NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 3/13/2015.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 15-1023
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Lontine, Arndt, Buckner, Conti, Duran,
      Esgar, Fields, Ginal, Hamner, Kagan, Lebsock, Lee, Lundeen, Melton,
      Mitsch Bush, Moreno, Pabon, Pettersen, Primavera, Priola, Rosenthal,
      Salazar, Singer, Tyler, Williams, Winter, Young;
      also SENATOR(S) Aguilar, Carroll, Guzman, Heath, Kefalas, Newell,
      Todd.
      
      
      Concerning the age limitation for persons served in a day
           treatment center.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 26-6-102, amend (2.5)
      as follows:
      
           26-6-102.  Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context
      otherwise requires:
      
           (2.5) (a) (I)  "Day treatment center" means a facility that:
      
           (I) (A)  Except as provided in subparagraph (II) of this
      paragraph (a), provides less than twenty-four-hour care for groups of five
      or more children who are
      
           (A)  Five Three years of age or older, but less than eighteen
      twenty-one years of age; or and
      
           (B)  Less than twenty-one years of age and who are placed in the
      program by court order prior to their eighteenth birthday; and
      
           (II) (B)  Provides a structured program of various types of
      psycho-social and behavioral treatment to prevent or reduce the need for
      placement of the child out of the home or community.
      
           (II)  Nothing in this subsection (2.5) prohibits a day
      treatment center from allowing a person who reaches
      twenty-one years of age after the commencement of an academic
      year from attending an educational program at the day
      treatment center through the end of the semester in which the
      twenty-first birthday occurs or until the person completes the
      educational program, whichever comes first.
      
           (b)  "Day treatment center" shall not include special education
      programs operated by a public or private school system or programs that
      are licensed by other rules of the department for less than twenty-four-hour
      care of children, such as a child care center.
      
           SECTION 2.  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.
      
      
      
      
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      Dickey Lee Hullinghorst                Bill L. Cadman
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Marilyn Eddins                      Cindi L. Markwell
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
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                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO