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CT H 5014

Donovan (D)

State Expenditures

 

HOUSE

Makes adjustments to state expenditures and revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013; implements the Governor's budget recommendations.


 

04/17/2012 :

·  Committee Substitute reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  HOUSE Calendar No. 352.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 477

CT H 5015

Donovan (D)

Deficiency Appropriations

 

HOUSE

Makes deficiency appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012; implements the Governor's budget recommendations.


 

04/16/2012 :

·  Reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  HOUSE Calendar No. 333.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 435

CT H 5016

Donovan (D)

Governors Recommendations

 

HOUSE

Implements the Governor's recommendations concerning general government; implements the Governor's budget recommendations.


 

04/19/2012 :

·  Committee Substitute reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 537

·  HOUSE Calendar No. 392.

CT H 5033

Berger (D)

Prevention of Waste Fraud

 

Died

Concerns the prevention of waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicaid program and the state children's health insurance program; improves program integrity in the Medicaid program and the Children's Health Insurance Program by implementing waste, fraud and abuse prevention detection and recovery policies.


 

03/27/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT H 5037

Donovan (D)

Governors Budget Recommendations

 

HOUSE

Implements the Governor's budget recommendations concerning public health; implements the Governor's budget recommendations.


 

04/10/2012 :

·  Committee Substitute reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  HOUSE Calendar No. 245.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 304

CT H 5038

Donovan (D)

Governors Budget Recommendations

 

HOUSE

Implements the Governor's budget recommendations concerning an all-payer claims database program; implements the Governor's budget recommendations.


 

04/16/2012 :

·  Committee Substitute reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  HOUSE Calendar No. 335.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 437

CT H 5062

Adinolfi (R)

Real Property Owned by a Skilled Nursing Facility

 

Died

Concerns a grant in lieu of taxes on real property owned by a skilled nursing facility; allows municipalities that host nonprofit skilled nursing facilities to receive payments in lieu of taxes from the state for such facilities.


 

03/30/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT H 5138

Chapin (R)

Personal Needs Allowance

 

Died

Increases the personal needs allowance for certain long-term care facility residents; increases the personal needs allowance for certain residents of long-term care facilities.


 

03/27/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT H 5200

Joint Committee on Labor and Public Employees

Study On Nursing Home Worker Strikes

 

Died

Concerns a study on nursing home worker strikes; requires the Labor Department to study issues relating to the length of time employees of a nursing home may strike as a result of a labor dispute.


 

03/20/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT H 5214

Joint Committee on Aging

Legislative Commissioners Recommendations

 

SENATE

Concerns the legislative commissioners' recommendations for technical corrections to references to the aging committee as a select committee in the general statutes; makes technical corrections to various statutes that refer to the Aging Committee as a select committee.


 

04/09/2012 :

·  Senate Calendar No. 236.

CT H 5215

Joint Committee on Aging

Personal Needs Allowance

 

Joint Committee on Appropriations

Increases the personal needs allowance; increases the personal needs allowance to sixty-five dollars.


 

03/12/2012 :

·  Committee Substitute reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  To JOINT Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.

CT H 5228

Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate

Preventive Services

 

Died

Requires disclosure to insureds of the preventive services not subject to cost-sharing requirements pursuant to the patient protection and affordable care act; requires health care providers that offer or perform a preventive service for which the United States Department of Health and Human Services has prohibited cost-sharing requirements on an insured to provide a list of such preventive services to an insured prior to or at the time of such insured's appointment.


 

03/22/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT H 5247

Joint Committee on Public Safety and Security

Public Safety

 

Joint Committee on Appropriations

Concerns the penalty for assault of public safety, emergency medical, public transit or health care personnel; imposes a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment on a person who assaults a police officer, firefighter, emergency medical technician, paramedic, ambulance driver, emergency room physician or nurse, motor vehicle inspector, public transit employee, correctional officer, probation officer, parole officer or any other specified employee.


 

03/28/2012 :

·  To JOINT Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.

