Sec. 17a-302a. Meetings with nutrition service stakeholders. Alternative funding sources.

(a) The Department on Aging and the Department of Social Services shall hold quarterly meetings with nutrition service stakeholders to (1) develop recommendations to address complexities in the administrative processes of nutrition services programs, (2) establish quality control benchmarks in such programs, and (3) help move toward greater quality, efficiency and transparency in the elderly nutrition program. Stakeholders shall include, but need not be limited to, (A) one representative of each of the following: (i) Area agencies on aging, (ii) access agencies, (iii) the Commission on Women, Children and Seniors, and (iv) nutrition providers, and (B) one or more representatives of food security programs, contractors, nutrition host sites and consumers.

(b) The departments and stakeholders shall study alternative sources of funding for nutrition services programs. The departments and the nutrition service stakeholders shall, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, submit a summary report on their findings and recommendations concerning any such alternative sources of funding, along with a report on any other recommendations they may have regarding nutrition services programs, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to aging not later than July 1, 2016.

(P.A. 14-73, S. 2; P.A. 15-40, S. 1; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3, S. 150.)

History: P.A. 14-73 effective July 1, 2014; P.A. 15-40 designated existing provisions re quarterly meetings as Subsec. (a) and amended same to add provisions re stakeholder representatives and make technical changes and added Subsec. (b) re study of alternative sources of funding and report, effective July 1, 2015; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3 amended Subsec. (a)(3) to make a technical change and to replace “Commission on Aging” with “Commission on Women, Children and Seniors”, effective July 1, 2016.