Define crossover youth  and crossover plan in statute and require each local Juvenile Services Planning Committee, established in C.R.S. 19-2-211, to devise a crossover plan for the identification and notification of cases involving crossover youth.

I. Add crossover youth definitions to 19-1-103 C.R.S.

II. Add a new section to 19-2-211 C.R.S. numbered 19-2-211.5 C.R.S.

Require the Juvenile Service Planning Committee in each judicial district to adopt a plan for identifying and notifying the human/social services representatives, probation representatives, S.B. 94 coordinators, juvenile court representatives, public defenders, district attorneys, parents and guardians ad litem of a youth ‘s crossover status.

III. Add language to 24-1.9-102 (1)(e) C.R.S. (Collaborative Management Statute)

Explicitly include and permit local Collaborative Management Programs to establish memorandum of understanding with the local Juvenile Services Planning Committees for the coordination of services for crossover youth.

IV. Add a new section to Title 19 Article 2 C.R.S.

Require the court to consider a youth's crossover status at all stages of the proceedings (i.e., pre and post adjudication) and not be used against the youth in a manner contrary to the principles informing the crossover youth practice model.

Authorize the utilization of existing marijuana tax revenue distributed to Senate Bill 1991-94 entities to allow these funds to be used to support the development and implementation of local crossover youth plans and services.

The Colorado Department of Human Services, Division of Child Welfare, should promulgate rules that provide guidance on permanency planning  to county departments of social/human services under Social Service Rules Volume 7. These rules should provide guidance to counties in circumstances involving a legally free youth (where parental rights have been terminated and there is no legal guardianship) who is either returning to county custody after a period of DYS commitment or is projected to emancipate from the Division of Youth Services (DYS).