(1) Beginning January 1, 2025, and each January 1 thereafter, the BHA shall annually submit a report to the general assembly on the outcomes and effectiveness of the involuntary commitment system described in this article 65, disaggregated by region, including any recommendations to improve the system and outcomes for persons involuntarily committed or certified pursuant to this article 65. The report must include aggregated and disaggregated nonidentifying individual-level data. At a minimum, the report must include:
(a) The number of seventy-two-hour emergency mental health holds that occurred in the state and the number of people placed on a seventy-two-hour emergency mental health hold, including:
(I) A summary of the reason each person was placed on an emergency mental health hold;
(II) Demographic information of each person placed on an emergency mental health hold;
(III) Disposition of each person placed on an emergency mental health hold;
(IV) How often a facility was required to ask for assistance from the BHA to find placement for the person pursuant to section 27-65-106 and if placement was found, the average length of time a person had to wait for the placement and the challenges encountered in finding a placement;
(V) How many subsequent emergency mental health holds were placed pursuant to section 27-65-106 due to a lack of appropriate placement options; and
(VI) How each emergency mental health hold originated, whether by a certified peace officer; intervening professional, including specific professional type; or a court order;
(b) The number and characteristics of each certification for short-term treatment, including an extension of short-term treatment, and long-term care and treatment that occurred in the state, including:
(I) The number of inpatient versus outpatient certifications;
(II) The reason for initiating each certification;
(III) The number of certifications initiated by a court order, professional person, or certified peace officer;
(IV) The average length of each certification;
(V) The demographics of each individual on a certification for short-term treatment;
(VI) The services provided;
(VII) The services needed that were not available; and
(VIII) Any identified barriers preventing the provision of needed services;
(c) The outcome of each certification for short-term treatment and certification for long-term care and treatment;
(d) The reason each certification was discontinued, disaggregated by those successfully discharged; voluntarily discharged; transferred; not located; with treatment compliance concerns; unable to transfer to another facility or provider, for lack of payment to treatment providers; and for any other reasons;
(e) The person's housing and employment status when certification was discontinued;
(f) What services were provided versus what services were most frequently needed by people certified on an outpatient basis;
(g) Barriers and opportunities with local providers, the judicial branch, and law enforcement; and
(h) How many individuals were placed in the custody of the BHA on a certification for short-term treatment who were concurrently involved in the criminal justice system, including the outcomes of each person and any barriers and opportunities that may exist to better serve the population.
Source: L. 2022: Entire article amended with relocations, (HB 22-1256), ch. 451, p. 3206, � 1, effective August 10.
27-65-132. Recognition of Tribal court commitment orders - applicability - process - definitions. (1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) Behavioral health commitment order or commitment order includes:
(I) Emergency mental health holds as described in section 27-65-106 or as described in Tribal codes;
(II) Certification for short-term treatment as described in section 27-65-109 or as described in Tribal codes;
(III) Long-term care and treatment of persons with mental health disorders as described in section 27-65-110 or as described in Tribal codes;
(IV) An emergency commitment as described in section 27-81-111 or as described in Tribal codes;
(V) An involuntary commitment of a person with a substance use disorder as described in section 27-81-112 or as described in Tribal codes; or
(VI) A commitment order permitted by federal, state, or Tribal law.
(b) State means the state of Colorado.
(c) Tribal court means any court or other federally or tribally established tribunal of a federally recognized Tribe duly established pursuant to federal law or Tribal law, including the Courts of Indian Offenses, Ute Mountain Ute agency, organized pursuant to 25 CFR part 11.
(d) Tribe means the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, or a federally recognized Tribe acknowledged by the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994, Pub.L. 103-454, 108 Stat. 4791.
(2) The state, county, or municipal law enforcement agencies; state courts; hospitals; behavioral health facilities; health-care providers; and others within the state responsible for providing services to the person subject to a behavioral health commitment order shall recognize a commitment order entered by the Tribal court of a federally recognized Tribe and that concerns a person under the Tribal court's jurisdiction to the same extent as a commitment order entered by a state court.
(3) A health-care provider may communicate with the officers of a Tribal court regarding a patient under the health-care provider's care pursuant to a Tribal court commitment order described in subsection (2) of this section, to the same extent that the health-care provider can communicate with officers of a court pursuant to a state court commitment order. Communications may include the nature of the treatment needed and provided, a patient's medical and mental health status, the extent to which the patient poses a danger to the patient's self or the community, and, if necessary, the need for additional treatment.
(4) If a Tribal court issues an order rescinding the Tribal court's original behavioral commitment order, the state, county, or municipal law enforcement agencies; state courts; hospitals; behavioral health facilities; health-care providers; and others within the state responsible for providing services to the person subject to a behavioral health commitment order shall recognize the order rescinding the Tribal court's original behavioral health commitment order and release the person subject to the behavioral health commitment order.
(5) This section applies to people subject to Tribal court behavioral health commitment orders.
Source: L. 2025: Entire section added, (SB 25-009), ch. 165, p. 670, � 2, effective May 5.