Substitute House Bill No. 6361
Substitute House Bill No. 6361
PUBLIC ACT NO. 97-219
AN ACT CONCERNING REPORTING OF CERTAIN INFORMATION
CONCERNING APPLICATIONS FOR CONNECTICUT
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND
DISCLOSURE OF RESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES OF
FIREFIGHTERS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 32-11a of
the general statutes is repealed and the following
is substituted in lieu thereof:
(c) The board of directors of the authority
shall consist of the Commissioner of Economic and
Community Development, the Treasurer of the state
and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and
Management, each serving ex officio, four members
appointed by the Governor who shall be experienced
in the field of financial lending or the
development of commerce, trade and business and
four members appointed as follows: One by the
president pro tempore of the Senate, one by the
minority leader of the Senate, one by the speaker
of the House of Representatives and one by the
minority leader of the House of Representatives.
Each ex-officio member may designate his deputy or
any member of his staff to represent him at
meetings of the authority with full powers to act
and vote in his behalf. The chairperson of the
board shall be appointed by the Governor, with the
advice and consent of both houses of the General
Assembly. The board shall annually elect one of
its members as vice chairman. Each member
appointed by the Governor shall serve at the
pleasure of the Governor but no longer than the
term of office of the Governor or until the
member's successor is appointed and qualified,
whichever is longer. Each member appointed by a
member of the General Assembly shall serve in
accordance with the provisions of section 4-1a.
Members shall receive no compensation but shall be
reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the
performance of their duties under this chapter,
chapter 578, subsection (a) of section 10-321, and
sections 25-33a and 32-68a. The Governor shall
fill any vacancy for the unexpired term of a
member appointed by the Governor. The appropriate
legislative appointing authority shall fill any
vacancy for the unexpired term of a member
appointed by such authority. A member of the board
shall be eligible for reappointment. Any member of
the board may be removed by the Governor for
misfeasance, malfeasance or wilful neglect of
duty. Each member of the authority before entering
upon his duties shall take and subscribe the oath
or affirmation required by article XI, section 1,
of the State Constitution. A record of each such
oath shall be filed in the office of the Secretary
of the State. Meetings of the board shall be held
at such times as shall be specified in the bylaws
adopted by the board and at such other time or
times as the chairman deems necessary. The board
is empowered to adopt bylaws and regulations for
putting into effect the provisions of said
chapters and sections. Not later than March first
and October first, annually, the authority shall
submit a report to the Commissioner of Economic
and Community Development, the Auditors of Public
Accounts and the joint standing committees of the
General Assembly having cognizance of matters
relating to the Department of Economic and
Community Development, appropriations and capital
bonding, which shall include the following
information with respect to new and outstanding
financial assistance provided by the authority for
each financial assistance program administered by
the authority: (1) A list of the names, addresses
and locations of all recipients of such
assistance, (2) for each recipient: (A) The
business activities, (B) the standard industrial
classification manual codes, (C) the gross
revenues during the recipient's most recent fiscal
year, (D) the number of employees at the time of
application, (E) whether the recipient is a
minority or women-owned business, (F) a summary of
the terms and conditions for the assistance,
including the type and amount of state financial
assistance, job creation or retention
requirements, and anticipated wage rates, and (G)
the amount of investments from private and other
nonstate sources that have been leveraged by the
assistance, (3) the economic benefit criteria used
in determining which applications have been
approved or disapproved and (4) for each recipient
of assistance on or after July 1, 1991, a
comparison between the number of jobs to be
created, the number of jobs to be retained and the
