CGS § 7-127b. Municipal agents for elderly persons. Duties. Responsibilities of Department of Aging and Disability Services.

History: P.A. 77-447 replaced all former provisions re municipal agents for disseminating information to elderly with more detailed provisions of Subsecs. (a) to (d), inclusive; P.A. 85-459 amended Subsec. (b) to require written reports to be submitted to the state department on aging and amended Subsec. (c) to require the town clerk to notify the state department on aging of the appointment of a new municipal agent; P.A. 88-206 gave the chief elected official the authority to appoint a municipal agent and provided that the chief executive officer may also appoint if by ordinance he is given such authority in Subsec. (a), made a technical change in Subsec. (b) and required the department on aging to sponsor at least one training session and specified that the training shall include information re the availability of housing and required each municipal agent to attend at least one session in Subsec. (d); P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of department of social services for department on aging, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-77 amended Subsec. (c) to allow a municipal agent to serve a term of two or four years, at the discretion of the appointing authority, where previously terms were two years only; P.A. 01-195 made technical changes, effective July 11, 2001; P.A. 12-119 amended Subsec. (a) to delete provisions re commission on aging members and elected officials as potential agents and make technical changes, amended Subsec. (b) to make technical changes, replace provisions re annual written reports on services provided by the agent with provisions re reporting agent's recommendations to improve services to the elderly, made a technical change in Subsec. (c), and amended Subsec. (d) to delete requirement that department ensure municipalities carry out provisions of section, make technical changes, make agent training discretionary rather than mandatory, delete provisions re training requirements and records re elderly persons and add provision re training within available resources of department and area agencies, effective June 15, 2012; P.A. 13-125 replaced references to Department of Social Services with references to Department on Aging, effective July 1, 2013; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 replaced “Department on Aging” with “Department of Social Services” in Subsecs. (b) to (d), effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 18-169 replaced “Department of Social Services” with “Department of Rehabilitation Services” in Subsecs. (b) to (d) and made a technical change in Subsec. (b), effective June 14, 2018; P.A. 19-157 amended Subsecs. (b) to (d) by replacing “Department of Rehabilitation Services” with “Department of Aging and Disability Services”; P.A. 21-7 amended Subsec. (a) by adding senior center staff to persons who may be municipal agents and made a technical change in Subsec. (b); P.A. 24-39 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “demonstrated an interest in the elderly” with “demonstrated an interest in assisting elderly persons”, amended Subsec. (b) by replacing “may include, but shall not be limited to” with “shall include, but need not be limited to”, replacing “other benefits” with “state benefits, and accessing community resources” and making a technical change in Subdiv. (2) and adding provision defining “community resources” in Subdiv. (3), and added Subsec. (e) re creation of a directory of municipal agents.