The Department of Social Services shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to carry out the purposes, programs and services authorized pursuant to the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended from time to time. The department may operate under any new policy necessary to conform to a requirement of a federal or joint state and federal program while it is in the process of adopting the policy in regulation form, provided the department posts such policy on the eRegulations System not later than twenty days after adopting the policy. Such policy shall be valid until the time final regulations are effective.

(P.A. 86-368, S. 4, 5; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; P.A. 03-278, S. 67; P.A. 12-92, S. 10; P.A. 13-247, S. 35; 13-274, S. 10; P.A. 14-187, S. 22; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 295.)

History: Sec. 17-136i transferred to Sec. 17a-306 in 1991; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of social services for commissioner and department on aging, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 17a-306 transferred to Sec. 17b-423 in 1995; P.A. 03-278 made technical changes in Subsecs. (a) and (b), effective July 9, 2003; P.A. 12-92 amended Subsec. (a) to require policy manual and new policies to be posted on department’s web site and require new policies to be submitted to the Secretary for posting online, and make a technical change, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 13-247 deleted Subsec. (a) designator, replaced provisions re community services policy manual with provision re adoption of regulations by Department on Aging re Older Americans Act of 1965, replaced provision requiring new policy to be posted in Connecticut Law Journal with provision requiring posting on eRegulations System, and deleted former Subsec. (b) re community services policy manual, effective October 1, 2014, and applicable to regulations noticed on and after that date; P.A. 13-274 made identical changes as P.A. 13-247, effective October 1, 2014, and applicable to regulations noticed on and after that date; P.A. 14-187 replaced former Subsecs. (a) and (b) re community services policy manual with provisions re adoption of regulations by Department on Aging re Older Americans Act of 1965, posting of policy on department Internet web site and submission of policy to Secretary of the State for online posting, effective June 11, 2014, until September 30, 2014; Sec. 17b-423 transferred to Sec. 17a-306 in 2015; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 replaced reference to Department on Aging with reference to Department of Social Services, effective October 31, 2017.