Chapter 185b

Sec. 10a-71. (Formerly Sec. 10-38b). Board of Trustees for Community-Technical Colleges. (a) Beginning on January 1, 2012, the Board of Regents for Higher Education shall serve as the Board of Trustees for Community-Technical Colleges. The Board of Trustees for Community-Technical Colleges that is in office on June 30, 2011, shall remain in office until December 31, 2011, to provide assistance in transitioning duties and responsibilities to the Board of Regents for Higher Education during the period of July 1, 2011, to December 31, 2011. For the transition period of July 1, 2011, to December 31, 2011, any action of the Board of Trustees shall not be final until ratified by the Board of Regents for Higher Education. Until December 31, 2011, there shall be a Board of Trustees for Community-Technical Colleges consisting, except as otherwise provided in this section, of twenty-four persons, twenty-two to be appointed by the Governor, who shall reflect the state's geographic, racial and ethnic diversity, one of whom shall be a regional community college or regional community-technical college alumnus and one of whom shall be a regional technical college or regional community-technical college alumnus and two to be elected by the students enrolled at the institutions under the jurisdiction of said board. Except as otherwise provided, members appointed by the Governor shall serve for terms of six years each from July first in the year of their appointment. On or before August 15, 1989, the Governor shall appoint one member who shall be a regional technical or community-technical college alumnus for a term which shall expire on June 30, 1995, to replace the regional community college alumnus whose term expires June 30, 1989, and eight members who shall have expertise and experience in business, labor, industry or the technical occupations, three for terms which shall expire on June 30, 1991, three for terms which shall expire on June 30, 1993, and two for terms which shall expire June 30, 1995. Thereafter the Governor shall appoint members of said board to succeed those appointees whose terms expire, except that (1) with respect to the members of such board of trustees who were members of the Board of Trustees of the Regional Community Colleges prior to July 1, 1989, the Governor shall appoint two members to replace the four members whose terms expire on June 30, 1991, and shall appoint four members, one of whom shall be a regional community or community-technical college alumnus, to replace the five members whose terms expire on June 30, 1993, and (2) with respect to the members of the board appointed on or after July 1, 1989, and on or before August 15, 1989, the Governor shall appoint one member to replace the three members whose terms expire on June 30, 1991, and shall appoint two members to replace the three members whose terms expire on June 30, 1993. On and after July 1, 1993, the board shall at all times include at least six members who have expertise and experience in business, labor or industry. On and after July 1, 1999, the board shall at all times include at least one member from each county in which a community-technical college is located. On and after July 1, 2010, the board shall at all times include at least two members who have, through education or experience, an understanding of relevant accounting principles and practices and financial statements.

(b) 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 for at least six credits 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, and 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, except that the term of the regional community college student whose term expires on October 31, 1989, shall expire on July 1, 1989, and the student member of the Board of Trustees of the State Technical Colleges prior to July 1, 1989, whose term was to expire on October 31, 1989, shall, on July 1, 1989, be a member of the Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges until October 31, 1989. The regional community college student whose term expires on October 31, 1990, shall continue as a member of said board until said date. On and after July 1, 1989, the student members of said board shall be elected as follows: (1) (A) On or before November 1, 1989, and until July 1, 1993, students enrolled at the regional technical colleges shall, in such manner as the board shall determine, elect one member of said board, who shall be enrolled for at least six credits at a regional technical college 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, and (B) on or before November 1, 1990, students enrolled at the regional community colleges shall, in such manner as the board of trustees shall determine, elect one member of said board who shall be enrolled for at least six credits at a regional community college 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. (2) On and after July 1, 1993, the student members of the board shall be elected as follows: (A) On or before November 1, 1993, and biennially thereafter, students enrolled in the institutions under the jurisdiction of the board shall, in such manner as the board shall determine, elect one member of the board, who shall be enrolled for at least six credits in a technical program at such an institution and who shall serve for a term of two years from November first in the year of his election, and (B) on or before November 1, 1994, and biennially thereafter, students enrolled in the institutions under the jurisdiction of the board shall, in such manner as the board shall determine, elect one member of the board, who shall be enrolled for at least six credits in a nontechnical program at such an institution and who shall serve for a term of two years from November first in the year of his election.

(c) 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 vacancies in the appointed membership of said 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.

(February, 1965, P.A. 330, S. 21; P.A. 75-262, S. 1; 75-504, S. 1, 5; P.A. 82-218, S. 7, 46; P.A. 83-222, S. 1, 2; P.A. 89-260, S. 13, 41; P.A. 92-126, S. 1, 48; P.A. 93-201, S. 23, 24; P.A. 95-259, S. 23, 32; P.A. 06-34, S. 1; P.A. 11-48, S. 216.)

History: P.A. 75-262 increased membership of board from 12 to 14 in order to accommodate student members authorized by provisions of the act, deleted obsolete provisions for first appointments applicable when board was established and clarified procedure for filling vacancies by distinguishing between members appointed by governor and elected student members; P.A. 75-504 increased membership to 16, two to be community college alumni appointed by the governor, and included provisions regarding their appointment and terms; P.A. 82-218 reorganized higher education system, amending section to require that board members reflect state's geographic, racial and ethnic diversity, to replace prior appointment provisions and to require governor to appoint chairman where previously board elected its own chairman, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-38b transferred to Sec. 10a-71 in 1983; P.A. 83-222 made part-time students eligible for election as members of the board; P.A. 89-260 added Subsec. designations, in Subsec. (a) substituted “there shall be” for “there shall continue to be” and “board of trustees of community-technical colleges” for “board of trustees of regional community colleges,” increased the membership of the board from 16 to 24 with the number of members decreasing in 1991 and 1993, shortened the term of the regional community college alumnus which was to expire on June 30, 1991, and provided that certain members have expertise and experience in business, labor, industry or the technical occupations, in Subsec. (b) shortened the term of the regional community college student which was to expire on October 31, 1989, made one of the student members of the board of trustees of the state technical colleges a member of the board and amended procedures for the election of student members to the board and made technical changes; P.A. 92-126 amended Subsec. (a) to include community-technical college alumni and to remove obsolete language; P.A. 93-201 amended Subsec. (b) to make Subdiv. (1) and (2) Subparas. (A) and (B) of Subdiv. (1) and to add Subdiv. (2) on the election of student members on and after July 1, 1993, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-259 amended Subsec. (a) to add provision requiring that on and after July 1, 1999, the board include at least one member from each county in which a community-technical college is located, effective July 6, 1995; P.A. 06-34 amended Subsec. (a) by requiring, on and after July 1, 2010, that at least two members have an understanding of accounting and financial statements, effective July 1, 2006; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (a) to replace Board of Trustees for Community-Technical Colleges with Board of Regents for Higher Education serving as board of trustees beginning on January 1, 2012, and create a transition period through December 31, 2011, during which the Board of Trustees for Community-Technical Colleges shall remain in office, effective July 1, 2011.

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Sec. 10a-72. (Formerly Sec. 10-38c). Duties of board of trustees. (a) Subject to state-wide policy and guidelines established by the Board of Regents for Higher Education, said board of trustees shall administer the regional community-technical colleges and plan for the expansion and development of the institutions within its jurisdiction. The Commissioner of Administrative Services on request of the board of trustees 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 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 appoint and remove the chief executive officer of each institution within its jurisdiction. The board of trustees may employ the faculty and other personnel needed to operate and maintain 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 shall annually submit to the Commissioner of Administrative Services a list of the positions which it has included within the professional staff. The board shall establish a division of technical and technological education. The board of trustees shall confer such certificates and degrees as are appropriate to the curricula of community-technical colleges. The board of trustees shall prepare plans for the development of a regional community-technical college and submit the same to the Commissioner of Administrative Services and request said commissioner to select the site for such college. Within the limits of the bonding authority therefor, the Commissioner of Administrative Services, subject to the provisions of section 4b-23, may acquire such site and construct such buildings as are consistent with the plan of development.

(b) Subject to state-wide policy and guidelines established by the Board of Regents for Higher Education, the board of trustees shall:

(1) Make rules for the governance of the regional community-technical colleges, determine the general policies of said colleges, including those concerning the admission of students, and direct the expenditure of said colleges' funds within the amounts available;

(2) Develop mission statements for the regional community-technical colleges: The mission statement for the regional community-technical colleges shall include, but need not be limited to the following elements: (A) The educational needs of and constituencies served by said colleges; (B) the degrees offered by said colleges, and (C) the role and scope of each institution within the community-technical college system, which shall include each institution's particular strengths and specialties;

(3) Establish policies for the regional community-technical colleges;

(4) Establish policies which protect academic freedom and the content of courses and degree programs;

(5) Establish new academic programs;

(6) Make institutional mergers or closures;

(7) Coordinate the programs and services of the institutions under its jurisdiction;

(8) Promote fund-raising by the institutions under its jurisdiction in order to assist such institutions, provided the board shall not directly engage in fund-raising except for purposes of providing funding for (A) scholarships or other direct student financial aid and (B) programs, services or activities at one or more of the institutions within its jurisdiction and report to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to higher education by January 1, 1994, and biennially thereafter, on all such fund-raising; and

(9) Charge the direct costs for a building project under its jurisdiction to the bond fund account for such project; provided, (A) such costs are charged in accordance with a procedure approved by the Treasurer and (B) nothing in this subdivision shall permit the charging of working capital costs, as defined in the applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, or costs originally paid from sources other than the bond fund account.

(c) The board of trustees 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.

(February, 1965, P.A. 330, S. 22; 1967, P.A. 751, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 530, S. 8; 592, S. 1; P.A. 73-214, S. 2; P.A. 75-425, S. 24, 57; P.A. 77-573, S. 24, 30; 77-614, S. 67, 73, 610; P.A. 78-331, S. 44, 58; P.A. 82-218, S. 8, 46; P.A. 83-576, S. 2, 5; P.A. 84-87, S. 3, 7; 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 87-496, S. 51, 110; P.A. 89-260, S. 14, 41; P.A. 90-260, S. 1, 6; P.A. 91-174, S. 6, 16; 91-230, S. 12, 17; 91-256, S. 14, 69; P.A. 92-126, S. 2, 48; P.A. 93-201, S. 11, 24; 93-293, S. 6, 11; P.A. 94-180, S. 11, 17; P.A. 96-190, S. 7, 8; P.A. 11-48, S. 217; 11-51, S. 102; P.A. 13-247, S. 220.)

