History: 1971 act added "and hospital" following "home" where appearing, substituted "patient(s)" for "inmate(s)",
substituted reference to chapter 67 for chapter 63; P.A. 81-473 added requirement that an itemized list of expenditures
from institutional general welfare fund be submitted to the commission at least every two months and added Subsecs. (b)
and (c) requiring that commission adopt regulations limiting expenditures from said fund to those which directly benefit
veterans and that commission submit an accounting of planned expenditures from said fund to the general assembly's
appropriations committee; P.A. 82-314 changed official name of appropriations committee; June Sp. Sess. 83-32 amended
Subsec. (b) to authorize the commission to prescribe procedures rather than adopt regulations to prescribe use of the general
welfare fund and added "in the opinion of the commission" and "or the veterans' home and hospital"; P.A. 88-285 (1)
replaced commission with commissioner throughout the section, (2) amended Subsec. (a) to require commissioner to
appoint a commandant of the home and hospital, subject to governor's approval and to make technical changes and (3)
amended Subsec. (b) to include reference to the board of trustees for the home and hospital appointed pursuant to Sec. 27-102m; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-12 in Subsec. (a) eliminated the commandant's position and in Subsec. (b) required the chief
fiscal officer to submit a list of expenses from the institutional general welfare fund at least every two years; P.A. 04-169
amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) to change the name of the Veterans' Home and Hospital to the Veterans' Home, effective
June 1, 2004; P.A. 05-288 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective July 13, 2005.
Sec. 27-122a. Establishment of veterans' cemetery. (a) The Commissioner of
Mental Health and Addiction Services shall transfer to the Veterans' Home and Hospital
Commission two certain pieces or parcels of land known as Plot # 6, containing thirty
acres, more or less, situated on the north side of River Road in the town of Middletown,
county of Middlesex, and state of Connecticut, and being bounded and described as
follows: As to the first piece or parcel; Commencing at a point in the northerly side of
River Road being the southeast corner of the land herein described, thence running N
31 degrees E a distance of 286 feet, more or less, to the right-of-way of the Penn Central
Railroad (Valley Line), thence running westerly along said right-of-way a distance of
2720 feet, more or less, thence running southerly 80 feet, more or less, to River Road,
thence running southeasterly along the northern boundary of River Road a distance of
530 feet, more or less, to a brook, thence running N 80 degrees E along the north side
of River Road to a bend in said road a distance of 380 feet, more or less, thence S 82
degrees E a distance of 1160 feet, more or less along the northern side of River Road
to the point and place of beginning. As to the second piece or parcel of land being a
small piece or parcel located on the northerly side of the Penn Central Railroad (Valley
Line) right-of-way, bounded on the northerly and westerly side by the Connecticut River
and on the southerly side by said railroad right-of-way and on the easterly side by property of the Feldspar Corporation. Said two pieces or parcels of land contain a total area
of thirty acres, more or less, and are shown on a map or plan titled, "The Connecticut
State Hospital Middletown, Conn. Scale 1" = 200' 1922".
(b) The Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services shall transfer to
the Veterans' Home certain land in the city of Middletown, under the supervision and
control of said commissioner, in exchange for the transfer by the Veterans' Home and
Hospital Commission to the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services
of certain land comprised of pieces and parcels of the land described in subsection (a)
of equal acreage, the exact boundaries of the lands to be exchanged to be decided by
the Commissioner of Administrative Services, with the advice and assistance of all
parties within the six-month period following June 14, 1979.
(c) The land transferred to the commission under subsections (a) and (b) of this
section and not transferred to the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services and the Connecticut Valley Hospital shall be used by the Commissioner of Veterans' Affairs for the establishment and maintenance of a veterans' cemetery.
(1971, P.A. 352, S. 1; P.A. 79-478, S. 1, 2; P.A. 88-285, S. 19, 35; P.A. 95-257, S. 11, 58; P.A. 04-169, S. 12; P.A. 05-288, S. 124.)
History: P.A. 79-478 provided, in new Subsec. (b), for an exchange of land between the commissioner of mental
health and the veterans' home and hospital commission; P.A. 88-285 amended Subsec. (c) to replace commission with
commissioner of veterans' affairs; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Mental Health with Commissioner and Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 04-169 amended Subsec.
(b) to change the name of the Veterans' Home and Hospital to the Veterans' Home, effective June 1, 2004; P.A. 05-288
made a technical change in Subsec. (c), effective July 13, 2005.
PART II
SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND MARINES FUND
Sec. 27-138c. Hearing on denial of aid. Appeal. Any person aggrieved by a decision of the administrator rendered under section 27-138b may appeal such decision to
a review board composed of the Adjutant General or his or her designee, the Attorney
General or his or her designee, and the Commissioner of Veterans' Affairs or his or her
designee. All appeals taken pursuant to this section shall be based solely upon the record
of the hearing conducted pursuant to section 27-138b. A person aggrieved by a decision
of the review board may appeal to the Superior Court pursuant to the provisions of
chapter 54.
(1969, P.A. 347, S. 4; P.A. 88-317, S. 31, 107; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-12, S. 41, 55; P.A. 04-169, S. 15; P.A. 05-288,
S. 125.)
History: P.A. 88-317 added provision re appeal to superior court in accordance with chapter 54, effective July 1, 1989,
and applicable to all agency proceedings commencing on or after that date; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-12 transferred from the
commandant to the commissioner the responsibility for sitting on the review board; P.A. 04-169 made technical changes,
effective June 1, 2004; P.A. 05-288 made technical changes, effective July 13, 2005.
PART VI
DEPLETED URANIUM EXPOSURE
Sec. 27-140ii. Assistance to members of the Connecticut National Guard and
veterans to obtain federal treatment services for depleted uranium exposure. Report re adequacy of training and feasibility of predeployment training. (a) As used
in this section:
(1) "Eligible member" means a member of the Connecticut National Guard who
served in the Persian Gulf War, as defined in 38 USC 101, or in an area designated as
a combat zone by the President of the United States during Operation Enduring Freedom
or Operation Iraqi Freedom;
(2) "Veteran" means a veteran, as defined in subsection (a) of section 27-103, who
served as an eligible member;
(3) "Military physician" includes a physician who is under contract with the United
States Department of Defense to provide physician services to members of the armed
forces; and
(4) "Depleted uranium" means uranium containing less uranium-235 than the naturally occurring distribution of uranium isotopes.
(b) On and after October 1, 2005, the Adjutant General and the Commissioner of
Veterans' Affairs shall assist any eligible member or veteran who (1) has been assigned
a risk level I, II or III for depleted uranium exposure by his or her branch of service, (2)
is referred by a military physician, or (3) has reason to believe that he or she was exposed
to depleted uranium during such service, in obtaining federal treatment services, including a best practice health screening test for exposure to depleted uranium using a bioassay
procedure involving sensitive methods capable of detecting depleted uranium at low
levels and the use of equipment with the capacity to discriminate between different
radioisotopes in naturally occurring levels of uranium and the characteristic ratio and
marker for depleted uranium. No state funds shall be used to pay for such tests or such
other federal treatment services.
(c) On or before October 1, 2005, the Adjutant General shall submit a report to the
select committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to
military and veterans' affairs, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, on
the scope and adequacy of training received by members of the Connecticut National
Guard on detecting whether their service as eligible members is likely to entail, or to
have entailed, exposure to depleted uranium. The report shall include an assessment of
the feasibility and cost of adding predeployment training concerning potential exposure
to depleted uranium and other toxic chemical substances and the precautions recommended under combat and noncombat conditions while in a combat zone.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 33.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3 effective June 30, 2005.