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CTHB06587Intro
25%
To provide Medicaid coverage, to the extent permissible under federal law, for diapers.
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2023-03-30
File Number 323
CTHB06586Intro
25%
To (1) adjust distribution of supplemental nutrition assistance benefits so that beneficiaries receive monthly benefits at multiple intervals during the month, and (2) ensure persons who received recent increases in Social Security payments don't los...
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2023-03-30
File Number 322
CTHB06617Intro
25%
To provide equitable health insurance coverage for fertility health care to privately insured individuals and individuals insured through Medicaid.
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2023-03-30
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTSB00991Intro
25%
To provide Medicaid reimbursement to certified community health workers.
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2023-03-30
Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/04/23 5:00 PM
CTSB01053Intro
25%
To establish a task force to study and make recommendations concerning the elderly nutrition program administered by the Department of Aging and Disability Services.
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2023-03-30
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTSB01110Intro
25%
To (1) delete obsolete reporting requirements, (2) clarify liability of third-party private insurers and other obligors for the costs of certain medical assistance, (3) reduce from thirty to ten days the amount of time a fuel vendor participating in ...
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2023-03-30
Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/04/23 5:00 PM
CTHB06775Intro
25%
To add additional mandated reporters of suspected abuse, abandonment, neglect or exploitation of elderly persons and make a technical statutory change.
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2023-03-30
Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/04/23 5:00 PM
CTSB01109Intro
25%
To adjust Medicaid reimbursement for Community Living Arrangements, Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities, residential care homes and nursing facilities.
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2023-03-30
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTSB01174Intro
25%
To raise minimum wages for employees of nonprofit providers that contract with the state to provide services for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, authorize health care coverage of such employees under a state partnership heal...
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2023-03-30
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTSB01175Intro
25%
To ensure the state medical assistance program is serving all those in need.
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2023-03-30
Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/04/23 5:00 PM
CTHB06857Intro
25%
To establish (1) a pilot program to provide Medicaid funding for produce prescriptions for Medicaid enrollees with certain health conditions, (2) a working group to develop additional recommendations, including for providing medically tailored meals ...
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2023-03-30
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTHB06855Intro
25%
To study the efficacy of state Medicaid-funded programs and the need for expansion of such programs.
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2023-03-30
Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/04/23 5:00 PM
CTHB06626Intro
25%
To establish a program of all-inclusive care for the elderly and require the Commissioner of Correction to conduct sex offender background checks and registration, if required, of any former inmate transferred to a nursing home facility.
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2023-03-28
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTSB00989Intro
25%
To (1) require air conditioning in each room at a nursing home, (2) require notification of the State Ombudsman when a nursing home plans to involuntarily transfer or discharge a patient, (3) establish a grant program for transportation of nonambulat...
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2023-03-28
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
CTHB06630Intro
25%
To increase income and asset limits for medical assistance applicants and enrollees who are age sixty-five and older, have disabilities or are blind.
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2023-03-28
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTSB01111Intro
25%
To reduce rates of reimbursement for empty beds in nursing homes below a minimum occupancy threshold and establish a new payment system for management and other costs not directly related to patient care.
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2023-03-28
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
CTSB01173Intro
25%
To require a study of the responsiveness of programs administered by the Department of Social Services to persons served by such programs.
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2023-03-28
Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/03/23 5:00 PM
CTSB01204Intro
25%
To codify the provisions of the federal Indian Child Welfare Act into state law and apply its provisions to children of an Indian tribe recognized by the state of Connecticut and children of a federally recognized Indian tribe.
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2023-03-28
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
CTSB00411Intro
25%
To increase the dispensing fee by five dollars for pharmacists dispensing ninety-day prescriptions in medication blister packs to Medicaid enrollees.
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2023-03-28
To Joint Human Services Committee
CTHB06702Intro
25%
To require manufacturers of powered wheelchairs to provide documentation, tools, hardware and software, if necessary, to allow a consumer to repair, or hire an independent contractor to repair, a powered wheelchair.
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2023-03-24
To Joint Judiciary Committee
CTHB05001Intro
25%
To (1) evaluate and implement best practices for expanding employment and transportation opportunities for persons with an intellectual or developmental disability, (2) ameliorate waiting lists for Medicaid waiver program services for such persons, (...
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2023-03-24
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTHB06885Intro
25%
To increase Medicaid payment rates for services provided by individual, fee-for-service providers and emergency medical transportation providers to Medicare rates for the same services and require a study of Medicaid payment rates for certain long-te...
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2023-03-24
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTHB06854Intro
25%
To create the Office of the Food Access Advocate to provide for a centralized resource to address food insecurity in the state and provide tax incentives for the location of grocery stores in food deserts.
