Connecticut 2015 2015 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB06151 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/21/2015

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 6151
January Session, 2015  LCO No. 1187
 *01187*
Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES
Introduced by:
REP. BETTS, 78th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 6151 

January Session, 2015

LCO No. 1187

*01187*

Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES 

Introduced by:

REP. BETTS, 78th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING PRIVATIZING THE DELIVERY OF SOCIAL SERVICES.

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

That title 17b of the general statutes be amended to require the Commissioner of Social Services, in consultation with the Commissioners of Developmental Services and Mental Health and Addiction Services, to evaluate the feasibility, efficacy and cost efficiency of transferring to nonprofit organizations the delivery of fifty per cent of social services now provided by the state.

Statement of Purpose: 

To evaluate whether local nonprofit agencies could deliver higher quality and less expensive social services than the state.