2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 19 - CHILDREN'S CODE (§§ 19-1-101 — 19-7-315) › Article 2.5 - THE COLORADO JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM (§§ 19-2.5-101 — 19-2.5-1532) › Part 14 - ADMINISTRATION (§§ 19-2.5-1401 — 19-2.5-1412) › Subpart A - IN GENERAL (§§ 19-2.5-1401 — 19-2.5-1407.3) › Section 19-2.5-1407 - Appropriations to department of human services for services to juveniles - definition - repeal

(1)
The general assembly shall appropriate money for the provision of services to juveniles to the department of human services. The department of human services shall allocate such money by each judicial district in the state. The appropriation and allocation must be made based upon the formula developed pursuant to section
19-2.5-1404 (1)(b)(V)
. The department of human services shall administer the appropriated money. The money appropriated to the department of human services for allocation by each judicial district must be expended in the judicial district by the department of human services for services to juveniles that are intended to prevent the juvenile from being held in detention prior to adjudication, including implementing options provided in the screening instrument described in section
19-2.5-1404
; sentenced to detention; or committed to the department of human services or to reduce the length of time the juvenile is held in preadjudication or postadjudication detention or held in a commitment facility operated pursuant to section
19-2.5-1502
. If a judicial district has a local juvenile services planning committee, the expenditure of money for juvenile services in the judicial district must be made in accordance with the plan developed pursuant to section
19-2.5-302
.
(2)
For the purposes of this section, a "juvenile" also includes a youth ten years of age or older but less than seventeen years of age who is habitually truant, as defined in section
22-33-102
(3.5), and who the court has ordered to show cause why the juvenile should not be held in contempt of court pursuant to section
22-33-108 (7)
, when funds are expended for services that are intended to prevent the youth from being held in detention or sentenced to detention.
(3)
(a)
The general assembly shall annually appropriate money to the department of human services for the provision of temporary shelter for juveniles by judicial districts. The general assembly shall appropriate an amount sufficient to fund five nights of care for each juvenile who, based on the results of a screening by the judicial district's screening team, is screened to temporary care in a licensed temporary shelter facility.
(b)
On or before November 1, 2022, and annually thereafter, the department shall allocate money to judicial districts in accordance with the formula developed pursuant to section
19-2.5-1404 (1)(b)(X)
.
(c)
(I)
Repealed.
(II)
For state fiscal year 2023-24 and each year thereafter, in order to receive an allocation, a juvenile services planning committee, or the judicial district if the judicial district has not established a juvenile services planning committee, shall include in its plan developed pursuant to section
19-2.5-302
a plan for providing temporary shelter in the judicial district. The plan must include that placement in licensed shelter care is voluntary and must not exceed five days.
(d)
A judicial district's juvenile services planning committee, or the judicial district, may use money allocated pursuant to this subsection (3) for:
(I)
The cost of care in a licensed temporary shelter, including any transportation costs, for up to five nights for each juvenile who, after screening by the judicial district's screening team, is referred to receive temporary care in a licensed temporary shelter facility;
(II)
Providing support to a grandparent, kin, or other suitable person for care of a juvenile released to the person's care while emergency circumstances exist, as determined by the judicial district's juvenile services planning committee that prevent the juvenile from returning home. Support provided to a grandparent, kin, or other suitable person must be based on the actual costs incurred by the person for caring for the juvenile.
(III)
Services for and evaluation of a juvenile receiving temporary shelter; and
(IV)
Establishing licensed temporary shelter through evaluation or recruitment and providing training needed to operate temporary shelter.
(e)
(I)
On or before January 31, 2024, and on or before January 31 of each year thereafter, the house of representatives public and behavioral health and human services committee and the senate health and human services committee, or their successor committees, shall hold a joint hearing to determine whether the recommendations of the working group described in section
19-2.5-1404
have been implemented in a manner that warrants the repeal of this subsection (3) prior to its scheduled repeal in 2026. At the hearing that occurs during the 2026 regular legislative session, the committees shall consider whether this subsection (3) should be continued.
(II)
At the hearing, the department shall present on its most recent report issued pursuant to section
19-2.5-1404 (3)(b)
, the committees shall permit representatives of the working group to testify or provide information to the committees, and the committees shall take public testimony regarding implementation of the working group's recommendations.
(f)
This subsection (3) is repealed, effective June 30, 2026.
Amended by 2022 Ch. 383, § 1, eff. 6/7/2022.
Renumbered from C.R.S. §
19-2-310
and amended by 2021 Ch. 136, § 2, eff. 10/1/2021.
Amended by 2018 Ch. 378, § 8, eff. 8/8/2018.
Amended by 2017 Ch. 269, § 1, eff. 5/30/2017.
L. 2021: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 21-059), ch. 681, p. 681, § 2, effective October 1.
This section is similar to former § 19-2-310 as it existed prior to 2021.
For the legislative declaration in HB 18-1156, see section 1 of chapter 378, Session Laws of Colorado 2018.