Substitute Senate Bill No. 1039
Special Act No. 21-25
AN ACT CONCERNING BLOCKCHAIN AND EMERGING
TECHNOLOGIES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) As used in this section:
(1) "Blockchain technology" means distributed ledger technology that
uses a distributed, decentralized, shared and replicated ledger that may
be public or private, permissioned or permissionless and that may
include the use of electronic currencies or electronic tokens as a medium
of electronic exchange; and
(2) "Distributed ledger technology" means any database that is
consensually shared and synchronized across multiple sites, institutions
or geographies allowing for public witnesses to such transactions and
may include supporting infrastructure, including blockchain
technology.
(b) On or before October 1, 2021, the Department of Administrative
Services shall develop and issue a request for information for the
incorporation of blockchain technology to make a state administrative
function more efficient or cost-effective.
(c) Not later than January 1, 2022, the Commissioner of Substitute Senate Bill No. 1039
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Administrative Services shall evaluate the responses to the request for
information and submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of
section 11-4a of the general statutes, identifying department functions
that may be made more efficient or cost-effective by blockchain
technology to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly
having cognizance of matters relating to commerce and government
administration.
Sec. 2. (Effective from passage) On or before January 1, 2022, the
Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, in
consultation with AdvanceCT, shall develop a plan to support the state's
remote work economy, including, but not limited to, the promotion of
existing remote work workspaces and incentives for the creation of new
remote work workspaces in the state, including in central business
district locations, underutilized office space and unoccupied shopping
malls. Not later than January 1, 2022, the commissioner shall submit, in
accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes,
such plan to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly
having cognizance of matters relating to commerce.