Substitute House Bill No. 6997
Substitute House Bill No. 6997
PUBLIC ACT NO. 91-256
AN ACT CONCERNING OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND
ACCOUNTABILITY FOR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER
EDUCATION.
Section 1. Section 3-25 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) [The] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION
(b), THE treasurer shall pay out the public moneys
only upon the order of the general assembly, of
the senate, of the house of representatives, of
the several courts when legally authorized or of
the comptroller for accounts legally adjusted by
him or when he is authorized to order for the
payment of money from the treasury. He shall pay
no warrant or order for the disbursement of public
money until the same has been registered in the
office of the comptroller. The comptroller shall
not issue any warrant, draft or order except upon
an adequate expenditure voucher which shall be
retained in his office for the period provided by
law, OR UPON CERTIFICATION BY THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
OFFICER OF A CONSTITUENT UNIT OF THE STATE SYSTEM
OF HIGHER EDUCATION PROVIDED IN THE CASE OF THE
CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, THE
CERTIFICATION MAY BE MADE BY THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
OFFICER OF A STATE UNIVERSITY, AS PROVIDED IN
SUBSECTION (b) OF SECTION 3-117, AS AMENDED BY
SECTION 3 OF THIS ACT.
(b) UPON RECEIPT OF A REQUEST FROM THE CHIEF
EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF A CONSTITUENT UNIT OF THE
STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION OR, IN THE CASE
OF THE CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, UPON
RECEIPT OF A REQUEST FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
OFFICER OF A STATE UNIVERSITY, FOR AUTHORITY TO
MAKE PAYMENT OF ANY CLAIM AGAINST THE CONSTITUENT
UNIT OR INSTITUTION, AS APPROPRIATE, OTHER THAN A
PAYMENT FOR PAYROLL, DEBT SERVICE PAYABLE ON STATE
BONDS TO BONDHOLDERS, PAYING AGENTS, OR TRUSTEES,
OR ANY PAYMENT THE SOURCE OF WHICH INCLUDES THE
PROCEEDS OF A STATE BOND ISSUE, THE TREASURER
SHALL DELEGATE SUCH AUTHORITY TO SUCH CHIEF
EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND SHALL APPROVE SUCH BANKING
ARRANGEMENTS AS ARE NECESSARY FOR SUCH UNIT OR
INSTITUTION TO MAKE SUCH PAYMENTS. PAYMENTS FOR
PAYROLL, DEBT SERVICES PAYABLE ON STATE BONDS TO
BONDHOLDERS, PAYING AGENTS OR TRUSTEES, OR
PAYMENTS FROM THE PROCEEDS OF STATE BONDS SHALL BE
MADE SOLELY BY THE TREASURER IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE PROVISIONS OF SUBSECTION (a) OF THIS SECTION.
Sec. 2. Section 3-27a of the general statutes
is repealed and the following is substituted in
lieu thereof:
There is hereby created a short term
investment fund to be administered by the state
treasurer. The state treasurer may sell
participation certificates of the short term
investment fund for investment to the general
fund, bond funds, the special transportation fund,
the local bridge revolving fund, the educational
excellence trust fund, the residential property
tax revaluation relief fund, the municipal
abandoned vehicle trust fund, trust funds
administered by the treasurer, and all such other
funds the moneys of which by law the treasurer is
responsible for investing. Said participation
certificates shall bear and pay such interest and
be issued subject to such terms and conditions as
shall be determined and established by the state
treasurer. The interest derived from the
investment or reinvestment of funds of [the
auxiliary services funds and the educational
extension funds of the regional community
colleges, the regional technical colleges, the
Connecticut State University, The University of
Connecticut, as authorized by sections 10a-75,
10a-76, 10a-85, 10a-86, 10a-95, 10a-96, 10a-117
and 10a-118, the tuition funds of The University
of Connecticut, the Connecticut State University,
the regional community colleges, and the regional
technical colleges] THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
OPERATING FUND AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
HEALTH CENTER OPERATING FUND, THE UNIVERSITY OF
CONNECTICUT RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF
CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THE
CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OPERATING
FUND, THE CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THE REGIONAL COMMUNITY
COLLEGES OPERATING FUND, AND THE REGIONAL
TECHNICAL COLLEGES OPERATING FUND, as authorized
by sections 10a-105, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 29 OF
THIS ACT, 10a-110a, 10a-130, 10a-99, AS AMENDED BY
SECTION 26 OF THIS ACT, 10a-77, AS AMENDED BY
SECTION 16 OF THIS ACT, and 10a-83, AS AMENDED BY
SECTION 19 OF THIS ACT, respectively, [the health
center auxiliary services fund and tuition fund,
as authorized by sections 10a-105 and 10a-129] and
the board for state academic awards educational
services account, as authorized by section
10a-143, shall be paid to each board or board of
trustees respectively.
Sec. 3. Section 3-117 of the general statutes
is repealed and the following is substituted in
lieu thereof:
(a) [Upon] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION
(b), UPON the settlement of any claim against the
state, the comptroller shall draw an order on the
treasurer for its payment; but each such claim
shall be submitted directly to the agency which
ordered or received the articles or service for
which such claim was made, which agency shall
certify that such articles or services have been
received or performed or, if not yet received or
performed, are covered (1) by contracts properly
drawn and executed or (2) under procedures adopted
by the comptroller, and shall also be supported by
vouchers or receipts for the payment of any money
exceeding twenty-five dollars at any one time, and
an accurate account, showing the items of such
claim, and a detailed account of expenses, when
expenses constitute a portion of it, specifying
the day when and purpose for which they were
incurred; and the original vouchers or receipts
shall be filed in the comptroller's office.
(b) THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF A CONSTITUENT
UNIT OF THE STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION MAY
AUTHORIZE THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE UNIT
OR IN THE CASE OF THE CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY
SYSTEM, THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF A STATE
UNIVERSITY REQUESTING SUCH AUTHORITY, WITH THE
APPROVAL OF THE COMPTROLLER AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE PROCEDURE PRESCRIBED BY THE COMPTROLLER, TO
CERTIFY TO THE COMPTROLLER THAT THE ARTICLES OR
SERVICES FOR WHICH CLAIMS AGAINST THE CONSTITUENT
UNIT OR INSTITUTION ARE MADE HAVE BEEN PROPERLY
RECEIVED OR PERFORMED OR, IF NOT YET RECEIVED OR
PERFORMED, ARE COVERED (1) BY CONTRACTS PROPERLY
DRAWN AND EXECUTED OR (2) UNDER PROCEDURES
APPROVED BY SUCH CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, AND THAT
SUCH CLAIMS ARE SUPPORTED BY VOUCHERS OR RECEIPTS
FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY MONEY EXCEEDING TWENTY-FIVE
DOLLARS AT ONE TIME, AND BY AN ACCURATE ACCOUNT,
SHOWING THE ITEMS OF SUCH CLAIMS, AND A DETAILED
ACCOUNT OF EXPENSES, WHEN EXPENSES CONSTITUTE A
PORTION OF THEM, SPECIFYING THE DAY WHEN AND
PURPOSE FOR WHICH THEY WERE INCURRED; AND THE
ORIGINAL VOUCHERS OR RECEIPTS SHALL BE FILED AT
THE CONSTITUENT UNIT OR INSTITUTION, AS
APPROPRIATE. UPON RECEIPT OF SUCH CERTIFICATION OF
A CLAIM FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, THE
COMPTROLLER SHALL DRAW AN ORDER FOR ITS PAYMENT
PURSUANT TO SUBSECTION (b) OF SECTION 3-25, AS
AMENDED BY SECTION 1 OF THIS ACT.
Sec. 4. Subsection (a) of section 4-73 of the
general statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) Part II of the budget document shall
present in detail for the ensuing fiscal year the
governor's recommendation for appropriations to
meet the expenditure needs of the state from the
general fund and from all special and agency funds
classified by budgeted agencies and showing for
each budgeted agency and its subdivisions: (1) A
narrative summary describing the agency, the
governor's recommendations for appropriations for
the agency and a list of agency programs, the
actual expenditure for the last-completed fiscal
year, the estimated expenditure for the current
fiscal year, the amount requested by the agency
and the governor's recommendations for
appropriations for the ensuing fiscal year AND,
FOR EACH CONSTITUENT UNIT OF THE STATE SYSTEM OF
HIGHER EDUCATION, EXCEPT THE BOARD FOR STATE
ACADEMIC AWARDS, THE GOVERNOR'S RECOMMENDATION FOR
APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE COST OF FRINGE BENEFITS
WHICH SHALL BE BASED ON THE AMOUNT APPROPRIATED
FOR SAID PURPOSE IN THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY
1, 1991, PLUS AN ANNUAL ADJUSTMENT EQUAL TO THE
CHANGE IN COSTS OF THE FRINGE BENEFIT AMOUNT AS
DETERMINED BY THE OFFICE OF POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
FOR EMPLOYEES OF SUCH CONSTITUENT UNIT; (2) a
summary of permanent full-time positions by fund,
setting forth the number filled and the number
vacant as of the end of the last-completed fiscal
year, the total number intended to be funded by
appropriations without reduction for turnover for
the fiscal year in progress, the total number
requested and the total number recommended for the
year to which the budget relates.
Sec. 5. Subsection (a) of section 4-87 of the
general statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) Whenever any specific appropriation of a
budgeted agency proves insufficient to pay the
expenditures required for the statutory purposes
for which such appropriation was made, the
governor may, at the request of the budgeted
agency, transfer from any other specific
appropriation of such budgeted agency such amount
as the governor deems necessary to meet such
expenditures, EXCEPT THAT TRANSFERS MADE FROM
APPROPRIATIONS FOR FRINGE BENEFITS TO THE
OPERATING FUNDS OF ANY CONSTITUENT UNIT OF THE
STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION MAY BE MADE ONLY
AT THE CLOSE OF THE FISCAL YEAR. No transfer to or
from any specific appropriation of a sum or sums
of over fifty thousand dollars or ten per cent of
any such specific appropriation, whichever is
less, shall be made under this section in any one
fiscal year without the consent of the finance
advisory committee EXCEPT FOR TRANSFER MADE FROM
APPROPRIATIONS FOR FRINGE BENEFITS TO THE
OPERATING FUNDS OF ANY CONSTITUENT UNIT OF THE
STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION. Notification of
all transfers made shall be sent to the joint
standing committee of the general assembly having
cognizance of matters relating to appropriations
and the budgets of state agencies, through the
office of fiscal analysis.
Sec. 6. Subsection (f) of section 4-89 of the
general statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(f) The provisions of this section shall not
apply to appropriations to the department of
higher education for student financial assistance
in an amount not greater than five per cent of the
annual state student financial assistance
appropriation, for the high technology graduate
scholarship program established under section
10a-170a, for Connecticut higher education centers
of excellence established under section 10a-25h,
for the minority advancement program established
under subsection (b) of section 10a-11, [or] for
the high technology doctoral fellowship program
established under section 10a-25n, [and such] OR
TO THE OPERATING FUNDS OF THE CONSTITUENT UNITS OF
THE STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION ESTABLISHED
PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 10a-105, AS AMENDED BY
SECTION 29 OF THIS ACT, 10a-99, AS AMENDED BY
SECTION 26 OF THIS ACT, 10a-77, AS AMENDED BY
SECTION 16 OF THIS ACT, AND 10a-83, AS AMENDED BY
SECTION 19 OF THIS ACT. SUCH appropriations shall
not lapse until the end of the fiscal year
succeeding the fiscal year of the appropriation
except that centers of excellence appropriations
deposited by the board of governors in the endowed
chair investment fund established under section
10a-20a, shall not lapse but shall be held
permanently in the endowed chair investment fund
AND ANY MONEYS REMAINING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
OPERATING FUNDS OF THE CONSTITUENT UNITS OF THE
STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION SHALL NOT LAPSE
BUT SHALL BE HELD PERMANENTLY IN SUCH FUNDS. On or
before September first, annually, the board of
governors of higher education shall submit a
report to the joint standing committee of the
general assembly having cognizance of matters
relating to appropriations and the budgets of
state agencies, through the office of fiscal
analysis, concerning the amount of each such
appropriation carried over from the preceding
fiscal year.
Sec. 7. Section 4a-4 of the general statutes
is repealed and the following is substituted in
lieu thereof:
(a) Except as provided in [subsection]
SUBSECTIONS (b) AND (c), the commissioner of
administrative services shall consider and devise
ways and means of establishing and maintaining
proper control of state property and equipment,
including vehicles and office equipment; shall
require the establishment of proper permanent
inventory records and the taking of physical
inventories of both stores and equipment; shall
discover unused and improperly used or neglected
equipment and shall authorize the transfer, use or
disposal of such equipment.
(b) The office of the chief court
administrator shall consider and devise ways and
means of establishing and maintaining proper
control of judicial department property and
equipment, including vehicles and office
equipment, require the establishment of proper
permanent inventory records and the taking of
physical inventories of judicial department
equipment, and authorize the transfer, use or
disposal of unused and improperly used or
neglected judicial department equipment. For the
purposes of this subsection, the term "judicial
department" does not include the courts of
probate, the division of criminal justice and the
public defender services commission, except where
they share facilities in state-maintained courts.
(c) THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF EACH
CONSTITUENT UNIT OF THE STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER
EDUCATION MAY CONSIDER AND DEVISE WAYS AND MEANS
OF ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING PROPER CONTROL OF
EQUIPMENT, INCLUDING ALL VEHICLES AND OFFICE
EQUIPMENT OF SUCH UNIT, REQUIRE THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF PROPER PERMANENT INVENTORY RECORDS AND THE
TAKING OF PHYSICAL INVENTORIES OF THE EQUIPMENT OF
SUCH CONSTITUENT UNIT, AND MAY AUTHORIZE THE
TRANSFER, USE OR DISPOSAL OF UNUSED AND IMPROPERLY
USED OR NEGLECTED EQUIPMENT OF SUCH UNIT.
