Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 50 - Office of Policy and Management: General Provisions; Budget and Appropriations; State Planning
Section 4-66g. - *(See end of section for amended version of subsection (a) and effective date.) Small town economic assistance program. Bond authorization. Certain sewer projects eligible.

*(a) For the purposes described in subsection (b) of this section, the State Bond Commission shall have the power, from time to time to authorize the issuance of bonds of the state in one or more series and in principal amounts not exceeding in the aggregate three hundred one million dollars.

(b) The proceeds of the sale of said bonds, to the extent of the amount stated in subsection (a) of this section, shall be used by the Office of Policy and Management for a small town economic assistance program the purpose of which shall be to provide grants-in-aid to any municipality or group of municipalities, provided the municipality and each municipality that is part of a group of municipalities is not economically distressed within the meaning of subsection (b) of section 32-9p, does not have an urban center in any plan adopted by the General Assembly pursuant to section 16a-30 and is not a public investment community within the meaning of subdivision (9) of subsection (a) of section 7-545. Such grants shall be used for purposes for which funds would be available under section 4-66c. No group of municipalities may receive an amount exceeding in the aggregate five hundred thousand dollars per municipality in such group in any one fiscal year under said program. No individual municipality may receive more than five hundred thousand dollars in any one fiscal year under said program, except that any municipality that receives a grant under said program as a member of a group of municipalities shall continue to be eligible to receive an amount equal to five hundred thousand dollars less the amount of such municipality's proportionate share of such grant. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection and section 4-66c, a municipality that is (1) a distressed municipality within the meaning of subsection (b) of section 32-9p or a public investment community within the meaning of subdivision (9) of subsection (a) of section 7-545, and (2) otherwise eligible under this subsection for the small town economic assistance program may elect to be eligible for said program individually or as part of a group of municipalities in lieu of being eligible for financial assistance under section 4-66c, by a vote of its legislative body or, in the case of a municipality in which the legislative body is a town meeting, its board of selectmen, and submitting a written notice of such vote to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management. Any such election shall be for the four-year period following submission of such notice to the secretary and may be extended for additional four-year periods in accordance with the same procedure for the initial election.
(c) All provisions of section 3-20, or the exercise of any right or power granted thereby, which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this section are hereby adopted and shall apply to all bonds authorized by the State Bond Commission pursuant to this section, and temporary notes in anticipation of the money to be derived from the sale of any such bonds so authorized may be issued in accordance with said section 3-20 and from time to time renewed. Such bonds shall mature at such time or times not exceeding twenty years from their respective dates as may be provided in or pursuant to the resolution or resolutions of the State Bond Commission authorizing such bonds. None of said bonds shall be authorized except upon a finding by the State Bond Commission that there has been filed with it a request for such authorization which is signed by or on behalf of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and states such terms and conditions as said commission, in its discretion, may require. Said bonds issued pursuant to this section shall be general obligations of the state and the full faith and credit of the state of Connecticut are pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on said bonds as the same become due, and accordingly and as part of the contract of the state with the holders of said bonds, appropriation of all amounts necessary for punctual payment of such principal and interest is hereby made, and the State Treasurer shall pay such principal and interest as the same become due.
(d) Any grant-in-aid allowed under the small town economic assistance program under this section may be administered on behalf of the Office of Policy and Management by another state agency as determined by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management.
(e) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 16a-31, no municipality that has a population of less than fifteen thousand as determined by the most recent decennial census and in which at least five thousand five hundred acres of land but not more than six thousand acres of land is owned by a regional water authority shall be denied a grant pursuant to subsections (a) to (d), inclusive, of this section for a sewer project solely because such project is not consistent with the locational guide map accompanying the state plan of conservation and development adopted under chapter 297.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-7, S. 19, 28; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-5, S. 21; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-1, S. 2; P.A. 05-194, S. 1; 05-247, S. 10; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7, S. 41; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-2, S. 1; P.A. 11-57, S. 62; 11-123, S. 1; P.A. 13-239, S. 52; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-1, S. 52; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-4, S. 239; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 428; P.A. 20-1, S. 52.)
*Note: On and after July 1, 2022, subsection (a) of this section, as amended by section 52 of public act 21-111, is to read as follows:
“(a) For the purposes described in subsection (b) of this section, the State Bond Commission shall have the power, from time to time to authorize the issuance of bonds of the state in one or more series and in principal amounts not exceeding in the aggregate three hundred sixteen million dollars.”
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-7, S. 19, 28; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-5, S. 21; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-1, S. 2; P.A. 05-194, S. 1; 05-247, S. 10; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7, S. 41; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-2, S. 1; P.A. 11-57, S. 62; 11-123, S. 1; P.A. 13-239, S. 52; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-1, S. 52; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-4, S. 239; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 428; P.A. 20-1, S. 52; P.A. 21-111, S. 52.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-7 effective July 1, 2001; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-5 added Subsec. (d) re administration of grant-in-aid, effective August 15, 2002; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-1 amended Subsec. (a) to increase the aggregate authorization to $60,000,000, make $20,000,000 of said authorization effective July 1, 2004, and delete provision re funds authorized in 2002, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 05-194 amended Subsec. (b) to authorize certain distressed municipalities and public investment communities to elect to be eligible for the small town economic assistance program in lieu of being eligible for financial assistance under Sec. 4-66c, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 05-247, designated editorially by the Revisors as Subsec. (e), provided that certain municipalities shall not be denied a grant for a sewer project solely because the project is not consistent with the locational guide map, effective July 8, 2005; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 amended Subsec. (a) to increase the aggregate authorization from $60,000,000 to $100,000,000, of which $20,000,000 is effective July 1, 2006, and amended Subsec. (b) to remove requirement that to receive grant, municipality must have a population under thirty thousand, effective July 1, 2005; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7 amended Subsec. (a) by increasing aggregate authorization from $100,000,000 to $140,000,000, of which $20,000,000 is effective July 1, 2008, effective November 2, 2007; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-2 amended Subsec. (a) to increase aggregate authorization from $140,000,000 to $180,000,000, of which $20,000,000 is effective July 1, 2010, effective September 25, 2009; P.A. 11-57 amended Subsec. (a) to increase aggregate authorization from $180,000,000 to $220,000,000, of which $20,000,000 is effective July 1, 2012, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-123 amended Subsec. (b) to allow groups of municipalities to apply for grants, to limit the amount of any such grant and to make conforming changes, effective July 8, 2011; P.A. 13-239 amended Subsec. (a) to increase aggregate authorization from $220,000,000 to $260,000,000, and change date that $20,000,000 of authorization is effective from July 1, 2012, to July 1, 2014, effective July 1, 2013; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-1 amended Subsec. (a) to increase aggregate authorization from $260,000,000 to $300,000,000 and change date that $20,000,000 of authorization is effective from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2016, effective July 1, 2015; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-4 amended Subsec. (a) to decrease aggregate authorization from $300,000,000 to $280,000,000, delete provision re $20,000,000 of authorization effective July 1, 2016, and make a technical change, effective July 1, 2016; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (a) to decrease aggregate authorization from $280,000,000 to $271,000,000, effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 20-1 amended Subsec. (a) to increase aggregate authorization from $271,000,000 to $301,000,000, effective July 1, 2020; P.A. 21-111 amended Subsec. (a) to increase aggregate authorization from $301,000,000 to $316,000,000, effective July 1, 2022.

