NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 4/16/2015.
      
      
      SENATE BILL 15-099
      
      
      BY SENATOR(S) Cooke, Grantham, Guzman, Jahn, Martinez Humenik,
      Roberts;
      also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Lawrence, Brown, Fields, Kagan,
      Kraft-Tharp, Priola, Roupe.
      
      
      Concerning eliminating certain duties for probation officers.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 14-10-127, amend (1)
      (a) (II) as follows:
      
           14-10-127.  Evaluation and reports - disclosure. (1) (a) (II)  Each
      party and the child shall cooperate in the supplemental evaluation. If the
      court finds that the supplemental evaluation was necessary and materially
      assisted the court, the court may order the costs of such supplemental
      evaluation to be assessed as costs between the parties. Except as otherwise
      provided in this section, such report shall be considered confidential and
      shall not be available for public inspection unless by order of court. The
      cost of each probation department or department of human services
      evaluation shall be based on an ability to pay and shall be assessed as part
      of the costs of the action or proceeding, and, upon receipt of such sum by
      the clerk of court, it shall be transmitted to the department or agency
      performing the evaluation.
      
           SECTION 2.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 14-10-130, amend (2)
      as follows:
      
           14-10-130.  Judicial supervision. (2)  If both parties or all
      contestants agree to the order or if the court finds that in the absence of the
      order the child's physical health would be endangered or the child's
      emotional development significantly impaired, the court may order the
      county or district welfare department or the court's probation department to
      exercise continuing supervision over the case to assure that the terms
      relating to the allocation of parental responsibilities with respect to the child
      or parenting time terms of the decree are carried out.
      
           SECTION 3.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 19-1-107, amend (1)
      introductory portion and (3); and repeal (1) (a) as follows:
      
           19-1-107.  Social study and other reports. (1)  Unless waived by
      the court, the probation department or other an agency designated by the
      court shall make a social study and report in writing in all children's cases;
      except that:
      
           (a)  No report is necessary in a delinquency case until after an order
      of adjudication has been entered, unless otherwise ordered by the court; and
      
           (3)  In any case where placement out of the home is recommended,
      the social study required by subsection (1) of this section shall include the
      cost of the recommended placement and an evaluation for placement
      containing the information required by section 19-1-115 (8) (e). Placement
      criteria shall be developed jointly by the department of education and the
      department of human services and, in the case of matters involving juvenile
      delinquency, in accordance with the criteria for the placement of juveniles
      specified in section 19-2-212 (1) (a). Such criteria shall be used by the
      probation department or agency designated by the court to determine its
      recommendation about the need for placement.
      
           SECTION 4.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 22-33-107, amend (1)
      as follows:
      
           22-33-107.  Enforcement of compulsory school attendance -
      definitions. (1)  The board of education of each school district shall
      designate one or more of the employees of the district to act as attendance
      officer for the district. or in cooperation with any court of record in the
      county, the probation officer of that court may be appointed the attendance
      officer. It is the attendance officer's duty in appropriate cases to counsel
      with students and parents and investigate the causes of nonattendance and
      report to the local board of education so as to enforce the provisions of this
      article which relate to compulsory attendance.
      
           SECTION 5.  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