CO Code § 26-7.5-105 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 26 - Human Services Code|Article 7.5 - Domestic Abuse Programs|§ 26-7.5-105. Funding of Domestic Abuse Programs

     Any nongovernmental agency or unit of local government operating a domestic abuse program pursuant to this article shall, subject to available appropriations, be reimbursed by the state department at a rate to be set by the general assembly in the annual appropriation bill. Not less than seventy-five percent of all contract funding under this article shall be allocated to nongovernmental agencies.    Money generated from fees collected pursuant to part 1 of article 2 of title 14 and article 15 of title 14 or transferred pursuant to section 13-32-101 (5)(a)(X) or (5)(b)(II) shall be used to reimburse domestic abuse programs that provide services as provided in section 26-7.5-103 to persons or their families, which persons are married, separated, or divorced or parties to a civil union or an invalidated, legally separated, or dissolved civil union.       Staffing and administrative expenses of the state department of human services and other agencies for carrying out the provisions of this article shall be appropriated annually from available funds generated by the contribution cash funds.      The Colorado domestic abuse program fund established pursuant to section 39-22-802 may be funded by any general fund money that is appropriated by the general assembly pursuant to the annual general appropriations act. The executive director has the authority to expend such funds appropriated to the Colorado domestic abuse program fund for the purposes described in this article 7.5.    The general assembly shall appropriate money from the economic recovery and relief cash fund, created in section 24-75-228, as enacted by Senate Bill 21-291, enacted in 2021, to the Colorado domestic abuse program fund established pursuant to section 39-22-802. The money shall then be appropriated from the Colorado domestic abuse program fund to the state department to be used for domestic abuse programs and purposes described in this article 7.5 that also conform with the allowable purposes set forth in the federal “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021”, Pub.L. 117-2, as the act may be subsequently amended, including offsetting grant reductions and other losses experienced as a result of the COVID-19 public health emergency, and gender-based violence organizations, including standalone anti-sexual assault organizations. The state department may use up to five percent of any money appropriated by the general assembly pursuant to this subsection (3)(b) for development and administrative costs incurred by the state department pursuant to this subsection (3)(b).         History. Source: L. 83: Entire article added, p. 1137, § 1, effective July 1. L. 94: (1) amended, p. 967, § 1, effective April 28; (2) amended, p. 2706, § 272. effective July 1. L. 99: (3) added, p. 1177, § 3, effective June 2. L. 2009: (1) amended,(SB 09-068), ch. 264, p. 1210, § 3, effective July 1. L. 2011: (1)(b) amended,(HB 11-1303), ch. 264, p. 1170, § 73, effective August 10. L. 2013: (1)(b) amended,(SB 13-011), ch. 49, p. 169, § 29, effective May 1; (1)(b) amended,(HB 13-1300), ch. 316, p. 1690, § 83, effective August 7. L. 2021: (1)(b) amended,(HB 21-1287), ch. 264, p. 1539, § 4, effective June 18; (3) amended,(SB 21-292), ch. 291, p. 1724, § 8, effective June 22.    Editor's note:    Amendments to subsection (1)(b) by Senate Bill 13-011 and House Bill 13-1300 were harmonized.    Section 10 of chapter 291 (SB 21-292), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section takes effect only if SB 21-288 and SB 21-291become law and takes effect either upon the effective date of SB 21-292 or one day after the passage of SB 21-288 or one day after the passage of SB 21-291, whichever is latest. SB 21-292 became law and took effect June 22, 2021, SB 21-288 became law and took effect June 11, 2021, and SB 21-291 took effect June 21, 2021.     Cross references:    For the legislative declaration contained in the 1994 act amending subsection (2), see section 1 of chapter 345, Session Laws of Colorado 1994. For the legislative declaration in SB 21-292, see section 1 of chapter 291, Session Laws of Colorado 2021.    For the domestic abuse program voluntary contribution, see part 8 of article 22 of title 39.