(a) The Department of Rehabilitation Services shall establish and maintain a state-wide network of centers for independent living.
(b) Not more than five per cent of the amount appropriated in any fiscal year for the purposes of this section may be used by the Department of Rehabilitation Services to provide state-wide administration, evaluation and technical assistance relating to the implementation of this section.
(P.A. 87-563, S. 2, 5; P.A. 89-354, S. 2, 21; P.A. 90-325, S. 12, 32; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; P.A. 95-355, S. 8; P.A. 11-44, S. 55; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 67.)
History: P.A. 89-354 changed name of division of rehabilitation services to bureau of rehabilitation services and transferred the bureau from the department of education to the department of human resources, effective July 1, 1990; P.A. 90-325 changed the effective date of P.A. 89-354 from July 1, 1990, to sixty days after the determination by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services of the U.S. Department of Education that department of human resources meets all applicable federal statutory and regulatory requirements to be designated as sole state agency to administer the state plan for vocational rehabilitation services and that proposed bureau of rehabilitation services within the department meets all applicable federal statutory and regulatory requirements as a vocational rehabilitation organizational unit; i.e. July 1, 1991; Sec. 10-4j transferred to Sec. 17-626 in 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. 17-626 transferred to Sec. 17b-614 in 1995; P.A. 95-355 amended Subsec. (a) by changing the reference to “independent living centers” to “centers for independent living”; P.A. 11-44 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “Bureau of Rehabilitation Services within the Department of Social Services” with “Bureau of Rehabilitative Services” and amended Subsec. (b) by replacing “Department of Social Services” with “Bureau of Rehabilitative Services”, effective July 1, 2011; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1 replaced “Bureau of Rehabilitative Services” with “Department of Rehabilitation Services”, effective July 1, 2012.
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