Structure Connecticut General Statutes

Connecticut General Statutes

Title 4 - Management of State Agencies

Chapter 50 - Office of Policy and Management: General Provisions; Budget and Appropriations; State Planning

Section 4-65. - Commissioner.

Section 4-65a. - Office of Policy and Management.

Section 4-65b. - Transfer of certain powers and duties to secretary from Commissioner and Department of Planning and Energy Policy, Commissioner of Finance and Control, managing director, Budget and Management Division, Tax Commissioner under chapter...

Section 4-66. - Powers and duties of Secretary of Office of Policy and Management.

Section 4-66a. - Secretary to advise Governor and General Assembly on matters concerning local government and matters affecting the state. Planning, management and technical assistance for local governments. Federal financial assistance and funds, an...

Section 4-66aa. - Community investment account. Distribution of funds.

Section 4-66b. - Capital development impact statements.

Section 4-66bb. - Administrative costs to be paid from land protection, affordable housing and historic preservation account.

Section 4-66c. - Urban action bonds.

Section 4-66cc. - Agricultural sustainability account.

Section 4-66d. - Standardized form for notification of possible reimbursement liability.

Section 4-66e. - Development of interagency self-sufficiency measurement standards.

Section 4-66f. - Maintenance of funds received from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Section 4-66g. - *(See end of section for amended version of subsection (a) and effective date.) Small town economic assistance program. Bond authorization. Certain sewer projects eligible.

Section 4-66h. - Main Street Investment Fund account. Distribution of funds.

Section 4-66k. - Regional planning incentive account.

