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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(1) The Colorado 2-1-1 collaborative, human services referral service provider, or employee, agent, or financial supporter thereof is not liable to any person or entity for any damages in a civil action for injuries, death, or loss to person or property incurred as a result of any act or omission of the Colorado 2-1-1 collaborative, human services referral service provider, or any employee or agent thereof in connection with developing, adopting, authorizing, implementing, maintaining, enhancing, or operating a referral service unless such damage or injury was intentionally caused by or resulted from gross negligence of the Colorado 2-1-1 collaborative, human services referral service provider, employee, agent, or financial supporter in connection with the provision of human services referral service.
(2) The Colorado 2-1-1 collaborative, human services referral service provider, or employee, agent, or financial supporter thereof is not liable to any person or entity for infringement or invasion of the right of privacy of any person caused or claimed to have been caused, directly or indirectly, by any act or omission in connection with the provision of human service referral information to any person or entity unless the infringement or invasion of the right of privacy arose out of the gross negligence or other wrongful and intentional act of the Colorado 2-1-1 collaborative, human services referral service provider, employee, agent, or financial supporter thereof.
(3) Repealed by Laws 2021, Ch. 134, § 5, eff. July 1, 2022.
(3.2) Repealed by Laws 2021, Ch. 266 (S.B. 21-239), § 2, eff. July 1, 2023.
(4)(a) For the 2021--22 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the general assembly shall annually appropriate one million dollars from the general fund to the department for the issuance of annual grants to the Colorado 2-1-1 collaborative for operational expenses including, but not limited to:
(I) Implementing a quality control program to ensure a high level of caller satisfaction;
(II) Implementing data collection quality control to ensure a high level of accuracy in collecting caller information and identifying caller needs;
(III) Providing services in over three hundred languages;
(IV) Researching and curating the Colorado 2-1-1 collaborative database of community-based organization resources; and
(V) Dispatching and scheduling ride share rides for callers in need of transportation.
(b) Any money appropriated to the department for a fiscal year pursuant to this subsection (4) that is not expended before the fiscal year ends is further appropriated to the department for the subsequent fiscal year for the same purpose.
(5) To qualify for the grants awarded by the department pursuant to subsection (4) of this section, the Colorado 2-1-1 collaborative must serve as a statewide communication system, host multiple call centers across the state, and provide referrals to one or more of the following:
(a) Housing, including shelters and transitional services;
(b) Rent and utility assistance services;
(c) Income support and assistance services;
(d) Childcare services;
(e) Food services;
(f) Individual, family, and community support services;
(g) Transportation services;
(h) Clothing, personal, and household needs services;
(i) Health-care services;
(j) Mental health and substance use disorders services;
(k) Employment services;
(l) Education services;
(m) Medical clinics services;
(n) Dental clinics services;
(o) Other government and economic services; and
(p) Disaster services.
(6) On or before December 31, 2022, and on or before December 31 of each year thereafter, and notwithstanding the requirement in section 24-1-136(11)(a)(I), for as long as annual grants are made pursuant to subsection (4)(a) of this section, the department shall submit a summarized report to the health and human services committee of the senate and the public and behavioral health and human services committee of the house of representatives, or any successor committees, on the grants issued pursuant to this section.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Colorado Revised Statutes Title 29. Government Local § 29-11-203. Human services referral service--immunity--grant--report - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/co/title-29-government-local/co-rev-st-sect-29-11-203/
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