Second Regular Session
       
                   Sixty-second General Assembly
       LLS NO. 00-0934.01 Jerry Barry   HOUSE BILL 00-1432 
       
                         STATE OF COLORADO
       
       BY REPRESENTATIVES Berry, Tool, and Saliman;
       also SENATORS Lacy, Owen, and Tanner.
       
       
       
       
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
            Concerning the coordination of suicide prevention programs,
            and making an appropriation therefor.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently
       adopted.)
       
            Directs the department of public health and environment
       ("department") to act as the state coordinator for suicide prevention
       programs throughout the state.  Requires the department to submit a
       report on or before each November 1, starting in 2000, on the status of
       the coordination of suicide prevention programs.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  25-1-107 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
       amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH to read:
            25-1-107.  Powers and duties of the department - repeal. 
       (1)  The department has, in addition to all other powers and duties
       imposed upon it by law, the following powers and duties:
            (ii) (I)  To act as the coordinator for suicide prevention
       programs throughout the state;
            (II)  The department is authorized to accept gifts, grants,
       and donations to assist it in performing its duties as the
       coordinator for suicide prevention programs.  All such gifts,
       grants, and donations shall be transmitted to the state
       treasurer who shall credit the same to the suicide prevention
       coordination cash fund, which fund is hereby created.  Any
       moneys remaining in the suicide prevention coordination cash
       fund at the end of any fiscal year shall remain in the fund and
       shall not be transferred or credited to the general fund.  The
       general assembly shall make appropriations from the suicide
       prevention coordination cash fund for expenditures incurred by
       the department in the performance of its duties under this
       paragraph (ii).
            (III) (A)  As part of its duties as coordinator for suicide
       prevention programs, on or before November 1, 2000, and on or
       before each November 1 thereafter, the department shall submit
       to the chairs of the health, environment, welfare, and
       institutions committees of the senate and the house of
       representatives and to the members of the joint budget
       committee a report listing all suicide prevention programs in the
       state and describing the effectiveness of the department acting
       as the coordinator for suicide prevention programs.
            (B)  On or before January 15, 2004, the chairs of the
       health, environment, welfare, and institutions committee shall
       decide whether to recommend that the reports required by
       sub-subparagraph (A) of this subparagraph (III) be discontinued.
            SECTION 2.  Appropriation - adjustment in 2000 long bill. 
       (1)  In addition to any other appropriation, there is hereby appropriated,
       out of any moneys in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, to the
       department of public health and environment, for the fiscal year
       beginning July 1, 2000, the sum of one hundred sixty-one thousand eight
       hundred seventy-eight dollars ($161,878) and 2.0 FTE, or so much
       thereof as may be necessary, for the implementation of this act.
            (2)  For the implementation of this act, appropriations made in the
       annual general appropriations act for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
       2000, shall be adjusted as follows:
            (a)  The general fund appropriation to the capital construction fund
       outlined in section 3 (1) (f) is reduced by one hundred sixty-one thousand
       eight hundred seventy-eight dollars ($161,878).
            (b)  The capital construction fund exempt appropriation to the
       department of transportation, construction projects, is reduced by one
       hundred sixty-one thousand eight hundred seventy-eight dollars
       ($161,878).
            SECTION 3.  Effective date.  This act shall take effect at 12:01
       a.m. on the day following the expiration of the ninety-day period after
       final adjournment of the general assembly that is allowed for submitting
       a referendum petition pursuant to article V, section 1 (3) of the state
       constitution; except that, if a referendum petition is filed against this act
       or an item, section, or part of this act within such period, then the act,
       item, section, or part, if approved by the people, shall take effect on the
       date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by proclamation of the
       governor.