General Assembly Raised Bill No. 466
February Session, 2020 LCO No. 2982
Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT CONCERNING ISSUES SURROUNDING THE APPROVAL OF
CERTAIN NEW MUNICIPAL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
1 Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2020) Notwithstanding the
2 provisions of the general statutes, any special act, municipal charter or
3 ordinance to the contrary, no legislative body of a municipality shall
4 vote to approve any municipal construction project that is the subject of
5 a contract entered into on or after October 1, 2020, for which the
6 estimated cost is greater than twenty-five million dollars unless there is
7 opportunity for public comment on such project at a public hearing in
8 such municipality prior to such vote. Such public hearing shall take
9 place prior to the initiation of any competitive bidding process for such
10 construction project. Such public hearing shall (1) be noticed in a
11 manner consistent with the provisions of section 7-3 of the general
12 statutes, or (2) take place during a town meeting or meeting of a city or
13 borough noticed pursuant to section 7-3 of the general statutes. For
14 purposes of this section, "municipality" means any town, city, borough,
15 consolidated town and city or consolidated town and borough.
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 Raised Bill No. 466
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2020 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require municipalities to hold public hearings on proposed
construction projects with estimated costs greater than twenty-five
million dollars.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]
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