2023 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. Except as provided in subsection (e) of this section, moneys in the account shall be expended by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management for the purposes of first providing funding to regional planning organizations in accordance with the provisions of subsections (b), (c) and (d) 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) For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2021, inclusive, 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.

(d) (1) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, and each fiscal year 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 eighty-five thousand five hundred dollars plus sixty-eight cents per capita, using population information from the most recent federal decennial census.

(2) Not later than July 1, 2021, and annually thereafter, each regional council of governments shall submit to the secretary a proposal for expenditure of the funds described in subdivision (1) of this subsection. Such proposal may include, but need not be limited to, a description of (A) functions, activities or services currently performed by the state or municipalities that may be provided in a more efficient, cost-effective, responsive or higher quality manner by such council, a regional educational service center or similar regional entity; (B) anticipated cost savings relating to the sharing of government services, including, but not limited to, joint purchasing; (C) the standardization and alignment of various regions of the state; or (D) any other initiatives that may facilitate the delivery of services to the public in a more efficient, cost-effective, responsive or higher quality manner.

(e) There is established a regionalization subaccount within the regional planning incentive account. If the Connecticut Lottery Corporation offers online its existing lottery draw games through the corporation's Internet web site, online service or mobile application, and after any payment to the Connecticut Teachers' Retirement Fund Bonds Special Capital Reserve Fund required pursuant to section 12-182, the revenue from such online offering that exceeds an amount equivalent to the costs of the debt-free community college program under section 10a-174 shall be transferred to the subaccount, or, if such online offering is not established, the amount provided under subsection (b) of section 364 of public act 19-117* for regionalization initiatives shall be deposited in the subaccount. Moneys in the subaccount shall be expended only for the purposes recommended by the task force established under section 4-66s.

(P.A. 11-6, S. 95; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 190; P.A. 13-247, S. 251; P.A. 19-117, S. 365; P.A. 21-178, S. 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 179.)

*Note: Section 364 of public act 19-117 is special in nature and therefore has not been codified but remains in full force and effect according to its terms.

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; P.A. 19-117 added Subsec. (d) re establishment of regionalization subaccount and made a conforming change in Subsec. (a), effective June 26, 2019; P.A. 21-178 amended Subsec. (d) by adding provision re payment to Connecticut Teachers' Retirement Fund Bonds Special Capital Reserve Fund and changing “deposited in” to “transferred to”, effective July 7, 2021; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting “in accordance with subsection (b) of this section” and making technical and conforming changes, amended Subsec. (b) by changing “Beginning in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, and annually thereafter” to “For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2021, inclusive”, added new Subsec. (d) re distribution of funds to regional councils of government as Subdiv. (1) and submission of proposals for expenditure of such funds as Subdiv. (2) and redesignated existing Subsec. (d) as Subsec. (e), effective July 1, 2021.