General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6290
January Session, 2011 LCO No. 2863
*02863_______CE_*
Referred to Committee on Commerce
Introduced by:
(CE )
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 6290
January Session, 2011
LCO No. 2863
*02863_______CE_*
Referred to Committee on Commerce
Introduced by:
(CE )
AN ACT CONCERNING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR CERTAIN AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE PLANTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (e) of section 32-56 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
(e) Any business facility located in a municipality declared by the commissioner to be severely impacted by a prime defense contract cutback or major aerospace or defense plant closure pursuant to subsection (c) of this section, which facility would be a "manufacturing facility", as defined in subsection (d) of section 32-9p, but for the fact that the facility is not in a "distressed municipality", as defined in subsection (b) of section 32-9p, will be deemed a manufacturing facility for the purposes of sections 32-9p to 32-9s, inclusive, section 12-217e, and subdivisions (59) and (60) of section 12-81, if the purpose of the construction, expansion, renovation or acquisition of such facility is not dependent on prime defense contracts or related subcontracts. The provisions of this section shall apply to a business facility located in a building that was vacant (1) on July 1, 1998, and was formerly used for defense manufacturing, or [as] (2) on or after the effective date of this section and was formerly a major aerospace or defense plant with not less than eight hundred employees.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage 32-56(e)
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
32-56(e)
Statement of Purpose:
To extend certain economic development programs to businesses located in former aerospace or defense plant facilities that are vacant and used to employ at least eight hundred people.
[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.]