General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 874
January Session, 2017 *_____SB00874HS____032117____*
General Assembly
Substitute Bill No. 874
January Session, 2017
*_____SB00874HS____032117____*
AN ACT REQUIRING ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 17b-10 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2017):
(a) The Department of Social Services shall prepare and routinely update state medical services and public assistance manuals. The pages of such manuals shall be consecutively numbered and indexed, containing all departmental policy regulations and substantive procedure, written in clear and concise language. Said manuals shall be published online by the department and linked to the eRegulations System. All policy manuals of the department, as they exist on May 23, 1984, including the supporting bulletins but not including statements concerning only the internal management of the department and not affecting private rights or procedures available to the public, shall be construed to have been adopted as regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54. After May 23, 1984, any policy issued by the department, except a policy necessary to conform to a requirement of a federal or joint federal and state program administered by the department, including, but not limited to, the state supplement program to the Supplemental Security Income Program, shall be adopted as a regulation in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54. Not later than ten days prior to implementing any new guidelines contained in a provider bulletin issued by the department that are not being adopted as regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, the department shall release such guidelines to (1) all appropriate provider types enrolled in the department's provider enrollment system that are listed in the provider bulletin as the formal recipients of such provider bulletin and that are affected by the new guidelines contained in the bulletin, as determined by the department, and (2) any provider or person who has signed up to receive electronic notification of provider bulletins on an Internet web site maintained by or on behalf of the department. The ten-day-notice period shall not apply if the bulletin contains guidelines that must be implemented immediately to (A) address a health, safety or program integrity concern, as determined by the Commissioner of Social Services, (B) comply with federal requirements for one or more department programs, (C) implement one or more corrections, clarifications or updates to a previously issued provider bulletin, or (D) ensure savings targets contained in the budget are achieved.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2017 17b-10(a)
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
July 1, 2017
17b-10(a)
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