Connecticut 2013 2013 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB05071 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/08/2013

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 5071
January Session, 2013  LCO No. 158
Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES
Introduced by:
REP. DAVIS C., 57th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 5071 

January Session, 2013

LCO No. 158

Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES 

Introduced by:

REP. DAVIS C., 57th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE DELIVERY OF SOCIAL SERVICES BY PRIVATE PROVIDERS.

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

That the general statutes be amended to provide that all state agencies engaged in the delivery of social services to state residents, including, but not limited to, the Departments of Social Services, Children and Families, Developmental Services, Mental Health and Addiction Services, and Correction shall, on or before July 1, 2014, transfer not less than twenty per cent of the administrative and personnel responsibility associated with the delivery of such services to qualified private community-based providers with no reduction in the level of services provided.

Statement of Purpose: 

To increase efficiency in the delivery of state social services by transferring a portion of the responsibility for the delivery of such services to qualified private community-based providers.