Sec. 17a-218a. Continuing operation of Southbury Training School. Evaluation criteria.
Sec. 17a-218a. Continuing operation of Southbury Training School. Evaluation criteria. (a) The Commissioner of Developmental Services shall continue the operation of the Southbury Training School and shall establish criteria to evaluate the current
population of the training school in regard to community placement and training school
placement. The criteria shall include, at a minimum, consideration of the client's age,
physical disabilities, medical fragility, level of mental retardation, length of residence
at the school and availability of an appropriate placement.
(b) The commissioner shall no longer accept new admissions at the Southbury
Training School.
(c) For the fiscal years ending June 30, 1998, and June 30, 1999, the commissioner
shall not certify additional beds as immediate care facilities for the mentally retarded
(ICFMR) at the Southbury Training School beyond a total of six hundred sixteen.
(P.A. 95-236; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-8, S. 38, 88; P.A. 07-73, S. 2(b); 07-238, S. 3.)
History: June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-8 added Subsecs. (b) re limit on new admissions, (c) re additional immediate care
beds and (d) re annual report, effective July 1, 1997; pursuant to P.A. 07-73 "Commissioner of Mental Retardation" was
changed editorially by the Revisors to "Commissioner of Developmental Services", effective October 1, 2007; P.A. 07-238 amended Subsec. (a) and deleted former Subsec. (d) to remove obsolete reporting requirements.