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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 5847
January Session, 2019
AN ACT ESTABLISHING A PILOT PROGRAM TO IMPLEMENT
RECOMMENDATIONS OF T HE COMMISSIONER OF HOUS ING TO
IMPROVE CERTAIN STAT E-FUNDED PUBLIC HOUSIN G PROJECTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) For the purposes of this section, 1
"elderly tenants" means tenants sixty-two years of age or older and 2
"younger tenants with disabilities" means tenants who are not yet 3
sixty-two years of age and who have been certified by the Social 4
Security Board as being totally disabled under the Social Security Act, 5
or certified by any other federal board or agency as being totally 6
disabled. The Commissioner of Housing shall establish a pilot program 7
to implement the recommendations of the Department of Housing and 8
the Connecticut Fair Housing Center, pursuant to special acts 17-19 9
and 18-12, to improve certain state-funded housing projects that 10
provide services to both elderly tenants and younger tenants with 11
disabilities. 12
(b) Not later than August 1, 2019, the Commissioner of Housing, in 13
consultation with the chairpersons of the joint standing committee of 14
the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to 15
housing, shall designate three specific buildings within three state-16
funded housing projects that provide services to elderly tenants and 17
younger tenants with disabilities to participate in the pilot program. 18
The selection of buildings shall consist of one small building 19
containing not more than forty units; one medium-sized building 20 Substitute Bill No. 5847
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containing not less than forty-one units and not more than eighty 21
units; and one large building containing not less than eighty-one and 22
not more than two hundred units. 23
(c) Not later than October 1, 2019, each housing authority 24
participating in the program shall agree to implement the following 25
measures in the building within the authority's housing project that 26
was designated under subsection (b) of this section for a period of one 27
calendar year: 28
(1) A social coordinator shall be on site for at least four hours a day 29
for two days per week. The social coordinator shall develop, organize 30
and implement social activities for both the population of elderly 31
tenants and the population of younger tenants with disabilities, either 32
separately or collectively. 33
(2) A resident service coordinator shall be on site for at least four 34
hours a day for two days per week. In addition to implementing 35
existing programs that benefit the population of younger tenants with 36
disabilities, the resident service coordinator shall develop an assistance 37
component for the elderly tenant population, in order to address the 38
needs of both the elderly tenants and the younger tenants with 39
disabilities. 40
(3) A security officer, if one is not already present, shall be on site 41
for at least eight hours per day to assist residents and monitor security. 42
(d) The costs for implementing the pilot program shall be shared 43
between the Departments of Housing, Mental Health and Addiction 44
Services and Social Services. Not later than January 11, 2021, the 45
Department of Housing shall submit a report, in accordance with the 46
provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing 47
committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters 48
relating to housing. Such report shall include, but not be limited to, an 49
evaluation of the results of the pilot program and any findings and 50
recommendations with regard to future implementation of similar 51 Substitute Bill No. 5847
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programs in comparable housing projects. 52
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Legislative Commissioners:
In Section 1(a) "42 USC 1320d" was removed from accuracy and
Section 1(c) was reworded for clarity.
HSG Joint Favorable Subst. -LCO