Colorado Code
Article 66 - Community Mental Health Services - Purchase
§ 27-66-105. Standards for Approval

(a) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (1)(a) is effective July 1, 2022. ] Consider the adequacy and quality of mental health services provided by such clinics, taking into consideration such factors as geographic location, local economic conditions, and availability of manpower;

(2) [ Editor's note: This version of the introductory portion to subsection (2) is effective July 1, 2022. ] In approving or rejecting local general or psychiatric hospitals, behavioral health entities, community mental health centers, acute treatment units, and other agencies for the purchase of services not provided by local mental health clinics, including, but not limited to, twenty-four-hour and partial hospitalization, the executive director shall consider the following factors:

(3) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (3) is effective July 1, 2022. ] In the purchase of services from behavioral health entities or community mental health centers, the executive director shall specify levels and types of inpatient, outpatient, consultation, education, and training services and expenditures and shall establish minimum standards for other programs of such centers that are to be supported with state funds.

Source: L. 2010: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 10-175), ch. 188, p. 704, § 2, effective April 29. L. 2017: IP(1), (1)(f), and (2)(e) amended, (SB 17-242), ch. 263, p. 1350, § 246, effective May 25. L. 2018: (1)(e) amended, (SB 18-096), ch. 44, p. 475, § 19, effective August 8. L. 2019: (1)(a), IP(2), and (3) amended and (1)(g) and (4) added, (HB 19-1237), ch. 413, p. 3643, § 16, effective July 1, 2022.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 27-1-205 as it existed prior to 2010.
Cross references: For the legislative declaration in SB 17-242, see section 1 of chapter 263, Session Laws of Colorado 2017. For the legislative declaration in SB 18-096, see section 1 of chapter 44, Session Laws of Colorado 2018.