Bill Text: CT HB05374 | 2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Requiring Certain Housing Projects To Provide Meeting Space For Tenants.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-15 - Motion Failed (JFS) [HB05374 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2018-HB05374-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5374
February Session, 2018		LCO No. 1349
		*01349_______HSG*
Referred to Committee on HOUSING
Introduced by:
(HSG)

AN ACT REQUIRING CERTAIN HOUSING PROJECTS TO PROVIDE MEETING SPACE FOR TENANTS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 8-68l of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2018):

(a) For purposes of this section, (1) "public housing project" means dwelling accommodations operated as a state or federally subsidized multifamily housing project by a housing authority, nonprofit corporation or municipal developer pursuant to this chapter or by the Connecticut Housing Authority pursuant to chapter 129; (2) "housing authority", "nonprofit corporation" and "municipal developer" have the same meanings as provided in section 8-39; and (3) "political activity" includes (A) an event organized in the interests of a political party or candidate for elective office; (B) initiating, circulating, or signing petitions; (C) community political meetings; (D) campaigning for or against proposed referendum questions, constitutional amendments, legislation and municipal ordinances; or (E) expressing opinions about candidates and political or social issues.

(b) Each public housing project containing fifty or more dwelling units shall provide to tenants of such public housing project a common facility or community room that (1) is located within such public housing project, and (2) has a maximum capacity at least as great as the maximum number of tenants of such public housing.

[(b)] (c) No housing authority, nonprofit corporation, municipality or municipal developer shall prohibit any tenant of a public housing project from using common facilities or community rooms located within such public housing project for political activity.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2018	8-68l

Statement of Purpose:

To require certain housing projects to provide meeting space for tenants.

[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.]