Bill Text: CT SB00128 | 2011 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft

---

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Expansion Of The Connpace Application Period.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-14 - File Number 57 [SB00128 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2011-SB00128-Comm_Sub.html

---

General Assembly		Committee Bill No. 128
January Session, 2011		LCO No. 2454
		*02454SB00128HS_*
Referred to Committee on Human Services
Introduced by:
(HS)

AN ACT CONCERNING EXPANSION OF THE CONNPACE APPLICATION PERIOD.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 17b-492 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2011):

(a) Eligibility for participation in the program shall be limited to any resident (1) who is sixty-five years of age or older or who is disabled, (2) whose current annual income at the time of application or redetermination, if unmarried, is less than twenty thousand eight hundred dollars or whose annual income, if married, when combined with that of the resident's spouse is less than twenty-eight thousand one hundred dollars, (3) who is not insured under a policy which provides full or partial coverage for prescription drugs once a deductible is met, except for a Medicare prescription drug discount card endorsed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in accordance with Public Law 108-173, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, or coverage under Medicare Part D pursuant to said act, and (4) on and after September 15, 1991, who pays an annual forty-five-dollar registration fee to the Department of Social Services. On January 1, 2012, and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall increase the income limits established under this subsection over those of the previous fiscal year to reflect the annual inflation adjustment in Social Security income, if any. Each such adjustment shall be determined to the nearest one hundred dollars. [On and after October 1, 2009, new applications to participate in the ConnPACE program may be accepted only from the fifteenth day of November through the thirty-first day of December each year, except that individuals may apply within thirty-one days of (A) reaching sixty-five years of age, or (B) becoming eligible for Social Security Disability Income or Supplemental Security Income.] The Department of Social Services shall accept new applications to participate in the ConnPACE program throughout each calendar year.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2011	17b-492(a)

Statement of Purpose:

To increase access to prescription drugs.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]

Co-Sponsors:

SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.

S.B. 128