General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5441
February Session, 2020 LCO No. 440
Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES
Introduced by:
(HS)
AN ACT CONCERNING LONG-TERM CARE SERVICES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
1 Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) The Commissioner of Social
2 Services shall conduct a study of the state's long-term care needs to
3 determine whether existing programs and strategies are sufficient.
4 (b) The study shall include, but need not be limited to: (1) For
5 calendar year 2019, the number of state residents who were sixty-five
6 years of age or older; (2) for calendar year 2023, the projected number of
7 state residents who will be sixty-five years of age or older; (3) for
8 calendar year 2019, the number of state residents with disabilities who
9 required long-term care; (4) for calendar year 2023, the projected
10 number of state residents with disabilities who will require long-term
11 care; (5) for calendar years 2015 to 2019, inclusive, the number of
12 residents removed from institutionalized settings to home and
13 community-based settings under the Money Follows the Person
14 demonstration project established pursuant to section 17b-369 of the
15 general statutes; (6) for calendar years 2015 to 2019, inclusive, the
16 savings realized in state expenditures on long-term care related to the
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17 Money Follows the Person demonstration project; and (7) for calendar
18 year 2023, the projected number of persons who will require long-term
19 care.
20 (c) Not later than July 1, 2021, the Commissioner of Social Services, in
21 accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes,
22 shall report the results of the study done pursuant to subsections (a) and
23 (b) of this section to the joint standing committees of the General
24 Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to aging and human
25 services. Such report may include the commissioner's recommendations
26 for addressing identified gaps in the provision of long-term care and
27 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 study the efficacy of state programs providing long-term care
services.
[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.]
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