Sec. 8. Subsection (a) of section 4a-52a of
the general statutes is repealed and the following
is substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section
4a-51, 4a-52, [the commissioner of administrative
services may delegate authority to a] 4a-68, 4a-69
OR 4a-70, THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF EACH
constituent unit of the state system of higher
education OR, IN THE CASE OF THE CONNECTICUT STATE
UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF
A STATE UNIVERSITY, IS AUTHORIZED to purchase
supplies, materials, equipment, [and] contractual
services, as defined in section 4a-50, AND
UNDERTAKE PRINTING, PUBLISHING AND MICROFILMING
for [the] SUCH constituent unit [when the amount
to be purchased is estimated to be twenty thousand
dollars or less] OR INSTITUTION.
Sec. 9. Subsection (d) of section 4b-3 of the
general statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(d) Notwithstanding any other statute or
special act to the contrary, the commissioner of
public works shall be the sole person authorized
to represent the state in its dealings with third
parties for the acquisition, construction,
development or leasing of real estate for housing
the offices or equipment of all agencies of the
state or for the state-owned public buildings or
realty hereinafter provided for in section 2-90,
sections 4b-1 to 4b-5, inclusive, 4b-21, 4b-23,
4b-24, 4b-26, 4b-27, 4b-30 and 4b-32, subsection
(c) of section 4b-66, sections 4b-67 to 4b-69,
inclusive, 4b-71, 4b-72, 10-95, 10-103, 10a-72, AS
AMENDED BY SECTION 14 OF THIS ACT, 10a-89, AS
AMENDED BY SECTION 21 OF THIS ACT, 10a-90, AS
AMENDED BY SECTION 23 OF THIS ACT, 10a-114,
[10a-129,] 10a-130, 10a-140, 10a-141, AS AMENDED
BY SECTION 32 OF THIS ACT, 10a-144, 10a-145, 17-3,
22-64, 22a-324, 26-3, 27-45, 32-1c, 32-39, 48-9,
51-187b and 51-188, except that the joint
committee on legislative management may represent
the state in the planning and construction of the
legislative office building and related
facilities, in Hartford; the labor commissioner
may represent the state in the leasing of premises
required for employment security operations as
provided in subsection (c) of section 31-250; the
commissioner of mental retardation may represent
the state in the leasing of residential property
as part of the program developed pursuant to
subsection (b) of section 17a-218, provided such
residential property does not exceed two thousand
five hundred square feet, for the community
placement of persons eligible to receive
residential services from the department and the
Connecticut marketing authority may represent the
state in the leasing of land or markets under the
control of the authority, and, except for the
housing of offices or equipment in connection with
the initial acquisition of an existing state mass
transit system or the leasing of land by said
marketing authority for a term of one year or more
in which cases the actions of the department of
transportation and the marketing authority shall
be subject to the review and approval of the state
properties review board. Said commissioner shall
have the power to establish and implement any
procedures necessary for him to assume his
responsibilities as said sole bargaining agent for
state realty acquisitions and shall perform the
duties necessary to carry out such procedures. He
may appoint, within his budget and subject to the
provisions of chapter 67, such personnel deemed
necessary by him to carry out the provisions
hereof, including experts in real estate,
construction operations, financing, banking,
contracting, architecture and engineering. The
attorney general's office, at the request of the
commissioner, shall assist the commissioner in
contract negotiations regarding the purchase,
lease or construction of real estate.
Sec. 10. Subsection (a) of section 10a-6 of
the general statutes is repealed and the following
is substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) The board of governors of higher education
shall: (1) Establish state-wide policy and
guidelines for Connecticut's system of public
higher education; (2) develop a master plan for
higher education and postsecondary education,
consistent with the goals in subsection (b) of
this section; (3) establish state-wide tuition and
student fee policies; (4) establish state-wide
student financial aid policies; (5) monitor and
evaluate institutional effectiveness and viability
in accordance with criteria established by the
board; (6) merge or close institutions in
accordance with criteria established by the board
provided (A) such recommended merger or closing
shall require a two-thirds vote of the board and
(B) notice of such recommended merger or closing
shall be sent to the committee having cognizance
over matters relating to education and to the
general assembly. The general assembly shall have
until one year after the submission of such
recommendations or until the end of the next
general assembly session then following, whichever
is later, to accept or reject the recommended
merger or closing, provided if the general
assembly fails to act, the recommendation of the
board may take effect when said time for
legislative action has elapsed; (7) review and
approve mission statements for the constituent
units and role and scope statements for the
individual institutions and branches thereof; (8)
review and approve any recommendations for the
establishment of new academic programs submitted
to the board by the constituent unit boards of
trustees, and, in consultation with the affected
constituent units, provide for the initiation,
consolidation or termination of academic programs.
The board of governors of higher education shall
notify the board of trustees affected by the
proposed termination of an academic program.
Within ninety days of receipt of such notice, said
trustees shall accept or reject the termination
proposal and shall notify the board of governors
of higher education of its action. If the
termination proposal is rejected by the trustees,
the board of governors of higher education may
override the rejection by a two-thirds vote; (9)
develop criteria to ensure acceptable quality in
programs and institutions and enforce standards
through licensing and accreditation; (10) prepare
and present to the governor and general assembly,
in accordance with section 10a-8, consolidated
operating and capital expenditure budgets for
public higher education developed in accordance
with the provisions of said section 10a-8 and
section 10a-9; (11) review and approve capital
expenditure requests from the constituent units
before submission to the state bond commission;
(12) review and [approve] MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS ON
plans received from the constituent unit boards of
trustees for the continuing development and
maximum utilization of the state's public higher
education resources; (13) appoint advisory
committees to assist in defining and suggesting
solutions for the problems and needs of higher
education; (14) establish an advisory council for
higher education with representatives from public
and private institutions to study methods and
proposals for coordinating efforts of all such
institutions in providing a stimulating and
enriched educational environment for the citizens
of the state, including measures to improve
educational opportunities through alternative and
nontraditional approaches such as external degrees
and credit by examination; (15) coordinate
programs and services throughout public higher
education and between public and independent
institutions; (16) make or enter into contracts,
leases or other agreements in connection with its
responsibilities under this part, provided all
acquisitions of real estate by lease or otherwise
shall be subject to the provisions of section
4b-23; (17) be responsible for the care and
maintenance of permanent records of institutions
of higher education dissolved after September 1,
1969; (18) prepare and present to the governor and
general assembly legislative proposals affecting
public higher education; (19) develop and maintain
a central higher education information system and
establish definitions and data requirements for
the state system of higher education; and (20)
undertake such studies and other activities as
will best serve the higher educational interests
of the state.
Sec. 11. Section 10a-8 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) The provisions of sections 4-77 and 4-78
shall not apply to the constituent units of the
state system of higher education, and for the
purposes of said sections only, the board of
governors of higher education shall be deemed the
budgeted agency for such constituent units. The
board of governors of higher education shall
develop a formula or program-based budgeting
system to be used by each institution and
constituent board in preparing operating budgets
for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1985, and
each fiscal year thereafter. Said board of
governors of higher education shall prepare a
single public higher education budget request
itemized by the individual institution and branch
using the formula or program-based budgeting
system and shall submit such budget request
displaying all operating funds to the secretary of
the office of policy and management in accordance
with sections 4-77 and 4-78, subject to procedures
developed by the board of governors of higher
education and approved by said secretary. The
budget request of the boards of trustees of The
University of Connecticut, the community-technical
colleges and the Connecticut State University
SYSTEM shall set forth, in the form prescribed by
the board of governors of higher education, a
proposed expenditure plan which shall include: (1)
The total amount requested for such appropriation
account; (2) the amount to be appropriated from
the general fund and (3) the amount to be paid
from the tuition [funds] REVENUES of The
University of Connecticut, the regional community
colleges, the regional technical colleges and the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM. After review
and [approval] COMMENT by the board of governors
of higher education, the proposed expenditure
plans shall be incorporated into the single public
higher education budget request INCLUDING
RECOMMENDATIONS, IF ANY, BY SAID BOARD. Any
tuition increase proposed by the board of trustees
of The University of Connecticut, the
community-technical colleges and the Connecticut
State University SYSTEM for the fiscal year to
which the budget request relates shall be included
in the single public higher education budget
request submitted by the board of governors of
higher education for such fiscal year. The general
assembly shall make appropriations directly to the
constituent unit boards. Said constituent unit
boards shall allocate appropriations to the
individual institutions and branches with due
consideration to the program or formula-based
budget used to develop the appropriation as
approved by the general assembly or as otherwise
specified in the approved appropriation. Allotment
reductions made pursuant to the provisions of
subsections (b), (c), and (f) of section 4-85
shall be applied by the board of governors of
higher education among the appropriations to the
constituent unit boards without regard to the
limitations on reductions provided in said
section, except that said limitations shall apply
to the total of the amounts appropriated to the
higher education budgeted agencies. The board of
governors of higher education shall apply such
reductions after consultation with the secretary
of the office of policy and management and the
constituent unit boards. Any reductions of more
than five per cent of the appropriations of any
constituent units shall be submitted to the
appropriations committee which shall, within ten
days, approve or reject such reduction.
(b) The boards of trustees of each of the
constituent units may transfer to or from any
specific appropriation of such constituent unit a
sum or sums totaling up to fifty thousand dollars
or ten per cent of any such specific
appropriation, whichever is less, in any fiscal
year without the consent of the finance advisory
committee. Any such transfer shall be reported to
the finance advisory committee within thirty days
of such transfer and such report shall be a record
of said committee.
Sec. 12. Section 10a-26 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) For the purposes of this section, sections
10a-77, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 16 OF THIS ACT,
10a-83, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 19 OF THIS ACT,
10a-99, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 26 OF THIS ACT, and
10a-105, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 29 OF THIS ACT, and
this part: (1) A "full-time student" means a
student who has been registered and who has been
accepted for matriculation at a constituent unit
of the state system of higher education in a
course of study leading to an associate, bachelor
or advanced degree or whose course of instruction
or credit hour load indicates pursuit toward a
degree; (2) "tuition" means a direct charge for
institutional programs, which is clearly
delineated from any other fees.
(b) In order to defray part of the cost of the
higher education institutional programs at the
constituent units of the state system of higher
education, tuition shall be charged as provided in
SAID sections 10a-77, 10a-83, 10a-99 and 10a-105
for each full-time student or shall be prorated in
the case of a student carrying less than
seventy-five per cent of the credit hours defined
as a full-time load by the institution. Any person
enrolled in and paying extension fees for a course
in an educational extension program or a summer
session shall not be charged tuition for such
course.
[(c) Charging of such tuition shall commence
with the semester of the college year beginning in
January, 1972.]
[(d)] (c) Fees charged for educational
extension programs and for summer school sessions
under [section 10a-96 and section 10a-118]
SECTIONS 10a-77, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 16 OF THIS
ACT, 10a-83, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 19 OF THIS ACT,
10a-99, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 26 OF THIS ACT, AND
10a-105, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 29 OF THIS ACT,
shall not be deemed to be tuition within the
meaning of this section.
Sec. 13. There is established a task force to
evaluate and make recommendations to improve
efficiency, effectiveness and accountability in
financial accounting and reporting for public
institutions of higher education. The task force
shall consist of: The chief fiscal officers of the
department of higher education, The University of
Connecticut, the Connecticut State University
System, the regional community-technical college
system and each institution in the Connecticut
State University System; the secretary of the
office of policy and management, or his designee;
the comptroller, or his designee; and a
representative of the legislative office of fiscal
analysis designated by the director of the office.
On or before September 1, 1991, the secretary of
the office of policy and management shall convene
the first meeting of the task force.
Sec. 14. Subsection (c) of section 10a-72 of
the general statutes is repealed and the following
is substituted in lieu thereof:
(c) The board of trustees shall: (1) Review
and approve institutional budget requests and
prepare and submit to the board of governors of
higher education, in accordance with the
provisions of section 10a-8, the budget requests
for the division of regional community colleges
and the division of regional technical colleges;
and (2) propose facility planning and capital
expenditure budget priorities for the institutions
and divisions under its jurisdiction. THE BOARD
MAY REQUEST AUTHORITY FROM THE TREASURER TO ISSUE
PAYMENT FOR CLAIMS AGAINST SAID COLLEGES, OTHER
THAN A PAYMENT FOR PAYROLL, DEBT SERVICE PAYABLE
ON STATE BONDS TO BONDHOLDERS, PAYING AGENTS, OR
TRUSTEES, OR ANY PAYMENT THE SOURCE OF WHICH
INCLUDES THE PROCEEDS OF A STATE BOND ISSUE.
Sec. 15. Section 10a-72a of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) Except when specifically prohibited by the
conditions, if any, upon which a gift was created
or by a conditional sales agreement, the board of
trustees for the community-technical colleges is
authorized to sell, trade, or otherwise dispose
of any unwanted, duplicate, out-of-date or
irrelevant materials within the regional community
college libraries under the jurisdiction of the
board, provided the monetary proceeds of such a
transaction, if any, shall be deemed to be funds
from private sources and, as such funds, shall be
held in the manner prescribed by section 4-31a for
use in furthering any purpose the board considers
to be in harmony with the original purpose of the
gift or purchase of such materials.
(b) Fines collected by any [of the] regional
community college [libraries] LIBRARY under the
jurisdiction of the board shall be deposited in
the [community college auxiliary services fund]
INSTITUTIONAL OPERATING ACCOUNT OF SUCH COLLEGE.
