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Department of Social Services

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Department of Social Services. Successor department to Departments of Income Maintenance and Human Resources.

Programs administered by the Department of Social Services.

Commissioner of Social Services: Powers and duties.

Department of Social Services: Duties and services provided. Reports by nursing homes; regulations.

Department of Social Services: Public information and access to programs. Plan for comprehensive state service approach. Client-friendly application process.

Implementation plan.

Department of Social Services: Regional administrators. Agency goals.

(Formerly Sec. 17-3i) - General assistance training programs.

State-wide fraud early detection system. Regulations. Quarterly reports.

(Formerly Sec. 17-2k) - Commissioner's submission of application for waiver from federal law or waiver renewal and proposed amendment to the Medicaid state plan. Legislative review. Public hearing. Procedural requirements.

Medicaid Coverage for the Lowest Income Populations program: Eligibility and service plan. Legislative review.

(Formerly Sec. 17-2l) - Annual report to the General Assembly.

(Formerly Sec. 17-3f) - Department of Social Services policy manuals. Posting online. Policies adopted as regulations.

Section
17b-10a

Department of Social Services policies and procedures. Implementation.

Section
17b-10b

Department of Social Services policies and procedures. Implementation.

Section
17b-10c

Uniform Policy Manual revision to regulation format. Committee review. Posting on eRegulations System.

(Formerly Sec. 17-11) - Acceptance of federal funds. Disregard of certain federal increases for recipients of state supplement program. Increase in income disregarded for unrelated recipients who share living arrangements.

Section
17b-11a

Adult family living classification in rated housing.

(Formerly Sec. 17-11b) - Acceptance of bequests or gifts for services.

(Formerly Sec. 17-12) - Federal aid for emergency relief purposes.

(Formerly Sec. 17-12j) - Notification of federal sanctions and fines. Report.

(Formerly Sec. 17-12p) - Implementation of the Family Support Act of 1988. Day care provisions of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1990.

(Formerly Sec. 17-12t) - Information and assistance to be provided re federal earned income credit. Promotion of greater utilization of federal earned income credit.

Section
17b-16a

Disclosure of current address of applicants or recipients of benefits under programs administered by the department.

Section
17b-16b

Ineligibility for benefits under programs administered by department due to outstanding felony arrest warrants.

Section
17b-16c

Treatment of tax refunds made under Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 to applicants or recipients of benefits under programs operated by the department.

Sections
17b-17 and 17b-18

(Formerly Secs. 17-12aa and 17-12kk) - Assistance dependency report. Reports to the appropriations committee.

(Formerly Sec. 17-291) - Annual general assistance report. Records and reports by selectmen. Penalty.

(Formerly Sec. 17-574) - Grants for pilot projects or demonstrations.

(Formerly Sec. 17-583) - Civil legal services programs for indigent persons. Funding.

(Formerly Sec. 17-106) - Agreements with other states.

(Formerly Sec. 17-572) - Commissioner may contract with Commissioner of Children and Families re delivery of services to children.

(Formerly Sec. 17-573) - Contracts for comprehensive health care.

(Formerly Sec. 17-576) - Purchase or lease and management of property.

Section
17b-25a

Toll-free vendor fraud telephone line.

Section
17b-25b

Program for persons suffering from Huntington's disease.

(Formerly Sec. 17-577) - Department designated as state agency responsible for implementation of social services block grants and community services block grants. Development of outreach program. Report.

Voluntary paternity establishment program. Protocols. Regulations. Voluntary acknowledgment of paternity system established by Department of Public Health.

Section
17b-27a

John S. Martinez Fatherhood Initiative. Objectives. Reports. Funding. Grant program.

Council on Medical Assistance Program Oversight. Duties. Appointments. Standing subcommittee. Report.

Section
17b-28a

Waiver Application Development Council. Medicaid waiver unit.

Section
17b-28b

Competitive bidding for Medicaid managed care plans.

Section
17b-28c

Application for a federal waiver for pilot program based on principles of national Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).

Section
17b-28d

Amendment to state Medicaid plan to increase federal matching funds for Medicaid services provided to children requiring special education. Notice to boards of education re changes to policies or procedures.

Section
17b-28e

Amendment to Medicaid state plan re hospice, podiatry and independent behavioral health clinician services.

Section
17b-28f

Care management subcontractors. Report on costs and profit.

Section
17b-28g

Notice of amendment to Medicaid state plan.

Section
17b-28h

Amendment to Medicaid state plan re pilot program to provide managed care to persons served by Oak Hill.

Section
17b-28i

Income disregard for veterans' Aid and Attendance pension benefits. Amendment to Medicaid state plan.

Council to monitor implementation of temporary family assistance program and the employment services program. Appointments. Reports.

Biometric identifier system.

Parent's Fair Share Program.

Pilot nurse practitioner training program.

Transferred to Chapter 319d, Sec. 17a-303a.

Commissioner of Social Services to obtain federal funds for health information technology. Disbursement of funds. Medicaid electronic health record incentive program.

Sections
17b-35 to 17b-54

Reserved for future use.

Regulations re welfare reform.

Section
17b-55a

Service by state marshals.

Section
17b-55b

Two-generation poverty reduction account.

(Formerly Sec. 17-21a) - Compact.

(Formerly Sec. 17-21b) - Administrator.

(Formerly Sec. 17-21c) - Administrator to coordinate activities.

(Formerly Sec. 17-21d) - Notice to other states of repeal of part.

Section
17b-59a

(Formerly Sec. 4-60i) - Development of uniform information and technology standards and regulations. Health information technology plan. Electronic data standards. State-wide Health Information Exchange. Report.

Section
17b-59b

(Formerly Sec. 4-60j) - Commissioner to consider advice of advisory boards and councils.

Section
17b-59c

(Formerly Sec. 4-60l) - Approval of agency policies, programs and plans.

Section
17b-59d

State-wide Health Information Exchange. Established.

Section
17b-59e

Electronic health record systems. Connection to State-wide Health Information Exchange.

Section
17b-59f

State Health Information Technology Advisory Council. Establishment of All-Payer Claims Database Advisory Group.

Section
17b-59g

Program to expedite development of State-wide Health Information Exchange. Entity to implement the program. Board of directors.