The act expands the peace officers mental health support grant program (grant program) to include law enforcement agencies, behavioral health entities, county or district public health agencies, community-based social service and behavioral health providers, peace officer organizations, and public safety agencies as eligible entities. The act renames the grant program the peace officers behavioral health support and community partnerships grant program to reflect these changes.The act also expands the purposes for which grant money can be used to include co-responder community responses and community-based alternative responses. Public safety agencies, law enforcement agencies, and peace officer organizations that apply for a grant are encouraged to do so in collaboration with mental health centers and other community-based social service or behavioral health providers in their region. The act specifies which funding opportunities each entity may apply for.The act appropriates $1,000,000 to the department of local affairs for the grant program.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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The act requires the department of military and veterans affairs (department) to pay, subject to available money, a stipend of up to $75 to a veterans service organization for each time the organization performs a basic military funeral honors ceremony or other funeral-related services for an honorably discharged veteran. The act requires the department to create a process for veteran service organizations to apply for and receive a stipend.The act appropriates $30,930 from the general fund and provides for an additional 0.3 FTE to the department for the western slope veterans cemetery.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, there is a crime of retaliation against a judge if an individual makes a credible threat or commits an act of harassment or an act of harm or injury upon a person or property as retaliation or retribution against a judge. The act creates a similar crime of retaliation against an elected official if an individual knowingly makes a credible threat as retaliation or retribution against an elected official or the official's family or arising out of the status of the person as an elected official. Retaliation against an elected official is a class 6 felony.The act makes following appropriations from the general fund to the department of corrections to comply with the 5-year corrections appropriation requirement:For fiscal year 2022-23, $16,279; For fiscal year 2023-24, $18,415; For fiscal year 2024-25, $18,415; and For fiscal year 2025-26, $18,415. For fiscal year 2021-22, the act appropriates $109,462 from the capital construction fund to the corrections expansion reserve fund.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act provides additional options for financing forest health projects by authorizing:A separate legal entity created by a combination of local governments as authorized by current law to establish special or local improvement districts within the boundaries of the combination and levy special assessments on property specially benefited by improvements, functions, services or facilities, including forest health projects, that the separate legal entity is authorized to provide; Counties, municipalities, special districts, water conservancy districts, the Colorado river water conservation district, and the southwestern water conservation district to conduct or participate in and finance forest health projects; and Authorizing a forest improvement district to use its sales tax revenue for forest health projects. The act also adds to the definition of "forest health project" management actions that improve the ecological health of a forest or reduce the threat of forest disease epidemics or high-intensity wildfires, and postpones the scheduled repeal of the statute that authorizes the Colorado water resources power and development authority to issue bonds to fund watershed protection projects and forest health projects from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2033.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, it is criminal extortion to threaten to report another person's immigration status to law enforcement to induce the threatened person to give the person money or another item of value. The act adds to that version of criminal extortion a prohibition against threatening to report a person's immigration status to law enforcement to induce the threatened person to perform an act or refrain from performing a lawful act.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act requires the department of corrections (department) to operate a program to assist offenders with acquiring state-issued identification cards and other identification documents necessary for offenders to obtain state-issued identification. The department can enter into agreements with the Colorado department of revenue and federal social security administration as necessary to operate the program.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act continues the homeland security and all-hazards senior advisory committee until September 1, 2031.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The bill requires a supervising representative of a law enforcement agency to order a designated security employee of a wireless telecommunications provider to provide the law enforcement agency, without requiring the agency to obtain a court order, location information concerning the telecommunications device of a missing child if: An emergency situation exists because the time required to obtain a search warrant or other court order authorizing the acquisition of the information would frustrate the timely and safe recovery of the missing child; and The request for location is made to the law enforcement agency by the missing child's parent or legal guardian. However, a law enforcement agency shall not order the location information if the request is made by a parent or legal guardian who is a restrained person pursuant to an active protection order that identifies the missing child as a protected person, or if a law enforcement agency has an articulable reason to believe there is a custodial issue that has not been reviewed by a court. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Current law requires the air quality control commission (commission) to give at least 60 days' notice before the hearing when promulgating certain rules that set air quality standards. The bill clarifies that the commission may give an earlier notice and requires the notice to include a description of the classes of persons and entities that will be affected by the proposed rule. Current law authorizes people to submit alternate proposals to the commission's rules that set air quality standards. The bill requires the commission to promulgate rules concerning alternate proposals that: Establish a deadline for submitting these proposals, but the deadline can be no later than the deadline for party statements; Govern the submission of proposals; Establish procedures for assigning a hearing officer to make the determination whether the proposal complies with the requirements; Ensure that any party to the hearing is afforded sufficient time before the hearing to consider proposals and file with the commission a written response to the proposal. The commission is prohibited from considering an alternate proposal at the hearing unless the proposal: Complies with the bill, as determined by a hearing officer; and Includes: An initial economic impact analysis; A description of the classes of persons that will be affected; and A statement as to whether the proposal was developed in consultation with those persons or why consultation with those persons was not conducted. No later than 10 days after receiving an alternate proposal, a hearing officer must: Determine whether the proposal complies with the bill; and Provide notice of the determinations to all persons that have filed with the commission a written request to receive the notices. The bill requires the proponents of an alternate proposal to provide to the commission a final economic impact analysis. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)