2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 19a-131g. Public Health Preparedness Advisory Committee. Report.

      Sec. 19a-131g. Public Health Preparedness Advisory Committee. Report. The Commissioner of Public Health shall establish a Public Health Preparedness Advisory Committee. The advisory committee shall consist of the Commissioner of Public Health, the Commissioner of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, the president pro tempore of the Senate, the speaker of the House of Representatives, the majority and minority leaders of both houses of the General Assembly and the chairpersons and ranking members of the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public health, public safety and the judiciary, and representatives of town, city, borough and district directors of health, as appointed by the commissioner, and any other organization or persons that the commissioner deems relevant to the issues of public health preparedness. The Public Health Preparedness Advisory Committee shall develop the plan for emergency responses to a public health emergency. Such plan may include an emergency notification service. Not later than January 1, 2004, and annually thereafter, the committee shall submit a report, in accordance with section 11-4a, to the Governor and the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public health and public safety, on the status of a public health emergency plan and the resources needed for implementation of such plan.

      (P.A. 03-236, S. 8; P.A. 04-219, S. 25.)

      History: P.A. 03-236 effective July 9, 2003; P.A. 04-219 substituted the Commissioner of Emergency Management and Homeland Security for the director of the Office of Emergency Management, effective January 1, 2005.