CT H 5280

Joint Committee on Human Services

High

Nursing Home Rates for Physical Plant Improvements

 

HOUSE

Adjusts nursing home rates for physical plant improvements; adjusts Medicaid rates for nursing facilities that made physical plant improvements or replaced furniture and equipment between 2008 and 2011.


 

04/11/2012 :

·  Reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  HOUSE Calendar No. 274.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 348

CT H 5281

Joint Committee on Human Services

Fraud Detection in Social Services Programs

 

Died

Concerns fraud detection in social services programs and efforts to fights fraud and abuse in taxpayer-supported social services programs.


 

03/27/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT H 5283

Joint Committee on Human Services

Payment Restrictions for Certain Nursing Facilities

 

SENATE

Waives advance payment restrictions for certain nursing facilities; allows for the waiver of restrictions on advance payments for nursing facilities in receivership.


 

04/09/2012 :

·  Senate Calendar No. 240.

CT H 5284

Joint Committee on Human Services

Recoupment of State Assistance Payments

 

Died

Concerns recoupment of state assistance payments; clarifies third-party and health plan obligations regarding payment and recoupment of state assistance payments.


 

03/27/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT H 5322

Joint Committee on Public Health

Pressure Redistribution Mattresses

 

HOUSE

Concerns pressure redistribution mattresses and patient care in nursing home facilities; requires nursing homes to use pressure redistribution mattresses to help prevent residents from getting pressure ulcers.


 

03/21/2012 :

·  Committee Substitute reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 62

·  HOUSE Calendar No. 83.

CT H 5329

Joint Committee on General Law

Use of Telepharmacy by Hospitals

 

SENATE

Concerns the use of telepharmacy by hospitals; enables Connecticut hospitals to use telepharmacy for the dispensing of sterile products.


 

04/18/2012 :

·  Senate Calendar No. 372.

CT H 5336

Joint Committee on Aging

Funding for Elderly Nutrition

 

Died

Increases funding for elderly nutrition; increases funding for the elderly nutrition program.


 

04/04/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT H 5338

Joint Committee on Aging

Medicaid Long Term Care Coverage f

 

Died

Concerns Medicaid long-term care coverage for married couples; allows the spouse of an institutionalized individual seeking Medicaid benefits to keep the maximum community spouse protected amount, as determined by federal law.


 

04/04/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT H 5445

Joint Committee on Appropriations

Social Services

 

HOUSE

Concerns expenditures of state agencies providing social services; reviews the programs administered by state agencies providing social services.


 

04/16/2012 :

·  Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis.

CT H 5451

Joint Committee on Human Services

Transparency in Nursing Home Cost Reports

 

HOUSE

Concerns transparency in nursing home cost reports; increases transparency in nursing home cost reports relating to vendor contracts.


 

04/04/2012 :

·  Reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  HOUSE Calendar No. 210.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 257

CT H 5452

Joint Committee on Human Services

Delivery of Social Services

 

Died

Concerns the delivery of social services; increases the number of day care providers eligible to receive Medicaid reimbursement under the Connecticut home care program for the elderly.


 

03/27/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT H 5475

Joint Committee on Human Services

Nursing Homes

 

Died

Concerns nursing homes; requires a study quality of care and access to services at nursing homes.


 

03/27/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT H 5476

Joint Committee on Human Services

Skilled Nursing Care

 

HOUSE

Expands consumer choice for skilled nursing care at home; expands consumer options for continuous, skilled nursing care at home.


 

04/10/2012 :

·  Committee Substitute reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  HOUSE Calendar No. 259.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 318

CT H 5477

Joint Committee on Human Services

Medicaid

 

HOUSE

Concerns Medicaid; studies quality of care and access to services under Medicaid-funded programs.


 

04/10/2012 :

·  Reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  HOUSE Calendar No. 260.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 319

CT H 5482

Joint Committee on Human Services

Meals Programs for the Elderly

 

Died

Expands the congregate meals program for the elderly; offers congregate meals under the elderly nutrition program for at least one additional day.


 

03/27/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT H 5483

Joint Committee on Human Services

Coverage Of Telemedicine Services Under Medicaid

 

SENATE

Concerns coverage of telemedicine services under Medicaid; provides coverage for telemedicine health services under the state Medicaid plan.


