Bill Text: CT HB05197 | 2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Making Technical Corrections To A Statute Concerning Congregate Housing.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-26 - File Number 37 [HB05197 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2018-HB05197-Introduced.html

General Assembly

 

Raised Bill No. 5197

February Session, 2018

 

LCO No. 644

 

*00644_______HSG*

Referred to Committee on HOUSING

 

Introduced by:

 

(HSG)

 

AN ACT MAKING TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO A STATUTE CONCERNING CONGREGATE HOUSING.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 8-119h of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2018):

(a) Upon preliminary approval by the State Bond Commission pursuant to the provisions of section 3-20, the state, acting by and through the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract or contracts with an authority, a municipal developer, a nonprofit corporation or a housing partnership for state financial assistance for a congregate housing project, in the form of capital grants, interim loans, permanent loans, deferred loans or any combination thereof for application to the development cost of such project or projects.

(b) A contract with an authority, a municipal developer, a nonprofit corporation or a housing partnership may provide that in the case of any loan made in conjunction with any housing assistance funds provided by an agency of the United States government, if such housing assistance funds terminate prior to complete repayment of a loan made pursuant to this section, the remaining balance of such loan may be converted to a capital grant or decreased loan. Any such state assistance contract with an authority, a municipal developer, a nonprofit corporation or a housing partnership for a capital grant or loan entered into prior to the time housing assistance funds became available from an agency of the United States government, may, upon the mutual consent of the commissioner and the authority, municipal developer, nonprofit corporation or housing partnership, be renegotiated to provide for a loan or increased loan in the place of a capital grant or loan or a part thereof, consistent with the above conditions. Such capital grants or loans shall be in an amount not in excess of the development cost of the project or projects, including, in the case of grants or loans financed from the proceeds of the state's general obligation bonds issued pursuant to any authorization, allocation or approval of the State Bond Commission made prior to July 1, 1990, administrative or other cost or expense to be incurred by the state in connection therewith, as approved by [said commissioner] the Commissioner of Housing. In anticipation of final payment of such capital grants or loans, the state, acting by and through said commissioner and in accordance with such contract, may make temporary advances to the authority, municipal developer, nonprofit corporation or housing partnership for preliminary planning expense or other development cost of such project or projects.

(c) Any loan provided pursuant to this section shall bear interest at a rate to be determined in accordance with subsection (t) of section 3-20. Any such authority, municipal developer, nonprofit corporation or housing partnership may, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Housing, contract with any other person approved by the Commissioner of Housing for the operation of a project undertaken pursuant to this part. As used in this section, "housing partnership" has the same meaning as provided in subsection (n) of section 8-113a.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:

Section 1

October 1, 2018

8-119h

Statement of Purpose:

To make technical changes to a statute concerning congregate housing.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]

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