Sec. 16. Section 10a-77 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) Subject to the provisions of section
10a-26, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 12 OF THIS ACT, the
board of trustees of the community-technical
colleges shall fix fees for tuition at the
regional community colleges of not less than three
hundred dollars for residents of this state and
not less than eleven hundred forty dollars for
nonresidents and shall fix fees for such other
purposes as the board deems necessary at the
regional community colleges, [subject to the
approval of the board of governors of higher
education,] and may make refunds to the same.
(b) The board of trustees of the
community-technical colleges shall establish and
administer a fund to be known as the regional
community colleges [tuition] OPERATING fund. [All]
APPROPRIATIONS FROM GENERAL REVENUES OF THE STATE
EXCEPT APPROPRIATIONS FOR FRINGE BENEFITS PURSUANT
TO SUBSECTION (a) OF SECTION 4-73, AS AMENDED BY
SECTION 4 OF THIS ACT, AND ALL tuition revenue
received by the regional community colleges in
accordance with the provisions of subsection (a)
of this section shall be deposited in said fund.
[Expenditures from said fund shall not exceed the
amount recommended for expenditure by the governor
pursuant to section 4-72, provided in the event
the total of the projected fund income, including
interest earnings from investments, and the
accumulated fund balance exceeds the expenditure
authority, the authority may be increased by
action of the board of trustees with the approval
of the board of governors of higher education by
the amount that the total of the projected fund
income, including interest earnings from
investments, and the accumulated fund balance
exceeds the expenditure authority.] INCOME FROM
STUDENT FEES OR RELATED CHARGES; THE PROCEEDS OF
AUXILIARY ACTIVITIES AND BUSINESS ENTERPRISES,
GIFTS AND DONATIONS; AND ALL RECEIPTS DERIVED FROM
THE CONDUCT BY THE COLLEGES OF THEIR EDUCATION
EXTENSION PROGRAMS AND SUMMER SCHOOL SESSIONS
SHALL BE CREDITED TO SAID FUND BUT SHALL BE
ALLOCATED TO THE CENTRAL OFFICE AND INSTITUTIONAL
OPERATING ACCOUNTS WHICH SHALL BE ESTABLISHED AND
MAINTAINED FOR THE CENTRAL OFFICE AND EACH
COMMUNITY COLLEGE. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES SHALL
ESTABLISH AN EQUITABLE POLICY FOR ALLOCATION OF
APPROPRIATIONS FROM GENERAL REVENUES OF THE STATE
AND TUITION REVENUE DEPOSITED IN THE REGIONAL
COMMUNITY COLLEGES OPERATING FUND. AT THE
BEGINNING OF EACH QUARTER OF THE FISCAL YEAR, THE
BOARD SHALL ALLOCATE AND TRANSFER, IN ACCORDANCE
WITH SAID POLICY, MONEYS FOR EXPENDITURE IN SUCH
INSTITUTIONAL OPERATING ACCOUNTS, EXCLUSIVE OF
AMOUNTS RETAINED FOR CENTRAL OFFICE OPERATIONS AND
REASONABLE RESERVES FOR FUTURE DISTRIBUTION. All
costs of waiving or remitting tuition pursuant to
subsection (e) of this section shall be charged to
[said] THE REGIONAL COMMUNITY COLLEGES OPERATING
fund. REPAIRS, ALTERATIONS OR ADDITIONS TO
FACILITIES SUPPORTED BY OPERATING FUNDS AND
COSTING ONE MILLION DOLLARS OR MORE SHALL REQUIRE
THE APPROVAL OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, OR WHEN THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS NOT IN SESSION, OF THE
FINANCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. ANY BALANCE OF
RECEIPTS ABOVE EXPENDITURES SHALL REMAIN IN SAID
FUND, EXCEPT SUCH SUMS AS MAY BE REQUIRED FOR
DEPOSIT INTO A DEBT SERVICE FUND OR THE GENERAL
FUND FOR FURTHER PAYMENT BY THE TREASURER OF DEBT
SERVICE ON GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS OF THE STATE
ISSUED FOR PURPOSES OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES.
(c) Commencing December 1, 1984, and
thereafter within sixty days of the close of each
quarter, the board of trustees shall submit to the
joint standing committee of the general assembly
having cognizance of matters relating to
appropriations and the budgets of state agencies
and the office of policy and management, through
the board of governors of higher education, a
report on the actual expenditures of the regional
community [college tuition] COLLEGES OPERATING
[fund itemized by appropriation account and] FUND
containing such [other] relevant information as
the board of governors of higher education may
require.
(d) Said board of trustees shall waive the
payment of tuition at any of the regional
community colleges (1) for any dependent child of
a person whom the armed forces of the United
States has declared to be missing in action or to
have been a prisoner of war while serving in such
armed forces after January 1, 1960, which child
has been accepted for admission to such
institution, provided such person missing in
action or former prisoner of war was a resident of
Connecticut at the time he entered the service of
such armed forces or was a resident of Connecticut
while so serving, (2) for any veteran having
served in time of war, as defined in subsection
(a) of section 27-103, or who served in either a
combat or combat support role in the invasion of
Grenada or the peace-keeping mission in Lebanon,
who has been accepted for admission to such
institution, provided such veteran was a resident
of Connecticut at the time he entered the service
of the armed forces of the United States or was a
resident of Connecticut while so serving, and is a
resident of Connecticut at the time he is accepted
for admission to such institution, (3) for any
resident of Connecticut sixty-two years of age or
older, provided, at the end of the regular
registration period, there is space available in
the course in which such person intends to enroll,
(4) for any student attending the Connecticut
state police academy who is enrolled in a law
enforcement program at said academy offered in
coordination with a regional community college
which accredits courses taken in such program, and
(5) for any active member of the Connecticut army
or air national guard who (A) is a resident of
Connecticut, (B) has been certified by the
adjutant general or his designee as a member in
good standing of the guard, and (C) is enrolled or
accepted for admission to such institution on a
full-time or part-time basis in an undergraduate
degree-granting program. If any person who
receives a tuition waiver in accordance with the
provisions of this subsection also receives
educational reimbursement from an employer, such
waiver shall be reduced by the amount of such
educational reimbursement.
(e) Said board shall set aside from its
anticipated regional community college tuition
[fund] revenue, an amount not less than that
required by the board of governors' tuition policy
established under subdivision (3) of subsection
(a) of section 10a-6, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 10 OF
THIS ACT. Such funds shall be used to provide
tuition waivers, tuition remissions, grants for
educational expenses and student employment for
residents enrolled in regional community colleges
as full or part-time matriculated students in a
degree-granting program, or enrolled in a
precollege remedial program, who demonstrate
substantial financial need.
(f) The regional community [college tuition]
COLLEGES OPERATING fund shall be reimbursed for
the amount by which the tuition waivers granted
under subsection (d) of this section exceed five
per cent of [said fund] TUITION REVENUE through an
annual state appropriation. The board of
[governors] TRUSTEES shall request such an
appropriation [in accordance with section 10a-8]
and said appropriation shall be based upon an
estimate of tuition revenue loss using tuition
rates in effect for the fiscal year in which such
appropriation will apply.
Sec. 17. Section 10a-79 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
The board of trustees of the
community-technical colleges shall appoint a
committee at each regional community college to
establish traffic and parking regulations for
passenger vehicles at such college. Such traffic
committee, subject to the approval of said board
and of the state traffic commission, may prohibit,
limit or restrict the parking of passenger
vehicles, determine speed limits, restrict roads
or portions thereof to one-way traffic and
designate the location of crosswalks on any
portion of any road or highway subject to the
care, custody and control of said board of
trustees, order to have erected and maintained
signs designating such prohibitions or
restrictions, and impose a fine [of not more than
twenty-five dollars] upon any person who fails to
comply with any such prohibition or restriction.
All fines so imposed [shall be deposited to the]
AT EACH regional community college, [scholarship
account of said board] LESS AN AMOUNT NOT TO
EXCEED THE COST OF ENFORCING TRAFFIC AND PARKING
REGULATIONS, SHALL BE DEPOSITED IN THE
INSTITUTIONAL OPERATING ACCOUNT OF SUCH COLLEGE
FOR THE PURPOSE OF LIBRARY SERVICES OR
ACQUISITIONS. The board of trustees of the
community-technical colleges shall establish at
each regional community college a committee which
shall hear appeals of penalties assessed for
parking or traffic violations. The membership of
both the committee to establish traffic and
parking regulations and the committee to hear
traffic violation appeals shall include student
and faculty representation.
Sec. 18. Section 10a-81a of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) Except when specifically prohibited by the
conditions, if any, upon which a gift was created
or by a conditional sales agreement, the board of
trustees for the community-technical colleges is
authorized to sell, trade, or otherwise dispose
of any unwanted, duplicate, out-of-date or
irrelevant materials within the regional technical
college libraries under the jurisdiction of the
board, provided the monetary proceeds of such a
transaction, if any, shall be deemed to be funds
from private sources and, as such funds, shall be
held in the manner prescribed by section 4-31a for
use in furthering any purpose the board considers
to be in harmony with the original purpose of the
gift or purchase of such materials.
(b) Fines collected by any [of the] regional
technical college [libraries] LIBRARY under the
jurisdiction of the board shall be deposited in
the [regional technical college auxiliary services
fund] INSTITUTIONAL OPERATING ACCOUNT OF SUCH
COLLEGE.
Sec. 19. Section 10a-83 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) Subject to the provisions of section
10a-26, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 12 OF THIS ACT, the
board of trustees of the community-technical
colleges shall fix fees for tuition at regional
technical colleges of not less than three hundred
eighty-one dollars for residents of this state and
not less than one thousand three hundred
twenty-six dollars for nonresidents and shall fix
fees for such other purposes as the board deems
necessary at the regional technical colleges,
[subject to the approval of the board of governors
of higher education,] and may make refunds of the
same.
(b) The board of trustees of the
community-technical colleges shall establish and
administer a fund to be known as the regional
technical [college tuition] COLLEGES OPERATING
fund. [All] APPROPRIATIONS FROM GENERAL REVENUES
OF THE STATE EXCEPT APPROPRIATIONS FOR FRINGE
BENEFITS PURSUANT TO SUBSECTION (a) OF SECTION
4-73, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 4 OF THIS ACT, AND
ALL tuition revenue received by the regional
technical colleges in accordance with the
provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall
be deposited in said fund. [Expenditures from said
fund shall not exceed the amount recommended for
expenditure by the governor pursuant to section
4-72, provided in the event the total of the
projected fund income, including interest earnings
from investments, and the accumulated fund
balance exceeds the expenditure authority, the
authority may be increased by action of the board
of trustees with the approval of the board of
governors of higher education by the amount that
the total of the projected fund income, including
interest earnings from investments, and the
accumulated fund balance exceeds the expenditure
authority.] INCOME FROM STUDENT FEES OR RELATED
CHARGES, THE PROCEEDS OF AUXILIARY ACTIVITIES AND
BUSINESS ENTERPRISES, GIFTS AND DONATIONS AND ALL
RECEIPTS DERIVED FROM THE CONDUCT BY THE COLLEGES
OF THEIR EDUCATION EXTENSION PROGRAMS AND SUMMER
SCHOOL SESSIONS SHALL BE CREDITED TO SAID FUND BUT
SHALL BE ALLOCATED TO THE CENTRAL OFFICE AND
INSTITUTIONAL OPERATING ACCOUNTS WHICH SHALL BE
ESTABLISHED AND MAINTAINED FOR THE CENTRAL OFFICE
AND EACH TECHNICAL COLLEGE. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
SHALL ESTABLISH AN EQUITABLE POLICY FOR ALLOCATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS FROM GENERAL REVENUES OF THE
STATE AND TUITION REVENUE DEPOSITED IN THE
REGIONAL TECHNICAL COLLEGES OPERATING FUND. AT THE
BEGINNING OF EACH QUARTER OF THE FISCAL YEAR, THE
BOARD SHALL ALLOCATE AND TRANSFER, IN ACCORDANCE
WITH SAID POLICY, MONEYS FOR EXPENDITURE IN SUCH
INSTITUTIONAL OPERATING ACCOUNTS, EXCLUSIVE OF
AMOUNTS RETAINED FOR CENTRAL OFFICE OPERATIONS AND
REASONABLE RESERVES FOR FUTURE DISTRIBUTION. All
costs of waiving or remitting tuition pursuant to
subsection (e) of this section shall be charged to
[said] THE REGIONAL TECHNICAL COLLEGES OPERATING
fund. REPAIRS, ALTERATIONS OR ADDITIONS TO
INSTITUTIONAL FACILITIES SUPPORTED BY OPERATING
FUNDS AND COSTING ONE MILLION DOLLARS OR MORE
SHALL REQUIRE THE APPROVAL OF THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY, OR WHEN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS NOT IN
SESSION, OF THE FINANCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. ANY
BALANCE OF RECEIPTS ABOVE EXPENDITURES SHALL
REMAIN IN SAID FUND, EXCEPT SUCH SUMS AS MAY BE
REQUIRED FOR DEPOSIT INTO A DEBT SERVICE FUND OR
THE GENERAL FUND FOR FURTHER PAYMENT BY THE
TREASURER OF DEBT SERVICE ON GENERAL OBLIGATION
BONDS OF THE STATE ISSUED FOR PURPOSES OF THE
TECHNICAL COLLEGES.
(c) Commencing December 1, 1984, and
thereafter within sixty days of the close of each
quarter, the board of trustees shall submit to the
joint standing committee of the general assembly
having cognizance of matters relating to
appropriations and the budgets of state agencies
and the office of policy and management, through
the board of governors of higher education, a
report on the actual expenditures of the regional
technical [college tuition] COLLEGES OPERATING
[fund itemized by appropriation account and] FUND
containing such [other] relevant information as
the board of governors of higher education may
require.
