Sec. 17b-851. (Formerly Sec. 17-618). Families-in-training programs. The Department of Social Services shall establish, within available appropriations, families-in-training programs to provide parent education and community support services to
expectant parents and parents of children under the age of three. Such services shall
include, but not be limited to, providing information and advice to parents on their
child's language, cognitive, social and motor development, visiting a participant's home
on a regular basis, organizing group meetings for neighborhood parents of young children and providing referrals for parents who need special assistance or services. Such
programs shall provide for the recruitment of participants.
(P.A. 90-128, S. 2; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87.)
History: P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of social services for commissioner and
department of human resources, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 17-618 transferred to Sec. 17b-851 in 1995.
Sec. 17b-851a. Program for reduction of teenage pregnancies. The Department
of Social Services shall develop, within existing appropriations, a comprehensive plan,
in consultation with the Department of Public Health, the Department of Education and
the Department of Children and Families, for the reduction in the number of teenage
pregnancies.
(P.A. 94-232, S. 2; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58.)
History: 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.
Sec. 17b-852. (Formerly Sec. 8-221). Human resource development program.
For the purposes of sections 8-201 to 8-220a, inclusive, 8-222b, 8-226 to 8-239a, inclusive, this section and sections 17b-853 to 17b-855, inclusive:
(1) "Human resource development program" means a program, project or activity
which: (a) Mobilizes and utilizes resources, public or private, of any urban or rural, or
combined urban and rural, geographical area including, but not limited to, a municipality
or group of municipalities in an attack on poverty; services, by providing assistance and
other activities consistent with the needs of such municipality, of sufficient scope and
size to give promise of progress toward the elimination of poverty or a cause or causes of
poverty through developing employment opportunities, improving human performance,
motivation, productivity, physical and mental health, and well-being, or by bettering
the conditions under which people live, learn and work; (b) is developed, conducted
and administered with the maximum feasible participation of residents of the areas
and members of the groups served, which groups shall include the elderly; and (c) is
conducted, administered or coordinated by a human resource development agency;
(2) "Human resource development agency" means (a) a public or private nonprofit
agency designated by and authorized to accept funds from the federal Office of Economic Opportunity or any other department or agency of the United States to which any
of the powers of said office may be transferred, for a community action program under
the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, as amended; (b) a public agency or officer
designated by the chief executive officer and approved by the governing body of such
municipality to carry out and coordinate human resource development programs by, or
through contract with, or delegation to, any nonprofit agency or any agency, department,
board, or commission of the municipality, and to enter into contracts or receive grants-in-aid from the Commissioner of Social Services for a human resource development
program under sections 8-201 to 8-220a, inclusive, 8-222b, 8-226 to 8-239a, inclusive,
this section and sections 17b-853 to 17b-855, inclusive; (c) any corporation organized
for purposes other than to make a profit or gain for itself and not controlled or directed
by persons or firms seeking to derive profit or gain therefrom, and designated by the
chief executive officer and approved by the governing body of such municipality to
carry out and coordinate human resource development programs and to enter into contracts with or receive grant-in-aid from the Commissioner of Social Services for human
resource development programs under said sections; or (d) any corporation organized
for purposes other than to make a profit or gain for itself and not controlled or directed
by persons or firms seeking to derive profit or gain therefrom, in existence on January 1,
1973, and designated by the Commissioner of Social Services to carry out and coordinate
human resource development programs and to enter into contracts with or receive grants-in-aid from the Commissioner of Social Services for human resource development programs under said sections.
(1967, P.A. 522, S. 26; 1969, P.A. 757, S. 2; 1971, P.A. 759, S. 3; P.A. 73-378, S. 3, 4; P.A. 77-614, S. 593(a), 610;
P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87.)
History: 1969 act incorporated Subpara. (b) into Subpara. (a) of definition of human resource development program,
relettering remaining Subpara. accordingly, made special reference to the elderly among groups served and rephrased
Subpara. (b) of definition of human resource development agency; 1971 act deleted reference to establishment of needs
by community development action plan and added Subpara. (c) under definition of human resource development agency
re nonprofit corporations; P.A. 73-378 added Subpara. (d) under definition of "human resource development agency";
P.A. 77-614 specified "commissioner" as commissioner of human resources, previously reference was to commissioner
of community affairs, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of
social services for commissioner and department of human resources, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 8-221 transferred to Sec.
