NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 5/20/2016.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 16-1278
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Lee, Buckner, Court, Esgar, Foote, Hamner,
      Kagan, Lundeen, McCann, Moreno, Singer, Thurlow, Willett, Young,
      Becker K., Carver, Fields, Kraft-Tharp, Lontine, Melton, Mitsch Bush,
      Primavera, Rosenthal, Ryden, Salazar, Vigil, Williams;
      also SENATOR(S) Cooke, Aguilar, Guzman, Heath, Hill, Hodge, Jahn,
      Kefalas, Kerr, Marble, Martinez Humenik, Merrifield, Neville T., Roberts,
      Scheffel, Scott, Tate, Todd, Woods, Cadman.
      
      
      Concerning residential drug treatment for persons on probation.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 18-1.3-204, amend
      (2.2) as follows:
      
           18-1.3-204.  Conditions of probation - interstate compact
      probation transfer cash fund - creation. (2.2)  If a defendant is sentenced
      to probation for a drug offense When granting probation, the court may
      include as a condition of probation a requirement that the defendant
      participate in drug treatment. If the defendant's assessed treatment need is
      for residential treatment, the court may make residential drug treatment a
      condition of probation and may place the offender in a community
      corrections program that can provide the appropriate level of treatment
      subject to the provision of section 18-1.3-301 (4).
      
           SECTION 2.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 18-1.3-301, amend (4)
      (b) as follows:
      
           18-1.3-301.  Authority to place offenders in community
      corrections programs. (4) (b)  A district court, county court, and any other
      criminal justice official may enter into agreements with community
      corrections programs that provide residential drug treatment, for the
      placement and supervision of drug offenders as a term and condition of
      probation when assessed treatment need levels indicate that residential
      drug treatment is necessary and appropriate. The agreement is subject to
      review and approval by the community corrections board in the jurisdiction
      where a community corrections program is located. A community
      corrections program used pursuant to this paragraph (b) may receive funds
      from the correctional treatment cash fund, as well as local funding, public
      or private grants, or offender fees.
      
           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.
      
      
      
      
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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                            Effie Ameen
      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