Bill Text: CT SB00990 | 2017 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Increasing The Threshold For Municipal Public Works Contracts Subject To The Set-aside Program.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-09 - Public Hearing 03/13 [SB00990 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2017-SB00990-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 990
January Session, 2017		LCO No. 4604
		*04604_______GAE*
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)

AN ACT INCREASING THE THRESHOLD FOR MUNICIPAL PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTS SUBJECT TO THE SET-ASIDE PROGRAM.

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

Section 1. Subdivision (14) of subsection (a) of section 4a-60g of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2017):

(14) "Municipal public works contract" means that portion of an agreement entered into on or after October 1, 2015, between any individual, firm or corporation and a municipality for the construction, rehabilitation, conversion, extension, demolition or repair of a public building, highway or other changes or improvements in real property, which is financed in whole or in part by the state, (A) including, but not limited to, matching expenditures, grants, loans, insurance or guarantees, [but] and (B) excluding any project of an alliance district, as defined in section 10-262u, that is financed by state funding in an amount equal to [fifty thousand dollars or less] (i) less than four hundred thousand dollars if for the new construction of any such project, or (ii) less than one hundred thousand dollars if for the rehabilitation, conversion, extension, demolition or repair of any such project.

Sec. 2. Subsection (h) of section 4a-60g of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2017):

(h) The provisions of this section shall not apply to (1) any awarding agency for which the total value of all contracts or portions of contracts of the types enumerated in subdivision (2) of subsection (b) of this section is anticipated to be equal to ten thousand dollars or less, [or] (2) any [municipal public works contract or] contract for a quasi-public agency project for which the total value of the contract is anticipated to be equal to fifty thousand dollars or less, or (3) any municipal public works contract for which the total value of the contract is anticipated to be equal to (A) less than four hundred thousand dollars if for the new construction of any public building, highway or other improvement in real property, or (B) less than one hundred thousand dollars if for the rehabilitation, conversion, extension, demolition or repair of any public building, highway or other improvement in real property.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2017	4a-60g(a)(14)
Sec. 2	October 1, 2017	4a-60g(h)

Statement of Purpose:

To increase the threshold for municipal public works projects subject to the set-aside program for small contractors and minority business enterprises to be consistent with the thresholds for municipal public works projects subject to prevailing wage requirements.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]