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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 491
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 2594
Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES
Introduced by:
SEN. HWANG, 28th Dist.
AN ACT EXPANDING ACCESS TO QUALITY HUMAN SERVICES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to reduce state costs while 1
maintaining and expanding access to programs on which persons 2
depend by (1) moving group homes operated by the Department of 3
Developmental Services and local mental health authorities operated 4
by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services to the 5
efficient and high-quality nonprofit community provider system, and 6
(2) reinvesting savings into the community service delivery system. 7
Statement of Purpose:
To save more than one million dollars per group home and seven
thousand dollars per client of a local mental health authority by
converting state-run services to a nonprofit operation.