Bill # | CBHC Bill Summary | CBHC Contact | Position | Calendar Notification | Short Title | Most Recent Status | Fiscal Note Status | Date Introduced | House Sponsors | Senate Sponsors |
HB21-1012 | The bill expands the states PDMP program, effective February 1, 2023, to track all prescription drugs prescribed in this state. | Frank | Monitor | NOT ON CALENDAR | Expand Prescription Drug Monitoring Program | 2/16/2021 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance | Fiscal impact for this bill | 2021-02-16 | Rich and Mullica- | Pettersen and Coram-- |
HB21-1021 | Adds new definitions for peer professionals and "recovery support services organizations" for the purposes of authorizing state regulation and allowing peer professionals to bill medicaid within an RSSO. Further, the bill adds language regarding MSOs contracts explicitly mentioning peer-run recovery support services organizations. | Frank | Monitor | Tuesday, March 9 2021 Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services 1:30 p.m. Room 0112 (3) in house calendar. | Peer Support Professionals Behavioral Health | 2/16/2021 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services | Fiscal note currently unavailable | 2021-02-16 | Pelton and Caraveo, Cutter, Kennedy, Larson, Michaelson Jenet, Young- | -- |
HB21-1030 | The bill expands the peace officers mental health support grant program to include funding for on-scene response services to enhance law enforcement's handling of calls for services related to persons with mental health disorders and social service needs, including calls that do not require the presence of a peace officer. | Moses | Support | Tuesday, March 2 2021 Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services 1:30 p.m. Room 0112 (1) in house calendar. | Expanding Peace Officers Mental Health Grant Program | 2/16/2021 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services + Appropriations | Fiscal impact for this bill | 2021-02-16 | McCluskie and McKean, Baisley, Bird, Bockenfeld, Carver, Catlin, Cutter, Kennedy,Kipp, Larson, Lontine, Michaelson Jenet, Pelton, Rich, Roberts, Sandridge, Soper, Titone,Van Winkle, Will, Young- | Buckner and Cooke, Danielson, Fenberg, Kirkmeyer, Kolker, Liston, Priola, Rankin,Story, Zenzinger-- |
HB21-1068 | The bill requires that health plans cover an annual mental health wellness examination by a qualified mental health care provider. | Support | NOT ON CALENDAR | Insurance Coverage Mental Health Wellness Exam | 2/16/2021 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance | Fiscal impact for this bill | 2021-02-16 | Michaelson Jenet and Titone, Weissman- | Moreno-- | |
HB21-1085 | The bill creates a regulatory and service system to provide secure transportation services, with different requirements from traditional ambulance services, for individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis | Moses | Support | Friday, March 12 2021 Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Upon Adjournment Room 0112 (2) in house calendar. | Secure Transportation Behavioral Health Crisis | 2/16/2021 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services | Fiscal note currently unavailable | 2021-02-16 | McCluskie and Larson- | Bridges and Smallwood-- |
HB21-1094 | The bill creates the foster youth in transition program to allow foster youth who meet eligibility criteria to voluntarily continue to receive certain child welfare services up until the last day of the month of the youth's twenty-first birthday, or such greater age of foster care eligibility as required by federal law. | Frank | Support | NOT ON CALENDAR | Foster Youth In Transition Program | 2/16/2021 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services | Fiscal note currently unavailable | 2021-02-16 | Daugherty and Van Beber- | Zenzinger-- |
HB21-1097 | The bill addresses multiple recommendations from the Colorado behavioral health task force, created in 2019, related to the creation of a behavioral health administration (BHA). | Frank | Support | Tuesday, March 9 2021 Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services 1:30 p.m. Room 0112 (2) in house calendar. | Establish Behavioral Health Administration | 2/16/2021 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services | Fiscal impact for this bill | 2021-02-16 | Young and Pelton- | Fields-- |
HB21-1119 | Introduces a number of statutory changes to increase prioritization on suicide and suicide attempts and the after-effects of those actions on attempt survivors, family, friends, health care providers, first and last responders, educators, and students in schools where a suicide or attempt occurred. | Moses | Support | NOT ON CALENDAR | Suicide Prevention, Intervention, & Postvention | 2/18/2021 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services | Fiscal note currently unavailable | 2021-02-18 | Rich and Daugherty- | Donovan-- |
HB21-1130 | The bill expands the community transition specialist program by redefining "high-risk individual" to allow more individuals to access program services and also expands facilities that can access program services. | Moses | Monitor | Tuesday, March 9 2021 Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services 1:30 p.m. Room 0112 (4) in house calendar. | Expand Transition Specialist Program | 2/23/2021 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services | Fiscal note currently unavailable | 2021-02-23 | Michaelson Jenet and Bradfield- | -- |
SB21-011 | The bill authorizes a pharmacist to prescribe an opiate antagonist. and requires a pharmacist who dispenses an opioid to an individual to inform the individual of the potential dangers of a high dose of opioid and offer to prescribe the individual an opiate antagonist if certain circumstances are present. | Frank | Support | NOT ON CALENDAR | Pharmacist Prescribe Dispense Opiate Antagonist | 2/16/2021 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services | Fiscal note currently unavailable | 2021-02-16 | Mullica and Pelton- | Fields, Priola-- |
SB21-066 | The bill makes several changes and clarifications to current juvenile diversion programs . | Moses | Support | NOT ON CALENDAR | Juvenile Diversion Programs | 2/16/2021 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary | Fiscal note currently unavailable | 2021-02-16 | Michaelson Jenet- | Lee-- |
SB21-094 | The bill implements recommendations of the department of regulatory agencies in its sunset review of and report on the state board of pharmacy and its regulation of the practice of pharmacy and makes other modifications to the laws regulating the practice. The bill includes a provision which CBHC is advocating for to includes in the definition of "other outlet" a community mental health clinic and a facility operating a licensed substance use disorder treatment program, thereby allowing those facilities to register with the board and operate as a pharmacy outlet. | Frank | Support | NOT ON CALENDAR | Sunset Continue State Board Of Pharmacy | 2/17/2021 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services | Fiscal note currently unavailable | 2021-02-17 | - | Ginal and Winter, Buckner, Fields, Jaquez Lewis, Kirkmeyer, Simpson-- |