2011 Connecticut Code
Title 17a Social and Human Services and Resources
Chapter 319i Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities
Sec. 17a-528. (Formerly Sec. 17-205a). Payment of commitment and transportation expenses.

      Sec. 17a-528. (Formerly Sec. 17-205a). Payment of commitment and transportation expenses. (a) When any person is found to have psychiatric disabilities, and is committed to a state hospital for psychiatric disabilities, upon proceedings had under sections 17a-75 to 17a-83, inclusive, 17a-450 to 17a-484, inclusive, 17a-495 to 17a-528, inclusive, 17a-540 to 17a-550, inclusive, 17a-560 to 17a-576, inclusive, and 17a-615 to 17a-618, inclusive, all fees and expenses incurred upon the probate commitment proceedings, payment of which is not otherwise provided for under said sections, shall be paid by the state within available appropriations from funds appropriated to the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services in accordance with rates established by said department; and, if such person is found not to have psychiatric disabilities, such fees and expenses shall be paid by the applicant.

      (b) Within available appropriations, the expenses, if any, of necessary transportation (1) from a state-aided, town-aided or other municipal-aided hospital to a state-operated facility, as defined in section 17a-458, for detention of any person under section 17a-502; (2) for any voluntary patient who wishes to have emergency treatment for conditions defined in section 17a-502 at any such state-operated facility; (3) for any patient who has been released on leave from any such state-operated facility and wishes to return; or (4) for persons authorized by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services to receive inpatient psychiatric services in a facility under contract with the department to provide such services, shall be paid by the state, unless, after investigation, the Department of Administrative Services determines such person is able to pay for the same. The presence of an appropriate emergency certificate under section 17a-502 shall be sufficient for payment by the state under subdivision (1) of this subsection, regardless of the eventual commitment or noncommitment of the person to the facility. The Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services may adopt regulations concerning the payment of transportation expenses by the state under this subsection.

      (c) The expenses of medically necessary transportation from any facility operated by the state to any other such facility shall be assumed by the facility which initiated the transfer of such person.

      (February, 1965, P.A. 435, S. 1; 1967, P.A. 355; P.A. 76-151; P.A. 77-595, S. 8; P.A. 78-372, S. 6, 7; P.A. 85-408, S. 1, 3; 85-523, S. 7, 9; P.A. 86-371, S. 16, 45; P.A. 90-209, S. 25; 90-230, S. 25, 101; P.A. 94-27, S. 12, 17; P.A. 95-257, S. 11, 48, 58; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-8, S. 11, 88; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-2, S. 22, 72.)

      History: 1967 act added "town-aided or other municipal-aided" hospital to Subsec. (b); P.A. 76-151 added Subsec. (c) re assumption of transportation expenses between state facilities; P.A. 77-595 expanded Subsec. (b) provisions and removed limitation to ambulance transportation and rephrased Subsec. (c) making it applicable to "medically" necessary transportation; P.A. 78-372 replaced "complainant" with "applicant" in Subsec. (a) and amended Subsec. (b) to rephrase Subdiv. (4) and replace department of finance and control with department of administrative services pursuant to provisions of P.A. 77-614 and to add provision re adoption of regulations by mental health commissioner; P.A. 85-408 amended Subsec. (b) to provide for payment by the state for the cost of transporting a person to a general hospital for treatment which is certified by the hospital to the department of mental health; P.A. 85-523 required that payment of fees and expenses incurred upon probate commitment proceedings which is not otherwise provided for under chapter shall be paid by department of mental health in accordance with rates set by department; P.A. 86-371 made technical changes and added Subsec. (d) re payment of transportation expenses for alcoholism patients; P.A. 90-209 deleted Subsec. (d) re transportation expenses for certain alcoholism patients (but see Sec. 17-155gg); P.A. 90-230 corrected an internal reference in Subsec. (d), but had no effect, that Subsec. having been repealed; Sec. 17-205a transferred to Sec. 17a-528 in 1991; P.A. 94-27 amended Subsec. (a) to delete reference to Secs. 17a-580 to 17a-603, inclusive, effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Mental Health with Commissioner and Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and substituted variants of "psychiatric disabilities" for "mentally ill" and "mental illness", effective July 1, 1995; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-8 added Subdiv. (b)(4) re inpatient psychiatric services, effective July 1, 1997; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-2 amended Subsec. (b) by adding "Within available appropriations", effective July 1, 1999.

      Annotations to former section 17-205a:

      Cited. 192 C. 520.

      Does not pertain to one transferred to a state hospital after being committed to jail on binding over process. 14 CS 33.