Section 4-66l. - Municipal revenue sharing account. Grants.

Section 4-66m. - Intertown capital equipment purchase incentive program. Bond authorization.

Section 4-66n. - Municipal reimbursement and revenue account. Distribution of funds.

Section 4-66o. - Receivables for anticipated revenue.

Section 4-66p. - Municipal Revenue Sharing Fund.

Section 4-66q. - Regional councils of governments. Establishment of revenue sharing agreements.

Section 4-66r. - Regional councils of governments. Grants-in-aid. Use of funds. Report to General Assembly.

Section 4-66s. - Collaboration task force. Offering performance of functions, activities or services.

Section 4-67. - Secretary may require reports. Examination of agencies. Annual report to Governor. Medical records of state employees.

Section 4-67a. - Medical Affairs Reference Committee.

Section 4-67aa. - Data sharing agreements with state instrumentalities. Required provisions. Disclosure. Exemption.

Section 4-67b. - Appraisal fee schedule established.

Section 4-67c. - Fee schedule for health services established by Commissioner of Social Services.

Section 4-67d. - Professional Advisory Committee.

Section 4-67e. - Coordination of water resources policy. Memorandum of understanding. Review of regulatory authority and memoranda of understanding.

Section 4-67f. - State agency projects to reduce costs and increase efficiencies. Employee awards. Innovations review panel. Savings realized.

Section 4-67g. - State real property: Long-range planning, efficiency and appropriateness of use and inventories. Secretary approval re ownership and use.

Section 4-67h. - Bond issue.

Section 4-67i. - Agency procurement plan.

Section 4-67m. - Development of goals, objectives and measures; implementation and revision; report.

Section 4-67n. - Data-sharing program for executive agencies. Policies and procedures. Memoranda of agreement. Employment records. Requests for public records.

Section 4-67o. - Definitions.

Section 4-67p. - Chief Data Officer. Duties. Designation of agency data officers. State data plan. Agency inventories of data. Open data access plans. Online repository. Voluntary compliance of other agencies or municipalities.

Section 4-67q. - Licensing agreements re posting online of codes and standards incorporated by reference into regulations.

Section 4-67r. - Connecticut Progress Council. Development of long-range vision. Benchmarks. Report on use of benchmarks in budgeting.

Section 4-67s. - Child Poverty and Prevention Council: Definitions.

Section 4-67t and 4-67u. - State Prevention Council: Comprehensive state-wide prevention plan; fiscal accountability; report and recommendations; plan to include coordination and identification of prevention services and findings re effectiveness of...

Section 4-67v. - Governor's budget document re prevention goals.

Section 4-67w. - State Prevention Council: Submission of recommendations re expansion, including benchmarks, or termination.

Section 4-67x. - Child Poverty and Prevention Council established. Duties. Ten-year plan. Prevention goals, recommendations and outcome measures. Protocol for state contracts. Agency reports. Council report to General Assembly. Termination of council...

Section 4-67y. - Child Poverty and Prevention Council to constitute the children in the recession leadership team. Duties. Report.

Section 4-67z. - Review of legal obstacles to sharing of high value data. Report.

Section 4-68. - Records and services of office to be available in connection with the preparation, legislation and execution of the budget.

Section 4-68aa. - Social innovation investment enterprise. Social innovation account.

Section 4-68bb. - Project Longevity Initiative. Definitions. Implementation.

Section 4-68cc. - Neighborhood Security Fellowship Program.

Section 4-68d. - Collection of sums due state for public assistance.

Section 4-68dd. - Municipal Grant Portal.

Section 4-68ee. - Report of sensitivity and stress test analyses for teachers' retirement system and state employees retirement system.

Section 4-68ff. - Collection, presentation and reporting of prosecutorial data.

Section 4-68g. (Formerly Sec. 17-21). - Conservators for mentally ill or mentally retarded persons.

Section 4-68gg. - Annual report re community engagement training.

Section 4-68j. - Disapproval of requests by any state agency or official may be in writing.

Section 4-68k. - Data processing division, established. Deputy commissioner of data processing; responsibilities; qualifications.

Section 4-68l. - Grants to towns to supplement reimbursement under the general assistance program.

Section 4-68m. - Criminal Justice Policy and Planning Division. Duties. Collaboration with other agencies. Access to information and data. Availability of reports and presentations.

Section 4-68n. - Correctional system population projections.

Section 4-68o. - Reporting system to track criminal justice system trends and outcomes.

Section 4-68p. - Report of data analysis of state criminal justice system trends.

