Bill Text: CT SB00442 | 2014 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut Senate Bill 442 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: An Act Providing Funds For The Garbage Museum In Stratford.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-05-06 - On Consent Calendar [SB00442 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2014-SB00442-Comm_Sub.html


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 442*
*February Session, 2014*		LCO No. 2015
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Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)

AN ACT PROVIDING FUNDS FOR THE GARBAGE MUSEUM IN STRATFORD.

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

Section 1. Section 22a-219d of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2014):

(a) There is established a fund to be known as the "Municipal Tipping Fee Fund". The purpose of the Municipal Tipping Fee Fund shall be to provide for the payment of grants to municipalities pursuant to section 22a-219b or 22a-219c. The fund shall contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in the fund and shall be held in trust separate and apart from all other moneys, funds and accounts. Investment earnings credited to the assets of said fund shall become part of the assets of said fund. Any balance remaining in said fund at the end of any fiscal year shall be carried forward in said fund for the fiscal year next succeeding.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may make a grant-in-aid to the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority from the Municipal Tipping Fee Fund for the purpose of funding the operations of the authority's Garbage Museum.