2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 25 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT (§§ 25-1-101 — 25-59-106) › PREVENTION, INTERVENTION, AND TREATMENT SERVICES (§§ 25-20.5-101 — 25-20.5-2207) › Article 20.5 - PREVENTION, INTERVENTION, AND TREATMENT SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH (§§ 25-20.5-101 — 25-20.5-2207) › Part 1 - ADMINISTRATION (§§ 25-20.5-101 — 25-20.5-112) › Section 25-20.5-104 - Functions of division - repeal

(1)
The division has the following functions:
(a) and (b)
Repealed.
(c)
To act as a liaison with communities throughout the state and assist the communities in their efforts to assess their needs with regard to prevention, intervention, and treatment services and to provide information to assist the communities in obtaining funding for appropriate prevention, intervention, and treatment programs;
(d)
To provide technical assistance to communities and to entities that provide prevention, intervention, and treatment services;
(e)
To operate the prevention and intervention programs specified in this article and such other prevention and intervention programs as may be created in or transferred to the division by executive order to be funded solely by nonstate moneys, including but not limited to reviewing applications submitted by entities to receive funding through said programs, awarding grants based on such applications, and notifying the state board of health of the grants awarded and the amounts of said grants;
(f)
To solicit and accept grants from the federal government and to solicit and accept contributions, grants, gifts, bequests, and donations from individuals, private organizations, and foundations for the operation of any prevention and intervention programs under the authority of the division;
(g)
To periodically review the federal funding guidelines for federal prevention, intervention, and treatment programs and to seek the maximum flexibility in the use of federal money in funding prevention, intervention, and treatment programs;
(h)
To seek such federal waivers as may be necessary to allow the division to combine federal moneys available through various federal prevention, intervention, and treatment programs and to combine said moneys with moneys appropriated by the general assembly to fund state prevention, intervention, and treatment programs to allow the greatest flexibility in awarding combined program funding to community-based prevention, intervention, and treatment programs.
(i)
Repealed.
(2)
In addition to any prevention and intervention programs created in or transferred to the division by executive order and any prevention and intervention programs transferred to the division by the executive director pursuant to subsection (4) of this section, the division shall operate the following prevention and intervention programs:
(a) to (e)
(Deleted by amendment, L. 2013.)
(f)
The school-based health center grant program created in part 5 of this article.
(2.5)
(a)
For state fiscal year 2023-24, the general assembly shall appropriate two hundred fifty thousand dollars to the division for the division to partner with a statewide nonprofit organization to provide healthy eating program incentives among Colorado's low-income populations. These program incentives must attempt to improve access to fresh Colorado-grown fruits and vegetables among Colorado's low-income populations.
(b)
The statewide nonprofit organization selected by the division for the partnership described in this subsection (2.5) shall have experience in supporting healthy eating incentives programs, such as programs at local farmers markets, and experience with coordinating healthy eating programs and funding between local, state, and federal programs.
(c)
In providing the program incentives described in this subsection (2.5), both the division and the nonprofit shall minimize their administrative expenses. The division shall not use more than ten thousand dollars and the nonprofit shall not use more than five percent of the amount transferred pursuant to subsection (2.5)(a) of this section for their administrative expenses.
(d)
The division shall use the funding provided in subsection (2.5)(a) of this section to supplement, not supplant, other general fund appropriations to the division.
(e)
All but seventy-seven thousand seven hundred fifty-two dollars of the amount transferred pursuant to subsection (2.5)(a) of this section must be expended for healthy eating program incentives among Colorado's low-income populations.
(f)
This subsection (2.5) is repealed, effective September 1, 2025.
(3)
In operating prevention and intervention programs, on receipt of an application for funding through any of said prevention and intervention programs, the division shall review the application and determine whether there are other prevention, intervention, and treatment programs operated by state agencies within this state through which funding may be available to the applicant. With the applicant's consent, the division shall forward a copy of the application to any such program for consideration.
(4)
The executive director shall transfer any prevention and intervention programs operated by the department to the division, as he or she deems appropriate. The division shall collaborate with any other division within the department that operates a prevention, intervention, and treatment program in the same manner that it collaborates with other state agencies that operate prevention, intervention, and treatment programs.
Amended by 2023 Ch. 338,§ 2, eff. 8/7/2023.
Amended by 2020 Ch. 44, § 4, eff. 9/14/2020.
Amended by 2013 Ch. 169, § 14, eff. 7/1/2013.
L. 2000: Entire article added, p. 563, § 1, effective May 18. L. 2001: (2)(e) amended, p. 251, § 6, effective March 29. L. 2006: (2)(f) added, p. 1597, § 2, effective July 1. L. 2013: (1)(a), (1)(e), and (2) amended, (HB 13-1117), ch. 586, p. 586, § 14, effective July 1. L. 2020: (1)(a) and (1)(b) repealed and (1)(g) amended, (HB 20 -1038), ch. 146, p. 146, § 4, effective September 14.
Subsection (1)(i)(II) provided for the repeal of subsection (1)(i), effective July 1, 2004. (See L. 2000, p. 563.)
2023 Ch. 338, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).
For the legislative declaration in the 2013 act amending subsections (1)(a), (1)(e), and (2), see section 1 of chapter 169, Session Laws of Colorado 2013. For the legislative declaration in HB 20-1038, see section 1 of chapter 44, Session Laws of Colorado 2020.