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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6892
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 4918
Referred to Committee on HOUSING
Introduced by:
(HSG)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E STATE'S CONSOLIDATED PLAN FOR
HOUSING AND COMMUNIT Y DEVELOPMENT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 8-37t of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 2
The Commissioner of Housing, in consultation with the Connecticut 3
Housing Finance Authority and any other agency that administers 4
programs and activities related to housing, shall prepare the state's 5
consolidated plan for housing and community development in 6
accordance with 24 CFR Part 91, as amended from time to time. The 7
consolidated plan for housing and community development, and each 8
annual action plan, shall (1) include the collection and analysis of data 9
assessing state efforts to affirmatively further fair housing, and (2) set 10
forth the state's specific numerical housing development goals for 11
affirmatively furthering fair housing in accordance with 42 USC 12
3608(e)(5), including (A) setting goals based on geographic 13
opportunity areas, as defined in subsection (a) of section 8-348, (B) 14
generating regional housing production goals, and (C) report on any 15
progress made toward such goals in the previous five years. 16
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 8-37t
Statement of Purpose:
To specify certain fair housing goals in the state's consolidated plan for
housing and community development and to report progress made
toward such goals.
[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.]
Co-Sponsors: REP. ROJAS, 9th Dist.
H.B. 6892