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 15 - FACILITIES (§§ 19-2.5-1501 — 19-2.5-1532) › Subpart C - FACILITIES - COMMITMENT (§§ 19-2.5-1518 — 19-2.5-1532) › Section 19-2.5-1532 - Juveniles committed to department of human services - transfers

(1)
The executive director of the department of human services may transfer a juvenile committed pursuant to section
19-2.5-1127
or
19-2.5-1103
among the facilities established pursuant to sections
19-2.5-1502
and
19-2.5-1527
to
19-2.5-1529
; except that, before the juvenile is transferred, the juvenile shall be examined and evaluated, and the executive director shall review the evaluation before approving the transfer.
(2)
When the executive director of the department of human services finds that the welfare and protection of a juvenile or of others requires the juvenile's immediate transfer to another facility, the executive director shall make the transfer prior to having the juvenile examined and evaluated.
(3)
(a)
A juvenile committed to the department of human services may be transferred temporarily to any state treatment facility for persons with behavioral or mental health disorders or intellectual and developmental disabilities for purposes of diagnosis, evaluation, and emergency treatment; except that a juvenile may not be transferred to a state treatment facility for persons with mental health disorders until the juvenile has received a mental health hospital placement prescreening resulting in a recommendation that the juvenile be placed in a facility for evaluation pursuant to section
27-65-106
. A juvenile committed to the department of human services as an aggravated juvenile offender pursuant to section
19-2.5-1127
or violent juvenile offender pursuant to section
19-2.5-1126 (1)(c)
must not be transferred until the treatment facility has a secure setting in which to house the juvenile. The period of temporary transfer pursuant to this subsection (3)(a) must not exceed sixty days.
(b)
When a juvenile has remained in the treatment facility for sixty days, the treatment facility shall determine whether the juvenile requires further treatment or services, and, if so, the treatment facility shall confer with the sending facility concerning continued placement. If both facilities agree that the juvenile should remain in the treatment facility, the executive director of the department of human services shall be notified of the recommendation and may authorize an additional sixty-day placement. When an additional placement is authorized, the court must be notified of the transferred placement.
(c)
During each subsequent sixty-day placement period, the juvenile shall be reevaluated by both the treatment facility and the sending facility to determine the need for continued transferred placement. The juvenile remains in transferred placement until the facilities agree that such placement is no longer appropriate. At that time the juvenile must be transferred back to the sending facility or to any other facility that the department of human services determines to be appropriate. The period of placement must not exceed the length of the original commitment to the department of human services unless authorized by the court after notice and a hearing.
(d)
When a juvenile is in continued transferred placement and the treatment facility and the sending facility agree that the need for placement of the juvenile is likely to continue beyond the original period of commitment to the department of human services, the treatment facility shall initiate proceedings with the court having jurisdiction over the juvenile pursuant to article
65
of title
27
if the juvenile has a mental health disorder or pursuant to article
10.5
of title
27
if the juvenile has intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Amended by 2022 Ch. 451, § 34, eff. 8/10/2022.
Renumbered from C.R.S. §
19-2-923
and amended by 2021 Ch. 136, § 2, eff. 10/1/2021.
Amended by 2017 Ch. 263, § 160, eff. 5/25/2017.
L. 2021: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 21-059), ch. 706, p. 706, § 2, effective October 1.
This section is similar to former § 19-2-923 as it existed prior to 2021.
2022 Ch. 451, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).
For the legislative declaration in SB 17-242, see section 1 of chapter 263, Session Laws of Colorado 2017.