Substitute Senate Bill No. 869
Public Act No. 19-123
AN ACT CONCERNING RE COMMENDATIONS BY THE
CONNECTICUT AIRPORT AUTHORITY REGARDING
NONBUDGETED EXPENDIT URES, THE CONNECTICU T AIRPORT
AND AVIATION ACCOUNT AND EXEMPT RECORDS U NDER THE
FREEDOM OF INFORMATI ON ACT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 15-120dd of the general statutes
is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective
from passage):
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (3) of subsection
(a) of this section, the board of directors may authorize the executive
director to make nonbudgeted expenditures of up to [five hundred
thousand] one million dollars without prior board approval (1) to
restore operations at any airport owned or operated by the authority, if
such airport or the equipment of such airport is damaged as a result of
a natural disaster or incurs a substantial casualty loss that results in an
unsafe condition, or (2) where the failure to act would result in a
disruption of airport operations. Not later than twenty-four hours after
the executive director makes such nonbudgeted expenditure, the
executive director shall provide notification to the chairperson or vice
chairperson of the board of the amount of, and reason for, such
expenditure. Substitute Senate Bill No. 869
Public Act No. 19-123 2 of 2
Sec. 2. Section 13b-50c of the general statutes is repealed and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
(a) There is established an account to be known as the "Connecticut
airport and aviation account" which shall be a separate, nonlapsing
account within the Grants and Restricted Accounts Fund established
pursuant to section 4-31c. The account shall contain any moneys
required by law to be deposited in the account. Moneys in the account
shall be expended by the [Commissioner of Transportation] executive
director of the Connecticut Airport Authority, with the approval of the
Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, for [the purposes of]
airport and aviation-related purposes.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 13b-61a, on and after
the effective date of this section, the Commissioner of Revenue
Services shall deposit into said account seventy-five and three-tenths
per cent of the amounts received by the state from aviation fuel
sources from the tax imposed under section 12-587.
Sec. 3. Subdivision (24) of subsection (b) of section 1-210 of the
general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu
thereof (Effective October 1, 2019):
(24) Responses to any request for proposals or bid solicitation issued
by a public agency, responses by a public agency to any request for
proposals or bid solicitation issued by a private entity or any record or
file made by a public agency in connection with the contract award
process, until such contract is executed or negotiations for the award of
such contract have ended, whichever occurs earlier, provided the chief
executive officer of such public agency certifies that the public interest
in the disclosure of such responses, record or file is outweighed by the
public interest in the confidentiality of such responses, record or file;