2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 26 - Human Services Code
Article 7.5 - Domestic Abuse Programs
§ 26-7.5-105. Funding of domestic abuse programs

(1) (a) Any nongovernmental agency or unit of local government operating a domestic abuse program pursuant to this article shall, subject to available appropriations, be reimbursed by the state department at a rate to be set by the general assembly in the annual appropriation bill. Not less than seventy-five percent of all contract funding under this article shall be allocated to nongovernmental agencies.

(b) Moneys generated from fees collected pursuant to sections 14-2-106 (1) (a) and 14-15-110, C.R.S., or transferred pursuant to section 13-32-101 (5) (a) (X) or (5) (b) (II), C.R.S., shall be used to reimburse domestic abuse programs that provide services as provided in section 26-7.5-103 to persons or their families, which persons are married, separated, or divorced or parties to a civil union or an invalidated, legally separated, or dissolved civil union.

(2) Staffing and administrative expenses of the state department of human services and other agencies for carrying out the provisions of this article shall be appropriated annually from available funds generated by the contribution cash funds.

(3) The Colorado domestic abuse program fund established pursuant to section 39-22-802, C.R.S., may be funded by any general fund moneys that may be appropriated thereto by the general assembly pursuant to the annual general appropriations act. The executive director shall have the authority to expend such funds appropriated to the Colorado domestic abuse program fund for the purposes described in this article.