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      history, or the Session Laws.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 10-1033
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Massey, Frangas, Kerr J., McCann, Labuda,
      Summers, Todd;
      also SENATOR(S) Boyd and Schwartz, Foster, Newell, Steadman.
      
      
      Concerning the provision of services through the medicaid
           program that are related to substance abuse, and making
           an appropriation therefor.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  25.5-5-202 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
      amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH to read:
      
           25.5-5-202.  Basic services for the categorically needy - optional
      services - repeal.  (1)  Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of this
      section, the following are services for which federal financial participation
      is available and which Colorado has selected to provide as optional services
      under the medical assistance program:
      
           (u) (I)  Screening, brief intervention, and referral to
      treatment for individuals at risk of substance abuse, including
      referral to the appropriate level of intervention and treatment.
      
           (II)  Notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph (I) of
      this paragraph (u), services relating to screening, brief
      intervention, and referral to treatment shall not take effect
      unless all necessary approvals under federal law and regulation
      have been obtained to receive federal financial participation for
      the costs of such services.
      
           SECTION 2.  Appropriation.  In addition to any other
      appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, to the department of health care
      policy and financing, for medical service premiums, for the fiscal year
      beginning July 1, 2010, the sum of eight hundred seventy thousand one
      hundred fifty-five dollars ($870,155), or so much thereof as may be
      necessary, for the implementation of this act.  Of said sum, three hundred
      thirty-four thousand two hundred twenty-seven dollars ($334,227) shall be
      from the general fund and five hundred thirty-five thousand nine hundred
      twenty-eight dollars ($535,928) shall be from federal funds.
      
           SECTION 3.  Act subject to petition - effective date.  (1)  Except
      as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, 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 (August 11, 2010,
      if adjournment sine die is on May 12, 2010); except that, if a referendum
      petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state constitution
      against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within such period,
      then the act, item, section, or part shall not take effect unless approved by
      the people at the general election to be held in November 2010 and shall
      take effect on the date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by the
      governor.
      
           (2)  This act shall take effect on the date specified in subsection (1)
      of this section only if House Bill 10-1284 is enacted and becomes law.
      
      
      
      
      ________________________________________________________
      Terrance D. Carroll                Brandon C. Shaffer
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Marilyn Eddins                          Karen Goldman
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    Bill Ritter, Jr.
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO