The Department of Social Services, as lead agency for persons with mental and physical disabilities pursuant to section 17b-606, shall, in conjunction with the Labor Department, provide ongoing assessment of the needs of the business community and the ways persons with disabilities could fill such needs and shall assess skills needed by businesses, necessary training, available jobs, specific work sites and the programs offered by the Technical Education and Career System and comprehensive high schools. The Department of Social Services shall report its progress on or before January 15, 1990, and annually thereafter, to the committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to human services.

(P.A. 89-189, S. 3, 4; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; P.A. 12-116, S. 87; P.A. 17-237, S. 98.)

History: P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of social services for commissioner and department of human resources, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 17-610 transferred to Sec. 17b-610 in 1995; (Revisor’s note: In 1997 references to “Department of Labor” were replaced editorially by the Revisors with references to “Labor Department” for consistency with customary statutory usage); pursuant to P.A. 12-116, “regional vocational-technical schools” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “technical high schools”, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 17-237 replaced “technical high schools” with “the Technical Education and Career System”, effective July 1, 2017.