Colorado § 2-3-313 - Legislative council staff - study correctional release options for aging and seriously ill offenders.

§ 2-3-313. Legislative council staff - study correctional release options for aging and seriously ill offenders.

(1) Legislative council staff shall conduct a study of options for releasing aging and seriously ill offenders from secure custody to appropriate care or placing offenders in alternative programs that can better provide the offender's needed medical care.

(2) The study must include, but is not limited to:

(a) A review of the compassionate release or special needs parole laws of other states, including a review of the federal compassionate release laws;

(b) A description of placement programs in use in other states that have been shown to be effective in addressing the transition and placement of the aging and seriously ill offender population, including a description of the funding sources used to support the programs, which must include medicaid, medicare, social security, and any other governmental resources;

(c) Identifying alternative facilities that are available in Colorado to receive aging and seriously ill offenders, including nursing homes and other community-based residential or nonresidential programs;

(d) A description of the ability of current or future community corrections providers to develop placements and programs to serve the aging and seriously ill offender population, including whether the existing community corrections programs have the ability to serve persons with disabilities in residential or nonresidential programs;

(e) A description of the ability of the department to access medicaid or other health-care funds for placements outside of the department, the extent of the funding, and how the funding could be increased by the placement of aging and seriously ill offenders in the community;

(f) Identifying any statutory or other legal regulations that create barriers to the implementation of community-based programs for the placement and transition of aging and special needs offenders; and

(g) Evaluating the feasibility of opening or retrofitting one or more locations to be operated by the department of corrections as an elder-care facility for aging and ill inmates.

(3) Legislative council staff shall prepare a report summarizing the results of the study required by this section before December 15, 2025, and shall submit the report to the department, the joint budget committee, the legislative audit committee, and the house of representatives judiciary committee and the senate judiciary committee, or their successor committees.

Source: L. 2025: Entire section added, (SB 25-190), ch. 286, p. 1479, § 4, effective August 6.

PART 4

COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION

2-3-401 to 2-3-406. (Repealed)

Source: L. 77: Entire part repealed, p. 259, § 2, effective July 1.

Editor's note: This part 4 was numbered as article 1 of chapter 74, C.R.S. 1963. For amendments to this part 4 prior to its repeal in 1977, consult the Colorado statutory research explanatory note and the table itemizing the replacement volumes and supplements to the original volume of C.R.S. 1973 beginning on page vii in the front of this volume.

PART 5

COMMITTEE ON LEGAL SERVICES - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE LEGAL SERVICES

Editor's note: This part 5 was numbered as article 1 of chapter 135, C.R.S. 1963. The substantive provisions of this part 5 were repealed and reenacted in 1968, resulting in the addition, relocation, and elimination of sections as well as subject matter. For amendments to this part 5 prior to 1968, consult the Colorado statutory research explanatory note beginning on page vii in the front of this volume.