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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1081
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT CONCERNING MU NICIPAL SET-ASIDE REQUIREMENTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subdivision (14) of subsection (a) of section 4a-60g of the 1
general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu 2
thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 3
(14) "Municipal public works contract" means that portion of an 4
agreement entered into on or after October 1, [2015] 2019, between any 5
individual, firm or corporation and a municipality for the construction, 6
rehabilitation, conversion, extension, demolition or repair of a public 7
building, highway or other changes or improvements in real property, 8
which is financed in whole or in part by the state, including, but not 9
limited to, matching expenditures, grants, loans, insurance or 10
guarantees, [but excluding any project of an alliance district, as defined 11
in section 10-262u, financed by state funding in an amount equal to 12
fifty thousand dollars or less] in an amount greater than five hundred 13
thousand dollars. 14
Sec. 2. Subsection (h) of section 4a-60g of the general statutes is 15 Raised Bill No. 1081
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repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective 16
October 1, 2019): 17
(h) The provisions of this section shall not apply to (1) any awarding 18
agency for which the total value of all contracts or portions of contracts 19
of the types enumerated in subdivision (2) of subsection (b) of this 20
section is anticipated to be equal to ten thousand dollars or less, or (2) 21
any [municipal public works contract or] contract for a quasi-public 22
agency project for which the total value of the contract is anticipated to 23
be equal to fifty thousand dollars or less. 24
Sec. 3. Section 46a-68c of the general statutes is repealed and the 25
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 26
In addition to the provisions of section 4a-60, each contractor with 27
fifty or more employees awarded either a public works contract [, 28
municipal public works contract] or contract for a quasi-public agency 29
project in excess of fifty thousand dollars, or a municipal public works 30
contract in excess of five hundred thousand dollars, in any fiscal year, 31
but not subject to the provisions of section 46a-68d, shall develop and 32
file with the Commission on Human Rights and Opport unities an 33
affirmative action plan which shall comply with regulations adopted 34
by the commission. Failure to develop an approved affirmative action 35
plan pursuant to this section shall act as a bar to bidding on or the 36
award of future contracts until such requirement has been met. When 37
the commission approves an affirmative action plan pursuant to this 38
section, it shall issue a certificate of compliance to the contractor. This 39
certificate shall be prima facie proof of the contractor's eligibility to bid 40
or be awarded contracts for a period of two years from the date of the 41
certificate. Such certificate shall not excuse the contractor from 42
monitoring by the commission or from the reporting and record-43
keeping requirements of sections 46a-68e and 46a-68f. The commission 44
may revoke the certificate of a contractor if the contractor does not 45
implement its affirmative action plan in compliance with this section 46
and sections 4a-60, as amended by this act, 4a-60g, 4a-62, 46a-56, 46a-47
68b, 46a-68d, and 46a-68e to 46a-68k, inclusive. 48 Raised Bill No. 1081
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 4a-60g(a)(14)
Sec. 2 October 1, 2019 4a-60g(h)
Sec. 3 October 1, 2019 46a-68c
Statement of Purpose:
To exclude municipal public works contracts financed by five hundred
thousand dollars or less of state funding from set-aside and affirmative
action plan requirements.
[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.]