republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-251.md

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Bill	Statewide Behavioral Health Court Liaison Program	The bill establishes in the office of the state court administrator (office) a statewide behavioral health court liaison program (program). The purpose of the program is to identify and dedicate local behavioral health professionals as court liaisons (court liaisons) in each state judicial district to facilitate communication and collaboration among judicial, health care, and behavioral health systems. The office shall administer the program and establish procedures, timelines, and funding guidelines for the program. Program funding must be allocated to judicial districts based on case volume, geographical complexity, and density of need. Specific duties of the court liaisons are outlined, as well as reporting requirements.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-251	Colorado SB 18-251 (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/0489457b-ddfa-4aa9-93a3-2cf26511e082	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-251	7947408ce7e52ca91dea2df60dd423c2d8e190adaa48c1388468c8bc689aad02	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-251 (2018A) — Statewide Behavioral Health Court Liaison Program

The bill establishes in the office of the state court administrator (office) a statewide behavioral health court liaison program (program). The purpose of the program is to identify and dedicate local behavioral health professionals as court liaisons (court liaisons) in each state judicial district to facilitate communication and collaboration among judicial, health care, and behavioral health systems. The office shall administer the program and establish procedures, timelines, and funding guidelines for the program. Program funding must be allocated to judicial districts based on case volume, geographical complexity, and density of need. Specific duties of the court liaisons are outlined, as well as reporting requirements.

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 (05/17/2018) (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

• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 43–22 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 33–0 (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
• 2018-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-05-16T06:00:00+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/0489457b-ddfa-4aa9-93a3-2cf26511e082. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).