Community mental health services may be purchased from behavioral health safety-net providers that have been approved by the commissioner.

Source: L. 2010: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 10-175), ch. 188, p. 702, § 2, effective April 29. L. 2011: (4)(a) amended, (SB 11-225), ch. 189, p. 731, § 5, effective May 19. L. 2012: (4)(a) amended, (HB 12-1247), ch. 53, p. 197, § 8, effective March 22. L. 2013: (4)(a) amended, (HB 13-1181), ch. 74, p. 241, § 9, effective March 22. L. 2016: (4)(a) amended, (HB 16-1408), ch. 153, p. 471, § 23, effective May 4; (4)(b) repealed, (HB 16-1408), ch. 153, p. 472, § 26, effective July 1. L. 2017: (4) amended, (SB 17-264), ch. 353, p. 1839, § 2, effective June 5. L. 2019: (1), IP(2)(a), (2)(a)(II), (2)(a)(III), (2)(b), (3), and (6) amended and (2)(a)(IV) added, (HB 19-1237), ch. 413, p. 3642, § 15, effective July 1, 2022. L. 2022: (1), (2)(b), (3), and (5) amended, (HB 22-1278), ch. 222, p. 1542, § 128, effective July 1; Entire section amended, (HB 22-1278), ch. 222, p. 1587, § 215, effective July 1, 2024.

Editor's note: (1) This section is similar to former § 27-1-204 as it existed prior to 2010.

(2) Subsection (4)(c) provided for the repeal of subsection (4), effective September 1, 2017. (See L. 2017, p. 1839.)