Substitute for Raised H.B. No. 5293
Session Year 2024


AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES' RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING VARIOUS REVISIONS TO DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES STATUTES.

To (1) establish an Oral Health and Dental Services Unit within the Department of Developmental Services and permit provisionally licensed dentists to provide services with such unit, (2) require the Commissioner of Housing to administer the existing program that provides grants-in-aid for supportive housing for persons with an intellectual disability or other developmental disability and allow said commissioner to provide deferred loans under such program, (3) allow the department to hire more general workers employed by the department as self-advocates, (4) make revisions regarding transfers of individuals within residential facilities, (5) establish human rights and program review committees in each of the department's service regions and the Southbury Training School, (6) allow the Office of Labor Relations to access the department's abuse and neglect registry, and (7) establish an Office of the Developmental Services Ombudsperson and make various revisions to notification requirements of intermediate care facilities for persons with intellectual disability.


Other Bills with Similar Topics

  Abuse 

  Autism spectrum disorders 

  Complaint 

 

  Dental care 

  Dentists 

  Governor 

  Grants by the state 

 

  Housing development 

  Long Term Care Ombudsman, Office of 

  Mental health facilities 

  Municipal developers of housing 

  Municipalities 

 

  Petitions 

  Professional licenses 

 

  Real estate development 

  Reports 

 

  Residential care homes 

  Sick leave 

  Social Services, Department of 

 

  State employees 

 

  Supportive housing 

  Developmental Services, Department of 

  Housing, Department of 

 

  Intellectual disabilities, persons with