The Department of Social Services may provide grants to hospitals to pay for outreach and eligibility determinations for assistance to families. For the fiscal years ending June 30, 1994, and June 30, 1995, the sum of two million dollars appropriated to the department may be used for said grants and for fiscal years ending June 30, 1996, and subsequent fiscal years, such amount shall be adjusted to reflect the aggregate of inflation in authorized hospital gross revenues determined pursuant to section 19a-649.