HB05300 • 2026

AN ACT CONCERNING COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENTS TO LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY RESIDENTS' PERSONAL NEEDS ALLOWANCE.

Healthcare

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Aging Committee
Last action: 2026-04-15
Official status: Tabled for the Calendar, House
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not specify how the funds are to be managed or distributed, only that they must increase annually based on federal adjustments.

Adjusting Allowances for Long-Term Care Residents

This act adjusts the personal needs allowance for long-term care facility residents to account for cost-of-living increases.

What This Bill Does

Changes how much money long-term care facility residents get each month.
Increases this monthly amount by a certain percentage every year based on federal adjustments.

Who It Names or Affects

Residents in long-term care facilities like nursing homes and chronic disease hospitals who receive Medicaid or Supplemental Security Income.

Terms To Know

Personal Needs Allowance: Money given to residents in long-term care facilities for personal expenses.
Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA): An increase in payments or benefits to keep up with rising prices and costs of living.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify what happens if there is no federal cost-of-living adjustment.
It only applies to residents receiving Medicaid or Supplemental Security Income who live in certain types of long-term care facilities.

Bill History

2026-04-15 Connecticut General Assembly
No New File by Committee on Appropriations
2026-04-15 Connecticut General Assembly
Tabled for the Calendar, House
2026-04-14 LCO
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
2026-04-14 LCO
Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
2026-04-13 APP
Joint Favorable
2026-04-07 Connecticut General Assembly
Referred by House to Committee on Appropriations
2026-03-17 LCO
Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
2026-03-17 Connecticut General Assembly
Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
2026-03-17 Connecticut General Assembly
House Calendar Number 61
2026-03-17 LCO
File Number 43
2026-03-10 LCO
Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/16/26 5:00 PM
2026-03-05 AGE
Joint Favorable
2026-03-05 LCO
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
2026-02-20 Connecticut General Assembly
Public Hearing 02/24
2026-02-19 Connecticut General Assembly
Referred to Joint Committee on Aging

Official Summary Text

To provide cost-of-living adjustments to long-term care facility residents' personal needs allowance.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

LCO 1231 1 of 2

General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5300
February Session, 2026 LCO No. 1231

Referred to Committee on Aging

Introduced by:
(AGE)

AN ACT CONCERNING COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENTS TO LONG-
TERM CARE FACILITY RESIDENTS' PERSONAL NEEDS
ALLOWANCE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 17b-106 of the 2026 supplement to 1
the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu 2
thereof (Effective from passage): 3
(b) The commissioner shall provide a state supplement payment for 4
recipients of Medicaid and the federal Supplemental Security Income 5
Program who reside in long -term care facilities sufficient to increase 6
their personal needs allowance to seventy -five dollars per month. On 7
July 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall increase 8
such state supplement payment over that of the previous fiscal year by 9
an amount sufficient to increase such personal needs allowance by an 10
amount equal to twenty -five per cent of the annual cost -of-living 11
adjustment in the federal Supplemental Security Income Program, if 12
any. Such state supplement payment shall be made to the long-term care 13
facility to be deposited into the personal fund account of each such 14
Raised Bill No. 5300

LCO 1231 2 of 2

recipient. For the purposes of this subsection, "long -term care facility" 15
means a licensed chronic and convalescent nursing home, a chronic 16
disease hospital, a rest home with nursing supervision, an intermediate 17
care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities or a state 18
humane institution. 19
Sec. 2. Section 17b -272 of the general statutes is repealed and the 20
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage): 21
The Commissioner of Social Services shall permit patients residing in 22
nursing homes, chronic disease hospitals and state humane institutions 23
who are medical assistance recipients under sections 17b-260 to 17b-262, 24
inclusive, 17b -264 to 17b -285, inclusive, and 17b -357 to 17b -361, 25
inclusive, to have a monthly personal fund allowance of seventy-five 26
dollars, adjusted annually on and after July 1, 2026, in accordance with 27
section 17b-106, as amended by this act. 28
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:

Section 1 from passage 17b-106(b)
Sec. 2 from passage 17b-272

AGE Joint Favorable
APP Joint Favorable