Bill Text: CT HB06466 | 2011 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Technical Revisions To Housing Statutes.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-06-02 - Senate Calendar Number 597 [HB06466 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2011-HB06466-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 6466
January Session, 2011		LCO No. 3584
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Referred to Committee on Housing
Introduced by:
(HSG)

AN ACT CONCERNING TECHNICAL REVISIONS TO HOUSING STATUTES.

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

Section 1. Section 8-64a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2011):

No housing authority which receives or has received any state financial assistance may sell, lease, transfer or destroy, or contract to sell, lease, transfer or destroy, any housing project or portion thereof in any case where such project or portion thereof would no longer be available for the purpose of low or moderate income rental housing as a result of such sale, lease, transfer or destruction, except the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development may grant written approval for the sale, lease, transfer or destruction of a housing project if the commissioner finds, after a public hearing, that (1) the sale, lease, transfer or destruction is in the best interest of the state and the municipality in which the project is located, (2) an adequate supply of low or moderate income rental housing exists in the municipality in which the project is located, (3) the housing authority has developed a plan for the sale, lease, transfer or destruction of such project in consultation with the residents of such project and representatives of the municipality in which such project is situated and has made adequate provision for [said] such residents' and representatives' participation in such plan, and (4) any person who is displaced as a result of the sale, lease, transfer or destruction will be relocated to a comparable dwelling unit of public or subsidized housing in the same municipality or will receive a tenant-based rental subsidy and will receive relocation assistance under chapter 135. The commissioner shall consider the extent to which the housing units which are to be sold, leased, transferred or destroyed will be replaced in ways which may include, but need not be limited to, newly constructed housing, rehabilitation of housing which is abandoned or has been vacant for at least one year, or new federal, state or local tenant-based or project-based rental subsidies. The commissioner shall give the residents of the housing project or portion thereof which is to be sold, leased, transferred or destroyed written notice of [said] such public hearing by first class mail not less than ninety days before the date of the hearing. [Said] Such written approval shall contain a statement of facts supporting the findings of the commissioner. This section shall not apply to the sale, lease, transfer or destruction of a housing project pursuant to the terms of any contract entered into before June 3, 1988. The commissioner shall not impose a one-for-one replacement requirement on King Court in East Hartford. This section shall not apply to phase I of Father Panik Village in Bridgeport, Elm Haven in New Haven, Pequonock Gardens Project in Bridgeport, Evergreen Apartments in Bridgeport, Quinnipiac Terrace/Riverview in New Haven, Dutch Point in Hartford, Southfield Village in Stamford and, upon approval by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development of a HOPE VI revitalization application and a revitalization plan that includes at least the one-for-one replacement of low and moderate income units, Fairfield Court in Stamford.

Sec. 2. Subsections (a) to (c), inclusive, of section 8-395 of the general statutes are repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2011):

(a) As used in this section, (1) "business firm" means any business entity authorized to do business in the state and subject to the corporation business tax imposed under chapter 208, or any company subject to a tax imposed under chapter 207, or any air carrier subject to the air carriers tax imposed under chapter 209, or any railroad company subject to the railroad companies tax imposed under chapter 210, or any regulated telecommunications service, express, telegraph, cable [,] or community antenna television company subject to the regulated telecommunications service, express, telegraph, cable [,] and community antenna television companies tax imposed under chapter 211, or any utility company subject to the utility companies tax imposed under chapter 212, and (2) "nonprofit corporation" means a nonprofit corporation incorporated pursuant to chapter 602, or any predecessor statutes thereto, having as one of its purposes the construction, rehabilitation, ownership or operation of housing and having articles of incorporation approved by the executive director of the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority in accordance with regulations adopted pursuant to section 8-79a or 8-84.

(b) The Commissioner of Revenue Services shall grant a credit against any tax due under the provisions of chapter 207, 208, 209, 210, 211 or 212 in an amount equal to the amount specified by the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority in any tax credit voucher issued by said authority pursuant to subsection (c) of this section.

(c) The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority shall administer a system of tax credit vouchers, within the resources, requirements and purposes of this section, for business firms making cash contributions to housing programs developed, sponsored or managed by a nonprofit corporation [, as defined in subsection (a) of this section,] which benefit low and moderate income persons or families which have been approved prior to the date of any such cash contribution by the authority. Such vouchers may be used as a credit against any of the taxes to which such business firm is subject and which are enumerated in subsection (b) of this section. For income years commencing on or after January 1, 1998, to be eligible for approval a housing program shall be scheduled for completion not more than three years from the date of approval. Each program shall submit to the authority quarterly progress reports and a final report upon completion, in a manner and form prescribed by the authority. If a program fails to be completed after three years, or at any time the authority determines that a program is unlikely to be completed, the authority may reclaim any remaining funds contributed by business firms and reallocate such funds to another eligible program.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2011	8-64a
Sec. 2	October 1, 2011	8-395(a) to (c)

HSG

Joint Favorable