2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 17b - Social Services › Chapter 319o - Department of Social Services › Section 17b-1. - Department of Social Services. Successor department to Departments of Income Maintenance and Human Resources.

(a) There is established a Department of Social Services. The department head shall be the Commissioner of Social Services, who shall be appointed by the Governor in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-5 to 4-8, inclusive, with the powers and duties therein prescribed.
(b) The Department of Social Services shall constitute a successor department to the Department of Income Maintenance and the Department of Human Resources in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-38d and 4-39.
(c) Wherever the words “Commissioner of Income Maintenance” or “Commissioner of Human Resources” are used in the general statutes, the words “Commissioner of Social Services” shall be substituted in lieu thereof. Wherever the words “Department of Income Maintenance” or “Department of Human Resources” are used in the general statutes, “Department of Social Services” shall be substituted in lieu thereof.
(d) Any order or regulation of the Department of Income Maintenance or the Department of Human Resources which is in force on July 1, 1993, shall continue in force and effect as an order or regulation of the Department of Social Services until amended, repealed or superseded pursuant to law. Where any order or regulation of said departments conflict, the Commissioner of Social Services may implement policies and procedures consistent with the provisions of public act 93-262* while in the process of adopting the policy or procedure in regulation form, provided notice of intention to adopt the regulations is posted on the eRegulations System within twenty days of implementation. The policy or procedure shall be valid until the time final regulations are effective.
(P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; P.A. 11-44, S. 146; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 283; P.A. 18-169, S. 9.)
*Note: Public act 93-262 is entitled “An Act Concerning the Establishment of the Department of Social Services”. (See Reference Table captioned “Public Acts of 1993” in Volume 16 which lists the sections amended, created or repealed by the act.)
History: P.A. 93-262 effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 11-44 amended Subsecs. (b) and (c) by deleting “Department on Aging” and “Commissioner on Aging” and making technical changes and amended Subsec. (d) by making provisions subject to Sec. 17a-317, effective July 1, 2013; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsecs. (b) and (c) to add references to Department and Commissioner on Aging, amended Subsec. (d) to delete reference to Sec. 17a-301a and add provision re order or regulation of Department on Aging, added Subsec. (e) re functions, powers, duties and personnel of Department on Aging, added Subsec. (f) re transfer of funds between Department on Aging and Department of Social Services, and made technical changes, effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 18-169 deleted references to Department and Commissioner on Aging, amended Subsec. (d) to delete provision re order or regulation of Department on Aging as order or regulation of Department of Social Services and replace “printed in the Connecticut Law Journal” with “posted on the eRegulations System”, and made a conforming change, and deleted former Subsecs. (e) and (f) re functions, powers, duties and personnel of Department on Aging and transfer of funds between Department on Aging and Department of Social Services, effective June 14, 2018.
Cited. 39 CA 216.