(a) Residents’ advocates, under supervision of the regional ombudsmen, shall assist the regional ombudsmen in the performance of all duties and responsibilities of the regional ombudsmen as described in section 17a-410.

(b) All long-term care facilities shall post or cause to be posted in a conspicuous place therein a list of the names of the appropriate residents’ advocates and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of the appropriate ombudsmen.

(c) The Commissioner of Social Services shall have authority to seek funding for the purposes contained in this section from public and private sources, including but not limited to any federal or state funded programs.

(P.A. 75-468, S. 11, 17; P.A. 76-331, S. 14, 16; P.A. 77-575, S. 14, 23; 77-604, S. 18, 84; 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 99-176, S. 7, 24; P.A. 13-125, S. 11; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 304.)

History: P.A. 76-331 rewrote provisions re patients’ advocates in Subsec. (a), required posting of availability of reports rather than reports themselves in Subsec. (b)(2), rephrased Subsec. (b)(3) and added Subdivs. (5) and (6) re financial affairs and well-being of patients and added Subsec. (e) re funding sources; P.A. 77-575 deleted former Subsecs. (a) and (b) re qualifications, appointment and duties of advocates, inserted new Subsec. (a) placing advocates under ombudsmen and listing duties, relettering remaining Subsecs. accordingly, required reports to commissioner of health and required names, addresses and telephone numbers of ombudsmen but names only of advocates; P.A. 77-604 rephrased Subsec. (b)(4); P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of health with commissioner of health services, effective January 1, 1979; Sec. 19-621 transferred to Sec. 17-135g in 1979; Sec. 17-135g transferred to Sec. 17a-411 in 1991; P.A. 93-262 substituted commissioner and department of social services for commissioner and department on aging, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-381 replaced commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 17a-411 transferred to Sec. 17b-406 in 1995; 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; P.A. 99-176 substituted “residents’ advocates” for “patients’ advocates” and “long-term care facilities” for “nursing home facilities” and amended Subsec. (a) to delete list of duties and to reference responsibilities of the regional ombudsman as described in section 17b-405, deleted Subsec. (b) and redesignated Subsec. (c) and (d) as (b) and (c), respectively, effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 13-125 amended Subsec. (c) to substitute “Commissioner on Aging” for “Commissioner of Social Services”, effective July 1, 2013; Sec. 17b-406 transferred to Sec. 17a-411 in 2015; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (c) by replacing reference to Commissioner on Aging with reference to Commissioner of Social Services, effective October 31, 2017.