CONNECTICUT STATUTES AND CODES
Sec. 19a-631. (Formerly Sec. 19a-148a). Assessments of hospitals for expenses of the office.
Sec. 19a-631. (Formerly Sec. 19a-148a). Assessments of hospitals for expenses
of the office. (a) As used in this section and section 19a-632, "hospital" means each
hospital subject to the provisions of this chapter and licensed as a short-term acute-care
general hospital or a children's hospital or both by the Department of Public Health.
(b) Each hospital shall annually pay to the Commissioner of Health Care Access,
for deposit in the General Fund, an amount equal to its share of the actual expenditures
made by the office during each fiscal year including the cost of fringe benefits for office
personnel as estimated by the Comptroller, the amount of expenses for central state
services attributable to the office for the fiscal year as estimated by the Comptroller,
plus the expenditures made on behalf of the office from the Capital Equipment Purchase
Fund pursuant to section 4a-9 for such year. Payments shall be made by assessment of
all hospitals of the costs calculated and collected in accordance with the provisions of
this section and section 19a-632. If for any reason a hospital ceases operation, any unpaid
assessment for the operations of the office shall be reapportioned among the remaining
hospitals to be paid in addition to any other assessment.
(P.A. 93-229, S. 18, 21; 93-381, S. 9, 39; 93-435, S. 59, 95; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 42, 58; P.A. 98-22, S. 1, 3.)
History: P.A. 93-229 effective June 4, 1993; P.A. 93-381 and 93-435 authorized substitution of commissioner and
department of public health and addiction services for commissioner and department of health services, effective July 1,
1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner
and Department of Public Health and "commission" with "office", qualified expenditures made by the office as those
which are accountable to the functions of the office transferred from the Commission on Hospitals and Health Care, and
deleted reference to a fiscal year 1993 share, effective July 1, 1995; Sec. 19a-148a transferred to Sec. 19a-631 in 1997;
P.A. 98-22 amended Subsec. (b) to require payment to the Commissioner of Health Care Access rather than Commissioner
of Public Health, deleted reference to expenditures "which are accountable to the functions of the office transferred from
the Commission on Hospitals and Health Care" and added provision re reapportionment of payments when a hospital
ceases operation, effective July 1, 1998.
Annotation to former section 19a-148a:
Cited. 235 C. 128.
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