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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7337
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES
Introduced by:
(HS)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES'
ENERGY ASSISTANCE PA YMENTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (e) of section 16a-41a of the general statutes is 1
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 2
1, 2019): 3
(e) Not later than November 1, 2018, the Commissioner of Social 4
Services shall require each community action agency administering a 5
fuel assistance program to make payment to a vendor of deliverable 6
fuel not later than thirty days after the community action agency 7
receives an authorized fuel slip or invoice for payment from the 8
vendor. No such community action agency shall authorize a vendor of 9
deliverable fuel to make a fuel delivery until funds for such delivery 10
are transferred from the Department of Social Services to the 11
community action agency and are available to pay the vendor for such 12
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2019 16a-41a(e)
Statement of Purpose:
To protect fuel vendors in the energy assistance program from delayed
payments by requiring that the Department of Social Services release
fuel assistance funds to community action agencies before such
agencies authorize fuel vendors to make deliveries.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]