Connecticut HB 5500: AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH'S RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING VARIOUS REVISIONS TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH STATUTES.

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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5500
February Session, 2022 LCO No. 3709

Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH

Introduced by:
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AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH'S
RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING VARIOUS REVISIONS TO THE
PUBLIC HEALTH STATUTES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 19a-490 of the 2022 supplement to the general 1
statutes, as amended by sections 29 and 30 of public act 21-2 of the June 2
special session, is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu 3
thereof (Effective October 1, 2022): 4
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 5
(a) "Institution" means a hospital, short-term hospital special hospice, 6
hospice inpatient facility, residential care home, nursing home facility, 7
home health care agency, home health aide agency, behavioral health 8
facility, assisted living services agency, substance abuse treatment 9
facility, outpatient surgical facility, outpatient clinic, clinical laboratory, 10
an infirmary operated by an educational institution for the care of 11
students enrolled in, and faculty and employees of, such institution; a 12
facility engaged in providing services for the prevention, diagnosis, 13
treatment or care of human health conditions, including facilities 14

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operated and maintained by any state agency; and a residential facility 15
for persons with intellectual disability licensed pursuant to section 17a-16
227 and certified to participate in the Title XIX Medicaid program as an 17
intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disability. 18
"Institution" does not include any facility for the care and treatment of 19
persons with mental illness or substance use disorder operated or 20
maintained by any state agency, except Whiting Forensic Hospital and 21
the hospital and psychiatric residential treatment facility units of the 22
Albert J. Solnit Children's Center; 23
(b) "Hospital" means an establishment for the lodging, care and 24
treatment of persons suffering from disease or other abnormal physical 25
or mental conditions and includes inpatient psychiatric services in 26
general hospitals; 27
(c) "Residential care home" or "rest home" means a community 28
residence that furnishes, in single or multiple facilities, food and shelter 29
to two or more persons unrelated to the proprietor and, in addition, 30
provides services that meet a need beyond the basic provisions of food, 31
shelter and laundry and may qualify as a setting that allows residents to 32
receive home and community-based services funded by state and 33
federal programs; 34
(d) "Home health care agency" means a public or private 35
organization, or a subdivision thereof, engaged in providing 36
professional nursing services and the following services, available 37
twenty-four hours per day, in the patient's home or a substantially 38
equivalent environment: Home health aide services as defined in this 39
section, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy or 40
medical social services. The agency shall provide professional nursing 41
services and at least one additional service directly and all others 42
directly or through contract. An agency shall be available to enroll new 43
patients seven days a week, twenty-four hours per day; 44
(e) "Home health aide agency" means a public or private 45
organization, except a home health care agency, which provides in the 46

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patient's home or a substantially equivalent environment supportive 47
services which may include, but are not limited to, assistance with 48
personal hygiene, dressing, feeding and incidental household tasks 49
essential to achieving adequate household and family management. 50
Such supportive services shall be provided under the supervision of a 51
registered nurse and, if such nurse determines appropriate, shall be 52
provided by a social worker, physical therapist, speech therapist or 53
occupational therapist. Such supervision may be provided directly or 54
through contract; 55
(f) "Home health aide services" as defined in this section shall not 56
include services provided to assist individuals with activities of daily 57
living when such individuals have a disease or condition that is chronic 58
and stable as determined by a physician licensed in the state; 59
(g) "Behavioral health facility" means any facility that provides 60
mental health services to persons eighteen years of age or older or 61
substance use disorder services to persons of any age in an outpatient 62
treatment or residential setting to ameliorate mental, emotional, 63
behavioral or substance use disorder issues; 64
(h) ["Alcohol or drug treatment facility" means any facility for the 65
care or treatment of persons suffering from alcoholism or other drug 66
addiction] "Clinical laboratory" means any facility or