History: 1967 act expanded board's powers to include planning for expansion and development of community colleges and leasing of facilities subject to commission for higher education approval, to include appointment of executive secretary and executive staff and hiring of faculty, to include conferring of certificates and degrees and to include site selection and building construction for new colleges; 1969 acts deleted five-year limit on leases, allowed expenditure of capital funds for leases during planning and construction of facilities and included provisions concerning professional staff of board; P.A. 73-214 made commissioner of public works responsible for executing leases rather than the board itself; P.A. 75-425 made public works commissioner responsible for site acquisition and building construction rather than the board itself; P.A. 77-573 substituted board of higher education for commission for higher education; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of administrative services for personnel policy board and public works commissioner; P.A. 78-331 specified board of trustees to avoid confusion which might arise since section also contains references to the board of higher education; P.A. 82-218 reorganized higher education system, replacing board of higher education with board of governors and adding provisions re duties of boards of trustees under state-wide policy and guidelines and re budget requests, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-38c transferred to Sec. 10a-72 in 1983; P.A. 83-576 added provision prohibiting denial of access to armed forces representatives; P.A. 84-87 repealed language in Subsec. (a) prohibiting board from denying military recruiters the opportunity to recruit on campus; P.A. 84-241 added “of higher education” to board of governors' title; P.A. 87-496 replaced administrative services commissioner with public works commissioner; P.A. 89-260 in Subsec. (a) provided that the board of trustees of the community-technical colleges administer the regional technical colleges, appoint and remove assistant secretaries for regional community and regional technical colleges who shall serve at the pleasure of the board and not appoint or reappoint members of the executive staff for terms longer than one year, provided that the executive secretary serve at the pleasure of the board, added new Subsec. (b) designation and in the Subsec. provided for the development of a mission statement and a strategic plan for the regional technical colleges, relettered Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (c), in Subsec. (c) provided that the board of trustees submit budget requests for the division of regional community colleges and the division of regional technical colleges to the board of governors of higher education and made technical changes; P.A. 90-260 added Subsec. (b)(9) re review and approval of actions of higher education administrative councils; P.A. 91-174 added Subsec. (b)(10) re fund-raising; P.A. 91-230 in Subsec. (a) removed the requirement for the board of governors to approve expansion and development plans and substituted provision for the board to review and make recommendations on the plans; P.A. 91-256 in Subsec. (c) added provision for the requesting of authority to issue payment for claims against the colleges; P.A. 92-126 changed references to community colleges and technical colleges to community-technical colleges, removed positions of assistant secretary for regional community colleges and assistant secretary for regional technical colleges, added the division of technical and technological education, removed language concerning the mission statement of technical colleges and made the mission statement of community colleges apply to community-technical colleges, removed Subdiv. concerning requirement for a strategic plan for the technical colleges and eliminated the divisions of regional community colleges and regional technical colleges; P.A. 93-201 amended Subsec. (b)(9) to require report and added Subdiv. (10) re charging the bond fund account for direct costs of a building project, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-293 deleted Subsec. (b)(8) relating to a repealed section and renumbered Subdiv. (9), effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 94-180 amended Subsec. (b)(8) to add the prohibition against direct fund-raising by the board except for the purposes described in Subparas. (A) and (B), effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 96-190 changed the title of the executive secretary to chancellor, effective July 1, 1996; P.A. 11-48 replaced references to Board of Governors of Higher Education with references to Board of Regents for Higher Education, removed provisions re chancellor, executive staff, Commissioner of Higher Education and approvals by Board of Governors of Higher Education, and made conforming changes, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-51 amended Subsec. (a) to change “Commissioner of Public Works” to “Commissioner of Administrative Services” re leases, to change “Commissioner of Public Works” to “Commissioners of Administrative Services and Construction Services” re submission of plans and to change “Commissioner of Public Works” to “Commissioner of Administrative Services” re acquisition of site and to “Commissioner of Construction Services” re construction, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-247 amended Subsec. (a) to delete references to Commissioner of Construction Services, effective July 1, 2013.

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Sec. 10a-72a. Disposition of surplus library material and library fines at regional community-technical colleges. (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-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 regional community-technical college library under the jurisdiction of the board shall be deposited in the institutional operating account of such college.

(P.A. 83-450, S. 1, 5; P.A. 85-282, S. 1, 5; P.A. 89-260, S. 20, 41; P.A. 91-256, S. 15, 69; P.A. 92-126, S. 22, 48.)

History: P.A. 85-282 added Subsec. (b) re deposit of library fines in auxiliary services fund; P.A. 89-260 in Subsec. (a) substituted the “board of trustees for the community-technical colleges” for “board of trustees of the regional community colleges” and specified that the section apply to the regional community college libraries; P.A. 91-256 made technical changes in Subsec. (b); P.A. 92-126 changed the references to “community college” to “community-technical college”.

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Sec. 10a-72b. Strategic planning committee. Section 10a-72b is repealed.

(P.A. 89-260, S. 15, 41; P.A. 92-126, S. 47, 48.)

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Sec. 10a-72c. Advisory council on technical and technological education. There is established a council to advise the Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges in the performance of its statutory functions relating to technical and technological education. The council shall consist of: (1) The Commissioner of Economic and Community Development and the Labor Commissioner, (2) one technical or technological education faculty member from each of the community-technical colleges appointed by the chief executive officer of each such institution, (3) one technical or technological education student from each of the community-technical colleges elected by the student body of each such institution.

(P.A. 92-126, S. 3, 48; P.A. 93-435, S. 2, 95; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6.)

History: P.A. 93-435 made a technical change, effective June 28, 1993; P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Economic Development with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; (Revisor's note: In 1997 a reference to “Commissioner of Labor” was replaced editorially by the Revisors with “Labor Commissioner” for consistency with customary statutory usage).

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Sec. 10a-72d. Articulation agreements with the Technical Education and Career System. Credit for apprenticeship training programs. The Board of Trustees for the Community-Technical Colleges shall establish procedures for (1) the development of articulation agreements between the regional community-technical colleges and the Technical Education and Career System in order to ensure a successful transition to higher education for students attending a technical education and career school, and (2) the awarding of appropriate college credit for persons enrolled in and registered under the terms of a qualified apprenticeship training program, certified in accordance with regulations adopted by the Labor Commissioner and registered with the Labor Department under section 31-22r.

(P.A. 98-252, S. 71, 80; P.A. 12-116, S. 87; P.A. 17-237, S. 90; P.A. 21-141, S. 10.)

History: P.A. 98-252 effective July 1, 1998; pursuant to P.A. 12-116, “regional vocational-technical schools” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “technical high schools”, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 17-237 amended Subdiv. (1) by replacing “technical high schools” with “Technical Education and Career System” and replacing “the technical high schools” with “a technical education and career school”, effective July 1, 2017; P.A. 21-141 replaced reference to Connecticut State Apprenticeship Council with reference to Labor Department and reference to Sec. 31-22n with reference to Sec. 31-22r.

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Sec. 10a-72e. Articulation agreements for nursing programs. (a) Not later than July 1, 2002, the Boards of Trustees for the Connecticut Community-Technical Colleges, the Connecticut State University System, The University of Connecticut, Charter Oak State College, the Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing and Connecticut's Independent Colleges shall develop a plan to ensure that there are articulation agreements for their nursing programs to assist nurses in advancing their education and nursing credentials.

(b) Not later than July 1, 2004, such boards of trustees shall implement the plan developed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.

(P.A. 01-165, S. 2, 3.)

History: P.A. 01-165 effective July 6, 2001.

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Sec. 10a-72f. Establishment of pilot programs re student household and family expenses. Within available appropriations, the Board of Trustees for Community-Technical Colleges may establish up to three pilot programs to provide for student household and family expenses of students with dependents while such students are attending a community-technical college. Participation in the pilot program shall be limited to students who are eligible for a federal Pell grant.

(P.A. 05-244, S. 3.)

History: P.A. 05-244 effective July 8, 2005.

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Sec. 10a-72g. Use of federal funds to establish nursing program. The Board of Trustees for Community-Technical Colleges shall take all feasible steps to maximize available federal funds in order to establish a nursing program at Northwestern Connecticut Community College.

(P.A. 09-130, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 09-130 effective July 1, 2009.

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Sec. 10a-72h. Oversight board and pilot program re technical high school courses for college credit. (a) On or before September 1, 2009, the Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges shall appoint and convene an oversight board for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of subsection (b) of this section. Such board shall include: (1) A representative of the faculty of Norwalk Community College; (2) a representative of the faculty of the J. M. Wright Technical High School; (3) four representatives from trade vocations; (4) two representatives of the business community; and (5) a representative of a chamber of commerce. The president of Norwalk Community College shall serve as the oversight board's chairperson.

(b) On or before January 1, 2010, the oversight board established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, in consultation with the Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges and the Commissioner of Education, shall establish, within existing budgetary resources and staffing levels, a pilot program to operate during the school year commencing July 1, 2010, and each school year thereafter, to allow students to complete courses at the J. M. Wright Technical High School for college credit at Norwalk Community College. Such program shall coordinate courses between the J. M. Wright Technical High School and Norwalk Community College and provide students with access to vocational employment or postsecondary education.

(c) On or before June 30, 2011, and annually thereafter, the Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges and the Commissioner of Education shall report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education and higher education and employment advancement on the curriculum offered as part of the pilot program and the number of students who have earned course credit under the program established in subsection (b) of this section.

(June 19 Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-1, S. 23.)

History: June 19 Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-1 effective June 22, 2009.

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Sec. 10a-72i. Educational and training program for unemployed state residents. (a) The Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges shall develop a program to meet the educational and training needs of unemployed state residents by providing access to short-term, noncredit programs of study that lead to the acquisition of job-related skills and workforce credentials.

(b) The board of trustees shall establish an advisory committee to identify workforce needs, education and training requirements, support services and partnerships in fields with available or growing employment opportunities and in priority regions enduring high levels of unemployment. The advisory committee shall include representatives from the Labor Department, the Workforce Investment Boards, the Department of Economic and Community Development, the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, the Connecticut Business and Industry Association and labor organizations. The advisory committee shall examine the use of individual educational training accounts to assist these individuals, recommend eligibility requirements for participants, including, but not limited to, verification of unemployment and demonstration of financial need, and consider establishing pilot programs, the number and participants of which shall be determined by available funding resources. The advisory committee shall submit its recommendations to the board of trustees on or before November 1, 2010.

(c) The board of trustees shall examine the costs associated with program delivery and modification for existing programs or the development of new noncredit programs focused on high-need, high-growth fields along with support for student tuition, fees, books, materials and academics.

(d) The community-technical colleges shall leverage state funding dedicated to this initiative in applications for federal funding included in the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, the United States Department of Education's college access challenge grant program and other available grants for educational and career training programs to sustain and expand the individual educational training grants program throughout the system of community colleges.

