republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-270.md

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Bill	Behavioral Health Crisis Transition Referral Program	The bill establishes the community transition specialist program (program) in the office of behavioral health (office) in the department of human services (department). The program coordinates referrals of high-risk individuals to transition specialists by certain behavioral health facilities and programs. High-risk individuals are under an emergency or involuntary hold, have a significant mental health or substance use disorder, and are not in consistent behavioral health treatment. Transition specialists provide services related to housing, program placement, access to behavioral health treatment or benefits, advocacy, and other supportive services. The department is required to adopt rules to implement the program. The bill requires the office to collect data and make recommendations to the department, and the department is required to include program information in the department's annual SMART act report.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-270	Colorado SB 18-270 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Brittany Pettersen Cheri Jahn Cole Wist Tim Neville	10	14	2	2018-04-20T06:00:00+00:00	2018-05-21T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f6e881f6-56f1-48fc-9e9c-6566ed5c963e	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-270	ed8039a2d573c9cc8984951589ce96b99ba3de9ba6d5f2aeeb5a0761618a52ba	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-270 (2018A) — Behavioral Health Crisis Transition Referral Program

The bill establishes the community transition specialist program (program) in the office of behavioral health (office) in the department of human services (department). The program coordinates referrals of high-risk individuals to transition specialists by certain behavioral health facilities and programs. High-risk individuals are under an emergency or involuntary hold, have a significant mental health or substance use disorder, and are not in consistent behavioral health treatment. Transition specialists provide services related to housing, program placement, access to behavioral health treatment or benefits, advocacy, and other supportive services. The department is required to adopt rules to implement the program. The bill requires the office to collect data and make recommendations to the department, and the department is required to include program information in the department's annual SMART act report.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/03/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/20/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (05/01/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/03/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (05/04/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/09/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/08/2018) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/21/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 63–2 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brittany Pettersen — primary (person)
• Cheri Jahn — primary (person)
• Cole Wist — primary (person)
• Tim Neville — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-21T06:00:00+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
• 2018-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services introduction
• 2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2018-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f6e881f6-56f1-48fc-9e9c-6566ed5c963e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).