Section 16-8.5-123 - Competency services - inpatient beds - funding - repeal(1) The general assembly shall appropriate to the department twenty-eight million five hundred sixty-two thousand eight hundred twenty-eight dollars from the economic recovery and relief cash fund created in section 24-75-228 (2)(a) to contract for additional inpatient beds for competency services provided pursuant to section 16-8.5-111 or for additional inpatient beds for individuals receiving mental health care and treatment pursuant to article 65 of title 27. If any unexpended or unencumbered money appropriated for a fiscal year remains at the end of that fiscal year, the department may expend the money for the same purposes in the next fiscal year without further appropriation.(2) The general assembly shall appropriate to the department eight hundred thousand dollars from the behavioral and mental health cash fund created in section 24-75-230 (2)(a) to contract for a feasibility study of renovating and staffing a facility in Adams county to provide inpatient beds for competency services provided pursuant to section 16-8.5-111 and individuals receiving mental health care and treatment pursuant to article 65 of title 27. The department must receive the results from the feasibility study on or before September 15, 2022.(3) This section is repealed, effective December 31, 2024.Added by 2022 Ch. 317, § 5, eff. 7/1/2022.