Substitute Senate Bill No. 945
Public Act No. 19-127
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E INNOVATION INCENTIVE PROGRAM
FOR NONPROFIT PROVID ERS OF HUMAN SERVICE S.
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
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July
1, 2019):
(c) The secretary [may] shall establish [an] a pilot incentive program
for nonprofit providers of human services [whose contracts with the
state do not exceed one million dollars and who provide direct services
to not more than one hundred fifty persons enrolled in state-funded
assistance programs in specific geographical regions of the state. The
incentive program may] that shall (1) allow providers who otherwise
meet contractual requirements to retain a percentage of any savings
realized by the providers from the contracted cost for services, [(2)
require that at least fifty per cent of savings retained by the providers
be used to expand such services, and (3)] and (2) provide that future
contracted amounts from the state for the same types of services are
not reduced solely to reflect savings achieved in previous contracts by
such providers. The pilot incentive program shall include eight
nonprofit providers of human services with state contracts of the
following amounts: (A) Two with contracts of at least fifty million Substitute Senate Bill No. 945
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dollars, (B) two with contracts of at least twenty million dollars but less
than fifty million dollars, (C) two with contracts of at least five million
dollars but less than twenty million dollars, and (D) two with contracts
of less than five million dollars. For purposes of this subsection, ["state-
funded assistance programs"] "nonprofit providers of human services"
includes, but is not limited to, nonprofit providers of services
[provided] to persons with intellectual, physical or mental disabilities
or autism spectrum disorder.