General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6464
January Session, 2015 LCO No. 5240
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Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES
Introduced by:
(HS)
General Assembly
Committee Bill No. 6464
January Session, 2015
LCO No. 5240
*_____HB06464HS_APP032415____*
Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES
Introduced by:
(HS)
AN ACT ASSISTING MOBILITY-CHALLENGED SENIOR CITIZENS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 17b-607 of the general statutes is amended by adding subsection (d) as follows (Effective from passage):
(NEW) (d) On and after July 1, 2015, the Commissioner of Rehabilitation Services shall, within available appropriations, provide loans pursuant to the terms described in subsection (a) of this section to communities of one hundred thousand or more persons for the purchase of vehicles equipped to transport a mobility-challenged senior citizen and his or her adaptive equipment, including, but not limited to, a walker, wheelchair or scooter. For purposes of this subsection, "mobility-challenged senior citizen" means a person sixty years of age and older who needs adaptive equipment to aid with mobility.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage 17b-607
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
17b-607
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