Bill Text: CT HB05482 | 2014 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Public Housing Grievance Procedures.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-25 - File Number 98 [HB05482 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2014-HB05482-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5482
February Session, 2014		LCO No. 686
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Referred to Committee on HOUSING
Introduced by:
(HSG)

AN ACT CONCERNING PUBLIC HOUSING GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES.

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

Section 1. Section 8-68f of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2014):

Each housing authority [which] that receives or has received financial assistance under any state housing program, and the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority or its subsidiary when said authority or subsidiary is the successor owner of housing previously owned by a housing authority under part II or part VI of this chapter, shall, for housing [which] that it owns and operates, (1) provide each of its tenants with a written lease, (2) adopt a procedure for hearing tenant complaints and grievances, (3) adopt procedures for soliciting tenant comment on proposed changes in housing authority policies and procedures, including changes to its lease and to its admission and occupancy policies, and (4) encourage tenant participation in the housing authority's operation of state housing programs, including, where appropriate, the facilitation of tenant participation in the management of housing projects. If such housing authority or the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority or its subsidiary operates both a federal and a state-assisted housing program, it shall use the same procedure for hearing tenant grievances in both programs. The Commissioner of Housing shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to establish uniform minimum standards for the requirements in this section. If such regulations have not been adopted by October 1, 2014, the commissioner shall submit a report on said date in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to housing. Such report shall detail the reasons why such regulations have not been adopted.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2014	8-68f

HSG

Joint Favorable