Bill Text: CT SB00249 | 2018 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut Senate Bill 249 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Administration Of The Home-care Program For The Elderly By The Department Of Social Services.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-19 - File Number 607 [SB00249 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2018-SB00249-Comm_Sub.html


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 249*
*February Session, 2018*		LCO No. 1675
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Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
(JUD)

AN ACT CONCERNING ADMINISTRATION OF THE HOME-CARE PROGRAM FOR THE ELDERLY BY THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES.

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

Section 1. Subsection (j) of section 17b-342 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2018):

(j) The Commissioner of Social Services may implement revised criteria for the operation of the program while in the process of adopting such criteria in regulation form, [provided the commissioner prints notice of intention to adopt the regulations in the Connecticut Law Journal within twenty days of implementing the policy] if such implementation is necessary to conform to a requirement of federal law relating to the operation of the program. The commissioner shall post notice of the criteria and the intent to adopt such criteria in regulation form on the eRegulations System not less than one hundred eighty days prior to the date of implementing the criteria. Such criteria shall be minimally burdensome to any person affected by the criteria and valid until the time final regulations are effective. Prior to the adoption of the criteria in regulation form, any person aggrieved by the Department of Social Services' application of the criteria or otherwise affected by the criteria may bring a civil action in the Superior Court challenging the validity and application of the criteria without seeking an administrative remedy from the department pursuant to the provisions of chapter 54.