Bill Text: CT SB00992 | 2017 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut Senate Bill 992 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Approval Of Affirmative Action Plans Submitted By Contractors To The Commission On Human Rights And Opportunities.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-16 - Public Hearing 03/20 [SB00992 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2017-SB00992-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 992*
*January Session, 2017*		LCO No. 5000
		05000_______JUD
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
(JUD)

AN ACT CONCERNING APPROVAL OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PLANS SUBMITTED BY CONTRACTORS TO THE COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND OPPORTUNITIES.

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

Section 1. Section 46a-68c of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2017):

In addition to the provisions of section 4a-60, each contractor with fifty or more employees awarded a public works contract, municipal public works contract or contract for a quasi-public agency project in excess of fifty thousand dollars in any fiscal year, but not subject to the provisions of section 46a-68d, shall develop and file with the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities an affirmative action plan which shall comply with regulations adopted by the commission. The executive director or the executive director's designee shall review and formally approve, conditionally approve or disapprove the content of the affirmative action plan not later than sixty days following the date of the submission of the plan to the commission. If the executive director or the executive director's designee fails to approve, conditionally approve or disapprove a plan within such sixty-day period, the plan shall be deemed to be approved. Failure to develop an approved affirmative action plan pursuant to this section shall act as a bar to bidding on or the award of future contracts until such requirement has been met. When the [commission] executive director or the executive director's designee approves an affirmative action plan pursuant to this section, [it] the executive director or the executive director's designee shall issue a certificate of compliance to the contractor. [This] Such certificate shall be prima facie proof of the contractor's eligibility to bid or be awarded contracts for a period of two years from the date of the certificate. Such certificate shall not excuse the contractor from monitoring by the commission or from the reporting and record-keeping requirements of sections 46a-68e and 46a-68f. The [commission] executive director or the executive director's designee may revoke the certificate of a contractor if the contractor does not implement its affirmative action plan in compliance with this section and sections 4a-60, 4a-60g, 4a-62, 46a-56, 46a-68b, 46a-68d, and 46a-68e to 46a-68k, inclusive.


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2017	46a-68c

Statement of Purpose:

To expedite the approval of affirmative action plans submitted to the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities by contractors.

[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.]