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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 829
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on AGING
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AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE TO REVIEW VOLUNTARIS M
NEEDS OF THE STATE O MBUDSMAN'S NURSING H OME PROGRAM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) There is established a task force 1
to study ways to ensure that the Office of the Long-term Care 2
Ombudsman has enough volunteers to reach out to nursing home 3
residents and address complaints about their care. 4
(b) The task force shall consist of the following members: 5
(1) Two appointed by the speaker of the House of Representatives, 6
both of whom shall be residents' advocates appointed pursuant to 7
section 17a-406 of the general statutes. 8
(2) Two appointed by the president pro tempore of the Senate, both 9
of whom shall be representatives of senior centers; 10
(3) One appointed by the majority leader of the House of 11
Representatives; 12 Raised Bill No. 829
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(4) One appointed by the majority leader of the Senate; 13
(5) One appointed by the minority leader of the House of 14
Representatives; 15
(6) One appointed by the minority leader of the Senate; 16
(7) The State Ombudsman, or the State Ombudsman's designee; 17
(8) The Commissioner of Rehabilitation Services, or the 18
commissioner's designee; and 19
(9) The executive director of the Commission on Women, Children 20
and Seniors, or the executive director's designee. 21
(c) Any member of the task force appointed under subdivision (3), 22
(4), (5) or (6) of subsection (b) of this section may be a member of the 23
General Assembly. 24
(d) All appointments to the task force shall be made not later than 25
thirty days after the effective date of this section. Any vacancy shall be 26
filled by the appointing authority. 27
(e) The speaker of the House of Representatives and the president 28
pro tempore of the Senate shall select the chairpersons of the task force 29
from among the members of the task force. Such chairpersons shall 30
schedule the first meeting of the task force, which shall be held not 31
later than sixty days after the effective date of this section. 32
(f) The administrative staff of the joint standing committee of the 33
General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to aging shall 34
serve as administrative staff of the task force. 35
(g) Not later than January 1, 2020, the task force shall submit a 36
report on its findings and recommendations to the joint standing 37
committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters 38
relating to aging, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of 39
the general statutes. The task force shall terminate on the date that it 40 Raised Bill No. 829
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submits such report or January 1, 2020, whichever is later. 41
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To create a task force to review the State Ombudsman's need for
volunteers for outreach to nursing home residents and to make
recommendations to increase the number of volunteers.
[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.]