OLR Bill Analysis

sSB 753

AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE PROGRAM REVIEW AND INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE CONCERNING PLANNING FOR THE NEEDS OF AGING INDIVIDUALS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES.

SUMMARY:

This bill creates a separate, nonlapsing General Fund account to hold money the state receives from selling, leasing, or transferring any property or facility the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) controls or administers. The account's principal and any earnings on the investment of that principal must be used to provide residential or day services to people on DDS's waiting list. The General Assembly must appropriate any expenditures from the account.

The bill requires DDS, within its budget, to inventory all real property under its care or control. By law, the Public Works Department must maintain an inventory of all state-owned and -leased property (CGS § 4b-24). The DDS inventory must include the properties' appraised value, if known. It must be completed by July 1, 2009 and reported by the same date to Public Health; Appropriations; Finance, Revenue and Bonding; and Legislative Program Review and Investigations committees.

EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage for the inventory; July 1, 2009 for the creation of the General Fund account.

BACKGROUND

Moratorium on Sale of DDS Property

The law bans, until June 30, 2009, the sale, lease, or transfer of state-owned real property used to house people with mental retardation (CGS § 17a-283a).

COMMITTEE ACTION

Program Review and Investigations Committee

Joint Favorable Substitute Change of Reference

Public Health Committee

Joint Favorable Change of Reference

Appropriations Committee

Joint Favorable