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CO Code § 25.5-10-224 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 2 - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|§ 25.5-10-224. Right to Fair Employment Practices

  No person receiving services shall be required to perform labor; except that persons receiving services may voluntarily engage in such labor if the labor is compensated in accordance with applicable minimum wage laws.    No person receiving services shall be involved in the physical care, care and treatment, training, or supervision of other persons receiving services unless such person has volunteered, has been specifically trained in the necessary skills, and has the judgment required for such activities, is adequately supervised, and is reimbursed in accordance with the applicable minimum wage laws.    Each person receiving services may perform vocational training tasks, subject to a presumption that an assignment longer than three months to any task is not a training task, if the specific task or any change in task assignment is an integral part of such person's individualized plan. If such person performs vocational training tasks for which the service agency is receiving compensation from any outside source, the person shall be compensated in accordance with the applicable minimum wage laws.    Each person receiving services may voluntarily engage in labor for which the service agency would otherwise have to pay an employee if the specific labor or any change in labor is an integral part of such person's individualized plan and the person is compensated in accordance with the applicable minimum wage laws.    Each person receiving services may be required to perform tasks of a personal housekeeping nature or tasks oriented to improving community living skills in accordance with the person's individualized plan.    Payment to persons receiving services pursuant to this section shall not be collected by the service agency to offset the costs of providing services and supports to such person.     History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1774, § 1, effective March 1, 2014.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-118 as it existed prior to 2013.
CO Code § 25.5-10-225 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 2 - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|§ 25.5-10-225. Right to Vote

 Each person receiving services who is eligible to vote according to law has the right to vote in all primary and general elections. As necessary, all service agencies shall assist such persons to register to vote, to obtain mail ballots, to comply with other requirements that are prerequisite to voting, and to vote.   History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1775, § 1, effective March 1, 2014.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-119 as it existed prior to 2013.
CO Code § 25.5-10-227 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 2 - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|§ 25.5-10-227. Right to Personal Property

  Each person receiving services has the right to the possession and use of such person's own clothing and personal effects. If the service agency holds any of such person's personal effects for any reason, such retention shall be promptly recorded in such person's record and the reason for retention shall also be recorded.    Upon the request of a person receiving services, a service agency may hold money or funds belonging to the person receiving services, received by such person, or received by the service agency for such person. All such money or funds shall be held by the service agency as trustee for the person receiving services. Upon request, an accounting shall be rendered by the service agency.    Upon request, a person receiving services is entitled to receive reasonable amounts of such person's money or funds held in trust.     History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1776, § 1, effective March 1, 2014.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-121 as it existed prior to 2013.
CO Code § 25.5-10-228 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 2 - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|§ 25.5-10-228. Right to Influence Policy

 The persons receiving services of a service agency are entitled to establish a committee to hear the views and represent the interests of all such persons served by the agency and to attempt to influence the policies of the agency to the extent that they influence provision of services and supports.   History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1776, § 1, effective March 1, 2014.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-122 as it existed prior to 2013.
CO Code § 25.5-10-229 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 2 - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|§ 25.5-10-229. Right to Notification

 Each person receiving services has the right to read or have explained, in each person's or family's native language, any rules adopted by the service agency and pertaining to such person's activities.   History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1777, § 1, effective March 1, 2014.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-123 as it existed prior to 2013.
CO Code § 25.5-10-230 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 2 - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|§ 25.5-10-230. Discrimination

 No person who has received services or supports under any provision of this article shall be discriminated against because of such status. For purposes of this section, “discrimination” means the giving of any unfavorable weight to the fact that a person has received such services or supports.   History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1777, § 1, effective March 1, 2014.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-124 as it existed prior to 2013.
CO Code § 25.5-10-232 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 2 - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|§ 25.5-10-232. Competency to Give Consent to Sterilization

  If the competency of the person with an intellectual and developmental disability to give consent to sterilization is disputed by the intellectual and developmental disabilities professional, the psychiatrist or psychologist, or physician, said person may file a petition for declaration of competency to give consent to sterilization with the court. Upon the filing of a petition which shows that said person is over eighteen years of age and desires to give consent to sterilization, the court shall immediately set a hearing to determine the person's competency to give such consent. For the purpose of determining competency, the court shall appoint two or more independent professional persons with expertise in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities who do not provide services and supports to said person to examine said person and to present their findings as to said person's competency to give consent to sterilization at the competency hearing.    If the court determines that the person has given consent to sterilization and is competent to give such consent, the court may order that the sterilization be performed unless the person withdraws consent to sterilization prior to the sterilization being performed. If the court determines that the person is incompetent to give consent to sterilization, the court shall order that no sterilization be performed without further court proceedings pursuant to section 25.5-10-233.    Determination of competency in these proceedings is specific to the ability to give consent to sterilization and does not determine legal competency for any other purpose.     History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1778, § 1, effective March 1, 2014.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-129 as it existed prior to 2013.   ANNOTATION   When petition required. A petition is required if the retarded person's competency is questioned either by the physician from whom sterilization is sought or by a parent, legal guardian, or custodian of the person. In re A.W., 637 P.2d 366 (Colo. 1981) (decided under former law).
CO Code § 25.5-10-234 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 2 - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|§ 25.5-10-234. Confidentiality of Sterilization Proceedings

