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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6639
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 5512
Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT ESTABLISHING A PILOT PROGRAM REGA RDING BUILDING
OFFICIALS AND RESOUR CES RELATED TO THE ADMIN ISTRATION
OF THE STATE BUILDING CODE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2021) (a) (1) Not later than 1
January 1, 2022, the Commissioner of Administrative Services shall 2
establish a pilot program for the (A) standardization of procedures and 3
forms and other materials relating to the administration of the State 4
Building Code by municipal building officials appointed pursuant to 5
section 29-260 of the general statutes, (B) scanning or other digitization 6
of records relating to such administration into an electronic format and 7
inclusion of such electronic records in a searchable web-based public 8
database, and (C) shared provision of services by such building officials 9
and the staffs of such building officials to multiple municipalities within 10
the same planning region, as defined in section 4-124i of the general 11
statutes. 12
(2) Any municipality may submit an application to the commissioner, 13
in a form and manner prescribed by the commissioner, for participation 14 Raised Bill No. 6639
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in such pilot program. The commissioner shall select not less than two 15
and not more than five municipalities in each planning region based on 16
criteria established by the commissioner for such purpose, including, 17
but not limited to, the staffing, information technology and other 18
resources of any such municipality and the potential that any such 19
municipality's procedures or services relating to the administration of 20
the State Building Code can be expanded to other municipalities in the 21
same planning region. 22
(b) (1) Not later than sixty days after the Commissioner of 23
Administrative Services selects the municipalities in each planning 24
region for participation in the pilot program described in this section, 25
each such municipality shall enter into one or more interlocal 26
agreements with one or more other such municipalities to (A) share 27
resources and best practices in the administration of the State Building 28
Code, (B) identify efficiencies and other opportunities to realize cost 29
savings in such administration, and (C) generally further the purposes 30
of such pilot program, provided the term of any such interlocal 31
agreement shall not exceed the duration of such pilot program. 32
(2) Notwithstanding any such interlocal agreement , the 33
commissioner shall prescribe the minimum standards for the (A) 34
scanning or other digitization of records relating to such administration 35
into an electronic format and inclusion of such electronic records in a 36
searchable web-based public database, and (B) the integration and 37
interoperability of information technology resources among the 38
municipal parties to any such interlocal agreement. 39
(c) (1) Not later than January 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, each 40
municipality participating in the pilot program described in this section 41
shall submit to the Commissioner of Administrative Services and the 42
Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management a report on the 43
measures taken by such municipality in the most recent calendar year 44
under such pilot program, both singularly and in conjunction with one 45
or more municipalities pursuant to an interlocal agreement described in 46
subsection (b) of this section, and measures intended or expected to be 47 Raised Bill No. 6639
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taken by such municipality or municipalities in the current calendar 48
year. 49
(2) Not later than February 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, the 50
commissioner, in consultation with the secretary, shall submit to the 51
joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance 52
of matters relating to public safety and planning and development, in 53
accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, 54
a report on the status of such pilot program and any recommendations 55
for legislation concerning such pilot program. 56
(d) In the municipalities selected for the pilot program described in 57
this section and for the duration of such pilot program, no building 58
official may be dismissed except in accordance with the provisions of 59
section 29-260 of the general statutes, and no member of the staff of any 60
building official may be terminated or laid off except for cause. 61
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2021 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To establish a pilot program regarding building officials and resources
related to the administration of the State Building Code.
[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.]