Section 4-68q. - Notification of outstanding rearrest warrants and arrest warrants for probation violations.

Section 4-68r. - Definitions.

Section 4-68s. - Program inventory of agency programs. Pilot program re Pew-MacArthur Results First cost-benefit analysis of state grant programs. Report.

Section 4-68t. - Tracking, analysis and reporting of recidivism rates for children.

Section 4-68x. - Urban violence reduction grant program.

Section 4-68y. - Disproportionate minority contact: Definitions, reports.

Section 4-68z. - State-wide process improvement initiative for executive branch agencies. Steering committee.

Section 4-68hh. - Analysis and report re impact of federal and state housing programs on economic and racial segregation.

Section 4-69. - Definitions.

Section 4-70 and 4-70a. - Director of the Budget; general duties. Budget and Management Division established.

Section 4-70b. - Definitions. Secretary's budget, finance and management duties. Report to the General Assembly. Secretary's authority to waive competitive procurement requirements re purchase of service contracts.

Section 4-70c. - Transfer of budget director's powers to managing director, Planning and Budgeting Division.

Section 4-70e. - Office of Finance. Executive financial officer.

Section 4-71. - Transmission to General Assembly of budget document in odd-numbered year and status report in even-numbered year. Report re three fiscal years immediately following biennium.

Section 4-71a. - Estimates of recommended state grants-in-aid to towns under the budget document.

Section 4-71b. - Estimates of state grants-in-aid under state budget act.

Section 4-71c. - Computation of the cost of an indexed increase in assistance payments.

Section 4-72. - Governor's budget message.

Section 4-73. - Recommended appropriations.

Section 4-73a. - Determination of actual rate of fringe benefits for funds of the constituent units of the state system of higher education.

Section 4-74. - Appropriation and revenue bills.

Section 4-74a. - Budget document to include recommendations concerning the economy and explanation concerning equity in the state.

Section 4-75. - Publication of the budget document.

Section 4-76. - Governor to explain budget document and reports to legislative committees.

Section 4-77. - Submission of estimates of expenditures by budgeted agencies. Guidelines for standard economic and planning factors and for unit costs for utilities. Statement of revenue and estimated revenue. Financial, personnel and nonappropriated...

Section 4-77a. - Submission of estimates of expenditures for payment of workers' compensation claims.

Section 4-77b. - Estimate of expenditure requirement by Department of Administrative Services to include leasing and maintenance costs.

Section 4-77c. - Estimates of expenditure requirements for implementation of evidence-based programs.

Section 4-78. - Information contained in budget recommendations.

Section 4-79. - Tentative budget.

Section 4-80. - Hearings on tentative budget.

Section 4-81. - Formulation of the budget.

Section 4-82. - Supplemental estimates.

Section 4-82a. - Governor to report to General Assembly re projected deficit.

Section 4-83. - Prohibited estimates or requests.

Section 4-84. - Contingency appropriation.

Section 4-85. - Quarterly requisitions for allotments; exceptions; modifications. Procedure for reductions to allotment requisitions and allotments in force for legislative and judicial branches.

Section 4-85a. - Reductions of appropriations for the fiscal year 1971–1972.

Section 4-85b and 4-85c. - Preparation of a human services annual agenda. Human services annual agenda: Contents, schedule and cycle.

Section 4-85d. - Submission of accounting of federal energy funds.

Section 4-86. - Monthly notification re refunds. Warrants to be specific; not to exceed appropriations. Transfer of appropriations.

Section 4-87. - Transfer and revision of appropriations. Relocation expenses.

Section 4-88. - Reversion of unencumbered balances.

Section 4-89. - Appropriations; treatment of unexpended balances at close of fiscal year.

Section 4-90 to 4-92. - Transfer of unexpended balances. Report of unexpended balance of special commissions; transfer to General Fund. Unused balances of appropriations.

Section 4-93. - Finance Advisory Committee; appointment and term. Meeting agenda.

Section 4-94. - Finance Advisory Committee to approve transfers of funds.

Section 4-95. - Appropriation for social services assistance and care.

Section 4-95a. - Finance Advisory Committee; appropriation of state funds to secure federal funds or offset loss of federal funds. Appropriation of funds from the Insurance Fund resources, when.

Section 4-95b. - Transfer of funds to implement improvements to fiscal and related reporting procedures.

Section 4-96. - Additions to specific appropriations.

Section 4-97. - Use of appropriations.

Section 4-97a. - Moneys received for specific statutory purpose.