average wage rates for each such category of jobs,
as projected in the recipient's application,
versus the actual number of jobs created, the
actual number of jobs retained and the average
wage rates for each such category. The report
shall also indicate the actual number of full-time
jobs and the actual number of part-time jobs in
each such category and the benefit levels for each
such subcategory. IN ADDITION, THE REPORT SHALL
STATE (A) FOR EACH FINAL APPLICATION APPROVED
DURING THE PRECEDING SIX MONTHS, (i) THE DATE THAT
THE FINAL APPLICATION WAS RECEIVED BY THE
AUTHORITY AND (ii) THE DATE OF SUCH APPROVAL; (B)
FOR EACH FINAL APPLICATION WITHDRAWN DURING THE
PRECEDING SIX MONTHS, (i) THE MUNICIPALITY IN
WHICH THE APPLICANT IS LOCATED, (ii) THE STANDARD
INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION MANUAL CODE FOR THE
APPLICANT, (iii) THE DATE THAT THE FINAL
APPLICATION WAS RECEIVED BY THE AUTHORITY AND (iv)
THE DATE OF SUCH WITHDRAWAL; (C) FOR EACH FINAL
APPLICATION DISAPPROVED DURING THE PRECEDING SIX
MONTHS, (i) THE MUNICIPALITY IN WHICH THE
APPLICANT IS LOCATED, (ii) THE STANDARD INDUSTRIAL
CLASSIFICATION MANUAL CODE FOR THE APPLICANT,
(iii) THE DATE THAT THE FINAL APPLICATION WAS
RECEIVED BY THE AUTHORITY AND (iv) THE DATE OF
SUCH DISAPPROVAL; AND (D) FOR EACH FINAL
APPLICATION ON WHICH NO ACTION HAS BEEN TAKEN BY
THE APPLICANT OR THE AGENCY IN THE PREVIOUS SIX
MONTHS AND FOR WHICH NO REPORT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED
UNDER THIS SUBSECTION, (i) THE MUNICIPALITY IN
WHICH THE APPLICANT IS LOCATED, (ii) THE STANDARD
INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION MANUAL CODE FOR THE
APPLICANT, AND (iii) THE DATE THAT THE FINAL
APPLICATION WAS RECEIVED BY THE AUTHORITY. The
October first report shall include a summary of
the activities of the authority, including all
activities to assist small businesses and minority
business enterprises as defined in section 32-9e,
a complete operating and financial statement and
recommendations for legislation to promote the
purposes of the authority. The authority shall
furnish such additional reports upon the written
request of any such committee at such times and
containing such information as the committee may
request. The accounts of the authority shall be
subject to annual audit by the state Auditors of
Public Accounts. The authority may cause an audit
of its books and accounts to be made at least once
each fiscal year by certified public accountants.
The powers of the authority shall be vested in and
exercised by not less than six of the members of
the board of directors then in office. Such number
of members shall constitute a quorum and the
affirmative vote of a majority of the members
present at a meeting of the board shall be
necessary for any action taken by the authority.
No vacancy in the membership of the board shall
impair the right to exercise all the rights and
perform all the duties of the authority. Any
action taken by the board under the provisions of
said chapters and sections may be authorized by
resolution at any regular or special meeting, and
each such resolution shall take effect immediately
and need not be published or posted. The authority
shall be exempt from the provisions of section
4-9a.
Sec. 2. Section 1-20f of the general statutes
is repealed and the following is substituted in
lieu thereof:
No state department, agency, board, council,
commission or institution may disclose, under the
Freedom of Information Act, the residential
address of (1) a federal court judge, federal
court magistrate, judge of the Superior Court,
Appellate Court or Supreme Court of the state, or
family support magistrate, (2) a sworn member of a
municipal police department or a sworn member of
the Division of State Police within the Department
of Public Safety, (3) an employee of the
Department of Correction, (4) an attorney-at-law
who represents or has represented the state in a
criminal prosecution, (5) an attorney-at-law who
is or has been employed by the Public Defender
Services Division, [or] (6) an inspector employed
by the Division of Criminal Justice OR (7) A
FIREFIGHTER, if such person submits a written
request for such nondisclosure and furnishes his
business address to the executive head of such
department, agency, board, council, commission or
institution. The business address of any person
described in this section shall be subject to
disclosure under section 1-19. The provisions of
this section shall not apply to Department of
Motor Vehicles records described in section
14-10.
Approved June 24, 1997