House Bill No. 6547
Special Act No. 21-13
AN ACT CONCERNING A WORKING GROUP REGARDING THE
PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC PROPERTIES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) (1) The Commissioner of
Economic and Community Development, or the commissioner's
designee, shall convene and chair a working group to develop a plan for
supporting and facilitating efforts by municipalities, historical societies
and other nonprofit entities whose purposes include historic
preservation to preserve buildings, structures, objects, sites and
landmarks listed on the National Register of Historic Places or
designated by a municipality as historically significant.
(2) The plan described in subdivision (1) of this subsection shall
provide for a method of administering any revolving fund that may be
established as a resource in supporting efforts by municipalities,
historical societies and other nonprofit entities whose purposes include
historic preservation to facilitate the acquisition of preservation
easements and other means to preserve the buildings, structures,
objects, sites and landmarks described in said subdivision, including
purchasing, or acquiring options to purchase, such buildings,
structures, objects, sites or landmarks with the intent to resell such
buildings, structures, objects, sites or landmarks to qualified buyers that House Bill No. 6547
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will preserve, restore and adaptively reuse such buildings, structures,
objects, sites or landmarks.
(b) The working group shall consist of the following members:
(1) Four representatives of local historical societies appointed by the
speaker of the House of Representatives, one of whom shall be from
Litchfield County, one of whom shall be from Hartford County, one of
whom shall be from Tolland County and one of whom shall be from
Windham County;
(2) Four representatives of local historical societies appointed by the
president pro tempore of the Senate, one of whom shall be from Fairfield
County, one of whom shall be from New Haven County, one of whom
shall be from Middlesex County and one of whom shall be from New
London County;
(3) One representative of the Connecticut Economic Resource Center
appointed by the majority leader of the House of Representatives;
(4) One representative of the State Historic Preservation Office
appointed by the majority leader of the Senate;
(5) One representative of Preservation Connecticut appointed by the
minority leader of the House of Representatives;
(6) One representative of the Connecticut League of History
Organizations appointed by the minority leader of the Senate; and
(7) The Commissioner of Economic and Community Development,
or the commissioner's designee.
(c) All initial appointments to the working group shall be made not
later than thirty days after the effective date of this section. Any vacancy
shall be filled by the appointing authority. House Bill No. 6547
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(d) The Commissioner of Economic and Community Development
shall schedule the first meeting of the working group, which shall be
held not later than September 1, 2021.
(e) The administrative staff of the joint standing committee of the
General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to commerce
shall serve as administrative staff of the working group.
(f) Not later than February 1, 2022, the working group shall submit a
report on its findings and recommendations to the joint standing
committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters
relating to commerce, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a
of the general statutes. The working group shall terminate on the date
that it submits such report or February 1, 2022, whichever is later.