The act requires the Colorado state patrol to develop an assessment report to identify the level of compliance by dealers, owners, keepers, or proprietors of a junk shop, junk store, salvage yard, or other secondhand property (applicable facility) with commodity metal transaction reporting requirements. The assessment report must encourage voluntary compliance and education concerning commodity metal transaction reporting requirements. The act requires applicable facilities to complete and submit the assessment report to the Colorado state patrol, and the state patrol is required to produce a summary of the reports received. The act requires the state patrol to develop an inspection form for authorities to use when inspecting applicable facilities for compliance with commodity metal transaction reporting requirements. Upon completion of the inspection form, the agency completing the inspection shall send the form to the state patrol within 2 weeks of completing the inspection. The state patrol has to provide a summary of all the statewide inspections to the commodity metal task force. The task force shall consider the report at a public meeting. The act creates the catalytic converter identification and theft prevention grant program to award grants to eligible recipients for public awareness campaigns regarding catalytic converter theft, catalytic converter theft prevention parts, assistance to victims of catalytic converter theft, and catalytic converter identification and tracking efforts. The act appropriates $300,000 from the general fund to the department of public safety for use by the Colorado state patrol. The act appropriates $105,871 from the highway users tax fund to the department of public safety for use by the executive director's office to purchase information technology services. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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The act creates the legislative oversight committee (committee) concerning Colorado jail standards and the Colorado jail standards commission (commission) in the legislative branch. The committee consists of 6 members of the General Assembly and oversees the commission. The committee may introduce up to 3 pieces of legislation in the 2024 session based on recommendations from the commission. The commission recommends standards for the operation of Colorado's county jails (jails). The commission consists of the following 22 members: 5 sheriffs or senior jail administrators; 2 county commissioners; 3 people with lived experience of being incarcerated or having a family member who is or was incarcerated in a jail; One mental health professional with experience working in a jail; One person representing competency services; One person representing the behavioral health administration; One person representing police officers; One person representing a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer advocacy organization; One person representing an organization advocating for the rights of people with disabilities; One person representing an organization advocating for the rights of communities of color; One person representing an organization advocating for the rights of persons with mental or physical disabilities; One non-law-enforcement person with experience working in a jail; The state public defender or the state public defender's designee; One district attorney; and One person representing the department of public safety with expertise in jail operations. The commission shall recommend standards for all aspects of jail operations as follows: Reception and release; Classification of inmates; Security; Housing; Sanitation and environmental conditions; Communication; Visitation; Health care, mental and behavioral health care, and dental care; Food service; Recreation and programming; Inmate disciplinary processes; Restrictive housing; Inmate grievances; Staffing; and Inmates' prerogatives. The commission shall complete a report that includes its recommendations regarding the feasability of jails of various sizes and their ability to implement the recommendations and present it to the committee for approval by November 15, 2023. The act repeals the committee and commission on July 1, 2024. The act appropriates $96,039 from the general fund to the legislative department. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Current law requires every owner, keeper, or proprietor of a junk shop, junk store, salvage yard, or junk cart or other vehicle and every collector of or dealer in junk, salvage, or other secondhand property to keep a book or register detailing all transactions involving commodity metals and to comply with certain other requirements concerning transactions involving commodity metals. Current law also establishes the commodity metals theft task force (task force) and charges the task force with certain duties to address the theft of commodity metals. The act extends the scope of the current laws addressing commodity metal theft to include theft of catalytic converters. The act also expands the scope of the duties of the task force to include consideration of catalytic converter theft. For the purposes of the existing criminal statute prohibiting the operation of motor vehicle chop shops, the act adds catalytic converters to the definition of "major component motor vehicle part". (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act implements the recommendation of the department of regulatory agencies' sunset review and report concerning the domestic violence offender management board (board). The act extends the board until September 1, 2027. The act requires the board to conduct compliance reviews on at least 10% of the treatment providers who provide services to domestic violence offenders every 2 years beginning no later than July 1, 2023. The act conforms the fingerprint-based background check process for treatment providers to current law and practice. The act requires the board to develop a data collection plan and requires providers to begin data collection pursuant to the plan by January 1, 2023. The act requires the board to produce an annual report that includes: The number of people who received domestic violence offender treatment in the preceding year, the number of those who successfully completed the treatment, the number of those who did not complete the treatment, and the number of those who reoffended and were removed from treatment; The number of treatment providers who provided domestic violence offender treatment in the preceding year; The number of treatment providers who applied to be placed on the list of approved treatment providers and the number of treatment providers placed on the list; The best practices for the treatment and management of domestic violence; and Any other relevant information, including any board recommendations for legislation to carry out the purpose and duties of the board to protect the community. The act appropriates $70,232 from the general fund to the department of public safety for use by the division of criminal justice to implement the act. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under existing law, the court reminder program (program) provides reminders to criminal defendants and juveniles who have been alleged to have committed a delinquent act (collectively, "defendants") to appear at each of their scheduled court appearances. The act requires every defendant to be automatically enrolled in the program and allows a defendant to opt out of the program. The act clarifies that defendants alleged to have committed traffic offenses are enrolled in the program. The program must use the best contact information available to the courts and provide at least 3 reminders, including one reminder the day before the court appearance. For court appearances that can be attended virtually, the final reminder must include a link to the virtual court appearance. The program must send reminders by text message, but may use another method if a defendant is unable to receive text messages. The program is required to track the number of defendants that opt out of the program and to implement or recommend changes to improve participation. The judicial department is required to report information regarding reminders sent by methods other than text message. The act requires the state court administrator to convene a working group to study best practices in court reminders, assess the effectiveness of the program, and recommend appropriate changes to the program to the state court administrator. In its annual State Measurement for Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent (SMART) Government Act hearing, the judicial department is required to present the recommendations made by the working group, whether the recommendations were implemented, and the rationale for implementing or rejecting any recommendation. Because defendants are automatically enrolled in the program, the act repeals provisions related to notifying defendants of the opportunity to enroll in the program. The act appropriates $74,713 to the judicial department from the general fund to implement the act. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act establishes the early intervention, deflection, and redirection from the criminal justice system grant program (grant program) in the behavioral health administration (BHA) to provide grants to fund programs and strategies that prevent people with behavioral health needs from becoming involved with the criminal justice system or that redirect individuals in the criminal justice system with behavioral health needs from the system to appropriate services. Local governments, federally recognized Indian tribes, hospitals, health-care providers, and community-based organizations are eligible for a grant; local law enforcement agencies are eligible for a grant only for the purpose of developing or expanding a co-responder community response program. In order to receive a grant, an applicant must offer a monetary contribution or in-kind contributions that directly support the services provided with the grant award. The BHA may waive the monetary or in-kind contribution requirement for applicants requesting a grant of less than $50,000. The BHA administers the grant program in consultation with the department of public safety. The act establishes a review committee to review grant applications and make recommendations to the BHA and department of public safety about which applicants should receive grants and the amount of each grant. After receiving and reviewing recommendations from the review committee and after consultation with the department of public safety, the BHA shall award grants. Each grant recipient must report to the BHA information about the use of the grant. The bill requires the general assembly to appropriate $50.7 million from the behavioral and mental health cash fund to the department of human services for the grant program. The act requires the general assembly to appropriate $3 million from the behavioral and mental health cash fund to the department of corrections (department) to provide medication-assisted treatment to individuals who are placed in the custody of the department. The department shall use the money for upgrades necessary to store medications at department facilities, for providing continuity of care for inmates with a substance use disorder between institutional settings and community-based treatment, and for facilitating long-term treatment and recovery of individuals upon release. The act requires the general assembly to appropriate $4 million from the behavioral and mental health cash fund to the judicial department for allocation to district attorneys for pretrial diversion programs. The judicial department is required to allocate $1.8 million of the money to recipients that provide diversion for individuals with behavioral health disorders. A district attorney who receives funding for a pretrial diversion program is required report the number of people screened for and referred to behavioral health treatment. The act creates the behavioral health information and data sharing program to award grants to counties to integrate the county jails' data systems with the Colorado integrated criminal justice information system. The division of criminal justice (division) within the department of public safety administers the program. The division is required to collaborate with the office of information technology to oversee the implementation of data-sharing systems or software necessary to exchange information with the Colorado integrated criminal justice information system. The act requires the general assembly to appropriate $3.5 million from the behavioral and mental health cash fund for the program. The