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Connecticut House passes plan to link nonprofit contract rates to CPI; funding, timing remain contested
Summary
The House approved a bill to establish a process indexing state human‑service contract rates to the CPI‑U beginning in mid‑2027, creating a formal mechanism to measure and request inflationary increases. Lawmakers sharply debated funding guarantees, timing, and whether the statute binds future budgets.
The Connecticut House passed legislation on Wednesday to create a formal, annual process for adjusting state contract rates paid to nonprofit human‑service providers by the percentage change in the consumer price index (CPI‑U), a move supporters said will bring transparency to how the state budgets for long‑term providers and critics said could promise raises without the money to pay for them.
Representative Jamal Gilchrist, the bill’s lead proponent in the House, said the measure sets up a predictable process so agencies and the legislature can better estimate future costs. “This would establish this process,” Gilchrist said on the floor. “It is a shall.”
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