republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-250.md

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Bill	Jail-based Behavioral Health Services	The bill continues to allow the correctional treatment cash fund to be used to provide treatment for persons with mental and behavioral health disorders who are being served through the jail-based behavioral health services program (program). The program is housed in the office of behavioral health (office). The purpose of the program is to provide adequate staff to complete competency and behavioral health screenings, prescribe psychiatric medications as necessary, and provide mental health counseling, substance use disorder treatment, and transitional care coordination; train jail staff on behavioral health disorders and best practices in working with individuals with mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders; and fund administrative costs to jails participating in the program. The office shall prioritize jails with minimal behavioral health services, including rural and frontier jails. Jails that are participating in the program shall, at a minimum:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-250	Colorado SB 18-250 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Bob Gardner Dave Young Kent Lambert Pete Lee	10	15	4	2018-04-17T06:00:00+00:00	2018-06-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/284fb6fe-387c-4d81-b1c6-0f2e6fe6f5fb	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-250	444b8b08caea2c8fc680ada47df9a13a7f7e66e596d42cd8a6dae715434b98da	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-250 (2018A) — Jail-based Behavioral Health Services

The bill continues to allow the correctional treatment cash fund to be used to provide treatment for persons with mental and behavioral health disorders who are being served through the jail-based behavioral health services program (program). The program is housed in the office of behavioral health (office). The purpose of the program is to provide adequate staff to complete competency and behavioral health screenings, prescribe psychiatric medications as necessary, and provide mental health counseling, substance use disorder treatment, and transitional care coordination; train jail staff on behavioral health disorders and best practices in working with individuals with mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders; and fund administrative costs to jails participating in the program. The office shall prioritize jails with minimal behavioral health services, including rural and frontier jails. Jails that are participating in the program shall, at a minimum:

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/02/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/17/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (05/01/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/04/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (05/03/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/07/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/04/2018) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/06/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 43–22 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bob Gardner — primary (person)
• Dave Young — primary (person)
• Kent Lambert — primary (person)
• Pete Lee — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2018-06-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2018-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/284fb6fe-387c-4d81-b1c6-0f2e6fe6f5fb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).