Bill Text: CT SB00115 | 2013 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Residential Nursing Home Facilities Serving Inmates And Mental Health Patients.

Spectrum:

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-06-05 - Senate Passed as Amended by Senate Amendment Schedule A [SB00115 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2013-SB00115-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Committee Bill No. 115
January Session, 2013		LCO No. 5275
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Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
(PH)

AN ACT CONCERNING RESIDENTIAL NURSING HOME FACILITIES SERVING INMATES AND MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS.

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

Section 1. Section 18-100i of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):

(a) The Commissioner of Correction, at the commissioner's discretion, may release an inmate from the commissioner's custody, except an inmate convicted of sexual assault under the provisions of sections 53a-70 to 53a-71, inclusive, 53a-72a, 53a-72b and 53a-73a, a capital felony under the provisions of section 53a-54b in effect prior to April 25, 2012, or murder with special circumstances under the provisions of section 53a-54b in effect on or after April 25, 2012, for placement in a licensed community-based nursing home under contract with the state for the purpose of providing palliative and end-of-life care to the inmate if the medical director of the Department of Correction determines that the inmate is suffering from a terminal condition, disease or syndrome, or is so debilitated or incapacitated by a terminal condition, disease or syndrome as to (1) require continuous palliative or end-of-life care, or (2) be physically incapable of presenting a danger to society.

(b) The Commissioner of Correction may require as a condition of release under subsection (a) of this section that the medical director conduct periodic medical review and diagnosis of the inmate during such release. An inmate released pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall be returned to the custody of the Commissioner of Correction if the medical director determines that the inmate no longer meets the criteria for release under subsection (a) of this section.

(c) Any inmate released from the custody of the Commissioner of Correction pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall be supervised in the community by the Department of Correction.

(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit any powers lawfully exercised by any zoning commission or any planning and zoning commission pursuant to chapter 124.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	18-100i

PH	Joint Favorable C/R	JUD
JUD	Joint Favorable