Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 319l - Department of Aging and Disability Services
Section 17a-787. (Formerly Sec. 17b-660). - Gifts, grants, reimbursements, bequests for services provided by the Department of Aging and Disability Services.

The Commissioner of Aging and Disability Services is authorized to accept and use gifts, grants, reimbursements or bequests made by will or otherwise for carrying out the purposes of the donor or of the general statutes concerning the Department of Aging and Disability Services. Gifts, grants, reimbursements or bequests made under such conditions as in the judgment of the Commissioner of Aging and Disability Services are proper and consistent with the provisions of state and federal law may be so accepted and shall be held, invested, reinvested and used in accordance with the conditions of the gift, grant, reimbursement or bequest.

(1949 Rev., S. 1411; 1957, P.A. 557, S. 7; P.A. 77-614, S. 545, 610; P.A. 78-354, S. 7, 8; P.A. 85-377, S. 3, 13; P.A. 89-354, S. 13, 21; P.A. 90-325, S. 12, 32; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; P.A. 11-44, S. 64; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 78; P.A. 19-157, S. 76; P.A. 21-151, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 77-614 substituted department of human resources for state board of education, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-354 replaced department of human resources with state board of education; P.A. 85-377 substituted “commissioner” for “state board” of education; P.A. 89-354 changed responsibilities from commissioner of education to commissioner of human resources, effective July 1, 1990; P.A. 90-325 changed the effective date of P.A. 89-354 from July 1, 1990, to 60 days after the determination by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services of the U.S. Department of Education that department of human resources meets all applicable federal statutory and regulatory requirements to be designated as sole state agency to administer the state plan for vocational rehabilitation services and that proposed bureau of rehabilitation services within the department meets all applicable federal statutory and regulatory requirements as a vocational rehabilitation organizational unit, i.e. July 1, 1991; Sec. 10-106 transferred to Sec. 17-670 in 1993 and internal reference to Secs. 10-100 to 10-108, inclusive, revised to reflect their transfer; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of social services for commissioner and department of human resources, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 17-670 transferred to Sec. 17b-660 in 1995; P.A. 11-44 replaced “Commissioner of Social Services” with “director of the Bureau of Rehabilitative Services” and replaced reference to Secs. 17b-650 to 17b-663 with reference to “the general statutes concerning the Bureau of Rehabilitative Services”, effective July 1, 2011; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1 replaced “director of the Bureau of Rehabilitative Services” with “Commissioner of Rehabilitation Services” and replaced “Bureau of Rehabilitative Services” with “Department of Rehabilitation Services”, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 19-157 replaced “Commissioner of Rehabilitation Services” with “Commissioner of Aging and Disability Services” and replaced “Department of Rehabilitation Services” with “Department of Aging and Disability Services”; P.A. 21-151 added grants, reimbursements and bequests to funding sources commissioner may accept to carry out purposes of donor consistent with state and federal law and deleted requirement gifts be made unconditionally, effective July 1, 2021; Sec. 17b-660 transferred to Sec. 17a-787 in 2023.

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