2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 17b-8. (Formerly Sec. 17-2k). Federal waiver of assistance program requirements. Notice and summary of waiver application.

      Sec. 17b-8. (Formerly Sec. 17-2k). Federal waiver of assistance program requirements. Notice and summary of waiver application. (a) The Commissioner of Social Services shall submit an application for a federal waiver of any assistance program requirements, except such application pertaining to routine operational issues, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies and to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to human services prior to the submission of such application to the federal government. Within thirty days of their receipt of such application, the joint standing committees may advise the commissioner of their approval, denial or modifications, if any, of his application.

      (b) If in developing the budget for the department for the next fiscal year, the commissioner contemplates applying for a federal waiver, he shall notify the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies and the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to human services of the possibility of such application.

      (c) Prior to submission of an application for a waiver from federal law to the General Assembly under subsection (a) of this section, the Commissioner of Social Services shall publish a notice that the commissioner intends to seek such a waiver in the Connecticut Law Journal, along with a summary of the provisions of the waiver application and the manner in which individuals may submit comments. The commissioner shall allow fifteen days for written comments on the waiver application prior to submission of the application for a waiver to the General Assembly under subsection (a) of this section and shall include all written comments with the waiver application in the submission to the General Assembly.

      (P.A. 85-505, S. 1, 21; P.A. 93-221, S. 2; 93-262, S. 1, 87; 93-435, S. 59, 95; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 00-2, S. 13, 53.)

      History: P.A. 93-221 amended Subsec. (a) by reducing the amount of time the appropriations and human services committees have to advise the commissioner from thirty to fifteen days and made such advice voluntary, and deleting provisions re decisions by conference committee and added Subsec. (c) requiring the commissioner of income maintenance to publish notice of the waiver along with a summary of its provisions and to seek public written comments prior to its submission to the general assembly; P.A. 93-262 and 93-435 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of social services for commissioner and department of income maintenance, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 17-2k transferred to Sec. 17b-8 in 1995; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 00-2 amended Subsec. (a) to increase the amount of time the appropriations and human services committees have to advise the commissioner from fifteen to thirty days, effective July 1, 2000.