Connecticut 2010 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00079 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 02/08/2010

                            General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 79
February Session, 2010  LCO No. 455
Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections
Introduced by:
SEN. MCKINNEY, 28th Dist. SEN. FASANO, 34th Dist. SEN. RORABACK, 30th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 79 

February Session, 2010

LCO No. 455

Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections 

Introduced by:

SEN. MCKINNEY, 28th Dist.

SEN. FASANO, 34th Dist.

SEN. RORABACK, 30th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING AGENCY CONSOLIDATION AND THE OUTSOURCING OF GOVERNMENT SERVICES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That the general statutes be amended to consolidate: (1) The Departments of Public Health, Developmental Services, Children and Families, Mental Health and Addiction Services and Social Services into the Department of Human Services; (2) the Departments of Motor Vehicles and Transportation; (3) the Departments of Public Works and Administrative Services; (4) the Labor Department and the Department of Economic and Community Development; (5) the Departments of Higher Education and Education; and (6) the six legislative commissions into the Commission on the Status of Protected Citizens. That the general statutes be further amended to outsource government services, including noncommercial customer service operations of the Department of Motor Vehicles, the maintenance of state parks and direct care services within the newly created Department of Human Services. 

Statement of Purpose: 

To reduce the state deficit by consolidating agencies and outsourcing government services.