2. a. The Commissioner of Human Services shall organize an Interagency Task Force on Home Care Services, hereinafter known as the “task force,” which shall consist of the commissioner, the Commissioner of Health, the Commissioner of Insurance, and the Commissioner of Community Affairs, or their designated representatives. The task force shall review and coordinate efforts among departments to develop home health care and homemaker services and shall consult on the propriety and effects of State and Federal home health care and homemaker legislation, rules, and regulations. The task force shall work toward regulatory and legislative change which it feels will promote the utilization of home health care and homemaker services as an alternative to institutional care.

b. The task force shall meet as frequently as its business may require and at least once in each calendar quarter of each year.

c. The task force shall consult on a regular basis with public and private nonprofit, proprietary, and hospital based providers of home health care and homemaker services. The task force shall also consult with service consumers.

L.1980, c.35, s.2; amended 2013, c.253, s.16.