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Committee introduces bill consolidating Colorado crisis line into 988 enterprise
Summary
JBC staff presented and the committee approved a bill draft to consolidate the Colorado crisis line and related statutory references into 988 and capture public awareness funding within the 988 enterprise.
The Joint Budget Committee voted to introduce a bill to consolidate Coloradocrisis-line statutory references and operational responsibilities under the national 988 crisis line enterprise.
Emily Pope, JBC staff, briefed members on the draft, saying the measure would replace existing statutory citations to the Colorado crisis hotline with 988, require routing of calls to 988 and use existing enterprise public-awareness…
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