Researcher: JSB Page 1 5/13/21
OLR Bill Analysis
sHB 6645 (as amended by House "A")*
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 will
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.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage 2021HB-06645-R010686-BA.DOCX
Researcher: JSB Page 2 5/13/21
*House Amendment “A” eliminates the provisions (1) specifying
that the 2018-2023 POCD, once adopted by the legislature, is effective
from adoption and until the next plan is adopted and (2) modifying the
definition of “revision year.”
COMMITTEE ACTION
Planning and Development Committee
Joint Favorable Substitute
Yea 26 Nay 0 (03/31/2021)