(a) The Commissioner of Social Services may, within available appropriations, establish and operate a pilot program to allow individuals to receive assisted living services, provided by an assisted living services agency licensed by the Department of Public Health in accordance with chapter 368v. In order to be eligible for the program, an individual shall: (1) Reside in a managed residential community, as defined in section 19a-693; (2) be ineligible to receive assisted living services under any other assisted living pilot program established by the General Assembly; and (3) be eligible for services under the Medicaid waiver portion of the Connecticut home-care program for the elderly established under section 17b-342. The total number of individuals enrolled in said pilot program, when combined with the total number of individuals enrolled in the pilot program established pursuant to section 17b-366, shall not exceed one hundred twenty-five individuals. The Commissioner of Social Services shall operate said pilot program in accordance with the Medicaid rules established under 42 USC 1396p(c), as from time to time amended.
(b) The pilot program established pursuant to this section may begin operation on or after January 1, 2003. Not later than January 1, 2005, the Commissioner of Social Services shall report, in accordance with section 11-4a, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public health, human services, appropriations and the budgets of state agencies on the pilot program.
(May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7, S. 27; P.A. 04-258, S. 5; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-2, S. 40; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 9.)
History: May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7 effective August 15, 2002; P.A. 04-258 amended Subsec. (a) to provide that the total number of individuals in pilot program, when combined with the total number of individuals enrolled in pilot program established pursuant to Sec. 17b-366, shall not exceed 75 individuals and to make technical changes, effective July 1, 2004; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-2 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by replacing “by the regulations of the Department of Public Health” with “in section 19a-693”; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1 amended Subsec. (a) by increasing total enrollment in pilot program from 75 individuals to 125 individuals and making a technical change, effective July 1, 2012.
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