Bill Text: CT SB00419 | 2014 | General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Hospital And Wellness Enterprise Zones.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-23 - Referred by Senate to Committee on Finance, Revenue and Bonding [SB00419 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2014-SB00419-Comm_Sub.html
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February Session, 2014 |
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AN ACT CONCERNING HOSPITAL AND WELLNESS ENTERPRISE ZONES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2014) (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 32-70 of the general statutes, any municipality may, with the approval of the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, designate an area surrounding a hospital within such municipality as a hospital and wellness enterprise zone. Any such area shall consist of (1) one or two contiguous United States census tracts, (2) contiguous portions of such census tracts, or (3) a portion of an individual census tract, as determined in accordance with the most recent federal decennial census and, if such area is covered by zoning, a portion of it shall be zoned to allow commercial or industrial activity.
(b) Any municipality seeking the approval of the commissioner for such designation shall file with the commissioner a preliminary application. Not later than sixty days after receipt of such preliminary application, the commissioner shall indicate to the municipality, in writing, any recommendation for improving such municipality's application. Not later than sixty days after receipt of the commissioner's written recommendation, the municipality shall file a final application with the commissioner. Any application filed pursuant to this subsection shall include, but not be limited to: (1) The geographic scope of the proposed hospital and wellness enterprise zone, including designation of all census blocks that such municipality proposes incorporating into such zone, (2) the economic development benefits anticipated from the establishment of such zone, including the nature of business and industry that will be developed and the anticipated number of jobs created, and (3) the anticipated lost revenue to the state and municipality as a result of establishing such zone.
(c) The commissioner may modify the geographic scope of any proposed hospital and wellness enterprise zone to improve the balance between the anticipated economic benefit and the cost to the state and affected municipality.
(d) The commissioner may approve the designation of not more than two areas as hospital and wellness enterprise zones. The commissioner may remove the designation of any area approved as a hospital and wellness enterprise zone if such area no longer meets the requirements of subsection (a) of this section, provided no such designation shall be removed less than six years after the date that such area no longer meets such requirements.
(e) Businesses located within a hospital and wellness enterprise zone shall be entitled to the same benefits, subject to the same conditions, under the general statutes for which businesses located in an enterprise zone qualify.
(f) The commissioner may adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 of the general statutes, to carry out the purposes of this section.
(g) On or before October 1, 2020, the commissioner shall report, in accordance with section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to commerce. Such report shall include, but not be limited to, (1) the performance of any hospital and wellness enterprise zone established pursuant to this section, (2) whether any such zone should retain its designation as a hospital and wellness enterprise zone, and (3) any recommendations for legislative changes regarding the program established pursuant to this section.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
October 1, 2014 |
New section |
CE |
Joint Favorable Subst. |
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PD |
Joint Favorable |