Colorado Code § 26-1-127.5

Prevention of erroneous payments to prisoners - incentives
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(1) In the
event the identifying information transmitted to the state department and the county departments
pursuant to section 17-26-118.5 (2), C.R.S., results in the termination of benefits from any
program administered by the state department or county departments, the state department or
county department shall pay as a reward to the sheriff ten percent of each of the following:
(a) Any portion of one month's benefit that would have been payable to the incarcerated
recipient that consists of state or county moneys;
(b) Any portion of one month's benefit that would have been payable to the incarcerated
recipient that consists of federal moneys granted to the state or counties, unless federal law
prohibits the use of such grant moneys for the purpose specified in this subsection (1);
(c) Any portion of one month's benefit that would have been payable to the incarcerated
recipient that consists of federal moneys made available by waiver for the purpose specified in
this subsection (1).
(2) The executive director may apply for any federal waivers necessary to maximize the
amount of the incentive payments to sheriffs.
(3) (a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection (3), the state
department or county departments shall not pay a reward to a sheriff for providing identifying
information pursuant to subsection (1) of this section in connection with a participant in the
Colorado works program, created pursuant to part 7 of article 2 of this title, unless the federal
government permits any amount paid as a reward to qualify as an expenditure for the purposes of
meeting the state maintenance of historic effort required pursuant to section 26-2-713.
(b) The state department or county departments shall not pay a reward as authorized
under this section if the state or county costs of implementing the provisions of this section
exceed the overall saving of state or county moneys that the state department or county
departments estimate shall be realized by implementing this section.

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