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2023-03-23
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
CTHB06856Intro
25%
To require the Department of Social Services to transfer sufficient funding to the United Way of Connecticut to operate the 2-1-1 Infoline twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
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2023-03-23
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
CTSB00010Intro
25%
To promote transparency in health care and prescription drug costs, expand access to affordable prescription drugs, integrate community health workers and social workers into delivery of health care and home and community-based services, expand the C...
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2023-03-23
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTHB06612Intro
25%
To ensure nonprofit health and human services providers contracting with state agencies may retain savings realized from contracted amounts and receive adequate compensation.
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2023-03-21
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTHB06701Intro
25%
To increase the state payment for funeral expenses for persons of limited income.
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2023-03-21
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTSB01203Intro
25%
To ameliorate the burden of medical debt.
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2023-03-21
Motion Failed (JF)
CTSB01202Intro
25%
To (1) require that certain prescription drugs purchased in the state not exceed upper payment limits set by Medicare pursuant to the federal Inflation Reduction Act, (2) establish a Prescription Drug Payment Evaluation Committee to recommend upper p...
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2023-03-21
Motion Failed (JF)
CTSB00946Intro
25%
To expand access to the state-funded portion of the Connecticut home-care program for the elderly, compensate family caregivers and authorize and compensate up to two visits by licensed social workers to home-care clients.
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2023-03-20
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTSB01052Intro
25%
To ensure that each area agency on aging has not less than two staff members dedicated to helping persons served by the agencies to navigate and obtain available services.
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2023-03-20
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTHB06776Intro
25%
To authorize a redetermination of HUSKY C eligibility without action by certain enrollees based on available income and asset data.
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2023-03-20
File Number 110
CTSB01205Intro
25%
To provide Medicaid reimbursement for peer recovery support providers, including substance use disorder recovery coaches, who are certified and enrolled as Medicaid providers.
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2023-03-14
To Joint Human Services Committee
CTSB00978Intro
25%
To require the Commissioner of Social Services to (1) amend a federal Medicaid waiver program to expand health care coverage to persons whose earnings do not exceed two hundred per cent of the federal poverty level, and (2) develop a second tier of s...
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2023-03-08
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTSB00420Intro
25%
To expand employment opportunities for persons with disabilities by providing a tax credit for employers who hire persons with disabilities.
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2023-03-08
To Joint Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee
CTSB00412Intro
25%
To increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for complex care nursing services provided in the homes of Medicaid beneficiaries and eliminate differentials in rates based on the age of a patient.
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2023-03-08
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTHB05765Intro
25%
To allow more family members of enrollees in Medicaid waiver programs administered by the Department of Developmental Services to be hired and compensated for care.
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2023-03-07
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTHB06386Intro
25%
To require timely eligibility determinations for Medicaid applicants, require notification of such determinations to such applicants, prohibit nursing homes from taking steps to recover costs of care until Medicaid eligibility is determined and heigh...
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2023-03-07
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTHB06616Intro
25%
To expand medical assistance to otherwise eligible persons regardless of immigration status.
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2023-03-07
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTHB06628Intro
25%
To improve treatments for cancer and other conditions and diseases by approving Medicaid coverage for biomarker testing.
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2023-03-07
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTHB06629Intro
25%
To extend the time limit for temporary family assistance to sixty months and to gradually reduce benefits for newly employed beneficiaries to encourage employment.
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2023-03-07
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTHB06627Intro
25%
To establish civil penalties to be enforced by the Attorney General for deficient long-term care resulting in bodily injury or potential to result in bodily injury.
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2023-03-07
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTSB00977Intro
25%
To expand medical assistance for treatment of obesity.
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2023-03-06
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTSB00990Intro
25%
To require that Medicaid reimbursement for federally qualified health centers be based on costs incurred by such health centers.
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2023-03-06
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTSB01176Intro
25%
To allow audio-only telehealth services under the state medical assistance program and out-of-state health care providers to provide telehealth in the state on a permanent basis.
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2023-03-03
To Joint Human Services Committee
CTSB00058Intro
25%
To authorize a qualified deduction for conservator compensation from the income a Medicaid applicant or recipient must apply to the cost of care and not treat Probate Court-approved payments made by a Medicaid applicant or recipient to a conservator ...
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2023-02-28
File Number 3
CTSB00082Intro
25%
To expand Medicaid coverage for working persons with disabilities.
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2023-02-28
File Number 4
CTHB06618Intro
25%
To provide state-administered medical assistance for certain out-of-state residents receiving abortion care and related services in Connecticut.
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2023-02-24
To Joint Human Services Committee
CTSB00208Intro
25%
To expand daily access to low-cost or free transportation throughout the state for persons with disabilities to improve their quality of life and facilitate their ability to work.
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2023-02-24
To Joint Human Services Committee
CTHB06703Intro
25%
To make changes in program payment practices and benefits to ensure an adequate pool of fuel vendors and assistance meets the needs of low-income households.
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2023-02-24
To Joint Human Services Committee
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