Bill Text: CT HB06515 | 2013 | General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: An Act Implementing The Recommendations Of The Legislative Program Review And Investigations Committee Concerning Maximizing Alternative Revenue.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-12 - Signed by the Governor [HB06515 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2013-HB06515-Chaptered.html

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Substitute House Bill No. 6515

Public Act No. 13-294

AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM REVIEW AND INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE CONCERNING MAXIMIZING ALTERNATIVE REVENUE.

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

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2013) (a) The Office of Policy and Management shall, within available resources, (1) develop a system to track the state's federal and alternative grant funding; and (2) work in consultation with other state agencies to pursue specific federal revenue maximization efforts.

(b) The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall identify for which state agencies it is appropriate to have an employee designated to serve as the liaison with the office regarding federal and alternative funding. Each agency so identified shall designate such a liaison. Each such liaison shall ensure that the office has access to information regarding all grant applications that have been submitted by the agency of such liaison that the office requires to maintain the tracking system developed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.

(c) The Office of Policy and Management shall, on or before November 15, 2014, and annually thereafter, submit to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to finance, revenue and bonding and appropriations and the budgets of state agencies in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, and post on said office's Internet web site, a report on the office's efforts to maximize alternative revenues. The office shall also submit such report to the Legislative Program Review and Investigations Committee.