Sec. 17b-423. (Formerly Sec. 17a-306). Community services policy manual. Regulations. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 17b-423. (Formerly Sec. 17a-306). Community services policy manual. Regulations. (a) The Department of Social Services shall prepare and routinely update a community services policy manual. The pages of such manual shall be consecutively numbered and indexed, containing all departmental policy regulations and substantive procedure. Such manual shall be published by the department and distributed so that it is available to all district, subdistrict and field offices of the Department of Social Services. The Department of Social Services shall adopt such policy manual in regulation form in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54. The department may operate under any new policy necessary to conform to a requirement of a federal or joint state and federal program. The department may operate under any new policy while it is in the process of adopting the policy in regulation form, provided the Department of Social Services prints notice of intent to adopt the regulations in the Connecticut Law Journal within twenty days after adopting the policy. Such policy shall be valid until the time final regulations are effective.

      (b) The Department of Social Services shall write the community services policy manual using plain language as described in section 42-152. The manual shall include an index for frequent referencing and a separate section or manual which specifies procedures to follow to clarify policy.

      (P.A. 86-368, S. 4, 5; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; P.A. 03-278, S. 67.)

      History: Sec. 17-136i transferred to Sec. 17a-306 in 1991; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of social services for commissioner and department on aging, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 17a-306 transferred to Sec. 17b-423 in 1995; P.A. 03-278 made technical changes in Subsecs. (a) and (b), effective July 9, 2003.