The bill requires the department of human services (department) to renovate a building at the mental health institute at Fort Logan to create at least 16 additional civil beds for persons in need of residential behavioral health treatment. The bill authorizes the new beds to be used for persons needing competency restoration services until the backlog of
such persons is eliminated. The bill also directs the department and the department of health care policy and financing to create, develop, or contract to add at least 125 additional beds at mental health residential treatment facilities (treatment facilities) throughout the state for adults in need of ongoing supportive services. The bill requires treatment facilities to be licensed by the department of public health and environment as an assisted living facility or by the department as a behavioral health entity during the 2022-23 state fiscal year. Starting in the 2023-24 state fiscal year, the treatment facilities must be licensed by the behavioral health administration. The bill appropriates $65 million for the renovation of the building and the creation, development, or contracting for the new beds at treatment facilities.
