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Statutes > Connecticut > Title17a > Chap319i > Sec17a-451bSec. 17a-451b. Consolidation of inpatient mental health and substance abuse services at Connecticut Valley Hospital: Exemption from certain approval requirements. (a) As used in this section:
(1) "Consolidation program" means the process of consolidating inpatient mental health and substance abuse services throughout the state at the Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown; and
(2) "Priority state hospital facility project" or "project" means each step, part or aspect of the consolidation program. "Project" includes, but is not limited to, repairing, renovating, enlarging or equipping existing buildings, or constructing new buildings, on the grounds of the Connecticut Valley Hospital.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of the general statutes or any special act, the consolidation program, each project, each closure and each contract entered into in connection with a project shall be exempt from the provisions of sections 4b-57, 4b-58 and 4b-91 and from the requirements for approval of a request or application provided for in section 19a-638 and in subsection (a) of section 19a-639, provided (1) the project begins no later than June 30, 1999; (2) the project is completed no later than December 31, 2002; (3) the cost of the project does not exceed thirty-six million dollars; and (4) the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services certifies in writing to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management that the project meets the criteria of public act 95-257* and upon such certification the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall authorize the Commissioner of Public Works to implement such project.
(P.A. 95-257, S. 6, 58; P.A. 97-94, S. 1, 2; P.A. 98-150, S. 10, 17; P.A. 02-23, S. 1.)
*Public act 95-257 is entitled "An Act Concerning the Consolidation of State-Operated Programs at Fairfield Hills, Norwich and Connecticut Valley Hospitals, Transfer of Addiction Services to the Former Department of Mental Health, Medicaid Waiver and the Office of Health Care Access". (See Reference Table captioned "Public Acts of 1995" in Volume 16 which lists the sections amended, created or repealed by the act.)
History: P.A. 95-257, S. 6 effective June 12, 1995 (Revisor's note: A reference to "Commission of Public Works" was replaced editorially by the Revisors with "Commissioner of Public Works" to correct a clerical error); P.A. 97-94 added reference to Sec. 4b-57 in Subsec. (b), changed 1998 and 2000 to 1999 and 2002 in Subsec. (b)(1) and (b)(2) and in Subsec. (b)(3) changed limit on cost of project from twenty to thirty-six million, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 98-150 made a technical change to Subsec. (b), effective June 5, 1998; P.A. 02-23 amended Subsec. (b)(2) to extend completion date of project from no later than June 30, 2002, to no later than December 31, 2002, effective May 6, 2002.
