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Title 17b - Social Services
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Chapter 319o - Department of Social Services
Chapter 319o - Department of Social Services
Section 17b-1 - Department of Social Services. Commissioner. Successor department to Department on Aging and Departments of Income Maintenance and Human Resources.
Section 17b-2 - Programs administered by the Department of Social Services.
Section 17b-3 - Commissioner of Social Services: Powers and duties.
Section 17b-4 - Department of Social Services: Duties and services provided. Reports by nursing homes; regulations.
Section 17b-4a - Department of Social Services: Public information and access to programs. Plan for comprehensive state service approach. Client-friendly application process.
Section 17b-5 - Implementation plan.
Section 17b-6 - Department of Social Services: Regional administrators. Agency goals.
Section 17b-7 - (Formerly Sec. 17-3i). General assistance training programs.
Section 17b-7a - State-wide fraud early detection system. Regulations. Quarterly reports.
Section 17b-8 - (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.
Section 17b-8a - Medicaid Coverage for the Lowest Income Populations program: Eligibility and service plan. Legislative review.
Section 17b-9 - (Formerly Sec. 17-2l). Annual report to the General Assembly.
Section 17b-10 - (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.
Section 17b-11 - (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.
Section 17b-12 - (Formerly Sec. 17-11b). Acceptance of bequests or gifts for services.
Section 17b-13 - (Formerly Sec. 17-12). Federal aid for emergency relief purposes.
Section 17b-14 - (Formerly Sec. 17-12j). Notification of federal sanctions and fines. Report.
Section 17b-15 - (Formerly Sec. 17-12p). Implementation of the Family Support Act of 1988. Day care provisions of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1990.
Section 17b-16 - (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.
Section 17b-17 and 17b-18 - (Formerly Secs. 17-12aa and 17-12kk). Assistance dependency report. Reports to the appropriations committee.
Section 17b-19 - (Formerly Sec. 17-291). Annual general assistance report. Records and reports by selectmen. Penalty.
Section 17b-20 - (Formerly Sec. 17-574). Grants for pilot projects or demonstrations.
Section 17b-21 - (Formerly Sec. 17-583). Civil legal services programs for indigent persons. Funding.
Section 17b-22 - (Formerly Sec. 17-106). Agreements with other states.
Section 17b-23 - (Formerly Sec. 17-572). Commissioner may contract with Commissioner of Children and Families re delivery of services to children.
Section 17b-24 - (Formerly Sec. 17-573). Contracts for comprehensive health care.
Section 17b-25 - (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.
Section 17b-26 - (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.
Section 17b-27 - 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.
Section 17b-28 - 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.
Section 17b-29 - Council to monitor implementation of temporary family assistance program and the employment services program. Appointments. Reports.
Section 17b-30 - Biometric identifier system.
Section 17b-31 - Parent's Fair Share Program.
Section 17b-32 - Pilot nurse practitioner training program.
Section 17b-33 - Transferred
Section 17b-34 - Commissioner of Social Services to obtain federal funds for health information technology. Disbursement of funds. Medicaid electronic health record incentive program.
Section 17b-55 - Regulations re welfare reform.
Section 17b-55a - Service by state marshals.
Section 17b-55b - Two-generation poverty reduction account.
Section 17b-56 - (Formerly Sec. 17-21a). Compact.
Section 17b-57 - (Formerly Sec. 17-21b). Administrator.
Section 17b-58 - (Formerly Sec. 17-21c). Administrator to coordinate activities.
Section 17b-59 - (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.