Bill Text: CT HB06421 | 2013 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut House Bill 6421 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Public Housing Grievance Procedures.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-27 - File Number 215 [HB06421 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2013-HB06421-Comm_Sub.html

General Assembly		*Substitute Bill No. 6421*
*January Session, 2013*		_____HB06421HSG___031413____

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 Section 8-68f of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2013):

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 Economic and Community Development 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, 2013, 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.