NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 6/6/2014.
      
      
      SENATE BILL 14-064
      
      
      BY SENATOR(S) Ulibarri, Guzman, Aguilar, Cadman, Grantham, Heath,
      Herpin, Hodge, Jahn, Jones, Kefalas, Kerr, King, Lundberg, Marble,
      Newell, Nicholson, Rivera, Roberts, Scheffel, Schwartz, Steadman,
      Tochtrop, Todd, Zenzinger, Carroll;
      also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Salazar, Buckner, Court, Fields, Fischer,
      Hullinghorst, Kagan, Kraft-Tharp, Labuda, Lebsock, Lee, McCann,
      McLachlan, Melton, Moreno, Pettersen, Primavera, Rosenthal, Ryden,
      Singer, Vigil, Young.
      
      
      Concerning restricting the use of long-term isolated
           confinement for inmates with serious mental illness, and,
           in connection therewith, making an appropriation.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, add 17-1-113.8 as
      follows:
      
           17-1-113.8.  Persons with serious mental illness - long-term
      isolated confinement - work group. (1)  The department shall not
      place a person with serious mental illness in long-term isolated
      confinement except when exigent circumstances are present.
      
           (2) (a)  There is hereby established within the department a
      serious mental illness in long-term isolated confinement work
      group, referred to in this section as the "work group". The work
      group consists of:
      
           (I)  The deputy executive director of the department, or his
      or her designee, who shall convene and serve as the chair of the
      work group;
      
           (II)  The director of clinical and correctional services,
      within the department, or his or her designee;
      
           (III)  The director of prisons, within the department, or his
      or her designee;
      
           (IV)  The chief of psychiatry, within the department, or his
      or her designee;
      
           (V)  The director of behavioral health, within the
      department, or his or her designee;
      
           (VI)  Two representatives from a nonprofit prisoners' rights
      advocacy group, one who is appointed by the speaker of the house
      of representatives and one who is appointed by the president of
      the senate; and
      
           (VII)  Two mental health professionals independent from
      the department with particular knowledge of prisons and
      conditions of confinement,  one who is appointed by the speaker of
      the house of representatives and one who is appointed by the
      president of the senate.
      
           (b) (I)  The work group shall advise the department on
      policies and procedures related to the proper treatment and care
      of offenders with serious mental illness in long-term isolated
      confinement, with a focus on persons with serious mental illness
      in long-term isolated confinement.
      
           (II)  The work group has the power to request, on a periodic
      basis, information and data from the department on the status of
      the department's work on the subject matter of the work group.
      
           (c)  The chair of the work group shall convene the work
      group's first meeting no later than July 1, 2014, and the work
      group must meet at least semi-annually thereafter. The chair
      shall schedule and convene the work group's meetings.
      
           (d)  The chair shall provide the work group with quarterly
      updates on the department's policies related to the work group's
      subject area.
      
           SECTION 2.  Appropriation. (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 corrections,
      for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014, the sum of $1,565,025 and 24.0 
      FTE, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be allocated for the
      implementation of this act as follows:
      
           (a)  $144,142 for health, life, and dental to be allocated to the
      executive director's office subprogram;
      
           (b)  $2,439 for short term disability to be allocated to the executive
      director's office subprogram;
      
           (c)  $44,343 for amortization equalization disbursement to be
      allocated to the executive director's office subprogram;
      
           (d)  $41,572 for supplemental amortization equalization
      disbursement to be allocated to the executive director's office subprogram;
      
           (e)  $600 for operating expenses to be allocated to the inspector
      general subprogram;
      
           (f)  $763,036 and 17.0 FTE for personal services to be allocated to
      the housing and security subprogram;
      
           (g)  $38,455 for start-up costs to be allocated to the superintendents
      subprogram;
      
           (h)  $474,117 and 7.0 FTE for personal services to be allocated to
      the mental health subprogram;
      
           (i)  $12,000 for operating expenses to be allocated to the mental
      health subprogram;
      
           (j)  $32,921 for start-up costs to be allocated to the mental health
      subprogram;
      
           (k)  $10,800 for operating expenses to be allocated to the
      communications subprogram; and
      
           (l)  $600 for operating expenses to be allocated to the training
      subprogram.
      
           SECTION 3.  Safety clause. The general assembly hereby finds,
      determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate
      preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Morgan Carroll                        Mark Ferrandino
      PRESIDENT OF                     SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Cindi L. Markwell                      Marilyn Eddins
      SECRETARY OF                 CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO