Substitute Senate Bill No. 1015
Substitute Senate Bill No. 1015
PUBLIC ACT NO. 97-235
AN ACT CONCERNING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND
PURCHASING.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 12-65b of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) Any municipality may, by affirmative vote
of its legislative body, enter into a written
agreement with any party owning or proposing to
acquire an interest in real property in such
municipality, or with any party owning or
proposing to acquire an interest in air space in
such municipality, or with any party who is the
lessee of, or who proposes to be the lessee of,
air space in such municipality in such a manner
that the air space leased or proposed to be leased
shall be assessed to the lessee pursuant to
section 12-64, fixing the assessment of the real
property or air space which is the subject of the
agreement, and all improvements thereon or therein
and to be constructed thereon or therein, subject
to the provisions of subsection (b) of this
section, (1) for a period of not more than seven
years, provided the cost of such improvements to
be constructed is not less than three million
dollars, (2) for a period of not more than two
years, provided the cost of such improvements to
be constructed is not less than five hundred
thousand dollars, (3) to the extent of fifty per
cent of such increased assessment, for a period of
not more than three years, provided the cost of
such improvements to be constructed is not less
than one hundred thousand dollars, (4) to the
extent of twenty per cent of such increased
assessment, for a period of not more than three
years, provided the cost of such improvements to
be constructed is not less than one hundred
thousand dollars, (5) to the extent of thirty per
cent of such increased assessment, for a period of
not more than three years, provided the cost of
such improvements to be constructed is not less
than five hundred thousand dollars, (6) to the
extent of twenty per cent of such increased
assessment, for a period of not less than five
years but no more than seven years, provided the
costs of such improvements to be constructed is
not less than three million dollars, or (7) to the
extent of thirty per cent of such increased
assessment, for a period of not more than seven
years, provided the cost of such improvements to
be constructed is not less than five million
dollars.
(b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this
section shall only apply if at least one of the
following requirements is satisfied: (i) The
improvements are for office use; (ii) the
improvements are for retail use; (iii) the
improvements are for permanent residential use;
(iv) the improvements are for transient
residential use; (v) the improvements are for
manufacturing use; (vi) the improvements are for
warehouse, storage or distribution use; (vii) the
improvements are for structured multilevel parking
use necessary in connection with a mass transit
system; OR (viii) THE IMPROVEMENTS ARE FOR
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.
Sec. 2. Subsection (c) of section 2-71p of the
general statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(c) The committee may waive the requirement of
competitive bidding in the case of minor
nonrecurring and emergency purchases of one
thousand dollars or less in amount. The committee
may use competitive negotiation to purchase or
contract for data processing equipment, programs
or services [having a cost of twenty thousand
dollars or less] or advertising space or time,
after making a written determination, including
the reasons therefor, that such action is in the
best interest of the state. The committee shall
adopt guidelines establishing (1) objective
standards for determining when such competitive
negotiation may be used instead of competitive
bidding, including whether the character of such
data processing equipment, programs or services or
advertising space or time is more important than
their relative cost, (2) procedures to be followed
in making purchases, contracts or sales not
subject to the competitive bid requirements of
this section, including but not limited to,
criteria which shall be considered in making
purchases by competitive negotiation and the
weight which shall be assigned to each such
criterion and (3) standards and procedures under
which additional purchases may be made on a
limited basis under existing contracts.
Sec. 3. (NEW) The joint committee on
legislative management may join with federal
agencies, other state governments, political
subdivisions of this state or nonprofit
organizations in cooperative purchasing plans when
the best interests of the state would be served
thereby.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved June 24, 1997