(a) Any state agency, institution or board of the state represented by its department head, officer, commissioner or deputy commissioner as defined in section 4-5 and 4-8, is authorized to sit as a member of the board of a consortium organized as a nonstock, nonprofit corporation pursuant to chapter 602 or any predecessor statutes thereto, for the purpose of coordinating public and private sector health and social service delivery systems to provide: (1) The highest possible quality of health and social services at the lowest practicable cost to all persons needing such services; (2) the most advanced coordinated programs possible in health and social service delivery areas; (3) the coordination of members' services to eliminate to the greatest possible degree both unnecessary duplication and incomplete coverage in the providing of such services and facilities; (4) the greatest possible state-wide integration of health and social service programs; and (5) the education of the public as to the health and social service needs of the state and the goals of the consortium with regard thereto.
(b) Any state agency, institution or board may enter into such long-term contracts and other agreements as will further the purposes of each consortium organized in accordance with subsection (a) of this section, and as contained in each consortium's certificate of incorporation, provided the certificate of incorporation of each such consortium shall include a provision that no state agency, institution or board of the state sitting as a member of the board of the consortium shall be obligated to undertake or participate in any activity, which the representative of the state agency, institution or board, acting in his sole discretion, determines to be in violation of the primary responsibility of his agency, board or institution as provided in the general statutes.
(P.A. 75-526, S. 1, 2, 3; P.A. 96-256, S. 168, 209.)
History: P.A. 96-256 amended Subsec. (a) to replace reference to “chapter 600” with “chapter 602 or any predecessor statutes thereto”, effective January 1, 1997.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 4 - Management of State Agencies
Chapter 48 - Organization of State Agencies
Section 4-38c. - Departments within the executive branch.
Section 4-38e. - Receipt of federal aid by successor agency or authority.
Section 4-38h. - Rights of state employees unaffected by public act 77-614*.
Section 4-38i. - Collective bargaining rights of state employees unaffected by public act 77-614.
Section 4-38j. - Reports to General Assembly on program and implementation of reorganization.
Section 4-40. - Determination of salaries not prescribed by law.
Section 4-40a. - Compensation and expenses of licensing boards and commissions.
Section 4-41 to 4-50. - Regulations of state agencies.
Section 4-51. - Seals for state departments.
Section 4-52. - Trustee account defined.
Section 4-53. - Establishment of trustee accounts.
Section 4-54. - Management of trustee accounts.
Section 4-55. - Statement of trustee account operations.
Section 4-56. - Separate account for student or client funds.
Section 4-57. - Financial reports on general welfare funds.
Section 4-57a. - Activity fund for inmates. Management of fund. Correctional General Welfare Fund.
Section 4-58. - Disposition of unclaimed property in custody of heads of state institutions.
Section 4-58a. - Mutual aid fire pacts between state institutions and municipalities.
Section 4-59. - Forms of reports to state officers.
Section 4-60. - Annual reports of budgeted agencies.
Section 4-60a to 4-60c. - State Planning Council.
Section 4-60d. - Legislative Committee on State Planning and Development.
Section 4-60e. - Existing rights and duties of state agencies not affected.
Section 4-60k. - Demonstration programs.
Section 4-60m and 4-60n. - Direction of agency improvements and changes. Plan and report.
Section 4-60o. - Office of Child Day Care.
Section 4-60p. - State agencies as members of public-private consortia.
Section 4-60q. - Toll-free telephone access to state agencies.
Section 4-60t. - Posting of manuals and guidance documents on Internet web site.
Section 4-61. - Actions against the state on highway and public works contracts. Arbitration.
Section 4-61a. - Inventions and discoveries by state employees.
Section 4-61aa. - Committee to advise state Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator.
Section 4-61hh. - Volunteers in state government. Definitions.
Section 4-61ii. - Volunteer programs within state agencies.
Section 4-61jj. - Incidental benefits. Fulfillment of experience or training requirements.
Section 4-61kk. - Exemption from title 5. Compliance with regulations.
Section 4-61ll. - Benefits or reimbursements to volunteers.
Section 4-61m. - Council on Voluntary Action. Director. Duties.
Section 4-61mm. - Evaluation of volunteer program to be included in annual report.
Section 4-61nn. - Adaptation of administration of tests to needs of persons with disabilities.
Section 4-61t. - Committee on Career Entry and Mobility. Members. Duties.
Section 4-61w. - Composition of employees in career mobility program.