17b-852 in 1995.
Sec. 17b-853. (Formerly Sec. 8-222). State grants-in-aid for human resource
development programs. Submission of application and advisory opinion. (a) The
state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Social Services, may enter
into a contract with a grantee for state financial assistance for human resource development programs in the form of a state grant-in-aid for the purposes and in the amounts
hereinafter stated: (1) To pay the nonfederal share of a federally assisted program, one-half of the amount by which the cost of the program exceeds the federal grant-in-aid
thereof; or (2) to continue a program for which such federal grant-in-aid had been received and has thereafter been reduced or discontinued, or to undertake a program for
which a federal grant-in-aid is not available, all or any portion of the cost of such program
as determined by the commissioner.
(b) With respect to proposed contracts for grants-in-aid made pursuant to subsection
(a) hereof, the Commissioner of Social Services shall review the program content of
such proposals so as to determine whether they are designed to accomplish the purposes
specified in this section and section 17b-852 and shall require audits in accordance with
the provisions of sections 4-230 to 4-236, inclusive.
(c) So much of the cost of a human resource development program as is not met by
either a federal grant-in-aid or by a state grant-in-aid pursuant to this section may be
paid by a municipality, any agency, board, commission or department thereof, or any
public authority, or any private organization, in cash or in kind, including, but not limited
to, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Social Services, additional plant and equipment, added services and increases in financial assistance furnished thereby, provided
only such increments in plant and equipment, services and financial assistance as (1)
are used for or in connection with human resource development programs, and (2) are
funded otherwise than by federal or state financial assistance may be considered as
payment by a municipality under this section.
(d) The Commissioner of Social Services is further authorized to make available
technical assistance and financial assistance in accordance with the provisions of section
8-220(b) to any municipality, region, human resource development agency, private nonprofit agency or any group of municipalities, regions or private nonprofit agencies for
the purposes of planning a human resource development program consistent with the
community development action plan of the municipality or municipalities or any such
plan in the process of preparation.
(e) The Commissioner of Social Services shall at least once each fiscal year conduct
an inquiry into the operations and administration of each grantee which has received
financial assistance under this section or which has an application pending for such
assistance. The cooperation of the grantee in such inquiry shall be a prerequisite to the
further provision of financial assistance under this section.
(f) Prior to submission of any application to the Commissioner of Social Services for
financial assistance for a human resource development program of a grantee designated
under section 17b-852(2)(b) or 17b-852(2)(c), such application shall be referred to the
grantee designated under section 17b-852(2)(a), if any exists in the municipality. Such
agency shall be allowed twenty days to render its advisory opinion concerning such
program. After receiving such advisory opinion or if such opinion shall not have been
received within the period of time specified, the application may be submitted to the
commissioner. All such applications to the commissioner shall include such advisory
opinion if received. In urgent or emergency situations, the commissioner, acting in his
sole discretion, may specify a shorter period for the rendering of such advisory opinion
or may dispense with it altogether.
(1967, P.A. 522, S. 27; 1969, P.A. 377, S. 1, 2; P.A. 73-96, S. 1; 73-378, S. 1, 2, 4; P.A. 74-279, S. 1, 2; P.A. 75-142,
S. 1, 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 533, 610; P.A. 84-454, S. 2, 3; P.A. 91-401, S. 10, 20; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; P.A. 96-180, S. 52,
166; P.A. 04-76, S. 26.)
