The act appropriates $2.5 million from the general fund to the department of agriculture for the Colorado proud program.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act requires the department of human services (state department) to establish procedures to approve recovery support services organizations for reimbursement of peer support professional services. The act also gives the executive director of the state department rule-making authority to establish other criteria and standards as necessary.The act permits a recovery support services organization to charge and submit for reimbursement from the medical assistance program certain eligible peer support services provided by peer support professionals.The act authorizes the department of health care policy and financing to reimburse recovery support services organizations for permissible claims for peer support services submitted under the medical services program.The act requires contracts entered into between the state department's office of behavioral health and designated managed service organizations to include terms and conditions related to the support of peer-run recovery support services organizations.For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, $28,654 is appropriated to the state department from the general fund for use by the office of behavioral health to implement this act.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Current law allows for only one type of response for a county department of human or social services (county department) to follow after a report of mistreatment or self-neglect of an at-risk adult, regardless of the level of risk reported. That type of response requires a full investigation, including unannounced initial in-person interviews, and a finding by the county department.The act creates, on or after January 1, 2022, an alternative response pilot program (pilot) that a participating county department can utilize when it receives a report, related to an at-risk adult, of mistreatment or self-neglect (report), and the report has identified the risk as lower risk, as defined by rules promulgated by the state department of human services (state department).The state department shall select a maximum of 15 rural and urban county departments to participate in the pilot. Upon receipt of a report, a participating county department will not make a finding nor will it be required to complete unannounced initial in-person interviews, so long as the report has identified the risk as lower risk, as defined by rule of the state department. If, upon further review, the participating county department determines the situation is more severe, it shall revert to the process that is currently set forth in law for investigating a report.The state department shall provide initial training on the pilot to participating county departments, as well as ongoing technical assistance.The state department shall promulgate rules for the implementation and administration of the pilot. The rules must include, at a minimum, a description of the risk levels and the parameters around unannounced initial in-person interviews.The state department shall contract with a third-party evaluator to evaluate the pilot's success or failure, including a consideration of the pilot's effectiveness in achieving outcomes over a 2-year period.Each participating county department shall submit a report to the state department, as necessary, regarding the county department's use of the pilot and any data required by the state department to effectively evaluate the pilot.The state department shall submit a summary report to the health and human services committee of the senate and the public and behavioral health and human services committee of the house of representatives as part of its "State Measurement for Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent (SMART) Government Act" presentations in January 2025 and January 2026.The pilot is repealed, effective July 1, 2027.For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $173,351 to the department of human services for use by adult protective services. This appropriation is from the general fund and is based on an assumption that adult protective services will require an additional 0.9 FTE. To implement this act, adult protective services may use this appropriation for state administration.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act requires a pharmacist who dispenses an opioid to an individual to inform the individual of the potential dangers of a high dose of an opioid and offer to prescribe the individual an opiate antagonist if:The individual is, at the same time, prescribed a benzodiazepine, a sedative hypnotic drug, carisoprodol, tramadol, or gabapentin; or The opioid prescription being dispensed is at or in excess of 90 morphine milligram equivalent. If an individual accepts the offer for an opiate antagonist, the pharmacist is required to counsel the individual on how to use the opiate antagonist and notify the individual of available generic and brand-name opiate antagonists.The act does not apply to a pharmacist dispensing a prescription medication to a patient in hospice or palliative care or a resident in a veterans community living center.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The requirements of the "Construction Bidding for Public Projects Act" (CBPPA) generally apply to a public project if the cost of the project is reasonably expected to exceed $500,000 for any fiscal year; except that a public project supervised by the department of transportation (CDOT) is subject to the requirements of the CBPPA if the cost of the project is reasonably expected to exceed $150,000 for any fiscal year. The act:Increases the lower cost amount for CDOT projects to $250,000, which means that the requirements of the CBPPA, including the requirement that CDOT prepare a bid estimate when it proposes to undertake a project itself rather than awarding the project to a contractor through competitive bidding, will apply to a CDOT project only if the cost of the project is reasonably expected to exceed $250,000 for any fiscal year; Increases from $50,000 to $150,000 the maximum cost for a CDOT project that is exempt from transportation commission approval; and Requires CDOT to annually identify in a report to the transportation commission and the transportation legislation review committee of the general assembly all highway maintenance projects for the reporting year costing more than $150,000 but not more than $250,000 that: CDOT is completing using CDOT employees; CDOT awarded by invitation for bids or competitive sealed best value bidding; or For which CDOT solicited but did not receive bids. The act also limits the existing requirement that CDOT pay all employees performing work on any public project local prevailing wages in accordance with specified federal acts to projects that cost more than $250,000 and requires all electrical work on a CDOT public project to be performed by licensed electricians or registered apprentices properly supervised by electricians.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Current law provides for the establishment of a single entry point system that consists of single entry point agencies throughout the state for the purpose of enabling persons 18 years of age or older in need of long-term care to access appropriate long-term care services.The act requires the state board of the department of health care policy and financing (department) to adopt rules providing for the establishment of a redesigned case management system (system), no later than July 1, 2024, that consists of case management agencies throughout the state for the purpose of enabling individuals in need of long-term care to access appropriate long-term services and supports. No later than December 31, 2021, the department shall work with stakeholders to develop a timeline for the implementation of the system. No later than December 31, 2022, the department shall issue a competitive solicitation in order to select case management agencies for the system.The act makes conforming amendments to replace the terms "community-centered board" and "single entry point agency" with "case management agency".(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act allows a person to sell, without licensure, regulation, or inspection by a public health agency, rabbit meat if the animal was raised and processed by the seller and to sell shares in the meat of an animal, which includes cattle, calves, elk, sheep, hogs, bison, goats, and rabbits, but not fish, for future delivery if:The person displays at the point of sale a disclaimer or gives the purchaser a document with a disclaimer that: The seller is not licensed and the animals or meat are not subject to state regulation or inspection by a public health agency; and The animals or meat are not intended for resale; and The animals or meat are delivered directly from the seller to an informed end consumer and are sold only in Colorado. The purchaser is prohibited from reselling the animal, animal share, or meat. A seller is not liable in a civil action for damages caused by inadequately cooking or improperly preparing the animal or meat for consumption.The act also limits the number of brand inspections for an animal share sale to a single inspection before slaughter. The state board of stock inspection commissioners will promulgate rules establishing procedures for a single inspection.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act addresses multiple recommendations from the Colorado behavioral health task force (task force), created in 2019, related to the creation of a behavioral health administration (BHA). The BHA would be a single state agency to lead, promote, and administer the state's behavioral health priorities.The act requires the department of human services (department) to submit a plan for the creation of the BHA on or before November 1, 2021, to the joint budget committee and to the department's committees of reference. The act outlines what the plan must, at a minimum, include. The essential duties of the BHA, once established, are set forth.A timeline is described for the establishment of the BHA in the department and for a future determination of the state department in which the BHA will exist, if different than the department of human services.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Current law authorizes the department of revenue (department) to make bulk electronic transfers, for a fee, of certain information obtained from applications for driver's licenses, motor vehicle registrations, motor vehicle titles, identification cards, and other official records and documents. The bulk electronic transfers are made to users and vendors who are permitted to transfer or resell such information. Notwithstanding the provisions of the federal "Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994", the bill prohibits the department from making bulk electronic transfers of information collected by the department to primary users and vendors who transfer or resell such information. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
