HB19-1193 Summary

• Expands substance use disorder treatment services for pregnant and parenting women (up to one year postpartum) to include co-located child care, needs assessments, and wraparound services designed to keep families together.

• Establishes the High-Risk Families Cash Fund to provide one-time allocations for increasing treatment capacity and substance use disorder recovery services for high-risk parents and children at risk of entering the child welfare or juvenile justice systems.

• Creates a Child Care Services and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Pilot Program (2019-2023) providing $500,000 annually to enhance child care navigation services and pilot a regional mobile child care model serving women in substance use disorder treatment.

• Allows parenting women to begin treatment without presenting up-to-date child health records initially, with records required within 30 days of commencing treatment.

• Extends criminal prosecution protections to parenting women up to one year postpartum who disclose substance use while seeking or participating in behavioral health treatment, preventing such disclosures from being used as evidence in criminal proceedings.