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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7345
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E COMMUNITY INVESTMENT ACCOUNT
AND COMBATTING INVAS IVE PLANT AND ANIMAL SPECIES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 4-66aa of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 2
(a) There is established, within the General Fund, a separate, 3
nonlapsing account to be known as the "community investment 4
account". The account shall contain any moneys required by law to be 5
deposited in the account. The funds in the account shall be distributed 6
every three months as follows: (1) Ten dollars of each fee credited to 7
said account shall be deposited into the agriculture sustainability 8
account established pursuant to section 4-66cc and, then, of the 9
remaining funds, (2) twenty-five per cent to the Department of 10
Economic and Community Development to use as follows: (A) Three 11
hundred eighty thousand dollars, annually, to supplement the 12
technical assistance and preservation activities of the Connecticut 13
Trust for Historic Preservation, established pursuant to special act 75-14
93, and (B) the remainder to supplement historic preservation activities 15
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as provided in sections 10-409 to 10-415, inclusive; (3) twenty-five per 16
cent to the Department of Housing to supplement new or existing 17
affordable housing programs; (4) twenty-five per cent to the 18
Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for municipal 19
open space grants and grants to lake authorities for the control of 20
invasive species, provided any such grant to a lake authority for such 21
purposes shall not exceed one-third of the reasonable costs for such 22
control measures or project; and (5) twenty-five per cent to the 23
Department of Agriculture to use as follows: (A) Five hundred 24
thousand dollars annually for the agricultural viability grant program 25
established pursuant to section 22-26j; (B) five hundred thousand 26
dollars annually for the farm transition program established pursuant 27
to section 22-26k; (C) one hundred thousand dollars annually to 28
encourage the sale of Connecticut-grown food to schools, restaurants, 29
retailers and other institutions and businesses in the state; (D) seventy-30
five thousand dollars annually for the Connecticut farm link program 31
established pursuant to section 22-26l; (E) forty-seven thousand five 32
hundred dollars annually for the Seafood Advisory Council 33
established pursuant to section 22-455; (F) forty-seven thousand five 34
hundred dollars annually for the Connecticut Farm Wine 35
Development Council established pursuant to section 22-26c; (G) 36
twenty-five thousand dollars annually to the Connecticut Food Policy 37
Council established pursuant to section 22-456; and (H) the remainder 38
for farmland preservation programs pursuant to chapter 422. Each 39
agency receiving funds under this section may use not more than ten 40
per cent of such funds for administration of the programs for which 41
the funds were provided. 42
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, 43
fifty per cent of the moneys deposited in the community investment 44
account from January 1, 2016, until June 30, 2017, shall be credited 45
every three months to the resources of the General Fund, provided the 46
funds remaining in the account shall be distributed as provided in 47
subsection (a) of this section. 48
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 4-66aa
Statement of Purpose:
To provide a source of funding to lake authorities for the costs of
combatting invasive species.
[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.]