that jurisdiction is retained in the appropriate courts of this state to inquire into the mental condition of the patient and to determine the necessity for continuance of the commitment. Requires the out-of-state facility to provide video or teleconferencing technology for evaluative hearings.
Allows a peace officer from this state to transport any patient who is taken into custody and placed in a mental health treatment facility in an adjoining state under the pilot program.
Authorizes the executive director or a designee to enter into reciprocal agreements with the executive director of similar public agencies of a state adjoining the pilot project for the transfer of Colorado residents for treatment and for the transfer of residents of those states to any mental health treatment facility approved and designated in this state. Authorizes the executive director or designee to contract with the executive director of a similar public agency of a state adjoining the pilot project and to exercise joint powers with respect to the provision of services for emergency mental health treatment and for short-term and long-term mental health treatment. Specifies the types of issues required to be specified in the contract between the two state agencies.
APPROVED by Governor
April 19, 2000
EFFECTIVE April 19, 2000
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