(d) Said board shall waive the payment of
tuition at any of the regional technical colleges
(1) for any dependent child of a person whom the
armed forces of the United States has declared to
be missing in action or to have been a prisoner of
war while serving in such armed forces after
January 1, 1960, which child has been accepted for
admission to such institution, provided such
person missing in action or former prisoner of war
was a resident of Connecticut at the time he
entered the service of the armed forces of the
United States or was a resident of Connecticut
while so serving, (2) for any veteran having
served in time of war, as defined in subsection
(a) of section 27-103, or who served in either a
combat or combat support role in the invasion of
Grenada or the peace-keeping mission in Lebanon,
who has been accepted for admission to such
institution, provided such veteran was a resident
of Connecticut at the time he entered the service
of the United States or was a resident of
Connecticut while so serving, and is a resident of
Connecticut at the time he is accepted for
admission to such institution, (3) for any
resident of Connecticut sixty-two years of age or
older, provided, at the end of the regular
registration period, there is space available in
the course in which such person intends to enroll,
and (4) for any active member of the Connecticut
army or air national guard who (A) is a resident
of Connecticut, (B) has been certified by the
adjutant general or his designee as a member in
good standing of the guard, and (C) is enrolled or
accepted for admission to such institution on a
full-time or part-time basis in an undergraduate
degree-granting program. If any person who
receives a tuition waiver in accordance with the
provisions of this subsection also receives
educational reimbursement from an employer, such
waiver shall be reduced by the amount of such
educational reimbursement.
(e) Said board shall set aside from its
anticipated regional technical college tuition
[fund] revenue, an amount not less than that
required by the board of governors' tuition policy
established under subdivision (3) of subsection
(a) of section 10a-6, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 10 OF
THIS ACT. Such funds shall be used to provide
tuition waivers, tuition remissions, grants for
educational expenses and student employment for
residents enrolled in regional technical colleges
as full or part-time matriculated students in a
degree-granting program, or enrolled in a
precollege remedial program, who demonstrate
substantial financial need.
(f) The regional technical [college tuition]
COLLEGES OPERATING fund shall be reimbursed for
the amount by which the tuition waivers granted
under subsection (d) of this section exceed five
per cent of [said fund] TUITION REVENUE through an
annual state appropriation. The board of
[governors] TRUSTEES shall request such an
appropriation [in accordance with section 10a-8]
and said appropriation shall be based upon an
estimate of tuition revenue loss using tuition
rates in effect for the fiscal year in which such
appropriation will apply.
Sec. 20. Section 10a-84 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
The board of trustees of the
community-technical colleges shall appoint a
committee at each regional technical college to
establish traffic and parking regulations for
passenger vehicles at such college. Such traffic
committee, subject to the approval of said board
and of the state traffic commission, may prohibit,
limit or restrict the parking of passenger
vehicles, determine speed limits, restrict roads
or portions thereof to one-way traffic and
designate the location of crosswalks on any
portion of any road or highway subject to the
care, custody and control of said board of
trustees, order to have erected and maintained
signs designating such prohibitions or
restrictions, and impose a fine [of not more than
twenty-five dollars] upon any person who fails to
comply with any such prohibition or restriction.
All fines so imposed [shall be deposited to the]
AT EACH regional technical college, [scholarship
account of said board] LESS AN AMOUNT NOT TO
EXCEED THE COST OF ENFORCING TRAFFIC AND PARKING
REGULATIONS, SHALL BE DEPOSITED IN THE
INSTITUTIONAL OPERATING ACCOUNT OF SUCH COLLEGE
FOR THE PURPOSE OF LIBRARY SERVICES OR
ACQUISITIONS. The board of trustees of the
community-technical colleges shall establish at
each regional technical college a committee which
shall hear appeals of penalties assessed for
parking or traffic violations. The membership of
both the committee to establish traffic and
parking regulations and the committee to hear
traffic violation appeals shall include student
and faculty representation.
Sec. 21. Section 10a-89 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) Subject to state-wide policy and
guidelines established by the board of governors
of higher education, the board of trustees shall
administer the Connecticut State University
SYSTEM, plan for the expansion and development of
the institutions within its jurisdiction, and
submit such plans to the board of governors of
higher education and the commissioner of public
works and the state properties review board for
approval. The commissioner of public works upon
request of the board of trustees and after
approval of the board of governors of higher
education, shall, in accordance with section
4b-30, negotiate and execute leases on such
physical facilities as the board of trustees may
deem necessary for proper operation of such
institutions, and said board of trustees may, with
the permission of the commissioner of public works
and the state properties review board, expend
capital funds therefor if such leasing is required
during the planning and construction phases of
institutions within its jurisdiction for which
such capital funds were authorized. The board of
trustees may make buildings and other facilities
under its control available to nonprofit and other
organizations or to individuals for temporary uses
not inconsistent with the educational purpose of
the university. The board of trustees may appoint
or remove the chief executive officer of each
institution within its jurisdiction, and with
respect to its own operation the board of trustees
may appoint and remove an executive secretary and
executive staff. The board of trustees may
determine the size of the executive staff and the
duties, terms and conditions of employment of said
secretary and staff, subject to personnel
guidelines established by the board of governors
of higher education in consultation with said
board of trustees. The board of trustees may
employ faculty and other personnel needed to
maintain and operate the institutions within its
jurisdiction. Within the limitation of
appropriations, the board of trustees shall fix
the compensation of such personnel, establish
terms and conditions of employment and prescribe
their duties and qualifications. Said board of
trustees shall determine who constitutes its
professional staff and establish compensation and
classification schedules for its professional
staff. Said board of trustees shall annually
submit to the commissioner of administrative
services a list of the positions which it has
included within the professional staff. The board
of trustees may appoint one or more physicians for
the Connecticut State University SYSTEM and shall
provide such physicians with suitable facilities
for the performance of such duties as it
prescribes. The board of trustees shall, with the
advice of, and subject to the approval of the
board of governors of higher education, prepare
plans for the development of a new state
university and submit the same to the commissioner
of public works and request said commissioner to
select the site for such university. Within the
limits of the bonding authority therefor and
subject to the provisions of section 4b-23, the
commissioner of public works may acquire such site
and construct such buildings as are consistent
with the plan of development approved by the board
of governors of higher education. Subject to
state-wide policy and guidelines established by
the board of governors of higher education, the
board of trustees shall: (1) Make rules for the
government of the Connecticut State University
SYSTEM and shall determine the general policies of
the university, including those concerning the
admission of students and shall direct the
expenditures of the university's funds within the
amounts available; (2) develop the mission
statement for the university which shall include,
but not be limited to the following elements: (A)
The educational needs of and constituencies served
by said university; (B) the degrees offered by
said university; and (C) the role and scope of
each institution within the university, which
shall include each institution's particular
strengths and specialties. The board of trustees
shall submit the mission statement to the board of
governors of higher education for review and
approval in accordance with the provisions of
section 10a-6; (3) establish policies for the
university and for the individual institutions
under its jurisdiction; (4) submit to the board of
governors of higher education, for approval,
recommendations for the establishment of new
academic programs; (5) make appropriate
recommendations to the board of governors of
higher education regarding institutional mergers
or closures; and (6) coordinate the programs and
services of the institutions under its
jurisdiction.
(b) The board of trustees shall: (1) Review
and approve institutional budget requests and
prepare and submit to the board of governors of
higher education, in accordance with the
provisions of section 10a-8, AS AMENDED BY SECTION
11 OF THIS ACT, the budget request for the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM; and (2)
propose facility planning and capital expenditure
budget priorities for the institutions under its
jurisdiction. THE BOARD MAY REQUEST AUTHORITY FROM
THE TREASURER TO ISSUE PAYMENT FOR CLAIMS AGAINST
THE STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, OTHER THAN A PAYMENT
FOR PAYROLL, DEBT SERVICE PAYABLE ON STATE BONDS
TO BONDHOLDERS, PAYING AGENTS, OR TRUSTEES, OR ANY
PAYMENT THE SOURCE OF WHICH INCLUDES THE PROCEEDS
OF A STATE BOND ISSUE.
Sec. 22. Section 10a-89a of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) Except when specifically prohibited by the
conditions, if any, upon which a gift was created
or by a conditional sales agreement, the board of
trustees of the Connecticut State University
SYSTEM is authorized to sell, trade, or otherwise
dispose of any unwanted, duplicate, out-of-date
or irrelevant materials within the libraries under
the jurisdiction of the board, provided the
monetary proceeds of such a transaction, if any,
shall be deemed to be funds from private sources
and, as such funds, shall be held in the manner
prescribed by section 4-31a for use in furthering
any purpose the board considers to be in harmony
with the original purpose of the gift or purchase
of such materials.
(b) Fines collected by any [of the libraries]
STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY under the jurisdiction of
the board shall be deposited in the [Connecticut
State University auxiliary services fund]
INSTITUTIONAL OPERATING ACCOUNT OF SUCH
UNIVERSITY.
Sec. 23. Section 10a-90 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
The board of trustees for the Connecticut
State University SYSTEM, with the approval of the
governor [, the board of governors of higher
education] and the secretary of the office of
policy and management, may lease state-owned land
under its care, custody or control to private
developers for construction of dormitory
buildings, provided such developers agree to lease
such buildings to such board of trustees with an
option to purchase and provided further that any
such agreement to lease is subject to the
provisions of section 4b-23, prior to the making
of the original lease by the board of trustees.
The plans for such buildings shall be subject to
approval of such board, the commissioner of public
works and the state properties review board and
such leases shall be for the periods and upon such
terms and conditions as the commissioner of public
works determines, and such buildings, while
privately owned, shall be subject to taxation by
the town in which they are located.
Sec. 24. Section 10a-91 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) The board of trustees of the Connecticut
State University SYSTEM, with the approval of the
governor, the commissioner of public works [,] AND
the state properties review board, [and the board
of governors of higher education,] may lease land
or buildings under its care, custody or control to
private developers for rental housing and
commercial establishments. Such leases shall be
for periods and upon such terms and conditions,
including, but not limited to, provision for
adequate liability insurance to be maintained by
the lessee for the benefit of the state and rental
terms, as may be determined by the commissioner of
public works and, in the case of a lease of land,
may provide for the construction of buildings
thereon to be used for rental housing and
commercial establishments, the plans of which
shall be subject to the approval of the board of
trustees, the commissioner of public works and the
state properties review board. Said board of
trustees may provide for water, heat and waste
disposal services on a cost-reimbursement basis to
such leased premises. Said board may designate the
kinds of concessions for supplying goods,
commodities, services and facilities to be
permitted on such land and may select the
permittees, or said board may delegate such
functions to the private developers with which it
contracts pursuant to this section.
(b) Any land so leased to a private developer
for rental housing or commercial establishments
and the buildings and appurtenances thereon shall
be subject to local assessment and taxation
annually in the name of the lessee, assignee or
sublessee, whichever has immediate right to
occupancy of such land or building, by the town
wherein situated as of the assessment day of such
town next following the date of leasing. Such land
shall not be included as property of the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM for the
purpose of computing a grant in lieu of taxes
pursuant to section 12-19a.
Sec. 25. Section 10a-92 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
The board of trustees of the Connecticut State
University SYSTEM shall appoint a committee at
each campus to establish traffic and parking
regulations for passenger vehicles on such campus.
Such traffic committee, subject to the approval of
said board and of the state traffic commission,
may prohibit, limit or restrict the parking of
passenger vehicles, determine speed limits,
restrict roads or portions thereof to one-way
traffic and designate the location of crosswalks
on any portion of any road or highway subject to
the care, custody and control of said board of
trustees, order to have erected and maintained
signs designating such prohibitions or
restrictions, and impose a fine [of not more than
twenty-five dollars] upon any person who fails to
comply with any such prohibition or restriction.
All fines so imposed [shall be deposited to the
scholarship account of said board] AT EACH STATE
UNIVERSITY, LESS AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED THE COST
OF ENFORCING TRAFFIC AND PARKING REGULATIONS,
SHALL BE DEPOSITED IN THE INSTITUTIONAL OPERATING
ACCOUNT OF SUCH STATE UNIVERSITY FOR THE PURPOSE
OF LIBRARY SERVICES OR ACQUISITIONS. The board of
trustees of the Connecticut State University
SYSTEM shall establish at each campus a committee
which shall hear appeals of penalties assessed for
parking or traffic violations. The membership of
both the committee to establish traffic and
parking regulations and the committee to hear
traffic violation appeals shall include student
and faculty representation.
Sec. 26. Section 10a-99 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) Subject to the provisions of section
10a-26, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 12 OF THIS ACT, the
board of trustees of the Connecticut State
University SYSTEM shall fix fees for tuition of
not less than four hundred forty dollars for
residents of this state and not less than one
thousand thirty dollars for nonresidents and shall
fix fees for such other purposes as the board
deems necessary at the university, [subject to the
approval of the board of governors of higher
education,] and may make refunds of the same.
(b) The board of trustees of the Connecticut
State University SYSTEM shall establish and
administer a fund to be known as the Connecticut
State University [tuition] SYSTEM OPERATING fund.
[All] APPROPRIATIONS FROM GENERAL REVENUES OF THE
STATE EXCEPT APPROPRIATIONS FOR FRINGE BENEFITS
PURSUANT TO SUBSECTION (a) OF SECTION 4-73, AS
AMENDED BY SECTION 4 OF THIS ACT, AND ALL tuition
revenue received by the Connecticut State
University SYSTEM in accordance with the
provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall
be deposited in said fund. [Expenditures from said
fund shall not exceed the amount recommended for
expenditure by the governor pursuant to section
4-72, provided in the event the total of the
projected fund income, including interest earnings
from investments, and the accumulated fund balance
exceeds the expenditure authority, the authority
may be increased by action of the board of
trustees with the approval of the board of
governors of higher education, by the amount that
the total of the projected fund income, including
interest earnings from investments, and the
accumulated fund balance exceeds the expenditure
authority.] INCOME FROM STUDENT FEES OR RELATED
CHARGES, THE PROCEEDS OF AUXILIARY ACTIVITIES AND
BUSINESS ENTERPRISES, GIFTS AND DONATIONS AND ALL
RECEIPTS DERIVED FROM THE CONDUCT BY A STATE
UNIVERSITY OF ITS EDUCATION EXTENSION PROGRAM AND
ITS SUMMER SCHOOL SESSION SHALL BE CREDITED TO
SAID FUND BUT SHALL BE ALLOCATED TO THE CENTRAL
OFFICE AND INSTITUTIONAL OPERATING ACCOUNTS WHICH
SHALL BE ESTABLISHED AND MAINTAINED FOR THE
CENTRAL OFFICE AND EACH STATE UNIVERSITY. THE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES SHALL ESTABLISH AN EQUITABLE
POLICY FOR ALLOCATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FROM
GENERAL REVENUES OF THE STATE AND TUITION REVENUE
DEPOSITED IN THE CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY
SYSTEM OPERATING FUND. AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH
QUARTER OF THE FISCAL YEAR, THE BOARD SHALL
ALLOCATE AND TRANSFER, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SAID
POLICY, MONEYS FOR EXPENDITURE IN SUCH
INSTITUTIONAL OPERATING ACCOUNTS, EXCLUSIVE OF
AMOUNTS RETAINED FOR CENTRAL OFFICE OPERATIONS AND
REASONABLE RESERVES FOR FUTURE DISTRIBUTION. All
costs of waiving or remitting tuition pursuant to
subsection (e) of this section shall be charged to
[said] THE CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
OPERATING fund. REPAIRS, ALTERATIONS OR
ADDITIONS TO FACILITIES SUPPORTED BY THE
CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OPERATING FUND
AND COSTING ONE MILLION DOLLARS OR MORE SHALL
REQUIRE THE APPROVAL OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, OR
WHEN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS NOT IN SESSION, OF
THE FINANCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. ANY BALANCE OF
RECEIPTS ABOVE EXPENDITURES SHALL REMAIN IN SAID
FUND, EXCEPT SUCH SUMS AS MAY BE REQUIRED FOR
DEPOSIT INTO A DEBT SERVICE FUND OR THE GENERAL
FUND FOR FURTHER PAYMENT BY THE TREASURER OF DEBT
SERVICE ON GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS OF THE STATE
ISSUED FOR PURPOSES OF THE CONNECTICUT STATE
UNIVERSITY SYSTEM.
(c) Commencing December 1, 1984, and
thereafter within sixty days of the close of each
quarter, the board of trustees shall submit to the
joint standing committee of the general assembly
having cognizance of matters relating to
appropriations and the budgets of state agencies
and the office of policy and management, through
the board of governors of higher education, a
report on the actual expenditures of the
Connecticut State University [tuition] SYSTEM
OPERATING [fund itemized by appropriation account
and] FUND containing such [other] relevant
information as the board of governors of higher
education may require.
(d) Said board shall waive the payment of
tuition fees at the Connecticut State University
SYSTEM (1) for any dependent child of a person
whom the armed forces of the United States has
declared to be missing in action or to have been a
prisoner of war while serving in such armed forces
after January 1, 1960, which child has been
accepted for admission to such institution,
provided such person missing in action or former
prisoner of war was a resident of Connecticut at
the time he entered the service of the armed
forces of the United States or was a resident of
Connecticut while so serving, (2) for any veteran
having served in time of war, as defined in
subsection (a) of section 27-103, or who served in
either a combat or combat support role in the
invasion of Grenada or the peace-keeping mission
in Lebanon, who has been accepted for admission to
such institution, provided such veteran was a
resident of Connecticut at the time he entered the
service of the armed forces of the United States
or was a resident of Connecticut while so serving
and is a resident of Connecticut at the time he is
accepted for admission to such institution, (3)
for any resident of Connecticut sixty-two years of
age or older who has been accepted for admission
to such institution, provided such person is
enrolled in a degree-granting program or,
provided, at the end of the regular registration
period, there is space available in the course in
which such person intends to enroll, (4) for any
student attending the Connecticut police academy
who is enrolled in a law enforcement program at
said academy offered in coordination with the
university which accredits courses taken in such
program, and (5) for any active member of the
Connecticut army or air national guard who (A) is
a resident of Connecticut, (B) has been certified
by the adjutant general or his designee as a
member in good standing of the guard, and (C) is
enrolled or accepted for admission to such
institution on a full-time or part-time basis in
an undergraduate degree-granting program. If any
person who receives a tuition waiver in accordance
with the provisions of this subsection also
receives educational reimbursement from an
employer, such waiver shall be reduced by the
amount of such educational reimbursement.
(e) Said board shall set aside from its
anticipated tuition [fund] revenue, an amount not
less than that required by the board of governors'
tuition policy established under subdivision (3)
of subsection (a) of section 10a-6, AS AMENDED BY
SECTION 10 OF THIS ACT. Such funds shall be used
to provide tuition waivers, tuition remissions,
grants for educational expenses and student
employment for any undergraduate or graduate
student who is enrolled as a full or part-time
matriculated student in a degree-granting program,
or enrolled in a precollege remedial program, and
who demonstrates substantial financial need.
(f) The Connecticut State University [tuition]
SYSTEM OPERATING fund shall be reimbursed for the
amount by which the tuition waivers granted under
subsection (d) of this section exceed two and
one-half per cent of [said fund] TUITION REVENUE
through an annual state appropriation. The board
of [governors] TRUSTEES shall request such an
appropriation [in accordance with section 10a-8]
and said appropriation shall be based upon an
estimate of tuition revenue loss using tuition
rates in effect for the fiscal year in which such
appropriation will apply.
Sec. 27. Subsection (b) of section 10a-104 of
the general statutes is repealed and the following
is substituted in lieu thereof:
(b) The board of trustees shall: (1) Review
and approve institutional budget requests and
prepare and submit to the board of governors of
higher education, in accordance with the
provisions of section 10a-8, AS AMENDED BY SECTION
11 OF THIS ACT, the budget request for the
university and all branches thereof; and (2)
propose facility planning and capital expenditure
budget priorities for the institutions under its
jurisdiction. THE BOARD MAY REQUEST AUTHORITY FROM
THE TREASURER TO ISSUE PAYMENT FOR CLAIMS AGAINST
THE UNIVERSITY, OTHER THAN A PAYMENT FOR PAYROLL,
DEBT SERVICE PAYABLE ON STATE BONDS TO
BONDHOLDERS, PAYING AGENTS, OR TRUSTEES, OR ANY
PAYMENT THE SOURCE OF WHICH INCLUDES THE PROCEEDS
OF A STATE BOND ISSUE.
Sec. 28. Subsection (b) of section 10a-104a
of the general statutes is repealed and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof:
(b) Fines collected by any of the libraries
under the jurisdiction of the board shall be
deposited in The University of Connecticut
[auxiliary services] OPERATING fund or The
University of Connecticut Health Center [auxiliary
services] OPERATING fund, as appropriate.
Sec. 29. Section 10a-105 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) Subject to the provisions of sections
10a-8, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 11 OF THIS ACT, and
10a-26, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 12 OF THIS ACT, the
board of trustees of The University of Connecticut
shall fix fees for tuition (1) of not less than
seven hundred fifty dollars for residents of this
state and not less than one thousand three hundred
dollars for nonresidents enrolled in the school of
law, (2) of not less than one thousand dollars for
residents of this state and not less than two
thousand dollars for nonresidents enrolled in the
school of medicine or dental medicine and (3) of
not less than five hundred forty dollars for all
other residents of this state and not less than
one thousand two hundred thirty dollars for all
other nonresidents and shall fix fees for such
other purposes as the board deems necessary at The
University of Connecticut, [subject to the
approval of the board of governors of higher
education,] and may make refunds of the same. The
board of trustees shall, for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1983, implement a tuition
schedule which shall increase fees for tuition for
any nonresident student, except nonresident
medical and dental students, provided the tuition
schedule shall be designed to collect tuition
revenue in an amount equal to one million, eight
hundred thirty-seven thousand six hundred eighty
dollars.
(b) The board of trustees of The University of
Connecticut shall establish and administer a fund
to be known as The University of Connecticut
[tuition] OPERATING fund. [All] APPROPRIATIONS
FROM GENERAL REVENUES OF THE STATE EXCEPT
APPROPRIATIONS FOR FRINGE BENEFITS PURSUANT TO
SUBSECTION (a) OF SECTION 4-73, AS AMENDED BY
SECTION 4 OF THIS ACT, AND ALL tuition revenue
received by the university in accordance with the
provisions of subsection (a) of this section,
INCOME FROM STUDENT FEES OR RELATED CHARGES, THE
PROCEEDS OF AUXILIARY ACTIVITIES AND BUSINESS
ENTERPRISES, GIFTS AND DONATIONS AND ALL RECEIPTS
DERIVED FROM THE CONDUCT BY THE UNIVERSITY OF
CONNECTICUT OF ITS EDUCATION EXTENSION PROGRAM AND
ITS SUMMER SCHOOL SESSION, except [tuition] FUNDS
received by The University of Connecticut Health
Center, shall be deposited in said fund.
[Expenditures from said fund shall not exceed the
amount recommended for expenditure by the governor
pursuant to section 4-72 provided, in the event
the total of the projected fund income, including
interest earnings from investments, and the
accumulated fund balance exceeds the expenditure
authority, the authority may be increased by
action of the board of trustees with the approval
of the board of governors of higher education by
the amount that the total of the projected fund
income, including interest earnings from
investments, and the accumulated fund balance
exceeds the expenditure authority.] All costs of
waiving or remitting tuition pursuant to
subsection [(f)] (e) of this section, except the
cost of waiving or remitting tuition for students
enrolled in the schools of medicine or dental
medicine, shall be charged to said fund. REPAIRS,
ALTERATIONS OR ADDITIONS TO FACILITIES SUPPORTED
BY SAID FUND COSTING ONE MILLION DOLLARS OR MORE
SHALL REQUIRE THE APPROVAL OF THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY, OR WHEN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS NOT IN
SESSION, OF THE FINANCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. ANY
BALANCE OF RECEIPTS ABOVE EXPENDITURES SHALL
REMAIN IN SAID FUND, EXCEPT SUCH SUMS AS MAY BE
REQUIRED FOR DEPOSIT INTO A DEBT SERVICE FUND OR
THE GENERAL FUND FOR FURTHER PAYMENT BY THE
TREASURER OF DEBT SERVICE ON GENERAL OBLIGATION
BONDS OF THE STATE ISSUED FOR PURPOSES OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT.
(c) The board of trustees of The University of
Connecticut shall establish and administer a fund
to be known as The University of Connecticut
Health Center [tuition] OPERATING fund. [All]
APPROPRIATIONS FROM GENERAL REVENUES OF THE STATE
EXCEPT APPROPRIATIONS FOR FRINGE BENEFITS PURSUANT
TO SUBSECTION (a) OF SECTION 4-73, AS AMENDED BY
SECTION 4 OF THIS ACT, ALL tuition revenue
received by the health center in accordance with
the provisions of subsection (a) of this section,
INCOME FROM STUDENT FEES OR RELATED CHARGES,
PROCEEDS FROM AUXILIARY AND BUSINESS ENTERPRISES,
GIFTS AND DONATIONS, AND OTHER INCOME RELATIVE TO
THESE ACTIVITIES shall be deposited in said fund,
[. Expenditures from said fund shall not exceed
the amount recommended for expenditure by the
governor pursuant to section 4-72 provided, in the
event the total of the projected fund income,
including interest earnings from investments, and
the accumulated fund balance exceeds the
expenditure authority, the authority may be
increased by action of the board of trustees with
the approval of the board of governors of higher
education, by the amount that the total of the
projected fund income, including interest earnings
from investments, and the accumulated fund balance
exceeds the expenditure authority.] PROVIDED THE
PROCEEDS OF AUXILIARY AND BUSINESS ENTERPRISES,
GIFTS AND DONATIONS SHALL BE MAINTAINED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF THE
FEDERAL TAX CODE. All costs of waiving or
remitting tuition pursuant to subsection (f) of
this section for students enrolled in the schools
of medicine or dental medicine shall be charged to
said fund. REPAIRS, ALTERATIONS OR ADDITIONS TO
FACILITIES SUPPORTED BY SAID FUND COSTING ONE
MILLION DOLLARS OR MORE SHALL REQUIRE THE APPROVAL
OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, OR WHEN THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY IS NOT IN SESSION, OF THE FINANCE
ADVISORY COMMITTEE. ANY BALANCE OF RECEIPTS ABOVE
EXPENDITURES SHALL REMAIN IN SAID FUND, EXCEPT
SUCH SUMS AS MAY BE REQUIRED FOR DEPOSIT INTO A
DEBT SERVICE FUND OR THE GENERAL FUND FOR FURTHER
PAYMENT BY THE TREASURER OF DEBT SERVICE ON
GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS OF THE STATE ISSUED FOR
PURPOSES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH
CENTER.
(d) Commencing December 1, 1981, and
thereafter within sixty days of the close of each
quarter, the board of trustees shall submit to the
joint standing committee of the general assembly
having cognizance of matters relating to
appropriations and the budgets of state agencies
and the office of policy and management, through
the board of governors of higher education, a
report on the actual expenditures of The
University of Connecticut [Tuition] OPERATING fund
and The University of Connecticut Health Center
[tuition] OPERATING fund [itemized by
appropriation account and] containing such [other]
relevant information as the board of governors of
higher education may require.
(e) Said board of trustees shall waive the
payment of tuition fees at The University of
Connecticut (1) for any dependent child of a
person whom the armed forces of the United States
has declared to be missing in action or to have
been a prisoner of war while serving in such armed
forces after January 1, 1960, which child has been
accepted for admission to The University of
Connecticut, provided such person missing in
action or former prisoner of war was a resident of
Connecticut at the time he entered the service of
the armed forces of the United States or was a
resident of Connecticut while so serving, (2) for
any veteran having served in time of war, as
defined in subsection (a) of section 27-103, or
who served in either a combat or combat support
role in the invasion of Grenada or the
peace-keeping mission in Lebanon, who has been
accepted for admission to said institution,
provided such veteran was a resident of
Connecticut at the time he entered the service of
the armed forces of the United States or was a
resident of Connecticut while so serving, and is a
resident of Connecticut at the time he is accepted
for admission to said institution, (3) for any
resident of Connecticut sixty-two years of age or
older who has been accepted for admission to said
institution, provided such person is enrolled in a
degree-granting program or, provided, at the end
of the regular registration period, there is space
available in the course in which such person
intends to enroll, and (4) for any active member
of the Connecticut army or air national guard who
(A) is a resident of Connecticut, (B) has been
certified by the adjutant general or his designee
as a member in good standing of the guard, and (C)
is enrolled or accepted for admission to such
institution on a full-time or part-time basis in
an undergraduate degree-granting program. If any
person who receives a tuition waiver in accordance
with the provisions of this subsection also
receives educational reimbursement from an
employer, such waiver shall be reduced by the
amount of such educational reimbursement.
(f) Said board shall set aside from its
anticipated tuition [fund] revenue, an amount not
less than that required by the board of governors'
tuition policy established under subdivision (3)
of subsection (a) of section 10a-6, AS AMENDED BY
SECTION 10 OF THIS ACT. Such funds shall be used
to provide tuition waivers, tuition remissions,
grants for educational expenses and student
employment for any undergraduate, graduate or
professional student who is enrolled as a full or
part-time matriculated student in a
degree-granting program, or enrolled in a
precollege remedial program, and who demonstrates
substantial financial need.
(g) The University of Connecticut [tuition]
OPERATING fund shall be reimbursed for the amount
by which tuition waivers granted under subsection
(e) of this section exceed two and one-half per
cent of [said fund] TUITION REVENUE through an
annual state appropriation. The board of
[governors] TRUSTEES shall request such an
appropriation [in accordance with section 10a-8]
and said appropriation shall be based upon an
estimate of tuition revenue loss using tuition
rates in effect for the fiscal year in which such
appropriation will apply.
(h) Said board shall [waive the] GRANT
REMISSION OR WAIVER OF tuition for graduate
assistants at the university.
Sec. 30. Subsection (a) of section 10a-127 of
the general statutes is repealed and the following
is substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) The board of trustees of The University of
Connecticut is authorized to establish and
administer a fund, to be known as the hospital
fund, for the operation of hospital facilities,
clinics and programs, except for the facilities,
clinics and programs of the Uncas-on-Thames
Hospital. Revenues received from and in connection
with such operations, including moneys received
from federal, state, municipal and private
sources, shall be deposited in the state treasury
to the credit of said fund. The resources of the
fund are to be used to pay the direct expenses of
operation and maintenance of such facilities and
programs and to purchase equipment or otherwise
improve facilities. Such payments shall be made by
the state treasurer on warrants issued by the
state comptroller, upon the order of authorized
officers of the university. To provide working
capital for the fund, moneys may be transferred
from The University of Connecticut [Auxiliary
Services Fund] HEALTH CENTER OPERATING FUND
established under the provisions of section
[10a-117] 10a-105, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 29 OF
THIS ACT, and not more than five hundred thousand
dollars may be transferred from the resources of
the general fund upon the recommendation of the
governor and the approval of the finance advisory
committee.
Sec. 31. Section 10a-139 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) The trustees of The University of
Connecticut, subject to the approval of the state
traffic commission, may prohibit, limit or
restrict the parking of vehicles, may determine
speed limits, may restrict roads or portions
thereof to one-way traffic and may designate the
location of crosswalks on any portion of any road
or highway upon the grounds controlled by The
University of Connecticut, and may erect and
maintain signs designating such prohibitions or
restrictions. Any person who fails to comply with
any such prohibition or restriction shall be
fined. [not more than thirty-five dollars.]
Violation of any provision of this subsection
shall be an infraction.
(b) All fines imposed upon students attending
the university, LESS AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED THE
COST OF ENFORCING TRAFFIC AND PARKING REGULATIONS,
shall be deposited to the scholarship account of
[said] THE university OPERATING FUND OR AN ACCOUNT
OF SAID FUND FOR THE PURPOSE OF LIBRARY SERVICES
OR ACQUISITIONS, except that all fines imposed
upon students attending the health center of the
university, at Farmington, shall be deposited in a
scholarship account within the [auxiliary
services] UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER
OPERATING fund established pursuant to section
[10a-129] 10a-105, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 29 OF
THIS ACT, [for use by said health center] OR AN
ACCOUNT OF SAID FUND FOR THE PURPOSE OF LIBRARY
SERVICES OR ACQUISITIONS.
(c) All other fines imposed at the health
center of the university, at Farmington, shall be
deposited in the [auxiliary services fund
established pursuant to section 10a-129]
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER OPERATING
FUND for use by said health center.
(d) All parking fines imposed upon persons
other than students attending the university
collected by the state pursuant to this section
since January 1, 1969, shall be remitted to the
town of Mansfield.
Sec. 32. Section 10a-141 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
The board of trustees of The University of
Connecticut, with the approval of the governor [,
the board of governors of higher education] and
the secretary of the office of policy and
management may lease state-owned land under its
care, custody or control to private developers for
construction of dormitory buildings, provided such
developers agree to lease such buildings to such
board of trustees with an option to purchase and
provided any such agreement to lease is subject to
the provisions of section 4b-23, prior to the
making of the original lease by the board of
trustees. The plans for such buildings shall be
subject to approval of the commissioner of public
works and the board of trustees and such leases
shall be for the periods and upon such terms and
conditions as such commissioner of public works
determines, and such buildings, while privately
owned, shall be subject to taxation by the town in
which they are located.
Sec. 33. Section 10a-142 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) There is established a special police
force for The University of Connecticut at Storrs
and its several branches, the University of
Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Central
Connecticut State University in New Britain,
Southern Connecticut State University in New
Haven, Eastern Connecticut State University in
Willimantic and Western Connecticut State
University in Danbury, the members of which shall
have the same duties, responsibilities and
authority under sections 7-281, 14-8, 54-1f and
54-33a and title 53a, as members of a duly
organized local police department. The
jurisdiction of said special police force shall
extend to the geographical limits of the property
owned or under the control of the above
institutions, AND TO PROPERTY OCCUPIED BY THE
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT IN THE TOWN OF
MANSFIELD, except as provided in subsection (b) of
section 7-277a.
(b) Members of said special police force shall
continue to be state employees and shall be
subject to the provisions of chapter 67, and parts
III and IV of chapter 185b. The provisions of part
V of chapter 104 and section 7-433c shall not
apply to such members.
(c) Said special police force shall have
access to, and use of, the Connecticut On-Line Law
Enforcement Communications Teleprocessing System
without charge.
(d) NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SECTIONS
4a-4, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 7 OF THIS ACT, 4a-5
AND 4a-52 TO THE CONTRARY, THE CONSTITUENT UNITS
OF THE STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION MAY
PURCHASE PUBLIC SAFETY AND EMERGENCY VEHICLES AND
EQUIPMENT WITHIN THE LIMITS OF AVAILABLE FUNDS.
Sec. 34. Subsection (g) of section 10a-143 of
the general statutes is repealed and the following
is substituted in lieu thereof:
(g) The board shall fix fees for examinations
and for such other purposes as the board deems
necessary, [subject to the approval of the board
of governors of higher education,] and may make
refunds and other disposition of same as provided
by law or regulation. The board may make
contracts, leases or other agreements in
connection with its responsibilities.
Sec. 35. Section 10a-151b of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter
58, AND SECTIONS 4a-4, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 7 OF
THIS ACT, 4a-5 AND 4a-6, and section 16a-110 to
the contrary, a chief executive officer may
purchase equipment, supplies and contractual
services, [which are used for research purposes or
which are specifically related to the teaching of
courses in science, technology, business education
or communications] OR LEASE PERSONAL PROPERTY
COMPATIBLE, WHERE RELEVANT, WITH STANDARDS FOR
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE ESTABLISHED BY THE OFFICE OF
INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY, without the approval
of the commissioner of administrative services OR
THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF
INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY provided [(1) there is
no contract for the purchase of such equipment,
supplies or contractual services related to such
equipment or supplies with the department of
administrative services pursuant to chapter 58,
(2) such purchases are entirely paid for with
funds which are not a part of or required by
statute or regulation to be deposited to the
credit of the general fund and (3)] such purchases
are made in accordance with this section and in
accordance with policies which are [(A)] (1)
adopted by the board of trustees of the
constituent unit after reasonable opportunity for
interested persons to present their views, and
[(B)] (2) subject to section 4-175. For purposes
of this section, "chief executive officer" means
the chief executive officer of a constituent unit
of the state system of higher education or the
chief executive officer of an institution within
the jurisdiction of such a constituent unit.
(b) Purchases made pursuant to this section
shall be based, when possible, on competitive
bids. Such chief executive officer shall solicit
competitive bids by sending notice to prospective
suppliers and by posting notice on a public
bulletin board in his office. Such notice shall
contain a notice of state contract requirements
pursuant to section 4a-60. Each bid shall be kept
sealed until opened publicly at the time stated in
the notice soliciting such bid. If the amount of
the expenditure is estimated to exceed [ten]
TWENTY-FIVE thousand dollars, competitive bids
shall be solicited by public notice inserted at
least once in not fewer than three daily
newspapers published in the state, and at least
five calendar days before the final date of
submitting bids. All purchases of [ten]
TWENTY-FIVE thousand dollars or less in amount
shall be made in the open market, but shall, when
possible, be based on at least three competitive
quotations.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of
subsection (b) of this section to the contrary,
competitive bidding is not required in the case of
minor purchases of [six hundred] TWO THOUSAND
dollars or less in amount or in the case of
emergency purchases. Whenever an emergency exists
by reason of extraordinary conditions or
contingencies that could not reasonably be
foreseen and guarded against, or because of
unusual trade or market conditions, the chief
executive officer may, if it is for the best
interest of the state, make purchases without
competitive bidding. A statement of all emergency
purchases made under the provisions of this
subsection shall be set forth in the annual report
of the chief executive officer.
(d) Nothing in this section shall exempt a
constituent unit or chief executive officer from
complying with the provisions of sections 4a-60
and 4a-61.
(e) No person, firm or corporation
disqualified by the commissioner of administrative
services pursuant to section 4a-63 from bidding on
contracts with the department of administrative
services may bid pursuant to this section.
(f) A chief executive officer who enters into
a contract under this section which fails to meet
the requirements of this section shall be
personally liable for the costs of such contract
and such contract shall be void and of no effect.
Any amount paid under such contract may be
recovered from such chief executive officer by the
state in a civil action.
(g) NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED
TO PREVENT A CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER FROM
PARTICIPATING IN A CONTRACT FOR THE PURCHASE OF
EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES OR SERVICES WITH THE
DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES PURSUANT TO
CHAPTER 58.
Sec. 36. Section 10a-151c of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
[(a)] Notwithstanding any provision of the
general statutes to the contrary, [and except as
provided in subsection (b) of this section,] the
chief executive officer of each institution within
the jurisdiction of a constituent unit of the
state system of higher education shall have the
authority to approve travel requests and the
payment of travel expenses incurred by [faculty
and professional] employees of their institutions,
in accordance with rates and policies approved by
the board of trustees of the constituent unit,
provided such rates and policies (1) are approved
after reasonable opportunity has been provided for
interested persons to present their views and (2)
are subject to section 4-175. Travel expenses paid
pursuant to this subsection shall be paid upon the
order of the comptroller.
[(b) Approved travel expenses paid from
general fund appropriations shall be paid from
said fund upon the order of the comptroller drawn
against said fund in accordance with rates stated
in the standard state travel regulations.]
Sec. 37. (NEW) Notwithstanding the provisions
of sections 5-214 and 5-215 of the general
statutes or any other provision of the general
statutes to the contrary, the chief executive
officer of a constituent unit of the state system
of higher education and the chief executive
officer of an institution within the jurisdiction
of a constituent unit of the state system of
higher education may establish positions and
approve the filling of all position vacancies of
such constituent unit or institution within the
limits of available funds and in accordance with
policies approved by the board of trustees of the
constituent unit.
Sec. 38. Section 4-29 of the general statutes
is repealed and the following is substituted in
lieu thereof:
Any state appropriation or the proceeds of any
bond issue authorized by the general assembly for
the purpose of erecting a building or buildings
for the use of any state institution, any
institution under the jurisdiction of the board of
trustees of the Connecticut State University
SYSTEM enumerated in section 10a-87, any state
vocational school or The University of
Connecticut, for the development of aviation and
for other purposes, may be used in whole or in
part as the state's share of the cost of the work
involved in conjunction with any funds made
available by any branch of the federal government
if the governor so determines and directs.
Sec. 39. Subsection (a) of section 4-31a of
the general statutes is repealed and the following
is substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) Any gift, contribution, income from trust
funds, or other aid from any private source or
from the federal government, except federal aid
for highway and bridge purposes or federal funds
in the possession of the board of control of the
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, the
board of trustees of The University of
Connecticut, the board of trustees of the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM, the board of
trustees of the community-technical colleges, or
the employment security division of the labor
department, or any other gift, grant or trust fund
in the possession of any of said boards, shall be
entered upon the records of the general fund in
the manner prescribed by the secretary of the
office of policy and management. When so recorded,
such amounts shall be deemed to be appropriated to
the purposes of such gift, contribution or other
aid and shall be allotted in accordance with law.
Sec. 40. Subsection (b) of section 4a-11 of
the general statutes is repealed and the following
is substituted in lieu thereof:
(b) The proceeds of the sale of said bonds, to
the extent of the amount stated in subsection (a)
of this section, shall be deposited in the
Capital Equipment Purchase Fund created by section
4a-9. Any such proceeds shall be allocated to the
department of higher education as follows: (1) For
The University of Connecticut, not exceeding six
million three hundred ninety-five thousand
dollars; (2) for The University of Connecticut
Health Center, not exceeding one million two
hundred thirty-five thousand dollars; (3) for the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM, not exceeding
two million five hundred forty thousand dollars;
(4) for the regional community colleges, not
exceeding one million six hundred eighty-five
thousand dollars; (5) for the state technical
colleges, not exceeding one million sixty-five
thousand dollars; (6) for the Central Naugatuck
Valley Regional Higher Education Center, not
exceeding seven hundred thousand dollars; (7) for
the department of higher education, not exceeding
thirty thousand dollars.
Sec. 41. Section 5-177 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
Any person in the unclassified service
employed full time by the board of trustees of The
University of Connecticut, the state board of
education, the board of education and services for
the blind, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment
Station, the American School for the Deaf, the
Connecticut Institute for the Blind, the Newington
Children's Hospital, the board of trustees of the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM or the board
of trustees of the community-technical colleges,
as a teacher or administrator in a position
directly involved in educational activities in any
state-operated institution or the board of
governors of higher education, who served prior to
his employment by the state in a full-time
teaching, administrative or research position in
an educational institution in or under the
authority of a state department of education or a
department of education for the blind in the
United States approved by the retirement
commission, or who was employed by such
institution but served all or part of such service
time in a foreign country, for which service he
has received or will receive no retirement benefit
or pension, may gain credit for such prior
service, not to exceed ten years in the aggregate,
by making retirement contributions for each year
of such prior service equal to six per cent of his
annual rate of compensation when he first became a
full-time employee of this state; provided such
payment shall be made within one year of his first
full-time employment with the state, or before
July 1, 1968, whichever is later, but for the
board of higher education and technical colleges,
July 1, 1974. When a person who has gained credit
for such prior service retires, not more than one
year of such service may be counted for each two
years of state service; provided, if such person
has purchased more of such service than can be
counted, refund on the amount paid on the extra
years of service shall be made.
Sec. 42. Subsection (b) of section 5-275 of
the general statutes is repealed and the following
is substituted in lieu thereof:
(b) The board shall determine the
appropriateness of a unit which shall be the
public employer unit or a subdivision thereof. In
determining the appropriateness of the unit, the
board shall: (1) Take into consideration, but
shall not be limited to, the following: (i) Public
employees must have an identifiable community of
interest, and (ii) the effects of
overfragmentation; (2) not decide that any unit is
appropriate if such unit includes both
professional and nonprofessional employees, unless
a majority of such professional employees vote for
inclusion in such unit; (3) take into
consideration that when the state is the employer,
it will be bargaining on a state-wide basis unless
issues involve working conditions peculiar to a
given governmental employment locale; and (4)
permit the faculties of (i) The University of
Connecticut, (ii) the Connecticut State University
SYSTEM, (iii) the regional community colleges,
(iv) the regional technical colleges; and (v) the
state regional vocational-technical schools to
each comprise a separate unit, which in each case
shall have the right to bargain collectively with
its respective board of trustees or its designated
representative. Nonfaculty professional staff of
the above institutions may by mutual agreement be
included in such bargaining units, or they may
form a separate bargaining unit of their own. This
section shall not be deemed to prohibit multiunit
bargaining.
Sec. 43. Subsection (a) of section 10-21d of
the general statutes is repealed and the following
is substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) There is established the Connecticut
school-business forum which shall be composed of
thirty-three members as follows: One member of a
local or regional board of education, appointed by
the Connecticut Association of Boards of
Education; one superintendent of schools,
appointed by the Connecticut Association of School
Administrators; two public school principals, one
of whom shall be appointed by the Elementary and
Middle School Principals Association of
Connecticut and one of whom shall be appointed by
the Connecticut Association of Secondary Schools;
one public school administrator who is not a
school superintendent, appointed by the
Connecticut Federation of School Administrators;
three public school teachers, who shall be
classroom teachers at the time of their
appointment and during the term of their
membership on the forum, appointed by the
Connecticut Education Association, at least one of
whom shall teach in any of the grades from
kindergarten to grade six; two public school
teachers, who shall be classroom teachers at the
time of their appointment and during the term of
their membership on the forum, appointed by the
Connecticut State Federation of Teachers; one
parent of a public school student appointed by the
Parent-Teacher Association of Connecticut, Inc.;
eleven persons representative of business and
industry in the state, appointed by the
Connecticut Business and Industry Association; one
faculty member of The University of Connecticut,
appointed by the president pro tempore of the
senate; one administrator at a regional technical
college, appointed by the speaker of the house of
representatives; one student member of the board
of trustees of the Connecticut State University
SYSTEM, appointed by the minority leader of the
senate; one member of the nonfaculty professional
staff of the regional community colleges,
appointed by the minority leader of the house of
representatives; the commissioners of education,
higher education and economic development, or
designees of said commissioners; and the
chairpersons and ranking members of the joint
standing committee of the general assembly having
cognizance of matters relating to education, or
their designees. All appointments shall be made
and the names of the persons appointed shall be
submitted to the commissioner of education not
later than September 1, 1990.
Sec. 44. Section 10-155 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
The board of trustees for the Connecticut
State University SYSTEM may maintain an emergency
training program to prepare graduates of approved
four-year colleges and universities to teach in
the elementary schools of the state. In carrying
out such program the board may (a) establish
regulations governing the admission of students to
the program; (b) fix tuition rates to be paid by
such students, and (c) enter into such contracts
and agreements as it finds necessary to secure the
necessary facilities.
Sec. 45. Section 10a-1 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
There shall be a state system of public higher
education to consist of (1) The University of
Connecticut and all branches thereof, (2) the
state colleges, which shall be known collectively
as the Connecticut State University SYSTEM, (3)
regional community colleges and regional technical
colleges, under the jurisdiction of the board of
trustees of the community-technical colleges, (4)
the board for state academic awards, and (5) the
staff of the department of higher education as
established pursuant to section 10a-2.
"Constituent units" as used in the general
statutes means those units in subdivisions (1) to
(4), inclusive, of this section.
Sec. 46. Subsection (a) of section 10a-3 of
the general statutes is repealed and the following
is substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) There shall be a standing committee which
shall serve as an advisory body to the board of
governors of higher education to assist the board
in performing its statutory functions. The
committee shall consist of the following members:
(1) One member from each of the boards of trustees
of the Connecticut State University SYSTEM and The
University of Connecticut, two members from the
board of trustees of the community-technical
colleges, one of whom shall be an alumnus of a
regional technical college or shall have expertise
and experience in business, labor, industry or
technical occupations, and one member from a board
of trustees of an independent college; (2) one
member from the administrative staff of each of
said constituent units, except that for the
community-technical colleges there shall be one
member from the administrative staff of the
regional technical colleges and one member of the
administrative staff of the regional community
colleges, and one member from the administrative
staff of an independent college; (3) one member
from the faculty of each of said constituent
units, except that for the community-technical
colleges, there shall be one faculty member of a
regional community college and one faculty member
of a regional technical college, and one member
from the faculty of an independent college; (4)
one student from each of said constituent units,
except that for the community-technical colleges
there shall be one student who shall be enrolled
at a regional community college and one student
who shall be enrolled at a regional technical
college, and one student from an independent
college; (5) one representative of the board for
state academic awards; and (6) one representative
from the accredited private occupational schools
of Connecticut.
Sec. 47. Section 10a-20 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general
statute or special act to the contrary, the
selection, appointment, assignment of duties,
amount of compensation, sick leave, vacation,
leaves of absence, termination of service, rank
and status of the individual members of the
respective professional staffs of the system of
higher education shall be under the sole
jurisdiction of the respective boards of trustees
within available funds. The board of governors of
higher education shall, in consultation with the
boards of trustees of the community-technical
colleges, the Connecticut State University SYSTEM
and the board for state academic awards, develop
personnel guidelines for the central office staffs
of said boards of trustees. The board of governors
of higher education and the constituent unit
boards shall each determine who constitutes the
professional staffs of their respective units and
establish compensation and classification
schedules for their professional staffs. Each
constituent board shall annually submit to the
commissioner of administrative services a list of
the positions which it has included within the
professional staff.
Sec. 48. Section 10a-20a of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) The board of governors of higher education
may establish and administer a fund to be known as
the endowed chair investment fund. Within the
limits of appropriations, the board may deposit
state funds for an endowed chair approved under
subsection (c) of this section to an account
within said fund in an amount not less than five
hundred thousand dollars.
(b) State funds deposited by the board of
governors to the endowed chair investment fund
shall be invested by the state treasurer.
(c) The board of trustees of The University of
Connecticut and the board of trustees of the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM may apply for
the establishment of an endowed chair to be
supported by a grant of five hundred thousand
dollars from the endowed chair investment fund and
a matching nonstate contribution. Applications for
endowed chairs shall be accepted on October first
and April first in each year in which funds are
available. To apply for the state grant, the board
of trustees shall notify the board of governors
that it has raised a matching nonstate
contribution and that it is eligible for a grant
of state funds to establish an endowed chair in a
specific academic discipline. The board of
trustees shall submit for the board's review and
approval evidence that the chair will be
established in a center of excellence, as defined
in subsection (b) of section 10a-25h.
(d) Following approval of state funding for an
endowed chair by the board of governors, the
board of trustees of the institution at which the
chair is established shall select candidates to
fill the endowed chair and shall develop a budget
for expenditures associated with the chair.
(e) Interest income earned under subsection
(b) of this section shall be deposited to the
endowed chair investment fund and, following
establishment of an endowed chair under subsection
(c) of this section shall be allocated annually to
The University of Connecticut or to the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM, as
appropriate, to support the endowed chair.
Nonstate matching contributions shall be held by a
duly established foundation of The University of
Connecticut or the Connecticut State University
SYSTEM and the interest on such contributions
shall be used to support the endowed chair.
(f) The boards of trustees shall submit annual
reports to the board of governors concerning
endowed chair expenditures.
Sec. 49. Section 10a-39 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
In administering sections 10a-36 to 10a-42a,
inclusive, the board of governors of higher
education shall annually request an appropriation
for this program to be derived by: (1) Calculating
the actual general fund expenditures per full-time
equivalent student at The University of
Connecticut and IN the Connecticut State
University SYSTEM, by taking the actual general
fund expenditures at The University of Connecticut
and FOR the Connecticut State University SYSTEM
for the fiscal year two years prior to the grant
year, as reported for higher education in the
annual report on the state budget prepared by the
office of fiscal analysis, and dividing by the
number of full-time equivalent students enrolled
at The University of Connecticut and IN the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM during said
year as determined by the board of governors of
higher education; (2) calculating the number of
full-time equivalent undergraduate Connecticut
students enrolled at Connecticut independent
colleges and universities during the fall semester
of said fiscal year; and (3) multiplying the
number of full-time equivalent undergraduate
Connecticut students at Connecticut independent
colleges by twelve and three-tenths per cent of
the actual general fund expenditures per full-time
equivalent student at The University of
Connecticut and IN the Connecticut State
University SYSTEM, as calculated in subdivision
(1) of this section for appropriations made for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1988, and by
seventeen per cent of the actual general fund
expenditures per full-time equivalent student at
The University of Connecticut and FOR the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM, as calculated
in subdivision (1) of this section for
appropriations made for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1989, and for each fiscal year
thereafter.
Sec. 50. Section 10a-41 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
The amount of aid to be given under this
program to an individual student shall be
determined by the individual college or university
on the basis of a needs analysis system approved
by the United States Department of Education,
except that, in accordance with guidelines adopted
by the college or university, (1) in determining
financial need, for purposes of student employment
the college or university may exclude the value of
the equity in the principal residence of the
student's parents or legal guardians, or in the
student's principal residence if the student is
not considered to be a dependent of his parents or
legal guardians, and may assess the base-year
earnings of a dependent student at the rate of
thirty per cent, provided such college or
university may award not more than three per cent
of the amount allocated in any fiscal year
pursuant to section 10a-40, in accordance with
this subdivision and (2) if a student is
determined to have any amount of financial need,
for purposes of student employment the student may
be employed in an on-campus or off-campus
community service work-study placement and earn
not more than four thousand dollars in any year
for which he receives an award pursuant to this
section. Financial aid provided pursuant to this
section in any one fiscal year shall not exceed
the general fund cost per full-time equivalent
student at The University of Connecticut and IN
the Connecticut State University SYSTEM, as
determined in section 10a-39, and shall be
consistent with the published student aid policies
of the college or university. Grants shall be
awarded only to Connecticut students attending
full-time or part-time and, except as otherwise
provided in this section, shall not exceed a
student's financial need. Financial aid provided
to Connecticut residents under this program shall
be designated as a grant from the Connecticut
Independent College Student Grant (C.I.C.S.G.)
Program.
