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OLR Bill Analysis
sHB 6645
AN ACT CONCERNING THE STATE PLAN OF CONSERVATION
AND DEVELOPMENT.
SUMMARY
Under current law, the Office of Policy and Management (OPM)
secretary must revise the State Plan of Conservation and Development
(POCD) every five years and submit a final proposed plan to the
Continuing Legislative Committee on State Planning and
Development (Continuing Committee), which, after a public hearing,
may recommend the General Assembly approve or disapprove it (CGS
§ 16a-30). (The POCD helps state agencies make decisions consistent
with the state’s development and conservation goals.)
The bill instead requires the OPM secretary to revise the plan in the
year immediately before the year in which the General Assembly is
expected to adopt it, but no more than four years after it was last
adopted. The bill establishes a schedule for the next POCD revision,
specifying that the:
1. draft revised plan is due to the Continuing Committee for
preliminary review before September 1, 2022;
2. OPM secretary may begin further revisions after December 1,
2022; and
3. first revised plan must be made publicly available by March 1,
2023.
After making the first revision available, as under existing law, the
secretary must hold public hearings on the plan and solicit comments.
Under the bill, the OPM secretary must submit the final proposed
2024-2029 POCD to the Continuing Committee by December 1, 2023. 2021HB-06645-R000549-BA.DOCX
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Lastly, the bill specifies that the 2018-2023 POCD, once adopted by
the legislature, is effective from adoption and until the next plan is
adopted. (The 2018-2023 POCD has not yet been adopted.)
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
COMMITTEE ACTION
Planning and Development Committee
Joint Favorable Substitute
Yea 26 Nay 0 (03/31/2021)