(P.A. 10-75, S. 4.)

History: P.A. 10-75 effective July 1, 2010.

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Sec. 10a-73. (Formerly Sec. 10-38d). Regional councils for regional community-technical colleges. The Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges, upon the recommendation of the chief executive officers of the regional community-technical colleges, shall appoint for each regional community-technical college a regional council, representative of the geographical area served. Each such council shall advise the board and the chief executive officer of each regional community-technical college with respect to appropriate educational programs to meet the needs of the communities in the region which it represents.

(February, 1965, P.A. 330, S. 23; 1967, P.A. 751, S. 2; P.A. 89-260, S. 21, 41; P.A. 92-126, S. 23, 48.)

History: 1967 act made board of trustees, rather than commission for higher education, responsible for appointment of regional councils, required consideration of recommendations from boards of education in area in making appointments and made councils responsible for advising board of appropriate educational programs to meet community needs rather than advising “in budget preparation and the development of policies for the effective operation of the institution”; Sec. 10-38d transferred to Sec. 10a-73 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 89-260 made the appointment of regional councils mandatory, provided that the appointment be made by “the board of trustees of the community-technical colleges, upon the recommendation of the chief executive officers of the regional community colleges”, rather than by “the board of trustees of the regional community colleges”, deleted the provision that in making the appointments due consideration be given to certain boards of education, required the councils to advise the board and the chief executive officer of each regional community college and made a technical change; P.A. 92-126 changed the references to “community college” to “community-technical college”.

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Sec. 10a-74. (Formerly Sec. 10-38e). Acquisition of postsecondary schools and community colleges. The Board of Regents for Higher Education, on the request of the governing authority of any postsecondary school or community college, may accept jurisdiction thereof and responsibility therefor within the limits of appropriations. All property and property rights of such schools and colleges shall be vested in the state and all debts, obligations and liabilities incurred in connection therewith prior to the date on which the Board of Regents for Higher Education accepts jurisdiction and control shall be assumed by the state. Unless otherwise provided by the trust instrument, the State Treasurer shall succeed to the administration of any trust created for the benefit of any such school or college and shall administer the same in accordance with the terms of the trust.

(February, 1965, P.A. 330, S. 24; P.A. 77-573, S. 24, 30; P.A. 82-218, S. 37, 46; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 11-48, S. 285.)

History: P.A. 77-573 substituted board of higher education for commission for higher education; P.A. 82-218 replaced board of higher education with board of governors pursuant to reorganization of higher education system, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-38e transferred to Sec. 10a-74 in 1983; P.A. 84-241 added “of higher education” to board of governors' title; pursuant to P.A. 11-48, “Board of Governors of Higher Education” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Board of Regents for Higher Education”, effective July 1, 2011.

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Secs. 10a-75 and 10a-76. (Formerly Secs. 10-38f and 10-38g). Regional Community College Auxiliary Services Fund; borrowing from General Fund. Regional Community College Educational Extension Fund. Sections 10a-75 and 10a-76 are repealed.

(February, 1965, P.A. 330, S. 26, 27; 1969, P.A. 451, S. 1, 2; 1972, P.A. 92, S. 1; P.A. 73-443, S. 1, 2; P.A. 75-582, S. 1, 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 19, 73, 610; P.A. 81-442, S. 1, 2, 9; P.A. 82-218, S. 9, 10, 46; 82-314, S. 18, 19, 63; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 86-37, S. 3, 4; P.A. 87-496, S. 52, 53, 110; 87-529, S. 6, 7; P.A. 88-136, S. 25, 26, 37; P.A. 89-260, S. 22, 23, 41; P.A. 91-256, S. 68, 69.)

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Sec. 10a-77. (Formerly Sec. 10-38h). Regional community-technical colleges: Tuition, fees and refunds. Operating fund. Operating accounts. Waivers. Reimbursement of fund. Course reenrollment for student members of the armed forces called to active duty. Graduation fees. (a) Subject to the provisions of section 10a-26, the Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges shall fix fees for tuition at the regional community-technical colleges and shall fix fees for such other purposes as the board deems necessary at the regional community-technical colleges, and may make refunds to the same.

(b) The Board of Regents for Higher Education shall establish and administer a fund to be known as the Regional Community-Technical Colleges Operating Fund. Appropriations from general revenues of the state and, upon request by the board and with an annual review and approval by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, the amount of the appropriations for fringe benefits and workers' compensation applicable to the regional community-technical colleges pursuant to subsection (a) of section 4-73, shall be transferred from the Comptroller, and all tuition revenue received by the regional community-technical colleges in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall be deposited in said fund. Income from student fees or related charges; the proceeds of auxiliary activities and business enterprises, gifts and donations; federal funds and grants for purposes other than research, 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-technical college. If the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management disapproves such transfer, the secretary may require the amount of the appropriation for operating expenses to be used for personal services and fringe benefits to be excluded from said fund. The State Treasurer shall review and approve the transfer prior to such request by the board. The board shall establish an equitable policy, in accordance with section 10a-8, for allocation of appropriations from general revenues of the state, fringe benefits transferred from the Comptroller and tuition revenue deposited in the Regional Community-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 (f) of this section shall be charged to the Regional Community-Technical 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 the regional community-technical colleges.

(c) Commencing December 1, 1984, and thereafter not later than sixty days after 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, the Office of Higher Education and the Office of Policy and Management a report on the actual expenditures of the Regional Community-Technical Colleges Operating Fund.

(d) Said board of trustees shall waive the payment of tuition at any of the regional community-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 and is a resident of the state at the time such child is accepted for admission to such institution, (2) subject to the provisions of subsection (e) of this section, for any veteran, as defined in section 27-103, who performed service in time of war, as defined in section 27-103, except that for purposes of this subsection, “service in time of war” shall not include time spent in attendance at a military service academy, which veteran has been accepted for admission to such institution and is domiciled in this state at the time such veteran is accepted for admission to such institution, (3) for any resident of the state sixty-two years of age or older, provided, at the end of the regular registration period, there are enrolled in the course a sufficient number of students other than those residents eligible for waivers pursuant to this subdivision to offer the course in which such resident intends to enroll and there is space available in such course after accommodating all such students, (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-technical college which accredits courses taken in such program, (5) for any active member of the Connecticut Army or Air National Guard who (A) has been certified by the Adjutant General or such Adjutant General's designee as a member in good standing of the guard, and (B) is enrolled or accepted for admission to such institution on a full-time or part-time basis in an undergraduate degree-granting program, (6) for any dependent child of a (A) police officer, as defined in section 7-294a, or supernumerary or auxiliary police officer, (B) firefighter, as defined in section 7-323j, or member of a volunteer fire company, (C) municipal employee, or (D) state employee, as defined in section 5-154, killed in the line of duty, (7) for any resident of the state who is a dependent child or surviving spouse of a specified terrorist victim who was a resident of this state, (8) for any dependent child of a resident of the state who was killed in a multivehicle crash at or near the intersection of Routes 44 and 10 and Nod Road in Avon on July 29, 2005, and (9) for any resident of the state who is a dependent child or surviving spouse of a person who was killed in action while performing active military duty with the armed forces of the United States on or after September 11, 2001, and who was a resident of this state. 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. Veterans and members of the National Guard described in subdivision (5) of this subsection shall be given the same status as students not receiving tuition waivers in registering for courses at regional community-technical colleges. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 10a-30, as used in this subsection, “domiciled in this state” includes domicile for less than one year.

(e) (1) If any veteran described in subsection (d) of this section has applied for federal educational assistance under the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, the board of trustees shall waive the payment of tuition at any of the regional community-technical colleges for such veteran in accordance with subdivision (2) of this subsection. If any such veteran certifies to said board that such veteran's application for such federal educational assistance has been denied or withdrawn, said board of trustees shall waive the payment of tuition in accordance with subsection (d) of this section.

(2) (A) For purposes of this subdivision, “veteran tuition benefit” means the portion of federal educational assistance under the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 to be paid to a regional community-technical college on behalf of a veteran that represents payment for tuition. Such portion shall be calculated by multiplying (i) the total amount of such federal educational assistance to be paid to a regional community-technical college on behalf of such veteran by (ii) an amount obtained by dividing (I) the actual tuition charged by such college to such veteran by (II) the sum of the actual tuition and fees charged by such college to such veteran.

(B) Said board of trustees shall waive the payment of tuition in excess of the veteran tuition benefit at any of the regional community-technical colleges for such veteran.

(f) Said board shall set aside from its anticipated regional community-technical college tuition revenue, an amount not less than that required by said board's tuition policy. Such funds shall be used to provide tuition waivers, tuition remissions, grants for educational expenses and student employment for residents enrolled in regional community-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. Said board may also set aside from its anticipated tuition revenue an additional amount equal to one per cent of said tuition revenue for financial assistance for students who would not otherwise be eligible for financial assistance but who do have a financial need as determined by the college in accordance with this subsection. In determining such financial need, the college shall exclude the value of 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 shall assess the earnings of a dependent student at the rate of thirty per cent.

(g) The Regional Community-Technical 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 tuition revenue through an annual state appropriation. The board of trustees shall request such an appropriation 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 of trustees shall allow any student who is a member of the armed forces called to active duty during any semester to enroll in any course for which such student had remitted tuition but which was not completed due to active duty status. Such course reenrollment shall be offered to any qualifying student for a period not exceeding four years after the date of release from active duty without additional tuition, student fee or related charge, except if such student has been fully reimbursed for the tuition, fees and charges for the course that was not completed.

(i) The Board of Regents for Higher Education shall not assess or charge a graduation fee to any student enrolled in a regional community-technical college for the purpose of graduating from such regional community-technical college.