 All records, hearings, and proceedings pursuant to sections 25.5-10-231 to 25.5-10-233 are strictly confidential unless requested to be open to the public by the person with an intellectual and developmental disability or the person's legal guardian.   History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1779, § 1, effective March 1, 2014.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-131 as it existed prior to 2013.
CO Code § 25.5-10-235 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 2 - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|§ 25.5-10-235. Limitations on Sterilization

  Consent to sterilization shall be made neither a condition for release from any institution nor a condition for the exercise of any right, privilege, or freedom.    Nothing in this article requires any hospital or any person to participate in any sterilization, nor shall any hospital or any person be civilly or criminally liable for refusing to participate in any sterilization.     History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1779, § 1, effective March 1, 2014.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-132 as it existed prior to 2013.
CO Code § 25.5-10-236 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 2 - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|§ 25.5-10-236. Civil Action and Attorney Fees

 A violation of any provision of this article gives rise to a civil cause of action by the person adversely affected by such violation, and any judgment may include plaintiff's reasonable attorney fees.   History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1780, § 1, effective March 1, 2014.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-134 as it existed prior to 2013.
CO Code § 25.5-10-237 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 2 - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|§ 25.5-10-237. Terminology

  Whenever the terms “insane”, “insanity”, “mentally or mental incompetent”, “mental incompetency”, or “of unsound mind” are used in the laws of the state of Colorado, they shall be deemed to refer to the insane, as defined in section 16-8-101, C.R.S., or to a person with an intellectual and developmental disability, as defined in section 25.5-10-202, as the context of the particular law requires.    Whenever the term “mentally deficient person” is used in the laws of the state of Colorado, it shall be deemed to mean and be included with the term “person with an intellectual and developmental disability”, as defined in section 25.5-10-202.     History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1780, § 1, effective March 1, 2014.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-135 as it existed prior to 2013.
CO Code § 25.5-10-238 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 2 - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|§ 25.5-10-238. Federal Funds

 The state department is authorized to accept, on behalf of the state, any grants of federal funds made available for any purposes consistent with the provisions of this article. The executive director of the state department, with the approval of the governor, shall have power to direct the disposition of any such grants so accepted in conformity with the terms and conditions under which they are given.   History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1780, § 1, effective March 1, 2014.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-137 as it existed prior to 2013.
CO Code § 25.5-10-239 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 2 - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|§ 25.5-10-239. Evaluations to Determine Whether a Defendant Is Mentally Retarded or Has an Intellectual and Developmental Disability for Purposes of Class 1 Felony Trials

 Upon request of the court, the executive director, or his or her designee, shall recommend specific professionals who are qualified to perform an evaluation to determine whether a defendant is mentally retarded or is a defendant with an intellectual and developmental disability, as defined in section 18-1.3-1101 . A recommended professional must be licensed as a psychologist in the state of Colorado and must have experience in and demonstrated competence in determination and evaluation of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The executive director shall convene a panel of not fewer than three persons with expertise in intellectual and developmental disabilities to assess the qualifications of licensed psychologists and make recommendations to the executive director or his or her designee.   History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1780, § 1, effective March 1, 2014. L. 2018: Entire section amended,(SB 18-096), ch. 44, p. 474, § 17, effective August 8.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-139 as it existed prior to 2013.   Cross references:   For the legislative declaration in SB 18-096, see section 1 of chapter 44, Session Laws of Colorado 2018.
CO Code § 25.5-10-240 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 2 - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|§ 25.5-10-240. Retaliation Prohibited

 [ ] No person shall be discriminated against because he or she has made a complaint, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing pursuant to this article, including the dispute resolution procedures in section 25.5-10-212 and section 27-10.5-107 , C.R.S. A service agency, including the state department and any community-centered board, shall not coerce, intimidate, threaten, or interfere with any person in the exercise or enjoyment of any right pursuant to this article, or on account of his or her having exercised or enjoyed any right pursuant to this article, or on account of his or her having aided or encouraged any other person in the exercise or enjoyment of any right pursuant to this article.  Editor's note: This version of this section is effective until July 1, 2024.  History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1780, § 1, effective March 1, 2014. L. 2021: Entire section amended,(HB 21-1187), ch. 83, p. 343, § 46, effective July 1, 2024.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-141 as it existed prior to 2013.
CO Code § 25.5-10-240 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 2 - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|§ 25.5-10-240. Retaliation Prohibited

