(a) The Department of Social Services shall be the lead agency for services to persons with physical or mental disabilities and shall coordinate the delivery of such services by all state agencies servicing persons with disabilities.
(b) Not later than September 30, 1988, the Commissioner of Social Services shall appoint a Connecticut Council for Persons with Disabilities to advise the Department of Social Services in carrying out its duties pursuant to the provisions of subsection (a) of this section. The council shall be composed of seventeen members, a majority of whom shall be persons with disabilities. The council shall establish its own rules and shall meet at least quarterly.
(c) There shall be established an interagency management committee for services to persons with disabilities. The committee shall be composed of the commissioners, or their designees, of each state agency that provides services to persons with disabilities. The committee shall monthly review and evaluate services to persons with disabilities and shall develop a policy under which state agencies may enter into contracts with other state agencies for the delivery of services to persons with disabilities. The first meeting of the committee shall be convened by the Commissioner of Social Services.
(P.A. 88-309, S. 1, 6; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87.)
History: Sec. 17-31uu transferred to Sec. 17-606 in 1991; 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. 17-606 transferred to Sec. 17b-606 in 1995.
Cited. 39 CA 216.
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