CHAPTER 368h*
KIDNEY DISEASE

*See Sec. 19a-57 re loans to state residents for purchase of hemodialysis treatment machines.

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Sec. 19a-269. (Formerly Sec. 19-138a). Commissioner to recommend policies for treatment of kidney disease. Annual report.

Sec. 19a-269. (Formerly Sec. 19-138a). Commissioner to recommend policies for treatment of kidney disease. Annual report. (a) The Commissioner of Public Health shall: (1) Recommend minimum criteria for dialysis facilities and transplantation centers; (2) recommend medical criteria for eligibility of kidney disease patients for any available state assistance; (3) recommend programs of detection, prevention and public education concerning kidney disease; (4) recommend research into problems associated with kidney disease; (5) review all existing medical and social programs related to kidney disease to assure that all patients shall receive, with a minimum of duplication of financial and physical resources, the best possible health care.
(b) The Commissioner of Public Health shall, on or before November 30, 1978, and annually thereafter, report to the Governor and to the General Assembly the results of his studies and recommendations for such executive and legislative action as he finds beneficial to the public interest.
(c) In the performance of his duties, the Commissioner of Public Health may order the preparation of books, reports and records and may pay for the expert advisors and assistants for making his studies and formulating his recommendations from funds made available by the Department of Public Health from the appropriation to said Department of Public Health.
(P.A. 73-463, S. 1−3; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 335, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58.)
History: P.A. 77-614 replaced kidney disease advisory commission with commissioner of health services and department of health with department of health services, deleted Subsec. (a) containing provisions re members of commission, their terms etc., relettering remaining subsections accordingly, dropped provision re quarterly meetings in former Subsec. (b), redesignated as (a), and changed deadline for report from November 30, 1974, to November 30, 1978, effective January 1, 1979; Sec. 19-138a transferred to Sec. 19a-269 in 1983; P.A. 93-381 replaced department and commissioner of health services with department and commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995.

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