Bill Text: CT HB05482 | 2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Expanding The Congregate Meals Program For The Elderly.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-09 - Public Hearing 03/13 [HB05482 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-HB05482-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5482
February Session, 2012		LCO No. 1449
		*01449_______HS_*
Referred to Committee on Human Services
Introduced by:
(HS)

AN ACT EXPANDING THE CONGREGATE MEALS PROGRAM FOR THE ELDERLY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 17b-792 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2012):

(b) Each program continued in accordance with subsection (a) of this section shall provide one meal per day, [five] six or more days per week, to recipients of the program. Each program shall utilize all available municipal, state or local agencies for the purchase of food and equipment and the finding of appropriate locations for such programs.

Sec. 2. (Effective July 1, 2012) The sum of four hundred ninety-nine thousand one hundred eighty-eight dollars is appropriated to the Department of Social Services from the General Fund, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, to increase funding to the elderly nutrition program pursuant to section 17b-792 of the general statutes, as amended by this act.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2012	17b-792(b)
Sec. 2	July 1, 2012	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To offer congregate meals under the elderly nutrition program for at least one additional day.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]