Second Regular Session
              Sixty-ninth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 14-0528.01 Jane Ritter x4342    SENATE BILL 14-078
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 Renfroe,  Grantham
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
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 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 Health & Human Services
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning community residential homes for persons with
            developmental disabilities.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            The bill allows a facility that provides services for persons with
       developmental disabilities and that consists of several small buildings
       within the same compound, each housing at least 4 but no more than 8
       persons with developmental disabilities, to be licensed as multiple
       community residential homes for the purpose of applying for and
       receiving federal and state benefits, so long as all other requirements to
       receive such benefits are met by the individuals and the community
       residential home.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 27-10.5-109, add
       (4.5) as follows:
            27-10.5-109.  Community residential home - licenses - rules -
       repeal.  (4.5)  A facility that consists of several small buildings
       within the same compound, each building housing at least four
       but no more than eight persons with developmental disabilities,
       may be licensed as multiple community residential homes for the
       purpose of applying for and receiving federal and state benefits,
       so long as all other requirements to receive such benefits are
       met by the individuals and the separate buildings within the
       compound.
            SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
       takes 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
       6, 2014, if adjournment sine die is on May 7, 2014); 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 will not take effect
       unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
       November 2014 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the
       official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.