(February, 1965, P.A. 330, S. 28; 1969, P.A. 530, S. 3; June, 1971, P.A. 5, S. 125; P.A. 73-542, S. 1; P.A. 74-266, S. 1, 5; 74-282, S. 1; P.A. 75-484, S. 1, 5; P.A. 76-181, S. 1, 5; 76-313, S. 2, 3; P.A. 77-573, S. 24, 30; P.A. 78-175, S. 1, 5; 78-331, S. 45, 58; P.A. 81-157, S. 1, 14; 81-252, S. 1, 5; 81-468, S. 8, 11; P.A. 82-218, S. 37, 46; 82-463, S. 1, 7; P.A. 83-457, S. 1, 6; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; 84-365, S. 2, 12; 84-438, S. 1, 5; P.A. 85-553, S. 1, 5; P.A. 86-325, S. 1, 5; P.A. 87-450, S. 7, 17; P.A. 88-136, S. 20. 37; P.A. 89-260, S. 24, 41; 89-380, S. 2, 7; P.A. 90-147, S. 4, 5, 20; P.A. 91-174, S. 7, 16; 91-208, S. 5, 11; 91-256, S. 16, 69; 91-303, S. 6, 22; 91-407, S. 29, 42; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-7, S. 16, 22; P.A. 92-126, S. 24, 48; P.A. 93-293, S. 3, 7, 11; P.A. 96-244, S. 59, 63; P.A. 97-247, S. 19, 27; P.A. 00-204, S. 10, 13; P.A. 01-173, S. 31, 67; P.A. 02-126, S. 6; P.A. 03-19, S. 22; 03-33, S. 1; 03-69, S. 1; 03-278, S. 128; P.A. 04-27, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 16; P.A. 06-141, S. 3; P.A. 08-71, S. 1; P.A. 09-159, S. 4; P.A. 10-66, S. 1; P.A. 11-48, S. 218, 219; P.A. 13-137, S. 1; P.A. 18-47, S. 8; P.A. 21-79, S. 9; 21-132, S. 9; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 54; P.A. 22-16, S. 3.)

History: 1969 act allowed board to set fees other than tuition and made all fees subject to approval of commission for higher education; 1971 act set tuition fees at $200 or less for state residents and at $850 or more for nonresidents and deleted provision for remission of fees for deserving students; P.A. 73-542 added Subsecs. (b) and (c) concerning waiver of fees for veterans and for dependents of missing-in-action persons or former prisoners of war; P.A. 74-266 made former Subsec. (c) provisions a subdivision of Subsec. (b); P.A. 74-282 amended Subsec. (b) to waive fees for persons 62 or older under certain conditions; P.A. 75-484 added Subsec. (c) re waiver of fees for those in financial need; P.A. 76-181 amended Subsec. (a) to change residents' fees to not less than $250 and nonresidents' fees to not less than $950 with the increase to be included in appropriations for community colleges for educational purposes and amended Subsec. (c) to raise from 1% to 10% the number of enrolled students whose fees may be waived; P.A. 76-313 amended Subsec. (b) to include waiver of fees for students attending the state police academy; P.A. 77-573 substituted board of higher education for commission for higher education; P.A. 78-175 substituted veteran “having served in time of war” for “Vietnam era” veteran in Subsec. (b); P.A. 78-331 clarified board with “of trustees” in Subsecs. (b) and (c) to avoid possible confusion with board of higher education; P.A. 81-157 required that student be “matriculated student” for waiver of fees to apply in Subsec. (c) and rewrote provision limiting waivers to change limit basis from certain number of students, i.e. 10%, to amount of tuition payable by 10% of full-time students; P.A. 81-252 amended Subsec. (b) to authorize waiver of tuition for eligible members of the Connecticut army or air national guard and to provide for reduction of waiver when eligible person receives educational reimbursement from employer; P.A. 81-468 amended Subsec. (a) increasing tuition fees from $250 to $300 for residents and from $950 to $1,140 for nonresidents; P.A. 82-218 reorganized system of higher education, replacing board of higher education with board of governors, effective March 1, 1983; P.A. 82-463 amended Subsec. (c) to restrict waivers to “resident” students enrolled on a full-time or part-time basis in a degree-granting program or in a precollege remedial program, and to include part-time students in calculation of total waiver amount; Sec. 10-38h transferred to Sec. 10a-77 in 1983; P.A. 83-457 amended Subsec. (c) to repeal provision that tuition waived or remitted shall not exceed 10% of tuition revenue payable by number of full-time and part-time resident students matriculated in degree-granting programs and enrolled in precollege remedial programs at the regional community colleges for the current academic year, and substituted provision that tuition waived or remitted shall not exceed 10% of tuition revenue due during the preceding year, including revenue lost due to tuition waivers and remissions, adjusted for tuition changes, or the appropriation to the regional community colleges for the current fiscal year for tuition waiver or remittance, whichever is less, and added provision that only the funds in the scholarship aid tuition refund account may be used for the purposes of this section; P.A. 84-241 added “of higher education” to board of governors' title; P.A. 84-365 inserted new Subsecs. (b) and (c) establishing a tuition fund for the regional community colleges, relettering the remaining Subsecs. accordingly, and deleting provisions in Subsec. (a) which required inclusion in community colleges appropriation of tuition above stated amounts and in Subsec. (e) (formerly (c)) which limited tuition waivers and remittances to the amount appropriated for the purpose; P.A. 84-438 amended Subsec. (b) authorizing tuition waivers for veterans who served in Grenada or Lebanon; P.A. 85-553 inserted new Subsec. (e) which required board to set aside from its anticipated tuition fund revenue an amount not less than that required by the board of governors' tuition policy to provide funds for tuition waivers and remissions, grants for educational expenses and student employment, replacing former provisions re waiver or remittance of tuition; P.A. 86-325 in Subsec. (b) increased 2% of the expenditure level to 102% and added Subsec. (f) to provide for reimbursement of the tuition fund for waivers; P.A. 87-450 in Subsec. (b) provided that the expenditure authority may be increased by the amount the fund income exceeds the authority rather than by the amount the income exceeds the authority up to 2% and eliminated the transfer of fund income for student financial aid; P.A. 88-136 deleted obsolete provision in Subsec. (b) re tuition revenue received for the 1984-1985 academic year; P.A. 89-260 substituted “board of trustees of the community-technical colleges” for “board of trustees of the regional community colleges” and specified that the section applies to tuition and students at the regional community colleges; P.A. 89-380 in Subsec. (b) substituted “fund balance or projected fund balance, including reserves and interest earnings from investments” for “fund income, including interest earnings from investments” as the amount which must exceed the expenditure authority in order for the authority to be increased by the board of trustees and provided that if the authority is increased it be increased by the amount that the fund balance rather than the fund income exceeds the expenditure authority, in Subsec. (d) amended Subdiv. (3) to provide that tuition waivers for persons 62 years of age or older be only on a space available basis and deleted provision that they be granted for any such person who is enrolled in a degree-granting program and made a technical change and in Subsec. (f) provided for reimbursement for the amount by which tuition waivers exceed 5% rather than 2.5% of the fund; P.A. 90-147 in Subsec. (b) expanded the authority of the board of trustees to increase expenditures from the tuition fund beyond the governor's recommended expenditure authority and in Subsec. (d) required that a person 62 years of age or older be a resident of the state to be eligible for a tuition waiver; P.A. 91-174 in Subsec. (a) deleted requirement for approval by the board of governors of higher education; P.A. 91-208 in Subsec. (e) added provision concerning the set aside of 1% of tuition revenue for financial assistance and specifying how financial need is to be determined; P.A. 91-256 removed provision for a tuition fund and established an operating fund, in Subsec. (a) deleted requirement for fees to be approved by the board of governors of higher education and made technical changes throughout section; P.A. 91-303 in Subsec. (d)(1) removed requirement of residency at the time of entering the armed forces and substituted requirement that the child be a resident of the state at the time of acceptance to the institution, in Subsec. (d)(2) added dates of the actions in Grenada and Lebanon, added reference to Panama and removed requirement that the veteran be a resident at the time he entered the armed forces or be a resident while serving and in Subsec. (d)(3) added requirement that a sufficient number of students other than those eligible for a waiver be enrolled to offer the course; P.A. 91-407 amended Subsec. (b) to add exception re appropriation for personal services; June Sp. Sess. 91-7 amended Subsec. (b) to provide for the deposit of federal funds and grants for purposes other than research in the fund; P.A. 92-126 changed the references to “community college” to “community-technical college”, removed language specifying the tuition in Subsec. (a) and added requirement in Subsec. (b) that appropriations for the community-technical colleges and the higher education center in the central Naugatuck Valley region be deposited in the fund; P.A. 93-293 amended Subsec. (b) to delete a reference to the higher education center in the central Naugatuck Valley region and added Subsec. (d)(6) re dependent child of a police officer or firefighter killed in the line of duty, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 96-244 amended Subsec. (d) to provide that veterans and members of the National Guard have the same status as students not receiving tuition waivers in registering for courses, effective June 6, 1996; P.A. 97-247 amended Subsec. (d) to make a technical change, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 00-204 amended Subsec. (d) to designate existing provisions of Subdiv. (6) as Subparas. (A) and (B) and to add Subparas. (C) and (D) re municipal employee and state employee, respectively, and to make technical changes, effective June 1, 2000; P.A. 01-173 amended Subsec. (d)(6) to include a dependent child of a supernumerary police officer or auxiliary police officer or of a member of a volunteer fire company, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 02-126 added Subsec. (d)(7) requiring tuition waiver for any state resident who is a dependent child or surviving spouse of a specified terrorist victim who was a state resident, effective June 7, 2002; P.A. 03-19 made a technical change in Subsec. (d)(6)(A), effective May 12, 2003; P.A. 03-33 added Subsec. (g) re course reenrollment for students who are members of the armed forces called to active duty during any semester; P.A. 03-69 amended Subsec. (b) to revise provisions re deposit in the operating fund of the amount of appropriations for operating expenses to be used for personal services and fringe benefits and to add provisions re deposit in the operating fund of the amount of appropriations for workers' compensation, re review and approval by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and by the State Treasurer and re transfer from the Comptroller, effective July 1, 2003; P.A. 03-278 changed effective date of P.A. 03-33, S. 1 from October 1, 2003, to May 12, 2003; P.A. 04-27 made a technical change in Subsec. (g), effective April 28, 2004; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3 amended Subsec. (d)(2) by replacing language re residency with language re domicile, amended Subsec. (d)(5) by replacing language re residency in Subpara. (A) with language re the Adjutant General in existing Subpara. (B) and redesignating existing Subpara. (C) as new Subpara. (B) and amended Subsec. (d)(7) by adding language describing “domiciled in this state”, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-141 amended Subsec. (d) by adding Subdiv. (8) re dependents of victims of multivehicle crash in Avon, effective June 6, 2006; P.A. 08-71 amended Subsec. (d) by adding Subdiv. (9) re tuition waiver applicable to resident of state who is dependent child or surviving spouse of armed forces member killed in action on or after September 11, 2001, effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 09-159 made technical changes in Subsecs. (b) and (c), amended Subsec. (d)(2) by providing that tuition waivers for veterans be subject to provisions of Subsec. (e), added new Subsec. (e) re tuition waivers for veterans who have applied for federal educational assistance under Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 and redesignated existing Subsecs. (e) to (g) as Subsecs. (f) to (h), effective July 1, 2009; P.A. 10-66 amended Subsec. (d)(2) by replacing “having served” with “who performed service”, deleting provisions re service in invasions of Grenada and Panama and peace-keeping mission in Lebanon, and redefining “service in time of war” to exclude time spent in attendance at a military service academy, effective May 18, 2010; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (c) to remove provisions re Board of Governors of Higher Education and amended Subsec. (f) to remove reference to tuition policy of Board of Governors of Higher Education, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-137 amended Subsec. (c) to add “the Office of Higher Education”, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 18-47 amended Subsec. (d)(2) to designate existing provision re veteran who performed service in time of war as Subpara. (A), add Subpara. (B) re person with qualifying condition and discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable who served in time of war, and made technical and conforming changes; P.A. 21-79 amended Subsec. (d) to redefine “veteran”, delete “(A)” and former Subpara. (B) re person with qualifying condition in Subdiv. (2), and make conforming changes; P.A. 21-132 added Subsec. (i) re prohibition on assessing or charging graduation fee, effective July 1, 2021; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 made identical changes as P.A. 21-132, effective July 1, 2021; P.A. 22-16 amended Subsec. (b) by changing “Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges” to “Regents for Higher Education”, adding “regional” before “community-technical colleges” and adding a reference to Sec. 10a-8, effective July 1, 2022.

