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Committee advances bill adding peer-support behavioral health services to reentry grants
Summary
Lawmakers voted to send a sponsored bill to the Committee of the Whole after sponsors amended the statute for reentry grants to explicitly allow credentialed peer-support behavioral-health services. Supporters said the change recognizes an evidence-based reentry tool; no fiscal note was required.
House Bill 1129 would expand an existing CDOC-sponsored reentry grants program to expressly allow peer-support behavioral-health services and establish a credentialing expectation for peer providers.
Rep. Lorena Garcia and Rep. Dylan Ryden, the bill’s sponsors, told the House Judiciary Committee the measure adds language to allow behavioral-health and peer-support services to be eligible for work-and-reentry grants already administered by the department. “All we’re trying to do here is…
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