(1) As used in this section, "necessary document" means:
A social security card issued pursuant to 42 U.S.C. sec. 405 (c)(2)(G);
One of the following documents issued in Colorado or analogous documents issuedin another jurisdiction:
A driver's license issued pursuant to part 1 of article 2 of title 42, C.R.S.;
An identification card issued pursuant to part 3 of article 2 of title 42, C.R.S.; and
A vital statistics certificate or vital statistics report issued pursuant to article 2 of
this title; or
(c) Any document required as a condition of issuance of a document specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subsection (1).
The office shall administer a necessary document program. The office shall makeone or more grants per fiscal year to, enter into one or more vendor contracts with, or both, a nonprofit entity or collection of nonprofit entities that conduct a collaborative identification project to assist Colorado residents who are victims of domestic violence, impacted by a natural disaster, low-income, disabled, homeless, or elderly and who are seeking documentation of their identity, status, or citizenship by paying the fees to acquire a necessary document.
The general assembly shall annually appropriate to the office up to three hundredthousand dollars from the general fund. The office shall expend the money for the purposes specified in this section, including up to fifteen thousand dollars for the office's direct and indirect costs in administering the necessary document program.
This section is repealed, effective September 1, 2021.
Source: L. 2016: Entire section added, (HB 16-1386), ch. 302, p. 1219, § 1, effective June 10.