See Sec. 4-73a re determination of actual rate for fringe benefits for funds of the constituent units of the state system of higher education.

See Sec. 10a-104b for definition of “specified terrorist victim”.

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Sec. 10a-77a. Endowment Fund for the Community-Technical College System. (a)(1) The Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges shall establish a permanent Endowment Fund for the Community-Technical College System to encourage donations from the private sector, with an incentive in the form of an endowment fund state grant, the net earnings on the principal of which are dedicated and made available to a regional community-technical college or the community-technical college system as a whole, for endowed professorships, scholarships and programmatic enhancements. The fund shall be administered by the board of trustees, or by a nonprofit entity entrusted for such purpose and qualified as a Section 501(c)(3) organization under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, and preferably constituted and controlled independent of the state and board of trustees so as to qualify the interest on state bonds the proceeds of which have been granted for deposit in the endowment fund as excludable from taxation under such code and shall, in any event, be held in a trust fund separate and apart from all other funds and accounts of the state and the community-technical college system. There shall be deposited into the fund: (A) Endowment fund state grants; and (B) interest or other income earned on the investment of moneys in the endowment fund pending transfer of the principal of the fund for the purposes identified in this subdivision. Endowment fund eligible gifts made on behalf of a regional community-technical college or the system as a whole shall be deposited in a permanent endowment fund created for each regional community-technical college and the system as a whole in the appropriate foundation established pursuant to sections 4-37e and 4-37f. A portion of the endowment fund state grant and a portion of earnings on such grant, including capital appreciation, shall be transferred, annually, within thirty days of the receipt of the endowment fund state grant by the permanent Endowment Fund for the Community-Technical College System, to such a regional community-technical college endowment fund based on the ratio of the total amount of such gifts made to such regional community-technical college to the total amount of all such gifts made to all the regional community-technical colleges and the system as a whole, provided the provisions of section 4-37f are satisfied.

(2) (A) For each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 2000, to June 30, 2006, inclusive, as part of the state contract with donors of endowment fund eligible gifts, the Office of Higher Education, in accordance with section 10a-8b, shall deposit in the Endowment Fund for the Community-Technical College System a grant in an amount equal to half of the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts received by or for the benefit of the community-technical college system as a whole and each regional community-technical college for the calendar year ending the December thirty-first preceding the commencement of such fiscal year, as certified by the chairperson of the board of trustees by February fifteenth to (i) the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, (ii) the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, and (iii) the executive director of the Office of Higher Education, provided such sums do not exceed the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment for the fiscal year in which the grant is made.

(B) For each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 2007, to June 30, 2014, inclusive, as part of the state contract with donors of endowment fund eligible gifts, the Office of Higher Education, in accordance with section 10a-8b, shall deposit in the Endowment Fund for the Community-Technical College System a grant in an amount equal to one-quarter of the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts, except as provided in this subdivision, received by or for the benefit of the community-technical college system as a whole and each regional community-technical college for the calendar year ending the December thirty-first preceding the commencement of such fiscal year, as certified by the chairperson of the board of trustees by February fifteenth to (i) the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, (ii) the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, and (iii) the executive director of the Office of Higher Education, provided such sums do not exceed the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment for the fiscal year in which the grant is made. Endowment fund eligible gifts that meet the criteria set forth in this subdivision, made by donors during the period from January 1, 2005, to June 30, 2005, shall continue to be matched by the Office of Higher Education in an amount equal to one-half of the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts received. Commitments by donors to make endowment fund eligible gifts for two or more years that meet the criteria set forth in this subdivision and that are made for the period prior to December 31, 2004, but ending before December 31, 2012, shall continue to be matched by the Office of Higher Education in an amount equal to one-half of the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts received through the commitment.

(C) In any such fiscal year in which the total of the eligible gifts received by the community-technical colleges exceeds the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment for such fiscal year the amount in excess of such endowment fund state grant maximum commitment shall be carried forward and be eligible for a matching state grant in any succeeding fiscal year from the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, inclusive, subject to the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment. Any endowment fund eligible gifts that are not included in the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts certified by the chairperson of the board of trustees pursuant to this subdivision may be carried forward and be eligible for a matching state grant in any succeeding fiscal year from the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, inclusive, subject to the endowment fund state matching grant commitment for such fiscal year.

(3) The Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges shall adopt, by October 1, 1997, guidelines with respect to (A) the solicitation of endowment fund eligible gifts from private donors, and (B) governing the acceptance of gifts made by a foundation established pursuant to sections 4-37e and 4-37f, to a community-technical college or its employees for reimbursement of expenditures or payment of expenditures on behalf of a community-technical college or its employees. Private donations shall not be construed to include proceeds of municipal grants.

(b) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Endowment fund eligible gift” means a gift to or for the benefit of a regional community-technical college or the community-technical college system as a whole of cash or assets which may be reduced to cash or which has a value that is ascertainable by such regional community-technical college or the community-technical college system as a whole which the donor has specifically designated for deposit in the endowment fund or which explicitly or implicitly by the terms of the gift the regional community-technical college or community-technical college system as a whole may and does deposit or permit to be deposited in the endowment funds. (2) “Endowment fund state grant” means moneys that are transferred by the Office of Higher Education from the fund established pursuant to section 10a-8b to the endowment fund established pursuant to this section in an aggregate amount not exceeding the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment. (3) “Endowment fund state grant maximum commitment” means an amount not exceeding two million dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, two and one-half million dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, three million dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002, three and one-half million dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, and five million dollars for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 2004, to June 30, 2014, inclusive.

(c) Notwithstanding the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment levels for each fiscal year pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, the total of the endowment fund state grant maximum commitments for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2000, to June 30, 2014, inclusive, shall not exceed thirty-nine million five hundred thousand dollars.

(P.A. 97-293, S. 3, 26; P.A. 98-252, S. 50, 80; P.A. 99-285, S. 7, 12; P.A. 01-141, S. 1–3, 16; 01-195, S. 76, 181; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 64; P.A. 06-135, S. 7; P.A. 11-48, S. 285; P.A. 12-156, S. 44.)

History: P.A. 97-293 effective July 1, 1997 (Revisor's note: In Subsec. (b) the word “whose” in the phrase “... or the community-technical college system as a whose of cash or assets ...” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “whole” for accuracy); P.A. 98-252 amended Subsec. (a)(2) to allow gifts not included in the amount certified by the chairperson to be carried forward and be eligible for a matching state grant in a succeeding fiscal year, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 99-285 amended Subsec. (a)(1) to add option for administration of fund by nonprofit entity, to specify that endowment funds be in the appropriate foundation established pursuant to Secs. 4-37e and 4-37f, to specify the transfer of capital appreciation, to require transfer within 30 days of receipt of endowment fund state grant and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 01-141 amended Subsec. (a)(2) to extend the program to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, amended Subsec. (b)(3) to remove $4,000,000 limit for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2004, and $4,500,000 limit for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005, and to apply $5,000,000 limit to each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 2004, to June 30, 2014, inclusive, and added Subsec. (c) re $39,500,000 cap, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 01-195 made a technical change in Subsec. (a)(2), effective July 11, 2001; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3 amended Subsec. (a)(2) by designating existing language re match in an amount equal to half as new Subpara. (A) and amending same to provide for match terminating with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, and redesignating existing Subparas. (A) to (C) as clauses (i) to (iii), by adding new Subpara. (B) re match in an amount equal to one quarter and by designating existing language re eligible gifts in excess of state grant maximum commitment as new Subpara. (C), effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-135 amended Subsec. (a)(2)(B) by adding provisions re endowment fund eligible gifts made during the period from January 1, 2005, to June 30, 2005, effective July 1, 2006; pursuant to P.A. 11-48, “Department of Higher Education” and “Commissioner of Higher Education” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Board of Regents for Higher Education” and “president of the Board of Regents for Higher Education”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 12-156 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) by replacing “Board of Regents for Higher Education” with “Office of Higher Education” and replacing references to president of Board of Regents for Higher Education with references to executive director of Office of Higher Education, effective June 15, 2012.

See Sec. 10a-8c re restrictions on appropriations.

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Sec. 10a-78. (Formerly Sec. 10-38i). Establishment of regional colleges. (a) The Board of Trustees for Regional Community-Technical Colleges shall establish a regional community-technical college to serve the southeastern area of Connecticut as approved by the Board of Regents for Higher Education to be part of the state system of community-technical colleges.

(b) The Board of Trustees for Regional Community-Technical Colleges shall establish a regional community-technical college to serve the New Britain-Bristol area as approved by the Board of Regents for Higher Education to be part of the state system of community-technical colleges.

(c) The Board of Trustees for Regional Community-Technical Colleges shall establish a regional community-technical college to serve the northeastern Connecticut area as approved by the Board of Regents for Higher Education to be part of the state system of community-technical colleges.

(d) The Board of Trustees for Regional Community-Technical Colleges shall establish a regional community-technical college to serve the northern Connecticut area comprising the towns of East Granby, East Windsor, Ellington, Enfield, Somers, Stafford, Suffield and Windsor Locks as approved by the Board of Regents for Higher Education to be part of the state system of community-technical colleges.

(e) The Board of Trustees for Regional Community-Technical Colleges shall establish a regional community-technical college to serve the lower Naugatuck Valley area comprising the towns of Ansonia, Derby, Shelton, Seymour, Oxford, Beacon Falls and Naugatuck as approved by the Board of Regents for Higher Education to be part of the state system of community-technical colleges.

(f) Repealed by P.A. 78-331, S. 3, 58.

(g) The Board of Trustees for Regional Community-Technical Colleges shall establish a regional community-technical college to serve the greater Waterbury area as approved by the Board of Regents for Higher Education to be part of the state system of community-technical colleges.

(1969, P.A. 812, S. 1–5, 12; P.A. 77-573, S. 24, 30; P.A. 78-331, S. 3, 58; P.A. 82-218, S. 37, 46; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 92-126, S. 25, 48; P.A. 93-293, S. 1, 11; P.A. 11-48, S. 285.)

History: P.A. 77-573 substituted board of higher education for commission for higher education; P.A. 78-331 repealed Subsec. (f) regarding appropriations for biennium ending June 30, 1971; P.A. 82-218 replaced board of higher education with board of governors pursuant to reorganization of higher education system, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-38i transferred to Sec. 10a-78 in 1983; P.A. 84-241 added “of higher education” to board of governors' title; P.A. 92-126 changed references to “community college” to “community-technical college” and deleted obsolete provisions re initial dates of operation; P.A. 93-293 added Subsec. (g) concerning a college to serve the greater Waterbury area, effective July 1, 1993; pursuant to P.A. 11-48, “Board of Governors of Higher Education” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Board of Regents for Higher Education”, effective July 1, 2011.

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Sec. 10a-79. (Formerly Sec. 10-38k). Campus traffic and parking regulations at regional community-technical colleges. The Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges shall appoint a committee at each regional community-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 Office of the State Traffic Administration, may: (1) Prohibit, limit or restrict the parking of passenger vehicles; (2) determine speed limits; (3) install stop signs; (4) restrict roads or portions thereof to one-way traffic; (5) 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; (6) order signs to be erected and maintained designating such prohibitions or restrictions; and (7) impose a fine upon any person who fails to comply with any such prohibition or restriction. All fines so imposed at each regional community-technical college, 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 scholarships and library services or acquisitions. The Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges shall establish at each regional community-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.

(P.A. 73-151, S. 2; P.A. 89-260, S. 25, 41; P.A. 91-256, S. 17, 69; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-7, S. 13, 22; P.A. 92-126, S. 26, 48; P.A. 11-256, S. 2; P.A. 12-132, S. 3.)

History: Sec. 10-38k transferred to Sec. 10a-79 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 89-260 substituted “board of trustees of the community-technical colleges” for “board of trustees of the regional community colleges” and “regional community college” for “campus” and specified that the scholarship account is that of the regional community colleges; P.A. 91-256 deleted provision requiring that fines not exceed $25 and that the money be placed in a scholarship account, added provision that funds be deposited in institutional operating accounts, provided for the use of fines to offset the cost of enforcing traffic and parking regulations and required the fines to be used for library services and acquisitions; June Sp. Sess. 91-7 provided for the use of funds for scholarships; P.A. 92-126 changed references to “community college” to “community-technical college”; P.A. 11-256 added authority to install stop signs, inserted numeric Subdiv. designators and made technical changes; P.A. 12-132 replaced “State Traffic Commission” with “Office of the State Traffic Administration”, effective July 1, 2012.

Cited. 200 C. 290.

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Sec. 10a-80. (Formerly Sec. 10-38l). Community service programs at regional community-technical colleges. (a) The primary responsibilities of the regional community-technical colleges shall be (1) to provide programs of occupational, vocational, technical and technological and career education designed to provide training for immediate employment, job retraining or upgrading of skills to meet individual, community and state manpower needs; (2) to provide programs of general study including, but not limited to, remediation, general and adult education and continuing education designed to meet individual student goals; (3) to provide programs of study for college transfer representing the first two years of baccalaureate education; (4) to provide community service programs as defined in subsection (b) of this section; and (5) to provide student support services including, but not limited to, admissions, counseling, testing, placement, individualized instruction and efforts to serve students with special needs.

(b) As used in this section, “community service programs” means educational, cultural, recreational and community directed services which a community-technical college may provide in addition to its regular academic program. Such community service programs may include, but shall not be limited to, (1) activities designed to enrich the intellectual, cultural and social life of the community, (2) educational services designed to promote the development of skills for the effective use of leisure time, (3) activities and programs designed to assist in the identification and solution of community problems and (4) utilization of college facilities and services by community groups to the extent such usage does not conflict with the regular schedule of the college.

(P.A. 75-100, S. 2; P.A. 92-126, S. 27, 48.)

History: Sec. 10-38l transferred to Sec. 10a-80 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 92-126 changed references to “community college” to “community-technical college” and added in Subsec. (a) a reference to technical and technological education.

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Sec. 10a-80a. Manufacturing technology centers. The Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges may, within available appropriations, develop manufacturing technology centers on three community-technical college campuses in geographically diverse locations.

(May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7, S. 13.)

History: May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7 effective August 15, 2002.

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Sec. 10a-80b. Policy re use of financial aid to purchase textbooks. The Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges shall develop a policy that (1) provides for the disbursement of financial aid to students who have met all federal, state and institutional requirements for financial aid by the first day of the academic term, or (2) permits students to use financial aid that has not yet been disbursed at stores on the campuses of the colleges under the board's jurisdiction to purchase during the first week of the academic term required textbooks for courses taught at the colleges.

(P.A. 06-103, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 06-103 effective July 1, 2006.

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Sec. 10a-80c. Uniform naming of green jobs certificate and degree programs. The Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges shall require that green jobs certificate and degree programs offered by each of the community-technical colleges be uniformly named.

(P.A. 10-156, S. 1.)

See Sec. 10a-55d re definitions.

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Sec. 10a-80d. Waiver of membership in Connecticut retirement plan by adjunct faculty. An adjunct faculty member of a regional community-technical college or Charter Oak State College shall be permitted to irrevocably waive membership in a Connecticut retirement plan not later than sixty days after commencing employment with such regional community-technical college or Charter Oak State College. Once the adjunct faculty member waives membership in a Connecticut retirement plan, such faculty member is no longer eligible to elect to participate in a Connecticut retirement plan in any subsequent part-time employment with the regional community-technical college system, Charter Oak State College, the Board of Regents for Higher Education or any other constituent unit, as defined in section 10a-1.

(P.A. 12-52, S. 1; P.A. 13-126, S. 1; P.A. 14-117, S. 7.)

History: P.A. 12-52 effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 13-126 added references to Charter Oak State College and Board for State Academic Awards, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-117 changed “the Board for State Academic Awards” to “Charter Oak State College”, effective July 1, 2014.

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Sec. 10a-80e. Immunity for donation of tangible property to a regional community-technical college. Any person, as defined in section 1-79, who donates tangible property to a regional community-technical college shall be immune from civil liability for damage or injury occurring on or after October 1, 2013, resulting from any act, error or omission by such person with respect to such donated tangible property, unless such damage or injury was caused by the reckless, wilful or wanton misconduct of such person.

(P.A. 13-261, S. 9.)

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Sec. 10a-80f. Pilot program for expansion of advanced manufacturing certificate programs to public high schools. (a) On or before January 1, 2020, the Board of Regents for Higher Education shall establish a pilot program for the expansion of advanced manufacturing certificate programs to public high schools in the state. The board shall (1) prescribe the form and manner in which local or regional boards of education may apply to the board to participate in the pilot program, (2) establish the criteria to be used by the board in selecting a public high school to participate in the pilot program, which shall include, but need not be limited to, prioritizing the placement of such advanced manufacturing certificate programs in areas of the state where (A) there is a need for a workforce trained in advanced manufacturing, (B) there are economically distressed municipalities, (C) residents do not have access to advanced manufacturing certificate programs within close proximity to their homes, and (D) there is sufficient space in a public high school to operate an advanced manufacturing certificate program, and (3) explore the means of funding the pilot program through public-private partnerships, grant programs, federal funds or state funds through the Workforce Investment Boards, any relevant program of the Department of Economic and Community Development, the Connecticut Manufacturing Innovation Fund and the Labor Department's office of apprenticeship training. The board may select not more than one public high school per year in which to establish an advanced manufacturing certificate program.

(b) Any local or regional board of education, separately or jointly with other local or regional boards of education in the surrounding area, may apply to participate in the pilot program in the form and manner prescribed by the Board of Regents for Higher Education. Each local or regional board of education that is selected and chooses to participate in the pilot program, whether separately or jointly, shall enter into a memorandum of understanding and any other relevant agreement with the Board of Regents for Higher Education for the operation of the advanced manufacturing certificate program at a public high school within the school district of such local or regional board of education. Notwithstanding sections 4b-23, 4b-30 and 4b-32 and subdivision (15) of subsection (a) of section 10a-6, the Board of Regents for Higher Education may enter into a memorandum of understanding and any other relevant agreement with a local or regional board of education for the purposes of this section. Such memorandum of understanding shall include, but need not be limited to, (1) the number of high school and college credits the students enrolled in the advanced manufacturing certificate program may earn after successful completion of such program, (2) operating hours and staffing levels for the advanced manufacturing certificate program at a public high school, and (3) the standards for student admission and the process for application to the advanced manufacturing certificate program.

(c) The Board of Regents for Higher Education may collaborate with an independent institution of higher education, as defined in section 10a-173, that offers an advanced manufacturing certificate program for the operation of an advanced manufacturing certificate program at a public high school, provided the local or regional board of education that is selected and chooses to participate in the pilot program agrees to such collaboration. If the local or regional board of education agrees to such collaboration, such local or regional board of education shall enter into a memorandum of understanding and any other relevant agreement with the independent institution of higher education for the operation of an advanced manufacturing certificate program at a public high school within the school district of such local or regional board of education.

(d) Beginning in the fall semester of 2020, and for each academic semester thereafter, each advanced manufacturing certificate program established at a public high school shall enroll (1) public high school students in grade eleven or twelve from the school districts of the local or regional board or boards of education that have entered into the memorandum of understanding pursuant to subsection (b) or (c) of this section, to simultaneously earn high school credits from the public high school in which the student is enrolled and college credits and an advanced manufacturing certificate from the regional community-technical college or the independent institution of higher education that operates the advanced manufacturing certificate program, and (2) upon the approval of the local or regional board of education, adults for classes during the evening and weekend hours to earn an advanced manufacturing certificate from the regional community-technical college or the independent institution of higher education that operates the advanced manufacturing certificate program.

(e) Not later than January 1, 2021, and annually thereafter, the president of the Board of Regents for Higher Education, in consultation with the president of any independent institution of higher education with which the board collaborates pursuant to subsection (c) of this section, shall report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to higher education and employment advancement and education on the operation and effectiveness of the pilot program and any recommendations to expand the pilot program.

(P.A. 19-103, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 19-103 effective July 1, 2019.

