2013 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 10a - State System of Higher Education
Chapter 185b - Constituent Units
Section 10a-128 - (Formerly Sec. 10-141f). John Dempsey Hospital and The University of Connecticut Health Center accounts receivable as expendable assets.

(a) The University of Connecticut may record as assets, and spend not more than ninety per cent of, the book value of accounts receivable that are estimated as collectible at the John Dempsey Hospital and for its clinical programs at The University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington. A report of book value shall be made by the university to the State Comptroller each quarter and verified by the Auditors of Public Accounts as requested by the State Comptroller. The State Comptroller shall record the value on the books of the state and approve expenditures against said value.

(b) The University of Connecticut may record as assets, and spend not more than seventy per cent of, the book value of accounts receivable that are estimated as collectible at The University of Connecticut Health Center for its university physicians’ clinical operations, provided no expenditures against said value shall be approved by the Comptroller unless and until the balance of funds held in the health center fund established under subsection (c) of section 10a-105 is zero or less than zero. The health center shall defray the cost to the state of any such expenditures by paying, at least quarterly, to the State Treasurer the state’s cost of funds at an average rate of interest equivalent to the rate or rates of interest payable on the state’s outstanding short term borrowings or, if there are no outstanding borrowings, the rate of interest for thirty-day state obligations of comparable security and quality as determined by the State Treasurer, or as determined by the State Treasurer based upon at least two quotations from dealers thereof. Any interest payments received by the State Treasurer from the health center pursuant to this subsection which have not been applied to pay debt service on the state’s short term borrowings, if any, by the end of any fiscal year, shall be treated as revenue to the General Fund. A report of book value shall be made by the university to the State Comptroller each quarter and verified by the Auditors of Public Accounts as requested by the State Comptroller. The State Comptroller shall record the value on the books of the state and approve expenditures against said value.

(1969, P.A. 458, S. 1; P.A. 74-178, S. 1, 2; P.A. 86-190, S. 1, 2; P.A. 89-268, S. 3, 4; P.A. 91-178, S. 1, 2; 91-406, S. 23, 29; P.A. 12-129, S. 3.)

History: P.A. 74-178 amended Subsec. (a) to include book value of accounts receivable at Burgdorf Health Center and at the Farmington Health Center, as well as at McCook Hospital provided that only accounts deemed collectible by independent auditors may be recorded as assets and to require that financial accounts at Farmington Health Center be kept separately; Sec. 10-141f transferred to Sec. 10a-128 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 86-190 amended Subsec. (a) to delete reference to McCook Hospital and Burgdorf Health Center and substitute reference to John Dempsey Hospital, to require quarterly rather than monthly reports to comptroller, and to delete requirement that financial accounts of clinical activities at health center in Farmington be kept separately from those at McCook Hospital and Burgdorf Health Center and repealed Subsec. (b) which provided that comptroller shall reimburse The University of Connecticut auxiliary services fund for advances made prior to July 8, 1969, to provide working capital at McCook Hospital, and that reimbursement shall be in an amount of $800,000 and shall be made as provided in Subsec. (a); P.A. 89-268 added Subsec. (a) designation and new Subsec. (b) re percentage of accounts receivable at Uncas-on-Thames Hospital as expendable assets; P.A. 91-178 added Subsec. (c) re recording of as assets and spending of certain health center accounts receivable; P.A. 91-406 added “or less than zero” after “zero” in the phrase, “established under subsection (c) of section 10a-105 is zero” in Subsec. (c); (Revisor’s note: In 1995 the words “University of Connecticut” were inserted editorially by the Revisors in Subsec. (a) for consistency with other statutory references); P.A. 12-129 deleted former Subsec. (b) re accounts receivable at Uncas-on-Thames Hospital, redesignated existing Subsec. (c) as Subsec. (b) and amended Subsec. (a) and redesignated Subsec. (b) by eliminating requirements that accounts receivable be estimated by independent auditors and requiring reports of book value to be verified by Auditors of Public Accounts as requested by State Comptroller, effective July 1, 2012.

See chapter 187c (Secs. 10a-250–10a-263, inclusive,) re John Dempsey Hospital Finance Corporation, generally.