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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 945
January Session, 2019
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E INNOVATION INCENTIVE PROGRAM
FOR NONPROFIT PROVID ERS OF HUMAN SERVICES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 4-216 of the general statutes is 1
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 2
1, 2019): 3
(c) The secretary [may] shall establish [an] a pilot incentive program 4
for nonprofit providers of human services [whose contracts with the 5
state do not exceed one million dollars and who provide direct services 6
to not more than one hundred fifty persons enrolled in state-funded 7
assistance programs in specific geographical regions of the state. The 8
incentive program may] that shall (1) allow providers who otherwise 9
meet contractual requirements to retain a percentage of any savings 10
realized by the providers from the contracted cost for services, (2) 11
require that at least fifty per cent of savings retained by the providers 12
be used to expand such services, and (3) provide that future contracted 13
amounts from the state for the same types of services are not reduced 14
solely to reflect savings achieved in previous contracts by such 15
providers. The pilot incentive program shall include eight nonprofit 16
providers of human services with state contracts of the following 17
amounts: (A) Two with contracts of at least fifty million dollars, (B) 18
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million dollars, (C) two with contracts of at least five million dollars 20
but less than twenty million dollars, and (D) two with contracts of less 21
than five million dollars. For purposes of this subsection, ["state-22
funded assistance programs"] "nonprofit providers of human services" 23
includes, but is not limited to, nonprofit providers of services 24
[provided] to persons with intellectual, physical or mental disabilities 25
or autism spectrum disorder. 26
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2019 4-216(c)
HS Joint Favorable Subst.