Sec. 51. Section 10a-67 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
Notwithstanding any provisions of the general
statutes to the contrary, the boards of trustees
of the community-technical colleges, the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM and The
University of Connecticut shall fix fees for
tuition for nonresident students who are enrolled
in institutions under the jurisdiction of said
boards through the New England Regional Student
Program of not less than the tuition rate charged
of resident students enrolled in similar programs
plus fifty per cent of that rate, such revenue to
be deposited to the revenues of the tuition funds
of the respective constituent units.
Sec. 52. Section 10a-87 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
The board of trustees of the Connecticut State
University SYSTEM shall maintain: Western
Connecticut State University, Southern Connecticut
State University, Eastern Connecticut State
University and Central Connecticut State
University. The board of trustees shall offer
curricula which shall prepare persons who have
successfully completed the same to teach in the
schools of the state at any of said institutions
as the board shall deem appropriate and, in
addition, programs of study in academic and career
fields, provided the board of trustees shall
submit to the board of governors of higher
education for review and approval recommendations
for program terminations at any of said
institutions in accordance with the provisions of
subdivision (8) of subsection (a) of section
10a-6. The board of trustees shall establish
policies which protect academic freedom and the
content of course and degree programs, provided
such policies shall be consistent with state-wide
policy and guidelines established by the board of
governors of higher education. Each of said
institutions shall confer such degrees in
education and in academic and career fields as are
appropriate to the curricula of said institution
and as are usually conferred by the institutions;
honorary degrees may be conferred by said
institutions upon approval of each honorary degree
recipient by the board of trustees of the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM.
Sec. 53. Section 10a-88 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
There shall continue to be a board of trustees
for the Connecticut State University SYSTEM to
consist of sixteen members, fourteen to be
appointed by the governor, who shall reflect the
state's geographic, racial and ethnic diversity;
two of whom shall be state college or Connecticut
State University SYSTEM alumni; and two to be
elected by the students enrolled at the
institutions under the jurisdiction of said board.
On or before July 1, 1983, the governor shall
appoint members to the board as follows: Five
members, one of whom shall be a state college or
Connecticut State University SYSTEM alumnus, for a
term of two years from said date; five members,
one of whom shall be a state college or
Connecticut State University SYSTEM alumnus, for a
term of four years from said date, and four
members for a term of six years from said date.
Thereafter the governor shall appoint members of
said board to succeed those appointees whose terms
expire, such members to serve for terms of six
years each from July first in the year of their
appointment. On or before November 1, 1975, the
students enrolled at the institutions under the
jurisdiction of said board shall, in such manner
as said board shall determine, elect two members
of said board, each of whom shall be enrolled as a
full-time student at an institution under the
jurisdiction of said board at the time of his
election. One such member shall be elected for a
term of one year from November 1, 1975, and one
for a term of two years from said date. On or
before November first, annually thereafter, such
students shall, in such manner as the board shall
determine, elect one member of said board, who
shall be so enrolled at any such institution at
the time of his election and who shall serve for a
term of two years from November first in the year
of his election. The governor shall, pursuant to
section 4-9a, appoint the chairperson of the
board. The board shall, biennially, elect from its
members such other officers as it deems necessary.
The governor shall fill any vacancy in the
appointed membership of the board by appointment
for the balance of the unexpired term. Any
vacancies in the elected membership of said board
shall be filled by special election for the
balance of the unexpired term. The members of said
board shall receive no compensation for their
services as such but shall be reimbursed for their
necessary expenses in the course of their duties.
Sec. 54. Section 10a-94 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
The board of trustees of the Connecticut State
University SYSTEM shall maintain, as a part of its
extension programs, summer sessions at such place
or places as may be practicable and may fix the
tuition fees to be charged.
Sec. 55. Section 10a-98 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
As used in this section and sections 10a-98a
to 10a-98g, inclusive, AS AMENDED BY THIS ACT,
"board" means the board of trustees of the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM; "foundation"
means the research foundation established in
accordance with section 10a-98a; "employee" means
any member of the faculty or staff of the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM or the
foundation, or any other employee thereof;
"invention" means any invention or discovery and
shall be divided into the following categories: A.
Any invention conceived by one employee solely, or
by employees jointly; B. any invention conceived
by one or more employees jointly with one or more
other persons; C. any invention conceived by one
or more persons not employees.
Sec. 56. Section 10a-98a of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
The board is authorized to establish and
manage the foundation as provided herein. The
foundation may, subject to direction, regulation
and authorization or ratification by the board:
(1) Receive, solicit, contract for and collect,
and hold in separate custody for purposes herein
expressed or implied, endowments, donations,
compensation and reimbursement, in the form of
money paid or promised, services, materials,
equipment or any other things tangible or
intangible that may be acceptable to the
foundation; (2) disburse funds acquired by the
foundation from any source, for purposes of
instruction, research, invention, discovery,
development or engineering, for the dissemination
of information related to such activities, and for
other purposes approved by the board and
consistent with sections 10a-98 to 10a-98g,
inclusive, AS AMENDED BY THIS ACT; (3) file and
prosecute patent applications and obtain patents,
relating to inventions or discoveries which the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM may be justly
entitled to own or control, wholly or partly,
under circumstances hereinafter defined; and
receive and hold in separate custody, assignments,
grants, licenses and other rights in respect to
such inventions, discoveries, patent applications
and patents; (4) make assignments, grants,
licenses or other disposal, equitably in the
public interest, of any rights owned, acquired or
controlled by the foundation, in or to inventions,
discoveries, patent applications and patents; and
to charge therefor and collect, and to incorporate
in funds in the custody of the foundation,
reasonable compensation in such form and measure
as the board authorizes or ratifies; and (5)
execute contracts with employees or others for the
purpose of carrying out the provisions of sections
10a-98 to 10a-98g, inclusive, AS AMENDED BY THIS
ACT. All property and rights of every character,
tangible and intangible, placed in the custody of
the foundation in accordance with said sections
shall be held by the foundation in trust for the
uses of the Connecticut State University SYSTEM.
The entire beneficial ownership thereof shall vest
in said university and the board shall exercise
complete control thereof.
Sec. 57. Section 10a-98b of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
The Connecticut State University SYSTEM shall
be entitled to own, or to participate in the
ownership of, and to place in the custody of the
foundation to the extent of such ownership, any
invention, on the following conditions: (a) The
university shall be entitled to own the entire
right, title and interest in and to any invention
in category A, in any instance in which such
invention is conceived in the course of
performance of customary or assigned duties of the
employee inventor or inventors, or in which the
invention emerges from any research, development
or other program of the university, or is
conceived or developed wholly or partly at the
expense of the university, or with the aid of its
equipment, facilities or personnel. In each such
instance, the employee inventor shall be deemed to
be obligated, by reason of his employment by the
university, to disclose his invention fully and
promptly to an authorized executive of the
university; to assign to the university the entire
right, title and interest in and to each invention
in category A; to execute instruments of
assignment to that effect; to execute such proper
patent applications on such invention as may be
requested by an authorized executive of the
university, and to give all reasonable aid in the
prosecution of such patent applications and the
procurement of patents thereon; (b) the university
shall have the rights defined in subsection (a) of
this section with respect to inventions in
category B, to the extent to which an employee has
or employees have disposable interests therein;
and to the same extent the employee or employees
shall be obligated as defined in said subsection
(a); (c) the university shall have no right to
inventions in category C, except as may be
otherwise provided in contracts, express or
implied, between the university or the foundation
and those entitled to the control of inventions in
category C.
Sec. 58. Section 10a-98c of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
Each employee who conceives any invention and
discharges his obligations to the Connecticut
State University SYSTEM as hereinbefore provided
shall be entitled to share in any net proceeds
that may be derived from the assignment, grant,
license or other disposal of such invention. The
amount of such net proceeds shall be computed by,
or with the approval of, the board, with
reasonable promptness after collection thereof,
and after deducting from gross proceeds such costs
and expenses as may be reasonably allocated to the
particular invention or discovery. A minimum of
twenty per cent of the amount of such net proceeds
shall be paid to an employee who solely conceived
or made the invention, and shall be paid in shares
to two or more employees who jointly made the
invention in such respective proportions as the
board may determine. The board in its discretion
may increase the amount by which any employee or
employees may participate in such net proceeds.
Sec. 59. Section 10a-98e of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
The board is authorized to establish and
regulate, equitably in the public interest, such
measures as the board deems necessary for the
purposes of such arbitration, and to make
contracts for compulsory arbitration, in the name
of the Connecticut State University SYSTEM or of
the foundation.
Sec. 60. Section 10a-98f of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
The board is authorized to make and enforce
regulations to govern the operations of the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM and the
foundation in accordance with the provisions of
sections 10a-98 to 10a-98g, inclusive, AS AMENDED
BY THIS ACT.
Sec. 61. Section 10a-98g of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
The provisions of sections 10a-98 to 10a-98g,
inclusive, AS AMENDED BY THIS ACT, shall not
entitle the Connecticut State University SYSTEM or
the foundation to claim any literary, artistic,
musical or other product of authorship covered by
actual or potential copyright under the laws of
the United States; but the university and the
foundation shall each be authorized to make and
enforce any contract, express or implied, which
they may make with reference to any such subject
matter.
Sec. 62. Section 10a-101 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
Whenever the term "state colleges" appears in
sections 3-27a, 4-31a, 5-177, 5-275, 10-109a to
10-109d, inclusive, 10-110, 10-113, 10-114,
10-115, 10-115b, 10-115c, 10-115d, 10-115e,
10-115g, 10-115h, 10-115i, 10-116, 10-149, 10-155,
10-325c, 10-326b, 10-334 and 31-3c, it shall be
deemed to mean the "Connecticut State University"
SYSTEM.
Sec. 63. Section 10a-149 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
In addition to other powers granted in the
general statutes, authority and responsibility for
the operation of the state's public institutions
of higher education shall be vested in (1) the
board of trustees of The University of Connecticut
which shall have exclusive responsibility for
programs leading to doctoral degrees and
postbaccalaureate professional degrees, (2) the
board of trustees of the Connecticut State
University SYSTEM which shall have special
responsibility for the preparation of personnel
for the public schools of the state including
master's degree programs and other graduate study
in education, and authority for providing liberal
arts and career programs at the bachelors, masters
and sixth year level, (3) the board of trustees of
the community-technical colleges which shall have
responsibility for providing programs, as
enumerated in section 10a-80, leading, where
appropriate, to an associate degree or
occupational certificate and programs leading to
the degree of associate in applied science and
such other appropriate degrees or certificates as
are approved by the board of governors of higher
education and for such terminal vocational
retraining and continuing education programs
leading to occupational certificates as are
appropriate and (4) the board for state academic
awards which shall have responsibility for the
award of external degrees and credits earned by
examination and by other forms of validation and
by evaluation of learning, including transfer of
credit; provided the authority of the boards of
trustees of The University of Connecticut, the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM and the
community-technical colleges to award degrees of
the respective institutions shall not be affected.
Sec. 64. Subsection (a) of section 10a-151a
of the general statutes is repealed and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any
general statute or regulation to the contrary, the
boards of trustees for the community-technical
colleges, the Connecticut State University SYSTEM
and The University of Connecticut shall annually
designate from the funds available to each board
for equipment an amount to be spent by each
institution under its jurisdiction for the
purchase of equipment used for research purposes,
library media and library books for each such
fiscal year.
Sec. 65. Subsection (b) of section 14-73 of
the general statutes is repealed and the following
is substituted in lieu thereof:
(b) Application for an instructor's license
shall be in writing and shall contain such
information as the commissioner requires. The
applicant shall furnish evidence satisfactory to
the commissioner that he (1) is of good moral
character and has never been convicted of a crime
involving moral turpitude; (2) has held a license
to drive a motor vehicle for the past four
consecutive years and has a driving record
satisfactory to the commissioner; (3) has had a
recent medical examination by a physician licensed
to practice within the state and the physician
certifies that the applicant is physically fit to
operate a motor vehicle and instruct in driving;
(4) has received a high school diploma or has an
equivalent academic education; and (5) has
completed an instructor training course of
forty-five clock hours given by a school or agency
approved by the commissioner, except that any such
course given by an institution under the
jurisdiction of the board of trustees of the
Connecticut State University SYSTEM must be
approved by the commissioner and the state board
of education.
Sec. 66. Section 31-3c of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
The labor commissioner, with the approval of
the commissioners of economic development and
education, shall establish a program for
preemployment and postemployment job training for
the purpose of meeting the labor requirements of
specific employers at any facility which is an
"industrial project" as defined under subsection
(d) of section 32-23d, whether or not the
industrial project is financed by the Connecticut
development authority, and shall promulgate
regulations necessary to implement such job
training program. The labor commissioner shall use
funds appropriated to the labor department for
vocational and manpower training in carrying out
such job training program, except that not more
than four per cent of such funds may be used to
pay the cost of its administration. The labor
commissioner shall make arrangements to the extent
possible for the participation of the Connecticut
State University SYSTEM, regional technical
colleges, state regional vocational-technical
schools and regional community colleges in
implementing the program in this section.
Sec. 67. Section 48-9 of the general statutes
is repealed and the following is substituted in
lieu thereof:
Subject to the provisions of section 4b-23,
the state may take land, or any interest or estate
therein, for the site, or for any addition to the
site, of any state institution or courthouse, or
for any addition to the site of any institution
under the jurisdiction of the board of trustees of
the Connecticut State University SYSTEM,
vocational school or technical college, and also
may take water from any river, brook, spring or
springs, pond or lake for the purpose of providing
such supply of water as the convenience and
necessity of such institution may require. The
amount of damages for any such taking shall be
determined in the manner provided by section
48-10.
Sec. 68. Sections 10a-75, 10a-76, 10a-85,
10a-86, 10a-95, 10a-96, 10a-117, 10a-118 and
10a-129 of the general statutes are repealed.
Sec. 69. This act shall take effect July 1,
1991.