(1) Each grant recipient shall submit a report to the BHA following the expiration of the grant term. The report must include:
(a) Information about the use of the grant award, including the program operated with the grant award and the number of individuals the program diverted or redirected from the criminal justice system;
(b) The number of individuals served through the program who may have come into contact with the criminal justice system;
(c) The number of individuals referred by the program to treatment; and
(d) Whether the recipient is continuing the program and any other information requested by the state department.
(2) (a) On or before January 31 of each year, the house of representatives judiciary committee, the house of representatives public and behavioral health and human services committee, the senate health and human services committee, and the senate judiciary committee, or their successor committees, shall hold a joint hearing on the grant program. At the hearing, the state department shall report to the committees about the grant program, which must include an overview of the grant program, information on the type of services funded with a grant award, and where services were provided.
(b) Notwithstanding section 24-1-136 (11)(a)(I), the reporting requirement in this subsection (2) continues indefinitely.
Source: L. 2022: Entire part added, (SB 22-196), ch. 193, p. 1288, � 2, effective May 19.
27-60-405. Grant program funding - requirements - reports - appropriation. (1) The general assembly shall appropriate to the state department money from the behavioral and mental health cash fund created in section 24-75-230 to implement the grant program.
(2) (a) The state department, BHA, and any person who receives money from the BHA, including each grant recipient, shall comply with the compliance, reporting, record-keeping, and program evaluation requirements established by the office of state planning and budgeting and the state controller in accordance with section 24-75-226 (5).
(b) For each grant awarded for a capital expenditure, the BHA is responsible for preparing the written justification required pursuant to 31 CFR 35.6 (b)(4). A grant applicant that requests grant money that originates from the money the state received from the coronavirus state fiscal recovery fund for a capital expenditure must submit to the BHA information requested by the BHA for inclusion in the written justification; except that this requirement does not apply if the BHA determines that the written justification is not required based on how the expenditures authorized pursuant to this part 4 will be reported to the United States department of the treasury. For grant money that did not originate from the money the state received from the coronavirus state fiscal recovery fund, a written justification is not required, except as the BHA determines necessary to comply with federal written justification requirements.
Source: L. 2022: Entire part added, (SB 22-196), ch. 193, p. 1289, � 2, effective May 19. L. 2024: (2)(b) amended, (HB 24-1466), ch. 429, p. 2945, � 39, effective June 5. L. 2025: (1) amended, (SB 25-312), ch. 301, p. 1538, � 17, effective May 30.
Cross references: For the legislative declaration in HB 24-1466, see section 1 of chapter 429, Session Laws of Colorado 2024.