(1) On or after July 1, 2018, the state department shall grant, through a competitive grant program, one million five hundred thousand dollars to one or more organizations to operate a substance abuse screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment practice. The grant program must require:

(a) Training for health care professionals statewide, including providers who serve women of childbearing age, that is evidence-based and that may be attended either in person or online. The training must include training for reimbursement and billing codes in the "Colorado Medical Assistance Act", articles 4 to 6 of this title 25.5.

(b) Consultation and technical assistance for health care providers, health care organizations, and stakeholders;

(c) Outreach, communication, and education to providers and patients;

(d) Coordination with primary care, mental health care, integrated health care, and substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery efforts; and

(e) Campaigning to increase public awareness of the risks related to alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, and drug use and to reduce any stigma associated with treatment.

(2) (a) The state department contractor shall develop a patient education tool for women of childbearing age to learn about the risks of substance-exposed pregnancies, to be deployed for public use in the state.

(b)

(I) On or before July 1, 2018, the general assembly shall appropriate one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars to the state department from the marijuana tax cash fund created in section 39-28.8-501 for the purposes of this subsection (2)(b).

(II) This subsection (2)(b) is repealed, effective September 1, 2019.