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| 18 | 18 | | Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS |
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| 20 | 20 | | Introduced by: |
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| 22 | 22 | | (GAE) |
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| 24 | 24 | | AN ACT RENAMING THE COMMUNITY INVESTMENT ACCOUNT. |
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| 26 | 26 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: |
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| 28 | 28 | | Section 1. Section 4-66aa of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2015): |
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| 30 | 30 | | There is established, within the General Fund, a separate, nonlapsing account to be known as the ["community investment account"] "Donald E. Williams, Jr. community investment account". The account shall contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in the account. The funds in the account shall be distributed every three months as follows: (1) Ten dollars of each fee credited to said account shall be deposited into the agriculture sustainability account established pursuant to section 4-66cc and, then, of the remaining funds, (2) twenty-five per cent to the Department of Economic and Community Development to use as follows: (A) Two hundred thousand dollars, annually, to supplement the technical assistance and preservation activities of the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, established pursuant to special act 75-93, and (B) the remainder to supplement historic preservation activities as provided in sections 10-409 to 10-415, inclusive; (3) twenty-five per cent to the Department of Housing to supplement new or existing affordable housing programs; (4) twenty-five per cent to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for municipal open space grants; and (5) twenty-five per cent to the Department of Agriculture to use as follows: (A) Five hundred thousand dollars annually for the agricultural viability grant program established pursuant to section 22-26j; (B) five hundred thousand dollars annually for the farm transition program established pursuant to section 22-26k; (C) one hundred thousand dollars annually to encourage the sale of Connecticut-grown food to schools, restaurants, retailers and other institutions and businesses in the state; (D) seventy-five thousand dollars annually for the Connecticut farm link program established pursuant to section 22-26l; (E) forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars annually for the Seafood Advisory Council established pursuant to section 22-455; (F) forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars annually for the Connecticut Farm Wine Development Council established pursuant to section 22-26c; (G) twenty-five thousand dollars annually to the Connecticut Food Policy Council established pursuant to section 22-456; and (H) the remainder for farmland preservation programs pursuant to chapter 422. Each agency receiving funds under this section may use not more than ten per cent of such funds for administration of the programs for which the funds were provided. |
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| 32 | 32 | | Sec. 2. Subsection (e) of section 7-34a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2015): |
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| 34 | 34 | | (e) In addition to the fees for recording a document under subsection (a) of this section, town clerks shall receive a fee of forty dollars for each document recorded in the land records of the municipality. The town clerk shall retain one dollar of any fee paid pursuant to this subsection and three dollars of such fee shall become part of the general revenue of the municipality and be used to pay for local capital improvement projects, as defined in section 7-536. Not later than the fifteenth day of each month, town clerks shall remit thirty-six dollars of the fees paid pursuant to this subsection during the previous calendar month to the State Treasurer. Upon deposit in the General Fund, such amount shall be credited to the Donald E. Williams, Jr. community investment account established pursuant to section 4-66aa, as amended by this act. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any document recorded on the land records by an employee of the state or of a municipality in conjunction with such employee's official duties. As used in this subsection, "municipality" includes each town, consolidated town and city, city, consolidated town and borough, borough, and district, as defined in chapter 105 or 105a, any municipal corporation or department thereof created by a special act of the General Assembly, and each municipal board, commission and taxing district not previously mentioned. |
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| 36 | 36 | | Sec. 3. Subsection (h) of section 49-10 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2015): |
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| 38 | 38 | | (h) Notwithstanding the provisions concerning remittance and retention of fees set forth in section 7-34a, as amended by this act, the recording fees paid in accordance with subsections (a), (d) and (e) of [said] section 7-34a, as amended by this act, by a nominee of a mortgagee, as defined in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of [said] section 7-34a, shall be allocated as follows: (1) For fees collected upon a recording by a nominee of a mortgagee, except for the recording of (A) an assignment of mortgage in which the nominee of a mortgagee appears as assignor, and (B) a release of mortgage, as described in section 49-8, by a nominee of a mortgagee, the town clerk shall remit one hundred ten dollars of such fees to the state, such fees shall be deposited into the General Fund and, upon deposit in the General Fund, thirty-six dollars of such fees shall be credited to the Donald E. Williams, Jr. community investment account established pursuant to section 4-66aa, as amended by this act; the town clerk shall retain forty-nine dollars of such fees, thirty-nine dollars of which shall become part of the general revenue of such municipality and ten dollars of which shall be deposited into the town clerk fund; and the town clerk shall retain any fees for additional pages beyond the first page in accordance with the provisions of subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of [said] section 7-34a; and (2) for the fee collected upon a recording of (A) an assignment of mortgage in which the nominee appears as assignor, or (B) a release of mortgage by a nominee of a mortgagee, the town clerk shall remit one hundred twenty-seven dollars of such fee to the state, such fee shall be deposited into the General Fund and, upon deposit in the General Fund, thirty-six dollars of such fee shall be credited to the Donald E. Williams, Jr. community investment account, and, until October 1, 2014, sixty dollars of such fee shall be credited to the State Banking Fund for purposes of funding the foreclosure mediation program established by section 49-31m; and the town clerk shall retain thirty-two dollars of such fee, which shall become part of the general revenue of such municipality. |
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| 43 | 43 | | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: |
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| 44 | 44 | | Section 1 October 1, 2015 4-66aa |
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| 45 | 45 | | Sec. 2 October 1, 2015 7-34a(e) |
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| 46 | 46 | | Sec. 3 October 1, 2015 49-10(h) |
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| 48 | 48 | | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: |
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| 49 | 49 | | |
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| 50 | 50 | | Section 1 |
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| 52 | 52 | | October 1, 2015 |
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| 54 | 54 | | 4-66aa |
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| 56 | 56 | | Sec. 2 |
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| 58 | 58 | | October 1, 2015 |
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| 60 | 60 | | 7-34a(e) |
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| 62 | 62 | | Sec. 3 |
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| 64 | 64 | | October 1, 2015 |
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| 66 | 66 | | 49-10(h) |
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