2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 26 - Human Services Code
Article 5 - Child Welfare Services
§ 26-5-105.5. State department integrated care management program - county performance agreements - authorized - performance incentive cash fund created - repeal

(1) (a) There is hereby created the state department integrated care management program. In administering the state department integrated care management program, the state department shall develop, by rule, principles of integrated care management and a process to allow counties or groups of counties specified in section 26-5-104 (4) (b) (I) to participate in the program. Individual counties or groups of counties specified in section 26-5-104 (4) (b) (I) may participate in the integrated care management program for the delivery of child welfare services.

(b) and (c) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2002, p. 526, § 1, effective May 24, 2002.)

(2) The state department is hereby authorized to enter into performance agreements with individual counties or groups of counties specified in section 26-5-104 (4) (b) (I). A county that enters into a performance agreement with the state department shall be exempt from the rules of the state department and state board governing the delivery of child welfare services, as such exemptions are identified in the performance agreement.

(3) Any county that has entered into a performance agreement with the state department and underspends the general fund portion of its capped or targeted allocation may use those funds, not to exceed five percent of the general fund portion of its total capped or targeted allocation for child welfare services, to either reduce its county share by the amount of the underexpenditure or spend such moneys on additional services for children in the county. Any balance of the general fund portion of its capped or targeted allocation shall be used for additional services for children in the county.

(3.2) Repealed.

(3.5) Evaluation. (a) The state department is authorized to contract for an external evaluation of the performance agreements authorized pursuant to subsection (1) of this section. Any such external evaluation shall include any evaluation that may be required in connection with any waiver authorized pursuant to section 26-5-105.3. Criteria for and components of the evaluation shall be developed by the state department with input from the counties authorized pursuant to this section.

(b) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2001, p. 1172, § 9, effective August 8, 2001.)

(c) This subsection (3.5) is repealed on the date the executive director of the state department notifies the revisor of statutes that the state is no longer participating in the waiver authorized pursuant to Title IV-E of the federal "Social Security Act", as amended.

(3.7) The state board shall promulgate rules necessary to implement the integrated care management program established pursuant to this section.

(4) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2002, p. 526, § 1, effective May 24, 2002.)