Bill Text: CT HB05145 | 2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut House Bill 5145 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Long-term Care Needs.

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-23 - Public Hearing 03/01 [HB05145 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2018-HB05145-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 5145*
*February Session, 2018*		LCO No. 948
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Referred to Committee on AGING
Introduced by:
(AGE)

AN ACT CONCERNING LONG-TERM CARE NEEDS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) The Commissioner of Social Services shall conduct a study of the state's long-term care needs to determine whether existing programs and strategies are sufficient.

(b) The study shall include, but need not be limited to: (1) For calendar year 2017, the number of state residents who were sixty-five years of age or older; (2) for calendar year 2021, the projected number of state residents who will be sixty-five years of age or older; (3) for calendar year 2017, the number of state residents with disabilities who required long-term care; (4) for calendar year 2021, the projected number of state residents with disabilities who will require long-term care; (5) for calendar years 2012 to 2017, inclusive, the number of residents removed from institutionalized settings to home and community-based settings under the Money Follows the Person demonstration project established pursuant to section 17b-369 of the general statutes; (6) for calendar years 2012 to 2017, inclusive, the savings realized in state expenditures on long-term care related to the Money Follows the Person demonstration project; and (7) for calendar year 2021, the projected number of persons who will require long-term care.

(c) Not later than July 1, 2019, the Commissioner of Social Services, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, shall report the results of the study done pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to aging and human services. Such report may include the commissioner's recommendations for addressing identified gaps in the provision of long-term care and improving access to such long-term care.


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To require the Commissioner of Social Services to study whether long-term care needs are adequately being addressed.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]