Colorado Revised Statutes Title 19. Children's Code § 19-2.5-1407. Appropriations to department of human services for services to juveniles--definition

(c)(I) Repealed by Laws 2022, Ch. 383 (H.B. 22-1056), § 1, eff. July 1, 2023.

(II) For state fiscal year 2023--24 and each year thereafter, in order to receive an allocation, a juvenile services planning committee, or the judicial district if the judicial district has not established a juvenile services planning committee, shall include in its plan developed pursuant to section 19-2.5-302 a plan for providing temporary shelter in the judicial district. The plan must include that placement in licensed shelter care is voluntary and must not exceed five days.

(I) The cost of care in a licensed temporary shelter, including any transportation costs, for up to five nights for each juvenile who, after screening by the judicial district's screening team, is referred to receive temporary care in a licensed temporary shelter facility;

(II) Providing support to a grandparent, kin, or other suitable person for care of a juvenile released to the person's care while emergency circumstances exist, as determined by the judicial district's juvenile services planning committee that prevent the juvenile from returning home. Support provided to a grandparent, kin, or other suitable person must be based on the actual costs incurred by the person for caring for the juvenile.

(III) Services for and evaluation of a juvenile receiving temporary shelter; and

(IV) Establishing licensed temporary shelter through evaluation or recruitment and providing training needed to operate temporary shelter.

(e)(I) On or before January 31, 2024, and on or before January 31 of each year thereafter, the house of representatives public and behavioral health and human services committee and the senate health and human services committee, or their successor committees, shall hold a joint hearing to determine whether the recommendations of the working group described in section 19-2.5-1404 have been implemented in a manner that warrants the repeal of this subsection (3) prior to its scheduled repeal in 2026. At the hearing that occurs during the 2026 regular legislative session, the committees shall consider whether this subsection (3) should be continued.

(II) At the hearing, the department shall present on its most recent report issued pursuant to section 19-2.5-1404(3)(b), the committees shall permit representatives of the working group to testify or provide information to the committees, and the committees shall take public testimony regarding implementation of the working group's recommendations.