 

04/18/2012 :

·  HOUSE adopted HOUSE Amendment Schedule A 3319.

·  Passed HOUSE. *****To SENATE.

CT H 5499

Joint Committee on Public Health

Hospice Care

 

SENATE

Concerns regulations relating to hospice care; requires the Department of Public Health to adopt regulations concerning facilities offering hospice services.


 

04/19/2012 :

·  HOUSE adopted HOUSE Amendment Schedule A 3261.

·  Passed HOUSE. *****To SENATE.

CT H 5514

Joint Committee on Public Health

Public Health Statutes

 

HOUSE

Concerns various revisions to the public health statutes; makes various changes to the public health statutes.


 

04/16/2012 :

·  Committee Substitute reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  HOUSE Calendar No. 348.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 451

CT H 5515

Joint Committee on Public Health

Physician Assistants

 

SENATE

Concerns physician assistants; describes the written protocols that a supervising physician shall provide to a physician assistant.


 

04/18/2012 :

·  HOUSE adopted HOUSE Amendment Schedule A 3312.

·  Passed HOUSE. *****To SENATE.

CT H 5516

Joint Committee on Public Health

Nursing Home Facilities

 

HOUSE

Concerns prescription drug administration in nursing home facilities; allows nursing home facilities to make substitutions for drugs prescribed to patients with the approval of the prescribing physician.


 

04/17/2012 :

·  HOUSE adopted HOUSE Amendment Schedule A 3301.

·  Passed HOUSE temporarily.

CT S 25

Williams D (D)

Capital Improvements

 

SENATE

Authorizes and adjusts bonds of the state for capital improvements, transportation and other purposes; implements the Governor's budget recommendations.


 

04/16/2012 :

·  Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis.

CT S 30

Williams D (D)

Budget Concerning Human Services

 

SENATE

Implements provisions of the budget concerning human services; implements the Governor's budget recommendations.


 

04/16/2012 :

·  From JOINT Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS: Reported favorably.

·  Filed with Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  Reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

CT S 73

Doyle (D)

Medicaid Long Term Care Coverage For Married Couples

 

Died

Concerns Medicaid long-term care coverage for married couples; saves the state money by delaying the community spouse's entry into a nursing home and receipt of benefits under the Medicaid program.


 

03/27/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT S 74

Doyle (D)

Increased Home And Community Based Care Under Medicaid

 

Died

Concerns increased home and community-based care under Medicaid; saves the state money and improve the quality of life of senior citizens by increasing participation in home and community-based care under the Medicaid program.


 

03/27/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT S 78

Joint Committee on Commerce

Learn Here Live Here Program

 

Joint Committee on Appropriations

Concerns the Learn Here, Live Here program; allows graduates from certain higher education institutions to participate in the Learn Here, Live Here program and require payments from the Department of Economic and Community Development in accordance with the program.


 

04/19/2012 :

·  To JOINT Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.

CT S 92

Joint Committee on Environment

Disposal and Collection of Unused Medication

 

SENATE

Concerns the disposal and collection of unused medication; prohibits healthcare institutions from disposing medications into waste water systems and to establish a program for the collection and disposal of unused pharmaceuticals.


 

04/19/2012 :

·  Motion Failed JF.

CT S 172

Roraback (R)

Personal Needs Allowance

 

Died

Increases the personal needs allowance for certain long-term care facility residents; increases the personal needs allowance for certain long-term care facility residents.


 

03/27/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT S 176

Joint Committee on Aging

Air Conditioning in Nursing Homes

 

HOUSE

Concerns air conditioning in nursing homes; requires nursing homes to have air conditioning in each resident's room by July 1, 2013.


 

04/18/2012 :

·  Passed SENATE. *****To HOUSE.

CT S 177

Joint Committee on Aging

Liability of Nursing Home Owners for Neglect and Abuse

 

SENATE

Concerns liability of nursing home owners for neglect and abuse of nursing home residents; puts nursing home licensees and owners on notice that they may be held criminally liable for abuse or neglect perpetrated by nursing home employees against residents.