act requires the state department of health care policy and financing (HCPF) to evaluate and determine whether the state should seek additional federal authority to provide screening, brief intervention, and care coordination services through the medical assistance program to persons immediately prior to release from jail or a department of corrections facility and to improve processes for determining and redetermining individuals for medical assistance eligibility. If HCPF determines that the state should request federal authority, HCPF must make the request and, if the requested federal authority is granted, provide the benefits. If HCPF determines that the state should not request federal authority, HCPF must submit a report to the joint budget committee of the general assembly that includes an alternate plan to ensure continuity of care for individuals being released from jail or prison. The act requires HCPF to determine whether federal authority is necessary to provide benefit coverage under the medical assistance program to people who are on work release from jail. The act requires each county jail to report quarterly about the number of inmates whose medicaid is suspended while incarcerated and the number of incarcerated inmates who are enrolled in, or whose medicaid is reinstated, prior to release. The act requires a county jail to provide medicaid enrollment or re-enrollment paperwork to a person who is incarcerated in the jail and is eligible for medicaid benefits when the person enters the county jail. The act requires an administrator of a community corrections program to partner with a county department of human or social services to facilitate enrolling each offender participating in the program into medicaid. The act makes the following appropriations from the behavioral and mental health cash fund: $50.7 million to the department of human services for use by the BHA for the grant program; $4 million to the judicial department for adult district attorney pretrial diversion programs; $3.5 million to the department of public safety for behavioral health information and data sharing grants, of which, $1,760,709 is reappropriated to the office of information technology; and $3 million to the department of corrections for its mental health subprogram. The act appropriates $81,164 from the general fund to the department of health care policy and financing. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Legislative Oversight Committee Concerning the Treatment of Persons with Mental Health Disorders in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems. The bill changes the standard for an emergency 72-hour mental health commitment for treatment and evaluation to include when a person appears to have a mental health disorder or be gravely disabled and, as a result of such mental health disorder or being gravely disabled, appears to present an imminent or substantial risk of harm to self or others. "Substantial risk" is defined.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The act expands the existing pretrial diversion program to include diversion programs that are intended to identify eligible individuals with behavioral health disorders and divert such individuals out of the criminal justice system and into community treatment programs. This expansion replaces the alternative pilot programs to divert individuals with mental health conditions that are set to repeal July 1, 2022. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act repeals the following tax expenditures: The exemption from the insurance premium tax for educational and scientific institution life insurance; The alternative minimum income tax based on annual gross receipts from sales in or into the state; The income tax credit for investment in technologies for recycling plastics; The income tax credit for crop or livestock contributions to a charitable organization; The income tax deduction for income or gain for a C corporation that was taxed prior to 1965, to the extent it is included in current taxable income; Income tax credits for qualifying investments; and The sales and use tax exemption for the transfer of complimentary promotional materials to an out-of-state vendee. The act also repeals the requirement that a specific amount of a state-employed chaplain's salary must be designated as a rental allowance, thereby making it exempt from federal income tax. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
To provide funding to improve economic conditions for Native Americans, if the federal government provides funding for the existing statutorily mandated and state-funded Native American tuition waiver program that allows a Native American who is either an enrolled member of an American Indian Tribal Nation or an Alaska Native Village recognized by the federal government or is a child or grandchild of such an enrolled member to attend Fort Lewis college on a tuition-free basis, the bill: Requires the statutorily mandated annual general fund appropriation to Fort Lewis college to pay the full cost of tuition for such students to be reduced by an amount equal to the amount of the federal funding; Requires an amount of general fund money equal to the amount of the reduction in the annual general fund appropriation to be appropriated to the commission of Indian affairs (commission); Requires the commission to use the money to contract with a Colorado-based nonprofit organization that has a primary mission of improving economic socioeconomic conditions for Indians for coordination, oversight, and provision of programs and grants that support that mission; andRequires the commission and the nonprofit organization that it contracts with to jointly convene an advisory group to advise the commission and the nonprofit organization in establishing initial guidelines for programs and grants to be coordinated, overseen, or provided by the nonprofit organization and to provide ongoing advice to the commission and the nonprofit organization concerning the provision of such programs and grants; and Requires the nonprofit organization to report to the commission regarding its implementation of the contract at least once per year and to detail in its reports how it has expended the money provided to it by the commission. (Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.) (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)