The Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services may, within available appropriations, provide housing subsidies to persons receiving services from the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services who qualify for supportive housing in accordance with section 17a-485c. The commissioner may allow an agency that distributes such housing subsidies on behalf of the department to utilize any unexpended moneys that remain at the end of the fiscal year to provide housing subsidies to eligible persons in the subsequent fiscal year.
(P.A. 99-202; P.A. 14-138, S. 2; 14-217, S. 71.)
History: P.A. 14-138 replaced “subsidies” with “housing subsidies”, replaced “require supervised living arrangements” with “qualify for supportive housing in accordance with section 17a-485c” and added provision re unexpended moneys that remain at the end of the fiscal year; P.A. 14-217 made identical changes as P.A. 14-138, effective June 13, 2014.