 

04/16/2012 :

·  Reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  Senate Calendar No. 319.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 420

CT S 178

Joint Committee on Aging

Income Tax Deductions for Long Term Care Insurance

 

Joint Committee on Finance, Revenue and Bonding

Concerns income tax deductions for long-term care insurance premiums; provides a personal income tax deduction for long-term care insurance premiums.


 

03/09/2012 :

·  To JOINT Committee on FINANCE, REVENUE AND BONDING.

CT S 182

Joint Committee on Labor and Public Employees

Cooperative Health Care Arrangements

 

Died

Concerns cooperative health care arrangements; permits health care providers to enter into cooperative arrangements that would not be subject to certain antitrust Laws after approval by the Attorney General, and to require managed care organizations to negotiate in good faith with providers who participate in such arrangements.


 

03/20/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT S 186

Joint Committee on Public Health

Licensing Investigation

 

HOUSE

Concerns the licensing, investigation and disciplinary processes for physicians and nurses; expands the membership of the Connecticut Medical Examining Board; increases the number of continuing medical education credits for physicians; requires renewal of physician, nurse and dentist licenses using the Department of Public Health's on-line license renewal system; changes the membership of the Connecticut State Board of Examiners for Nursing.


 

04/18/2012 :

·  SENATE adopted SENATE Amendment Schedule A 3223.

·  Passed SENATE. *****To HOUSE.

CT S 187

Joint Committee on Public Health

Electronic Death Registration System

 

Died

Concerns the electronic death registration system; requires persons authorized to complete the medical certification portion of a death certificate to complete and submit such certification through the Department of Public Health's electronic death registration system.


 

03/30/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT S 204

Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate

State Medical Loss Ratio

 

Died

Concerns the state medical loss ratio; establishes a civil penalty for a health care center or a health insurer that fails to provide the information required for the Consumer Report Card on Health Insurance Carriers in Connecticut, to amend the factors taken into account for calculation of the state medical loss ratio, and to establish a minimum state medical loss ratio of eighty-two per cent for certain individual and small employer group health insurance policies.


 

03/22/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT S 229

Joint Committee on Human Services

Medicaid Long Term Care Coverage for Married Couples

 

Died

Concerns Medicaid long-term care coverage for married couples; increases the maximum protected amount for community spouses of institutionalized persons applying for Medicaid.


 

03/27/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT S 230

Joint Committee on Human Services

Long Term Care and Disability Services

 

Died

Concerns community choices for long-term care and disability services; establishes a single point of entry for information and services concerning aging and disability issues.


 

03/27/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT S 232

Joint Committee on Human Services

Moratorium on Nursing Home Beds

 

HOUSE

Extends a moratorium on nursing home beds; extends a moratorium on nursing home beds in keeping with a state plan to move more residents to community care settings.


 

04/18/2012 :

·  SENATE adopted SENATE Amendment Schedule A 3230.

·  Passed SENATE. *****To HOUSE.

CT S 233

Joint Committee on Human Services

Payments to Nursing Facilities for Uncompensated Care

 

SENATE

Concerns advance payments to nursing facilities for uncompensated care; mitigates financial hardships to nursing homes caused by delays in Medicaid eligibility determinations.


 

04/18/2012 :

·  Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis.

CT S 234

Joint Committee on Human Services

Certain Obsolete Human Services Statutes

 

Joint Committee on Government Administration and Elections

Repeals certain obsolete human services statutes; repeals statutes concerning obsolete subject matter.


 

04/19/2012 :

·  To JOINT Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS.

CT S 282

Joint Committee on Aging

Long Term Care Services

 

SENATE

Concerns the return of a gift to a person in need of long-term care services; allows the Department of Social Services to reduce the length of a penalty period when only part of a gift has been returned to an institutionalized individual.


 

03/27/2012 :

·  Committee Substitute reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  Senate Calendar No. 116.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 124

CT S 330

Joint Committee on Labor and Public Employees

Homemaker Services

 

Died

Concerns the employers of individuals providing homemaker services, companion services and homemaker-home health aide services; designates a homemaker-companion agency, registry or homemaker-home health agency as the employer of individuals providing certain services to consumers for the purposes of unemployment compensation, wages and workers' compensation, and remove liability for such individual's personal injuries arising out of and in the course of employment from the consumer.


