(a) Any applicant for or recipient of vocational rehabilitation services may request an informal review of any decision made by the Department of Rehabilitation Services pursuant to section 17b-653.

(b) Regardless of whether a person requests an informal review under subsection (a) of this section, any applicant for or recipient of vocational rehabilitation services who is aggrieved by a decision made by the Department of Rehabilitation Services pursuant to section 17b-653 may request an administrative hearing, by making written request to the Commissioner of Rehabilitation Services.

(c) An individual who is aggrieved by a final agency decision made pursuant to subsection (b) of this section may appeal therefrom in accordance with section 4-183. Such appeals shall be privileged cases to be heard by the court as soon after the return day as shall be practicable.

(P.A. 79-344, S. 3; P.A. 89-354, S. 7, 21; P.A. 90-325, S. 12, 32; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; P.A. 95-355, S. 3; P.A. 11-44, S. 59; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 72.)

History: P.A. 89-354 changed responsibilities from state board of education to 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 60 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. 10-102a transferred to Sec. 17-664 in 1993 and internal reference to Sec. 10-102 revised to reflect its transfer; 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. 17-664 transferred to Sec. 17b-654 in 1995; P.A. 95-355 substituted “informal” for “administrative” review in Subsec. (a), added Subsec. (b) which provides for an administrative hearing and added Subsec. (c) which provides for an appeal in accordance with Sec. 4-183; P.A. 11-44 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing “Bureau of Rehabilitation Services” and “bureau” with “Bureau of Rehabilitative Services”, effective July 1, 2011; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1 replaced references to Bureau of Rehabilitative Services with references to Department of Rehabilitation Services and replaced “director of the Bureau of Rehabilitative Services” with “Commissioner of Rehabilitation Services”, effective July 1, 2012.

P.A. 95-355 applies retroactively. 243 C. 623.

Cited. 44 CA 143.