(a) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, the Department of Social Services may use such funds from the federal matching funds received by the state pursuant to section 17b-105f as are needed for operating expenses and to employ one staff position for purposes directly related to the administration of the matching funds provision for the supplemental nutrition assistance employment and training program, and for any fiscal year thereafter may use such funds as are necessary to operate and administer said program.
(b) The remaining federal matching funds received by the state pursuant to section 17b-105f shall be used for poverty reduction strategies and distributed in the following manner: Seventy-five per cent of such remaining funds shall be provided to supplemental nutrition assistance employment and training providers whose expenditures generated the federal matching funds on a pro-rata basis, pursuant to section 17b-105f; and twenty-five per cent of such remaining funds shall be provided to supplemental nutrition assistance employment and training community collaboratives selected pursuant to section 17b-105g for implementation of poverty reduction strategies.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any regional community-technical college that participated in the food stamp employment and training program pursuant to a memorandum of agreement entered into between the college and the Department of Social Services prior to October 1, 2008, during the term of such agreement. Such colleges shall retain the amount of federal matching funds provided for in the memorandum of agreement for the term of such agreement. Following the expiration of such agreement, the terms of this section shall apply.
(P.A. 08-161, S. 4; P.A. 09-9, S. 35; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-5, S. 59; P.A. 10-32, S. 63.)
History: P.A. 09-9 replaced “food stamp” with “supplemental nutrition assistance” throughout, effective May 4, 2009; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-5 added Subsec. (c) exempting regional community-technical colleges that participated in the program under an agreement with department prior to October 1, 2008, until the expiration of agreement, effective October 5, 2009; P.A. 10-32 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective May 10, 2010.
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