 [ ] No person shall be discriminated against because the person has made a complaint, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing pursuant to this article 10, including the dispute resolution procedures in section 25.5-10-212 and section 27-10.5-107 . A service agency, including the state department and any case management agency, shall not coerce, intimidate, threaten, or interfere with any person in the exercise or enjoyment of any right pursuant to this article 10, or on account of the person having exercised or enjoyed any right pursuant to this article 10, or on account of the person having aided or encouraged any other person in the exercise or enjoyment of any right pursuant to this article 10.  Editor's note: This version of this section is effective July 1, 2024.  History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1780, § 1, effective March 1, 2014. L. 2021: Entire section amended,(HB 21-1187), ch. 83, p. 343, § 46, effective July 1, 2024.
CO Code § 25.5-10-302 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 3 - Family Support Services|§ 25.5-10-302. Purpose

 The purpose of the family support services program created in this part 3 is to provide support to families in their role as primary care givers for a family member with an intellectual and developmental disability.   History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1782, § 1, effective March 1, 2014.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-402 as it existed prior to 2013.
CO Code § 25.5-10-304 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 3 - Family Support Services|§ 25.5-10-304. Family Support Councils

  [ ] The state department shall ensure that each community-centered board establishes a family support council in each community-centered board designated service area. The family support councils shall consist of professionals, interested citizens, family members of persons with an intellectual and developmental disability, and persons with an intellectual and developmental disability with a majority of the council being made up of family members.    The family support council shall:   [ ] Provide direction and assistance to the community-centered board in the development of a family support plan for the designated service area;    Make recommendations regarding other family supports or services not specifically listed in this part 3;    Monitor the implementation of the supports or services provided pursuant to the plan; and    Provide a written report to the state department of its involvement in the duties specified in this subsection (2).       Editor's note: This version of subsection (1) is effective until July 1, 2024.  (1) [ ] The state department shall ensure that each case management agency or service agency approved to provide family support services establishes a family support council in each defined service area. The family support councils must consist of professionals, interested citizens, family members of persons with an intellectual and developmental disability, and persons with an intellectual and developmental disability with a majority of the council being made up of family members.  Editor's note: This version of subsection (1) is effective July 1, 2024. Editor's note: This version of subsection (2)(a) is effective until July 1, 2024.  (a) [ ] Provide direction and assistance to the case management agency in the development of a family support plan for the defined service area;  Editor's note: This version of subsection (2)(a) is effective July 1, 2024.  History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1783, § 1, effective March 1, 2014. L. 2021: (1) and (2)(a) amended,(HB 21-1187), ch. 83, p. 344, § 48, effective July 1, 2024.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-405 as it existed prior to 2013.
CO Code § 25.5-10-305 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 3 - Family Support Services|§ 25.5-10-305. Authorized Family Support Services

  The family support services included in this program include, but are not limited to, family support grants, family support services coordination, information and referral, educational materials, emergency and outreach services, and other person- and family-centered assistance services such as:   Medical and dental expenses not covered by medical or health insurance or other programs;    Insurance expenses;    Respite;    Mobility aids; adaptive equipment; assistive technology, including the cost of therapies essential for a child's development, as prescribed by a physician or specialized therapist; and home adaptations;    Home health services and therapies;    Family counseling, training, and support groups;    Recreation and leisure needs;    Transportation;    Special diets, clothing, materials, and equipment; and    Homemaker services.        History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1784, § 1, effective March 1, 2014.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-406 as it existed prior to 2013.
CO Code § 25.5-10-305.5 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 3 - Family Support Services|§ 25.5-10-305.5. Family Support Services Fund - Creation

  The family support services fund, referred to in this section as the “fund”, is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund consists of money transferred to the fund from the Colorado family support loan fund as created in section 25.5-10-402 prior to its repeal, payments relating to outstanding loans made from the Colorado family support loan fund as created in section 25.5-10-402 prior to its repeal, and any other money that the general assembly may appropriate or transfer to the fund.    The state treasurer shall credit all interest and income derived from the deposit and investment of money in the fund to the fund.    Subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly, the state department may expend money from the fund for necessary expenditures relating to the administration of outstanding loans made from the Colorado family support loan fund as created in section 25.5-10-402 prior to its repeal, and to provide family support services pursuant to this part 3.     History. Source: L. 2017: Entire section added, (HB 17-1078), ch. 27, p. 81, § 3, effective July 1.
CO Code § 25.5-10-306 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 10 - Community Living|Part 3 - Family Support Services|§ 25.5-10-306. Rules

  The state board shall develop rules concerning:   Further definition of services and supports to be provided by the family support services program described in this part 3;    The requirements for eligibility for services and supports;    The manner of providing services and supports; and    The size, makeup, and duties of family support councils.        History. Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1784, § 1, effective March 1, 2014.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-407 as it existed prior to 2013.