Colorado overhauls competency process, funds new hospital beds
Colorado enacted HB22-1386, overhauling its competency-to-proceed process with a presumption of personal-recognizance bonds and outpatient restoration for lower-level charges, mandatory 91-day competency reviews, and a path to dismissal where restoration is not reasonably foreseeable. The bill appropriated roughly $29.4 million for inpatient bed capacity and a feasibility study for a new Adams County facility.
The law followed years of litigation and reporting on the state's restoration backlog, and was itself followed a year later by a further round of reform focused on the evaluation process.
Source: HB22-1386 Competency To Proceed & Restoration To Competency — Colorado General Assembly
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