1. (1) On or before January 1, 2023, the state department shall create a benefit for secure transportation services, as defined in section 25-3.5-103 (11.4). The state department shall research and create a plan to establish secure transportation services, which may include supplemental and coordinated community response services, to be implemented on or before July 1, 2023. The state department shall collaborate with the behavioral health administration in the department of human services in its research and planning efforts to determine how this benefit may align with co-responder, mobile crisis, and emergency crisis dispatch.
2. (2) The state department is authorized to seek, accept, and expend gifts, grants, and donations from public or private sources for the purpose of funding the urgent transportation needs within the existing nonemergency medical transportation benefit and secure transportation services benefit under the medical assistance program, as set forth in subsection (1) of this section and section 25.5-5-324 (1).

Source: L. 2021: Entire section added, (HB 21-1085), ch. 355, p. 2312, § 4, effective June 27. L. 2022: (1) amended, (HB 22-1278), ch. 222, p. 1515, § 75, effective July 1.