NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 5/1/2015.
      
      
      SENATE BILL 15-243
      
      
      BY SENATOR(S) Lambert, Grantham, Steadman, Crowder, Newell,
      Cadman;
      also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Young, Hamner, Rankin, Arndt, Becker K.,
      Fields, Garnett, Ginal, Kagan, Kraft-Tharp, Lee, Lontine, McCann,
      Mitsch Bush, Pettersen, Primavera, Rosenthal, Ryden, Vigil, Williams,
      Winter, Hullinghorst.
      
      
      Concerning a prohibition on the transfer of state-operated beds
           under the waiver for home- and community-based services
           for individuals with intellectual and developmental
           disabilities.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, add 27-10.5-311 as
      follows:
      
           27-10.5-311.  Regional centers - waiver beds - prohibition on
      closure or sale - repeal. (1)  Prior to May 16, 2016, the department
      shall not close or sell any state-operated beds licensed pursuant
      to the home- and community-based services for persons with
      developmental disabilities waiver and shall maintain an
      adequate number of beds at the regional centers for individuals
      who transitioned to the community within the preceding six
      months, but who have been identified by a community-centered
      board and the individual's legal guardian as having had an
      unsuccessful transition. The department shall permit the
      individual to return to a state-operated regional center bed
      pursuant to section 27-10.5-110 and applicable federal law.
      
           (2)  This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2016.
      
           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
      5, 2015, if adjournment sine die is on May 6, 2015); 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 2016
      and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the official declaration of
      the vote thereon by the governor.
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Bill L. Cadman                Dickey Lee Hullinghorst
      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