C.R.S. Section 25.5-10-201
Legislative declaration


(1)

In recognition of the varied, extensive, and substantial needs of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including the urgent need to enhance the development of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the general assembly, subject to available appropriations and subject to the existence of appropriate services and supports with available resources, hereby declares that the purposes of this article are:

(a)

To provide appropriate services and supports to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities throughout their lifetimes regardless of their age or degree of disability;

(b)

To prohibit deprivation of liberty of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, except when such deprivation is for the purpose of providing services and supports which constitute the least restrictive available alternative adequate to meet the person’s needs, and to ensure that these services and supports afford due process protections;

(c)

To ensure the fullest measure of privacy, dignity, rights, and privileges to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities;

(d)

To ensure the provision of services and supports to all persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities on a statewide basis;

(e)

To enable persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities to remain with their families and in the community of their choice, to minimize the likelihood of out-of-home placement, and to enhance the capacity of families to meet the needs of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities;

(f)

To provide community services and supports for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities which reflect typical patterns of everyday living;

(g)

To encourage state and local agencies to provide a wide array of innovative and cost-effective services and supports for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities;

(h)

To ensure that persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities receive services and supports which encourage and build on existing social networks and natural sources of support, and result in increased interdependence, contribution to, and inclusion in community life; and

(i)

To recognize the efficacy of early intervention services and supports in minimizing developmental delays and reducing the future education costs to our society.

Source: Section 25.5-10-201 — Legislative declaration, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-25.­5.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

25.5‑10‑101
Office of community living - creation - transfer of duties and functions - rules - legislative declaration
25.5‑10‑201
Legislative declaration
25.5‑10‑202
Definitions - repeal
25.5‑10‑203
Division of intellectual and developmental disabilities - creation - functions - reporting - legislative declaration
25.5‑10‑204
Duties of the executive director - state board rules - definitions - repeal
25.5‑10‑205
Community-centered boards and service agencies - local public procurement units
25.5‑10‑206
Authorized long-term services and supports - conditions of funding - purchase of services and supports - adult protective services data system check - boards of county commissioners - appropriation
25.5‑10‑207.5
Strategic plan for long- term services and supports - joint hearing - appropriation - reporting - legislative declaration - rules
25.5‑10‑208
Service agencies and case management agencies - money - rules - repeal
25.5‑10‑209
Community-centered boards - designation - purchase of services and supports - performance audits - Colorado local government audit law - public disclosure of board administration and operations - repeal
25.5‑10‑209.3
Cross-system behavioral health crisis response - comprehensive care coordination and treatment model - training - legislative declaration
25.5‑10‑209.5
Case management agencies - certification - purchase of services and supports - rules - repeal
25.5‑10‑210
Revocation of designation - repeal
25.5‑10‑211
Eligibility determination - individualized plan - periodic review - rules - repeal
25.5‑10‑211.5
Conflict-free case management - implementation - legislative declaration - definition - repeal
25.5‑10‑212
Procedure for resolving disputes over eligibility, modification of services or supports, and termination of services or supports
25.5‑10‑213
Discharge - repeal
25.5‑10‑214
Community residential home - licenses - rules
25.5‑10‑215
Compliance with local government zoning regulations - notice to local governments - provisional licensure
25.5‑10‑216
Imposition of legal disability - removal of legal right
25.5‑10‑217
Conduct of court proceedings
25.5‑10‑218
Persons’ rights
25.5‑10‑219
Right to individualized plan or individualized family service plan - repeal
25.5‑10‑220
Right to medical care and treatment
25.5‑10‑221
Right to humane treatment
25.5‑10‑222
Right to religious belief, practice, and worship
25.5‑10‑223
Rights to communications and visits
25.5‑10‑224
Right to fair employment practices
25.5‑10‑225
Right to vote
25.5‑10‑226
Records and confidentiality of information pertaining to eligible persons or their families - repeal
25.5‑10‑227
Right to personal property
25.5‑10‑228
Right to influence policy
25.5‑10‑229
Right to notification
25.5‑10‑230
Discrimination
25.5‑10‑231
Sterilization rights
25.5‑10‑232
Competency to give consent to sterilization
25.5‑10‑233
Court-ordered sterilization
25.5‑10‑234
Confidentiality of sterilization proceedings
25.5‑10‑235
Limitations on sterilization
25.5‑10‑236
Civil action and attorney fees
25.5‑10‑237
Terminology
25.5‑10‑238
Federal funds
25.5‑10‑239
Evaluations to determine whether a defendant is mentally retarded or has an intellectual and developmental disability for purposes of class 1 felony trials
25.5‑10‑240
Retaliation prohibited
25.5‑10‑241
Host home provider stakeholder collaboration - report
25.5‑10‑301
Legislative declaration
25.5‑10‑302
Purpose
25.5‑10‑303
Administration - duties of department
25.5‑10‑304
Family support councils
25.5‑10‑305
Authorized family support services
25.5‑10‑305.5
Family support services fund - creation
25.5‑10‑306
Rules
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Current through Fall 2024

§ 25.5-10-201’s source at colorado​.gov