Work in Progress

At the beginning of each calendar year, the committee typically selects about a half-dozen new topics for program review studies. Study topics can be state agencies, programs, service systems, or policies and usually originate from the committee or other legislators, but sometimes are proposed by the public or the staff (see PRI study process). During each legislative session, the committee may also raise and report bills based on recommendations from previously completed studies.

PRI Studies Underway

• Alignment of Postsecondary Education and Employment: Examining whether a formal alignment mechanism exists in Connecticut to match the production of skilled graduates from the state's higher education institutions with the current and projected workforce needs of the state's employers, and exploring alignment and efficacy of particular strategies in selected occupations.
  
  
• Connecticut’s Economic Competitiveness: Focusing on how Connecticut's laws and policies help or hinder the state's economic competitiveness both globally and with its surrounding states, with the aim of identifying new strategies to advance the state's position in rebounding from the current economic recession.
  
  
• Connecticut’s Whistleblower Law: Examining the process and structure currently in place to handle whistleblower complaints within state government.
  
  
• Municipal Solid Waste Management Services in Connecticut: Reviewing municipal solid waste management services in order to assess whether the services are adequate, available at reasonable cost, sustainable, and compatible with state policies and goals.
  
  
• RBA Pilot Project: Assessing selected human services programs administered by the Department of Children and Families using a results-based accountability (RBA) framework, in accordance with P.A. 09-166.
  
  
• Scope of Practice Determination for Health Care Professions:  Examining Connecticut's process for developing and modifying scopes of practice for health care professions licensed by the Department of Public Health and for reconciling differences when scope of practice issues arise among health care professions.

Current Committee Legislation

• Bill Status Report (Under construction)