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Sec. 10a-80g. Electronic commerce seminars for small businesses. (a) For the purposes of this section:

(1) “Small business” means a business located in the state with twenty-five employees or less;

(2) “Cybersecurity” means the detection, prevention or response to activity intended to result in unauthorized access to, exfiltration of, manipulation of, or impairment to the integrity, confidentiality or availability of an information technology system or information stored on, or transiting, an information technology system; and

(3) “Virtual currency” has the same meaning as provided in section 36a-596.

(b) Not later than September 1, 2022, the Board of Regents for Higher Education shall, within available funds, develop seminar programs to assist small businesses with adapting to the business environment in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, as defined in section 4-216a, through courses in subject areas, including, but not limited to, electronic commerce, social media, cybersecurity and virtual currency. Said board shall prescribe forms and procedures by which not more than two employees of any small business may enroll in not more than five seminar programs or any course within such seminar programs at the Northwestern Connecticut Community College Entrepreneurial Center or the Werth Innovation and Entrepreneurial Center at Housatonic Community College at no cost to such small business.

(P.A. 22-118, S. 121.)

History: P.A. 22-118 effective July 1, 2022.

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Sec. 10a-81. (Formerly Sec. 10-108a). Board of Trustees for State Technical Colleges. Duties. Section 10a-81 is repealed.

(1967, P.A. 751, S. 4; 1969, P.A. 414, S. 1; 530, S. 9; 592, S. 2; 1971, P.A. 42; P.A. 73-214, S. 3; P.A. 74-196, S. 1, 2; 74-338, S. 86, 94; P.A. 75-262, S. 2; 75-425, S. 25, 57; 75-504, S. 2, 5; P.A. 77-573, S. 24, 30; 77-614, S. 67, 73, 610; P.A. 78-331, S. 46, 58; P.A. 82-218, S. 11, 40, 46; P.A. 83-576, S. 3, 5; P.A. 84-87, S. 5, 7; 84-241, S. 2, 5; 84-255, S. 15, 21; P.A. 87-496, S. 54, 110; P.A. 89-260, S. 40, 41.)

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(1967, P.A. 751, S. 5; 1969, P.A. 530, S. 6; June, 1971, P.A. 5, S. 124; P.A. 73-151, S. 3; 73-542, S. 2; P.A. 74-266, S. 2, 5; 74-282, S. 2; P.A. 75-484, S. 2, 5; P.A. 76-181, S. 2, 5; P.A. 77-573, S. 24, 30; P.A. 78-175, S. 2, 5; P.A. 81-252, S. 2, 5; 81-468, S. 9, 11; P.A. 82-218, S. 37, 46; 82-463, S. 2, 7; P.A. 83-450, S. 2, 5; 83-457, S. 2, 6; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; 84-365, S. 3, 12; 84-438, S. 2, 5; P.A. 85-282, S. 2, 5; 85-553, S. 2, 5; P.A. 86-325, S. 2, 5; P.A. 87-450, S. 8, 17; P.A. 88-136, S. 21, 37; P.A. 89-260, S. 26–29, 41; 89-380, S. 3, 7; P.A. 90-147, S. 6, 7, 20; P.A. 91-174, S. 8, 16; 91-208, S. 6, 11; 91-256, S. 18–20, 69; 91-303, S. 7, 22; 91-407, S. 30, 42; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-7, S. 14, 17, 22; P.A. 92-126, S. 47, 48.)

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Secs. 10a-85 and 10a-86. (Formerly Secs. 10-108e and 10-108f). Regional Technical College Auxiliary Services Fund; borrowing from General Fund. Regional Technical College Educational Extension Fund. Sections 10a-85 and 10a-86 are repealed.

(P.A. 75-604, S. 1–3; P.A. 77-614, S. 73, 610; P.A. 80-299, S. 1, 2; P.A. 81-442, S. 3, 4, 9; P.A. 82-218, S. 12, 13, 46; 82-314, S. 20, 21, 63; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 86-37, S. 5, 6; P.A. 87-496, S. 55, 56, 110; 87-529, S. 8, 9; P.A. 88-136, S. 27, 28, 37; P.A. 89-260, S. 30, 31, 41; P.A. 91-256, S. 68, 69.)

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Sec. 10a-86a. Transfer provisions. Section 10a-86a is repealed.

(P.A. 89-260, S. 17, 41; P.A. 92-126, S. 47, 48.)

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PART II

CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY

Sec. 10a-87. (Formerly Sec. 10-109). Connecticut State University; maintenance; degrees. 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 Regents for Higher Education for review and approval recommendations for program terminations at any of said institutions in accordance with the provisions of subdivision (7) 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 Regents for 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.

(1949 Rev., S. 1412, 1420; 1959, P.A. 411, S. 6; February, 1965, P.A. 330, S. 31; 1967, P.A. 142, S. 1; 296, S. 1; P.A. 82-218, S. 14, 46; 82-391, S. 1, 2, 6; P.A. 83-576, S. 1, 5; P.A. 84-87, S. 4, 7; 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 89-237, S. 8, 11; P.A. 91-256, S. 52, 69; P.A. 12-156, S. 45; P.A. 13-247, S. 185.)

History: 1959 act changed names of schools from teachers college to state college and authorized conferring of degrees in academic fields; 1965 act substituted board of trustees of the state colleges for state board of education and made technical language changes to simplify and clarify provisions; 1967 acts renamed Danbury State College as Western Connecticut State College and Willimantic State College as Eastern Connecticut State College; P.A. 82-218 and P.A. 82-391 reorganized state system of higher education, granting state colleges university status, designating them as the Connecticut State University and adding provisions requiring that program terminations be reviewed and approved by board of governors, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-109 transferred to Sec. 10a-87 in 1983; P.A. 83-576 added provisions permitting awarding of honorary degrees and prohibiting denial of access to armed forces representatives; P.A. 84-87 repealed language prohibiting board from denying military recruiters the opportunity to recruit on campus; P.A. 84-241 added “of higher education” to board of governors' title; P.A. 89-237 added career fields as programs of study offered by the board of trustees and as degrees which may be conferred; P.A. 91-256 made technical changes; P.A. 12-156 replaced “Board of Governors of Higher Education” with “Board of Regents for Higher Education”, effective June 15, 2012; P.A. 13-247 changed “subdivision (8)” to “subdivision (7)” re reference to Sec. 10a-6(a), effective July 1, 2013.

Cited. 2 CA 196.

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Sec. 10a-88. (Formerly Sec. 10-109a). Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System. Beginning on January 1, 2012, the Board of Regents for Higher Education shall serve as the Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System. The Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System that is in office on June 30, 2011, shall remain in office until December 31, 2011, to provide assistance in transitioning duties and responsibilities to the Board of Regents for Higher Education during the period of July 1, 2011, to December 31, 2011, any action of the Board of Trustees shall not be final until ratified by the Board of Regents for Higher Education. Until December 31, 2011, there shall be a Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System consisting of eighteen 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 four students, one from each state university elected by the students enrolled at such state university. 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, provided two of the members appointed for terms commencing July 1, 1995, and their successors shall be state college or Connecticut State University System alumni, one of the members appointed for a term commencing July 1, 1997, and his or her successors shall be such alumni and two of the members appointed for terms commencing July 1, 1999, and their successors shall be such alumni. On and after July 1, 1999, the board shall at all times include at least one member from each county in which a state university is located. (1) On or before November 1, 1975, the students enrolled at the institutions under the jurisdiction of the board shall, in such manner as the board determines, elect two members of the board, each of whom shall be enrolled as a full-time student at an institution under the jurisdiction of the board at the time of his or her 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 1, 1976, until July 1, 1997, such students shall, in such manner as the board determines, elect one member of the board, who shall be so enrolled at any such institution at the time of his or her election and who shall serve for a term of two years from November first in the year of his or her election, except that the term of the member due to expire on October 31, 1998, shall expire on October 31, 1997. (2) On and after July 1, 1997, until June 30, 2007, the student members of the board shall be elected as follows: (A) (i) On or before November 1, 1997, the students enrolled at Central Connecticut State University shall, in such manner as the board determines, elect one member of the board who shall be a full-time student at such state university at the time of his or her election and who shall serve for a term of one year from said November first, and (ii) on or before November 1, 1998, and biennially thereafter, the students enrolled at Central Connecticut State University shall, in such manner as the board determines, elect one member of the board who shall be a full-time student at such state university at the time of his or her election and who shall serve for a term of two years from November first in the year of his or her election; (B) (i) on or before November 1, 1997, the students enrolled at Eastern Connecticut State University shall, in such manner as the board determines, elect one member of the board who shall be a full-time student at such state university at the time of his or her election and who shall serve for a term of one year from said November first, and (ii) on or before November 1, 1998, and biennially thereafter, the students enrolled at Eastern Connecticut State University shall, in such manner as the board determines, elect one member of the board who shall be a full-time student at the time of his or her election and who shall serve for a term of two years from the November first in the year of his or her election; (C) on or before November 1, 1997, and biennially thereafter, the students enrolled at Southern Connecticut State University shall, in such manner as the board determines, elect one member of the board who shall be a full-time student at such university at the time of his or her election and who shall serve for a term of two years from the November first in the year of his or her election; and (D) on or before November 1, 1997, and biennially thereafter, the students at Western Connecticut State University shall, in such manner as the board determines, elect one member of the board who shall be a full-time student at such state university at the time of his or her election and who shall serve for a term of two years from the November first in the year of his or her election. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, the term of any student member elected pursuant to this subdivision during calendar year 2005 or 2006, shall terminate June thirtieth of the year in which such term is due to expire. (3) On and after July 1, 2007, the student members of the board shall be elected as follows: (A) On or before July 1, 2008, and biennially thereafter, the students enrolled at Central Connecticut State University shall, in such manner as the board determines, elect one member of the board who shall be a full-time student at said state university at the time of his or her election and who shall serve for a term of two years from July first in the year of his or her election; (B) on or before July 1, 2008, and biennially thereafter, the students enrolled at Eastern Connecticut State University shall, in such manner as the board determines, elect one member of the board who shall be a full-time student at said state university at the time of his or her election and who shall serve for a term of two years from the July first in the year of his or her election; (C) on or before July 1, 2007, and biennially thereafter, the students enrolled at Southern Connecticut State University shall, in such manner as the board determines, elect one member of the board who shall be a full-time student at said state university at the time of his or her election and who shall serve for a term of two years from the July first in the year of his or her election; and (D) on or before July 1, 2007, and biennially thereafter, the students at Western Connecticut State University shall, in such manner as the board determines, elect one member of the board who shall be a full-time student at said state university at the time of his or her election and who shall serve for a term of two years from the July first in the year of his or her election. If any student member of the board elected on or after November 1, 2001, ceases to be a matriculating student in good standing, either as a full-time undergraduate student or as a full-time or part-time graduate student, at the state university from which such student member was elected, the membership of such student shall terminate. If, on and after July 1, 2007, the membership of any such student member terminates, the students enrolled at the state university such student member represented shall, not later than thirty days after the membership terminates and in such manner as the board determines, elect a student member of the board who shall serve for the remainder of the term. 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.