History: 1969 act amended Subsec. (d) to allow financial assistance in accordance with Sec. 8-220(b), to include aid
to private nonprofit agencies and groups of regions and nonprofit agencies as well as to single municipalities and regions
and to specify that development program for which aid is given be consistent with community development action plans
and added Subsec. (e) concerning agency operations and administration audits or inquiries; P.A. 73-96 added Subsec. (f)
re application process for financial aid; P.A. 73-378 amended Subsec. (a) to delete provisions allowing grants-in-aid to
expend federally-assisted programs and to delete proviso setting priorities for state aid and amended Subsec. (b) to delete
provision concerning approval of programs content, to remove redundant statement concerning audit requirement and to
make provisions applicable to all of Subsec. (a), not just Subdiv. (1) as before; P.A. 74-279 added Subsec. (g) containing
provisions for aid if federal funds were to be discontinued, effective from July 1, 1974 to June 30, 1975; P.A. 75-142
changed allowance for aid under Subdiv. (2) of Subsec. (a) from two-thirds to four-fifths of total cost of the program;
P.A. 77-614 specified commissioner of human resources, previously "commissioner" had referred to commissioner of
community affairs, effective January 1, 1979, and deleted obsolete Subsec. (g); P.A. 84-454 amended Subsec. (a)(2) by
substituting "all or any portion" of the cost for "four-fifths of the total" cost of program; P.A. 91-401 substituted "grantee"
for "human resource development agency" in Subsecs. (a), (e) and (f), amended Subsec. (b) to require audits in accordance
with Secs. 4-230 to 4-236, inclusive, instead of authorizing audit, financial and related controls that commissioner deems
necessary, and amended Subsec. (e) to require annual inquiry instead of annual audit or such other inquiry as commissioner
deems reasonably appropriate, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department
of social services for commissioner and department of human resources, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 8-222 transferred to
Sec. 17b-853 in 1995; P.A. 96-180 deleted provision in Subsec. (e) which had required commissioner to report findings
to advisory council on community affairs, effective June 3, 1996; P.A. 04-76 amended Subsec. (c) by deleting former
Subdiv. (3) re general assistance payments being considered as payment by a municipality under section and making a
conforming change.
See Sec. 8-222b re municipal powers with respect to programs under this section.
See Sec. 8-226 re use of prior bond proceeds for purposes of this section.
Sec. 17b-854. (Formerly Sec. 8-222a). Limitation on state financial assistance
to human resource development agencies. The Commissioner of Social Services shall
not render financial assistance in any one municipality to more than one human resource
development agency designated under subdivision (a) of subsection (2) of section 17b-852 and one human resource development agency designated under subdivision (b) of
said subsection, for applications received after July 1, 1969.
(1969, P.A. 757, S. 3; P.A. 77-614, S. 534, 610; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87.)
History: P.A. 77-614 specified commissioner of human resources, "commissioner" having previously referred to commissioner of community affairs, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and
department of social services for commissioner and department of human resources, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 8-222a
transferred to Sec. 17b-854 in 1995.
Sec. 17b-855. (Formerly Sec. 8-223). Research activity of commissioner. The
Commissioner of Social Services is authorized to undertake and carry out research activities, including, but not limited to, (a) examination of the needs of municipalities, metropolitan areas and the state, with respect to services, facilities and programs such as
housing, schools, community recreation and health facilities, transportation systems,
refuse disposal and other public services; (b) examination of methods to meet those
needs; (c) examination of the means by which the state and the municipalities can effectively analyze and project those needs; and (d) examination of the feasibility of establishing and using information data and systems and data banks in order to provide comprehensive information, to construct indicators of economic, physical and social change,
and to project economic, physical and social trends.
(1967, P.A. 522, S. 28; P.A. 77-614, S. 535, 610; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87.)
History: P.A. 77-614 specified commissioner of human resources, "commissioner" having previously referred to commissioner of community affairs, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and
department of social services for commissioner and department of human resources, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 8-223
transferred to Sec. 17b-855 in 1995.
Sec. 17b-856. Grants to hospitals. The Department of Social Services may provide grants to hospitals to pay for outreach and eligibility determinations for assistance
to families. For the fiscal years ending June 30, 1994, and June 30, 1995, the sum of
two million dollars appropriated to the department may be used for said grants and for
fiscal years ending June 30, 1996, and subsequent fiscal years, such amount shall be
adjusted to reflect the aggregate of inflation in authorized hospital gross revenues determined pursuant to sections 19a-648 and 19a-649.
(P.A. 93-229, S. 1, 21; 93-282, S. 1, 87; 93-435, S. 59, 95.)
History: P.A. 93-229 effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-262 and P.A. 93-435 authorized substitution of commissioner and
department of social services for commissioner and department of income maintenance, effective July 1, 1993 (Revisor's
note: In 1995 a reference to "sections 19a-167 to 19a-167f, inclusive" was changed editorially by the Revisors to "sections
19a-167e and 19a-167f" to reflect the repeal of Secs. 19a-167 to 19a-167d, inclusive).