Colorado § 23-23-103 Evaluations made - when

Colorado Statutes

§ 23-23-103 — Evaluations made - when

Colorado § 23-23-103

Title 23Postsecondary Education

Art.Children's Diagnostic Center

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-23-103 (2026).

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(1)A child may be referred to the medical center for diagnostic evaluation and study under the following conditions:

(a)A judge who has before him or her the matter of possible certification, commitment, or sentencing of a child to one of the institutions of the state may have an evaluation of the child made at the diagnostic center; or the judge may send a child to the center for an evaluation of the child's mental and physical capacity if the judge believes such diagnosis will aid in the determination of the matter concerning the child, regardless of the fact that, because of lack of space, none of the regional centers is able to accept the child.

(b)Any judge, for the purpose of determining whether or not a child under sixteen years of age has a behavioral or mental health

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(1) A child may be referred to the
medical center for diagnostic evaluation and study under the following conditions:

(a) A judge who has before him or her the matter of possible certification,
commitment, or sentencing of a child to one of the institutions of the state may
have an evaluation of the child made at the diagnostic center; or the judge may
send a child to the center for an evaluation of the child's mental and physical
capacity if the judge believes such diagnosis will aid in the determination of the
matter concerning the child, regardless of the fact that, because of lack of space,
none of the regional centers is able to accept the child.

(b) Any judge, for the purpose of determining whether or not a child under
sixteen years of age has a behavioral or mental health disorder or an intellectual
and developmental disability, may cause the child to be sent to the center for
diagnostic evaluation.

(c) The superintendent of any institution in Colorado to which children have
been committed or sentenced may request the executive director of the
department of human services to have an evaluation of any child in his institution
made at the center.

(d) The director of a county department of human or social services may
request an evaluation at the Colorado children's diagnostic center of a child in the
care, custody, or supervision of such county department when such evaluation will
aid it in its determination of the disposition, placement, or planning for such child;
but no such evaluation shall be requested until such parental consent as is
necessary has been obtained. If such an evaluation is made, the costs are paid by
the county department of human or social services.

Legislative History

Source: L. 55: p. 808, � 3. CRS 53: � 124-3-28. L. 61: p. 712, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 124-3-12. L. 65: p. 1034, � 1. L. 75: (1)(b) amended, p. 929, � 37, effective July 14. L. 83: (1)(a) amended, p. 1160, � 16, effective April 26. L. 94: (1)(c) amended, p. 2692, � 224, effective July 1. L. 2006: (1)(b) amended, p. 1404, � 62, effective August 7. L. 2017: (1)(b) amended, (SB 17-242), ch. 263, p. 1320, � 175, effective May 25. L. 2020: (1)(a) amended, (SB 20-136), ch. 70, p. 284, � 12, effective September 14. L. 2024: (1)(d) amended, (HB 24-1222), ch. 155, p. 690, � 13, effective August 7.