2017 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 27 - Behavioral Health
Mental Health and Mental Health Disorders
Article 66 - Community Mental Health Services - Purchase
§ 27-66-104. Types of services purchased - limitation on payments - offender mental health services fund - repeal

(1) Community mental health services may be purchased from clinics, community mental health centers, local general or psychiatric hospitals, and other agencies that have been approved by the executive director.

(2) (a) Each year the general assembly shall appropriate funds for the purchase of mental health services from:

(I) Community mental health centers;

(II) Agencies that provide specialized clinic-type services but do not serve a specific designated service area; and

(III) Acute treatment units.

(b) The funds appropriated for the purposes of this subsection (2) shall be distributed by the executive director to approved community mental health centers and other agencies on the basis of need and in accordance with the services provided.

(3) Each year the general assembly may appropriate funds in addition to those appropriated for purposes of subsection (2) of this section, which funds may be used by the executive director to assist community mental health clinics and centers in instituting innovative programs, in providing mental health services to impoverished areas, and in dealing with crisis situations. The executive director shall require that any innovative or crisis programs for which funds are allocated under this subsection (3) be clearly defined in terms of services to be rendered, program objectives, scope and duration of the program, and the maximum amount of funds to be provided.

(4) (a) The offender mental health services fund, referred to in this subsection (4) as the "fund", is created in the state treasury. On and after July 1, 2016, the principal of the fund consists of any money that the general assembly may appropriate to the fund for the purchase of behavioral or mental health disorder services for juvenile and adult offenders who have behavioral or mental health disorders and are involved in the criminal justice system. Subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly, the office of behavioral health shall distribute the principal of the fund to the community mental health centers. Any unexpended and unencumbered money in the fund at the end of the 2015-16 fiscal year shall be transferred to the tobacco litigation settlement cash fund created in section 24-22-115.

(b) Repealed.

(c) This subsection (4) is repealed, effective September 1, 2017.

(5) If there is a reduction in the financial support of local governmental bodies for community mental health services, the executive director is authorized to reduce state payments for services in an amount proportional to the reduction in such local financial support.

(6) For purposes of entering into a cooperative purchasing agreement pursuant to section 24-110-201, C.R.S., a nonprofit community mental health center or a nonprofit community mental health clinic may be certified as a local public procurement unit as provided in section 24-110-207.5, C.R.S.