HB 22-1052 Summary

• Public school student identification cards must include phone number, website address, and text number for Colorado Crisis Services and the Safe2Tell program, with option to include other crisis services information.

• Schools without student ID cards must display crisis service materials at school and send information about Colorado Crisis Services to parents or guardians at the beginning of each school year.

• State Department of Human Services must notify all public and private schools annually in August about behavioral health crisis response system services and provide educational materials to schools statewide.

• State Department shall collaborate with Department of Education to identify all public and private schools in Colorado and obtain their contact information.

• Appropriates $267,065 to the Department of Human Services for fiscal year 2022-23, including $74,990 for program administration (0.9 FTE) and $192,075 for a public information campaign about the behavioral health crisis response system.