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Colorado Revised Statutes Title 27. Behavioral Health § 27-80-127. Children and youth in need of residential mental health and substance use treatment--repeal

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(1) On or before July 1, 2023, the behavioral health administration, created pursuant to part 2 of article 60 of this title 27, shall create, develop, or contract to add additional residential substance use treatment beds for youth. To the greatest extent possible, the department shall ensure that both mental health and substance use treatment services are available in one residential location. The department shall work collaboratively with the behavioral health administration for licensing and determining the greatest areas of need.

(2)(a)(I) For the 2022--23 budget year, the general assembly shall appropriate five million dollars from the behavioral and mental health cash fund, created pursuant to section 24-75-230, to the department to expand substance use residential treatment beds for adolescents, as described in subsection (1) of this section.

(II) The use of money appropriated pursuant to this subsection (2) and money that originates from the ARPA refinance state money cash fund, created in section 24-75-226.5, appropriated for the same purpose, must conform with the allowable purposes set forth in the federal “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021”, Pub.L. 117-2, as amended. The department shall spend or obligate such appropriation in accordance with section 24-75-226(4)(d).

(b) This subsection (2) is repealed, effective September 1, 2027.

(3) The department of human services and any person that receives money from the department of human services shall comply with the compliance, reporting, record-keeping, and program evaluation requirements established by the office of state planning and budgeting and the state controller in accordance with section 24-75-226(5).

(4) This section is known as the “Andy Campos-Padilla Act”.

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