(1) The general assembly shall appropriate to the state department fifty million seven hundred thousand dollars from the behavioral and mental health cash fund created in section 24-75-230 to implement the grant program.(2)(a) The state department, BHA, and any person who receives money from the BHA, including each grant recipient, shall comply with the compliance, reporting, record-keeping, and program evaluation requirements established by the office of state planning and budgeting and the state controller in accordance with section 24-75-226 (5).(b) For each grant awarded for a capital expenditure, the BHA is responsible for preparing the written justification required pursuant to 31 CFR 35.6 (b)(4). A grant applicant that requests grant money that originates from the money the state received from the coronavirus state fiscal recovery fund for a capital expenditure must submit to the BHA information requested by the BHA for inclusion in the written justification; except that this requirement does not apply if the BHA determines that the written justification is not required based on how the expenditures authorized pursuant to this part 4 will be reported to the United States

requirement does not apply if the BHA determines that the written justification is not required based on how the expenditures authorized pursuant to this part 4 will be reported to the United States department of the treasury. For grant money that did not originate from the money the state received from the coronavirus state fiscal recovery fund, a written justification is not required, except as the BHA determines necessary to comply with federal written justification requirements.Amended by 2024 Ch. 429,§ 39, eff. 6/5/2024.Added by 2022 Ch. 193, § 2, eff. 5/19/2022. For the legislative declaration in HB 24-1466, see section 1 of chapter 429, Session Laws of Colorado 2024.