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CT SB01059

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/23/2011

Primary Sponsor

Government Administration and Elections Committee

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Origin

Senate

2011 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Transfers the Division of Special Revenue into the Department of Consumer Protection, making the Commissioner of Consumer Protection responsible for gaming regulation, lottery oversight, and the Gaming Policy Board effective July 1, 2011
  • Creates the Connecticut Economic Development Authority as a new quasi-public body to consolidate the Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Development Authority, Connecticut Innovations Incorporated, and Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, governed by an 11-member board of directors
  • Directs the Governor to consolidate personnel, payroll, affirmative action, and business office functions of selected state agencies into the Department of Administrative Services, and requires a plan to reduce the executive branch manager/supervisor-to-employee ratio to no more than 1:10
  • Requires development of deinstitutionalization plans for Southbury Training School and Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth, and mandates modernization measures including electronic direct deposit for state employee salaries, electronic filing of annual reports for corporations and LLCs with the Secretary of the State, and electronic billing and payment conversion
  • Transfers prescription drug procurement responsibilities to the Comptroller for Medicaid, ConnPACE, and state employee health plans; adopts a long-term care rebalancing strategy to reduce the state nursing home bed ratio to the national average by 2017; and mandates a 10% energy cost reduction for executive branch agencies by FY2012 and 30% by FY2023

Legislative Description

An Act Implementing The Recommendations Of The Commission On Enhancing Agency Outcomes.

Last Action

Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate

5/24/2011

Committee Referrals

Appropriations5/20/2011
Transportation5/11/2011
Judiciary3/30/2011
Public Health3/18/2011
Government Administration and Elections2/23/2011

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