Colorado § 26.5-4-117 - Locating violators - recoveries.

§ 26.5-4-117. Locating violators - recoveries.

(1) The executive director or district attorneys may request and receive from departments, boards, bureaus, or other agencies of the state or any of its political subdivisions, and the departments, boards, bureaus, or other agencies of the state or any of its political subdivisions are required to provide assistance and data as will enable the department and county departments, or a county contracted to administer the centralized member integrity service pursuant to section 25.5-1-210, to properly carry out their powers and duties to locate and prosecute a person who fraudulently obtains child care assistance pursuant to this part 1. Records established pursuant to this section are available only to the department, the county departments or a county contracted to administer the centralized member integrity service pursuant to section 25.5-1-210, the attorney general, and the district attorneys, county attorneys, and courts having jurisdiction in fraud or recovery proceedings or actions.

(2) All departments and agencies of the state and local governments shall cooperate in the location and prosecution of a person who fraudulently obtains child care assistance pursuant to this part 1, and, on request of the county or district board of human or social services, the county director, the department, or the district attorney of a judicial district in this state shall supply all information on hand relative to the location, employment, income, and property of the person, notwithstanding any other provision of law making the information confidential, except the laws pertaining to confidentiality of tax returns filed pursuant to law with the department of revenue. The department of revenue shall furnish at no cost to inquiring departments and agencies information necessary to effectuate the purposes of this part 1. The executive director shall, by rule, establish the procedures whereby this information is requested and provided. The department or county departments, or a county contracted to administer the centralized member integrity service pursuant to section 25.5-1-210, shall use the information only for the purposes of administering the Colorado child care assistance program pursuant to this part 1, and a district attorney shall use it only for the prosecution of persons who fraudulently obtain child care assistance pursuant to this part 1, and shall not use the information, or disclose it, for any other purpose.

(3) A district attorney shall bill the actual costs and expenses incurred by the district attorney's office in carrying out subsection (2) of this section to counties or a county within the judicial district, or a county contracted to administer the centralized member integrity service pursuant to section 25.5-1-210, in the proportions specified in section 20-1-302. Each county, or a county contracted to administer the centralized member integrity service pursuant to section 25.5-1-210, shall make an annual accounting to the department on all amounts recovered.

Source: L. 2022: Entire article added, (HB 22-1295), ch. 123, p. 682, § 3, effective July 1. L. 2026: Entire section amended, (HB 26-1429), ch. 374, p. 2320, § 21, effective June 4.

Cross references: For the legislative declaration in HB 26-1429, see section 1 of chapter 374, Session Laws of Colorado 2026.