 

03/20/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT S 332

Joint Committee on Energy and Technology

Utility Service Termination

 

Died

Concerns utility service termination and the appointment of a receiver; permits utility termination on certain Fridays and to allow utility companies to seek appointment of a receiver for certain nursing home facilities.


 

03/29/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT S 337

Joint Committee on Public Safety and Security

Silver Alert System

 

HOUSE

Concerns the silver alert system; allows information about a person who is missing from an inpatient facility of the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services to be disseminated in order to assist in the location of such missing person.


 

04/18/2012 :

·  Passed SENATE. *****To HOUSE.

CT S 374

Joint Committee on Aging

Home Care Funding

 

SENATE

Increases funding and support for home and community-based care for the elderly and alzheimer's patients; studies funding available to elderly persons and persons with Alzheimer's disease for care at home or in the community.


 

04/18/2012 :

·  Committee Substitute reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 528

·  Senate Calendar No. 349.

CT S 393

Joint Committee on Human Services

State Aid Repayment

 

Joint Committee on Appropriations

Concerns repayment of state aid by a recipient whose death is caused by the state's negligence; prevents the state from recouping public assistance payments from the proceeds of a cause of action brought by or on behalf of a recipient whose death was caused by the state's negligence.


 

04/17/2012 :

·  To JOINT Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.

CT S 394

Joint Committee on Human Services

Medicaid Eligibility

 

SENATE

Concerns Medicaid eligibility and the identification and recovery of assets; clarifies asset identification and recovery procedures in Medicaid eligibility determinations.


 

04/10/2012 :

·  Committee Substitute reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  Senate Calendar No. 261.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 338

CT S 395

Joint Committee on Human Services

Personal Needs Allowance

 

Died

Increases the personal needs allowance for certain long-term care facility residents; increases the personal needs allowance for certain long-term care facility residents.


 

03/27/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT S 396

Joint Committee on Human Services

Community Based Social Services

 

Died

Concerns the establishment of community-based social services; changes the social services delivery system from a state-based to a municipal-based model.


 

03/27/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.

CT S 405

Joint Committee on Commerce

Targeted Health Areas

 

Joint Committee on Public Health

Concerns targeted health areas; establishes a Targeted Health Area program and provide economic incentives to licensed physicians and physician offices providing primary care services or needed medical specialties in such targeted health areas.


 

04/17/2012 :

·  To JOINT Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH.

CT S 409

Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate

Life Insurance Policies

 

SENATE

Concerns disclosures for certain life insurance policies and concerning life insurance and annuity policies that include long-term care benefits; requires certain disclosures to be provided for a universal life insurance policy or similar policy that reserves the right to periodically increase the cost of insurance, and to allow the issuance of annuity policies that provide long-term care benefits.


 

04/03/2012 :

·  Committee Substitute reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  Senate Calendar No. 204.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 246

CT S 414

Joint Committee on Public Health

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses Certification

 

SENATE

Concerns advanced practice registered nurses' certification or signature; allows an advanced practice registered nurse to sign, certify or give an authorization where a physician is allowed or required to do so.


 

04/16/2012 :

·  Committee Substitute reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  Senate Calendar No. 321.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 427

CT S 419

Joint Committee on Judiciary

Nursing Homes

 

SENATE

Concerns responsible party agreements and the maintenance of professional liability insurance by nursing homes, home health care agencies and homemaker-home health aide agencies; requires a nursing home facility to fully and fairly inform an applicant for admission to such facility, the applicant's relatives and other responsible parties of their obligations in connection with an admission to the facility.


 

04/19/2012 :

·  Reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office.

·  Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 536

·  Senate Calendar No. 381.

CT S 424

Joint Committee on Public Health

Electronic Prescribing System

 

Died

Establishes a pilot program to implement an electronic prescribing system and develop a standardized prior authorization form; establishes a pilot program to implement an electronic prescription drug system and develop a standardized prior authorization form for use by insurance companies.


 

03/30/2012 :

·  Failed Joint Favorable deadline.