2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 4 - Management of State Agencies
Chapter 50 - Office of Policy and Management: General Provisions; Budget and Appropriations; State Planning
Section 4-66k - Regional planning incentive account.

(a) There is established an account to be known as the “regional planning incentive account” which shall be a separate, nonlapsing account within the General Fund. The account shall contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in the account. Moneys in the account shall be expended by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management in accordance with subsection (b) of this section for the purposes of first providing funding to regional planning organizations in accordance with the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section and then to providing grants under the regional performance incentive program established pursuant to section 4-124s.

(b) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, funds from the regional planning incentive account shall be distributed to each regional planning organization, as defined in section 4-124i, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 2013, in the amount of one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars. Any regional council of governments that is comprised of any two or more regional planning organizations that voluntarily consolidate on or before December 31, 2013, shall receive an additional payment in an amount equal to the amount the regional planning organizations would have received if such regional planning organizations had not voluntarily consolidated.

(c) Beginning in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, and annually thereafter, funds from the regional planning incentive account shall be distributed to each regional council of governments formed pursuant to section 4-124j, in the amount of one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars plus fifty cents per capita, using population information from the most recent federal decennial census. Any regional council of governments that is comprised of any two or more regional planning organizations, as defined in section 4-124i, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 2013, that voluntarily consolidated on or before December 31, 2013, shall receive a payment in the amount of one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars for each such regional planning organization that voluntarily consolidated on or before said date.

(P.A. 11-6, S. 95; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 190; P.A. 13-247, S. 251.)

History: P.A. 11-6 effective July 1, 2011; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1 designated existing provision re grants as Subdiv. (1) and added Subdiv. (2) re providing funding to Voluntary Regional Consolidation Bonus Pool, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 13-247 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and amended same by changing name of account to regional planning incentive account, specifying that moneys be expended “in accordance with subsection (b) of this section”, adding “first providing funding to regional planning organizations in accordance with the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section and then to”, deleting former Subdiv. (2) re funding to Voluntary Regional Consolidation Bonus Pool and making a conforming change, and added Subsecs. (b) and (c) re distribution of funds in account in fiscal years ending June 30, 2014, and June 30, 2015, effective June 19, 2013.