Section 4-98. - Appropriations encumbered by purchase order; current and capital expenditures. Delegation to agency. Purchasing cards.

Section 4-99. - Commitment of appropriations prior to beginning of fiscal period.

Section 4-100. - Penalty for exceeding appropriations; exceptions.

Section 4-101. - Appropriations to hospitals.

Section 4-101a. - Office of Policy and Management. Grants, technical assistance or consultation services to nongovernmental acute care general hospitals.

Section 4-101b. - Certification of reasonable efforts of hospitals to provide uncompensated care.

Section 4-102. - Hospital societies' reports.

Section 4-103. - Uniform system of accounting for hospitals receiving state aid.

Section 4-104. - Inspection and subpoena of hospital records.

Section 4-105. - Procedure where right to inspect records is denied.

Section 4-106. - Treatment of sexually transmitted diseases in hospitals receiving state aid.

Section 4-107. - Institutions receiving state aid; visitation.

Section 4-108. - Director of purchases; appointment.

Section 4-112a. - Sale of state highway equipment.

Section 4-118 to 4-120. - Reproduction of documents filed with certain agencies. Printing of public documents. Publication of documents.

Section 4-121. - Supervisor of State Publications.

Section 4-124aa. - Information technology internship and work-study program. Guidelines. Report.

Section 4-124bb. - Connecticut Career Ladder Advisory Committee. Establishment. Membership.

Section 4-124cc. - Career ladder programs. Development of three-year plan.

Section 4-124dd. - Connecticut Allied Health Workforce Policy Board. Establishment, duties and membership.

Section 4-124ee. - Connecticut nursing faculty incentive program. Guidelines. Report.

Section 4-124ff. - Innovation Challenge Grant program. Council of Advisors on Strategies for the Knowledge Economy.

Section 4-124gg. - Industry advisory committees for career clusters within the Technical Education and Career System and regional community-technical college system.

Section 4-124hh. - Grant program to generate talent in institutions of higher education and for student outreach and development.

Section 4-124ii. - Awarding of grants to generate talent in institutions of higher education.

Section 4-124jj. - Office of Workforce Strategy account. Report

Section 4-124kk. - American Rescue Plan Act funds; use by Office of Workforce Strategy.

Section 4-124ll. - Model student work release policy. Adoption by local and regional boards of education.

Section 4-124mm. - Connecticut Career Accelerator Program Account. Program to support commercial driver's license training. Reports.

Section 4-124nn. - Connecticut Career Accelerator Program Advisory Committee.

Section 4-124tt. - Pilot program for training re employment skills and credentials for certain individuals with minor dependents. Eligibility.

Section 4-124uu. - Program re trained workforce for the film industry.

Section 4-124vv. - Labor Department to fund Connecticut Career Choices.

Section 4-124w. - Office of Workforce Strategy. Responsibilities.

Section 4-124ww. - Report identifying workforce shortage sectors and subsectors.

Section 4-124x and 4-124y. - Technology assessment examination program; report. Information technology credential or degree program; guidelines; report.

Section 4-124z. - Review and evaluation of linkage between skill standards for education and training and employment needs of business and industry.

Section 4-124a and 4-124b. - Establishment. Director; powers and duties. Transfer of other state personnel.

Section 4-124c to 4-124f. (Formerly Secs. 32-7a to 32-7d). - Regional councils of elected officials. Duties of council. Bylaws; officers. Receipt of funds; dues; contracts; audits.

Section 4-124g. - Transitional provisions.

Section 4-124h. - Powers of regional council of elected officials where there is no regional planning agency or regional council of governments.

Section 4-124i. - Regional councils of governments. Definitions.

Section 4-124j. - Creation. Membership. Withdrawal.

Section 4-124k. - Representatives of members.

Section 4-124l. - Certification of establishment of council. Transitional period.

Section 4-124m. - Rights and duties of councils.

Section 4-124n. - Bylaws. Officers. Committees. Meetings.

Section 4-124o. - Regional planning commissions.

Section 4-124p. - Receipt of funds. Dues. Contracts. Audits. Annual report.

Section 4-124q. - Grants-in-aid to regional agencies. Voluntary Regional Consolidation Bonus Pool. Supplemental payments.

Section 4-124r. - Purchase of real property; borrowing for such purchase.

Section 4-124s. - Regional performance incentive program.

Section 4-124t. - Review by Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management of regional tax-based revenue sharing programs and regional asset districts. Report to General Assembly.

Section 4-124u. - Process for voluntary review of projects of regional significance.