SB 796 — AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF RESPECTFUL AND PERSON-FIRST LANGUAGE.

General Assembly   Governor'sSubstitute Bill No.

796 January Session, 2017   LCO*_____SB00796PH____032317____* No.AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF RESPECTFUL AND PERSON-FIRST LANGUAGE.

3796   *03796__________* Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH   Introduced by:

  SEN.

LOONEY, 11th Dist.

SEN.

DUFF, 25th Dist.

REP.

ARESIMOWICZ, 30th Dist.

REP.

RITTER M., 1st Dist.

  AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF RESPECTFUL AND PERSON-FIRST LANGUAGE.

In responding to such requests, the commissioner shall utilize a formula for determining the number of teachers needed to serve the school districts, crediting six points for each [Braille-learning] child learning braille and one point for each other child, with one full-time certified teacher [of the visually impaired] who instructinstructs students with visual impairments assigned for every twenty-five points credited.

(a)[(a)] The Department on Aging and the Department of Social Services shall hold quarterly meetings with nutrition service stakeholders to (1) develop recommendations to address complexities in the administrative processes of nutrition services programs, (2) establish quality control benchmarks in such programs, and (3) help move toward greater quality, efficiency and transparency in the elderly nutrition program.

Such goods and services shall be identical to goods and services that are covered under the Connecticut Medicaid and HUSKY Programs and the payment for such goods and services shall not exceed the Connecticut Medicaid payment rate for the same goods and services.

(6) "Supervision" means the overseeing of or the participation in the work of an occupational therapisttherapy assistant by a licensed occupational therapist, including, but not limited to:

(A) Continuous availability of direct communication between the occupational therapisttherapy assistant and a licensed occupational therapist;

(B) availability of a licensed occupational therapist on a regularly scheduled basis to (i) review the practice of the occupational therapisttherapy assistant, and (ii) support the occupational therapisttherapy assistant in the performance of the occupational therapisttherapy assistant's services;

93 October 1, 2017 46a-33a(a)(1) Statement of Purpose:Legislative Commissioners:

ToIn implementSection the64, Governor's"Such budgetservices" recommendations.was changed to "Such goods and services" for accuracy, and in Section 66(6), "occupational therapist assistant" was changed to "occupational therapy assistant" for consistency with the defined term.

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