(February, 1965, P.A. 330, S. 29; P.A. 75-262, S. 3; 75-504, S. 3, 5; P.A. 82-218, S. 15, 39, 46; P.A. 83-587, S. 21, 96; P.A. 91-256, S. 53, 69; P.A. 94-97, S. 1, 4; P.A. 95-259, S. 22, 32; P.A. 97-247, S. 24, 27; P.A. 01-141, S. 5, 16; P.A. 07-19, S. 2; P.A. 11-48, S. 220.)

History: P.A. 75-262 increased number of members from 12 to 14 including two students, deleted provision for first appointments after creation of board and added provisions re election of student members, their terms and vacancy-filling procedure; P.A. 75-504 increased number of members to 16, including two state college alumni, and added provisions for their appointment; P.A. 82-218 reorganized higher education system, amending section to require that trustees reflect state's diversity, to replace prior appointment provisions, to require that governor, rather than trustees, select chairman and to replace “state colleges” with “Connecticut State University,” effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-109a transferred to Sec. 10a-88 in 1983; P.A. 83-587 added specific reference to Connecticut State University; P.A. 91-256 made technical changes; P.A. 94-97 added provision requiring that alumni be appointed to terms commencing July 1, 1995, July 1, 1997 and July 1, 1999, effective May 25, 1994; P.A. 95-259 added provision requiring that on and after July 1, 1999, the board include at least one member from each county in which a state university is located, effective July 6, 1995; P.A. 97-247 increased the student representation on the board from two to four, specified that one student be from each state university, inserted Subdiv., Subpara. and subclause designators and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 01-141 added provision re termination of the term of a student member of the board who ceases to be a matriculating student in good standing and made technical changes for purposes of gender neutrality, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 07-19 amended Subdiv. (2) to terminate method for determining term of student member under that Subdiv. on June 30, 2007, and add language re students elected in 2005 or 2006, added Subdiv. (3) re student member terms on and after July 1, 2007, and added language re termination of membership due to enrollment status change and replacement of member, effective May 7, 2007; P.A. 11-48 replaced Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System with Board of Regents for Higher Education serving as board of trustees beginning on January 1, 2012, and created a transition period through December 31, 2011, during which the Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System shall remain in office, effective July 1, 2011.

Annotation to former section 10-109a:

Cited. 178 C. 579; decision overruled to the extent it maintains that sovereign immunity invariably bars suits against state for prospective injunctive relief of alleged constitutional violations unless such suits also request declaratory relief, see 184 C. 339.

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Sec. 10a-89. (Formerly Sec. 10-109b). Duties of the Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System. (a) Subject to state-wide policy and guidelines established by the Board of Regents for Higher Education, the board of trustees shall provide for the administration of the Connecticut State University System, plan for the expansion and development of the institutions within its jurisdiction, and submit such plans to the Commissioner of Administrative Services for review and recommendations. The Commissioner of Administrative Services upon request of the board of trustees 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 the board of trustees may, with the permission of the Commissioner of Administrative Services 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. Subject to such policies as may be established by the board of trustees, the chief executive officer of each institution within the jurisdiction of the board 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 institution. 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 executive staff. 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. The board of trustees shall determine who constitutes its professional staff and establish compensation and classification schedules for its professional staff. The 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. Subject to state-wide policy and guidelines established by the Board of Regents for 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 system, including those concerning the admission of students and the expenditure of the funds of institutions under its jurisdiction within the amounts available; (2) develop the mission statement for the university system which shall include, but not be limited to the following elements: (A) The educational needs of and constituencies served by the institutions within its jurisdiction; (B) the degrees offered by such institutions; and (C) the role and scope of each institution within the university system, which shall include each institution's particular strengths and specialties; (3) establish policies for the university system and for the individual institutions under its jurisdiction; (4) make institutional mergers or closures; (5) coordinate the programs and services of the institutions under its jurisdiction; (6) be authorized to enter into agreements, consistent with the provisions of section 5-141d, to save harmless and indemnify sponsors of research grants to institutions under its jurisdiction, provided such an agreement is required to receive the grant and limits liability to damages or injury resulting from acts or omissions related to such research by employees of such institutions; (7) promote fund-raising by the institutions under its jurisdiction in order to assist such institutions and report to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to higher education by January 1, 1994, and biennially thereafter, on all such fund-raising; and (8) charge the direct costs for a building project under its jurisdiction to the bond fund account for such project, provided (A) such costs are charged in accordance with a procedure approved by the Treasurer; and (B) nothing in this subdivision shall permit the charging of working capital, as defined in the applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, or costs originally paid from sources other than the bond fund account.

(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, 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.

(February, 1965, P.A. 330, S. 30; 1967, P.A. 751, S. 6; 1969, P.A. 530, S. 10; 592, S. 3; P.A. 73-214, S. 4; P.A. 75-425, S. 26, 57; P.A. 77-573, S. 24, 30; 77-614, S. 67, 73, 610; P.A. 78-331, S. 47, 58; P.A. 81-275, S. 1; P.A. 82-218, S. 16, 39, 46; P.A. 83-587, S. 22, 96; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 87-496, S. 57, 110; P.A. 91-174, S. 9, 16; 91-230, S. 13, 17; 91-256, S. 21, 69; 91-349, S. 2, 8; P.A. 93-201, S. 12, 24; P.A. 94-180, S. 12, 17; 94-245, S. 27, 46; P.A. 97-293, S. 16, 26; P.A. 07-19, S. 1; P.A. 11-48, S. 221; 11-51, S. 44.)

History: 1967 act gave additional powers to board, including planning expansion and development, leasing power, power to employ executive secretary, executive staff and faculty and powers to select and acquire sites and construct buildings subject to approval of commission for higher education; 1969 acts removed five-year limit on leases, added provisions concerning professional staff and allowed board to use capital funds for leases during planning and construction phases of institutions; P.A. 73-214 transferred leasing power to commissioner of public works, although board retained power to decide when lease necessary and whether capital funds should be used; P.A. 75-425 required approval of expansion and development plans by public works commissioner and state properties review board, required permission of public works commissioner and properties review board for expenditure of capital funds and transferred site selection and acquisition and building construction powers to public works commissioner; P.A. 77-573 substituted board of higher education for commission for higher education; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of administrative services for personnel policy board and public works commissioner; P.A. 78-331 specified board of trustees to avoid confusion with board of higher education; P.A. 81-275 permitted board to make buildings and facilities available to certain organizations or individuals for temporary uses consistent with the colleges' educational purposes; P.A. 82-218 reorganized higher education system, replacing board of higher education with board of governors, and renaming state colleges as Connecticut State University, adding provisions concerning trustees' duties re state-wide policy and guidelines and re budget requests, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-109b transferred to Sec. 10a-89 in 1983; P.A. 83-587 replaced references to state college system with references to Connecticut State University; P.A. 84-241 added “of higher education” to board of governors' title; P.A. 87-496 substituted public works commissioner for administrative services commissioner; P.A. 91-174 in Subsec. (a) added new Subdiv. concerning fund-raising; P.A. 91-230 in Subsec. (a) removed requirement for the board of governors to approve expansion and development plans and substituted provision for the board to review and make recommendations on the plans; P.A. 91-256 made technical changes and in Subsec. (b) added provision for the board to request authority to issue payment for claims against the state university system; P.A. 91-349 added new Subdiv. in Subsec. (a) concerning research grants; P.A. 93-201 amended Subsec. (a) to delete authority for the development of plans for a new state university and to make technical changes, amended Subdiv. (8) of said Subsec. to require report and added Subdiv. (9) re charging the bond fund account for the direct costs of a building project, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 94-180 amended Subdiv. (8) of Subsec. (a) to add the prohibition against direct fund-raising by the board except for the purposes described in Subparas. (A) and (B), effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 94-245 substituted “provide for the administration” for “administer” and changed the holder of the authority for making buildings and other facilities available to nonprofit and other organizations or individuals from the board to the chief executive officer of each institution subject to such policies as may be established by the board, effective June 2, 1994; P.A. 97-293 amended Subsec. (a) to remove a requirement for approval of plans by the Commissioner of Public Works and the State Properties Review Board and to substitute submission of plans to the Commissioner of Public Works for review and recommendations, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 07-19 amended Subsec. (a) to redesignate executive secretary as chancellor and make technical changes, effective May 7, 2007; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (a) to replace references to Board of Governors of Higher Education with references to Board of Regents for Higher Education, remove provisions re chancellor, executive staff, Commissioner of Higher Education and approvals by the Board of Governors of Higher Education, and make conforming changes, effective July 1, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Works” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Administrative Services”, effective July 1, 2011.

Annotation to former section 10-109b:

Annotation to present section:

Cited. 190 C. 39.

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Sec. 10a-89a. Disposition of surplus library material and library fines. (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 state university library under the jurisdiction of the board shall be deposited in the institutional operating account of such university.

(P.A. 83-450, S. 3, 5; P.A. 85-282, S. 3, 5; P.A. 91-256, S. 22, 69.)

History: P.A. 85-282 added Subsec. (b) re deposit of library fines in auxiliary services fund; P.A. 91-256 changed auxiliary services fund to institutional operating account.

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Sec. 10a-89b. Authority for board of trustees to borrow money from the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority. (a) The Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System is authorized to borrow money from the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority for any project for which the authority is authorized to make loans pursuant to chapter 187 and to refinance any such borrowing, and in connection therewith the Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System is authorized to enter into any loan or other agreement and to make such covenants, representations and indemnities as the board of trustees deems necessary or desirable to obtain such loans from the authority or to facilitate the issue of bonds by the authority to finance such loans, including agreements with providers of letters of credit, insurance or other credit facilities for such financings. Any such agreement, covenant, representation and indemnification shall be a full faith and credit obligation of the Connecticut State University System. The Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University System may secure such obligations by a pledge of the revenues to be derived from the operation or use of a project or projects, from tuition payments, from student fees, from dormitory or dining hall income or from other general revenues. Any pledge made by the Connecticut State University System pursuant to this section and sections 10a-186a and 10a-187 shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made. The lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the Connecticut State University System, irrespective of whether the parties have notice of the claims. Notwithstanding any provision of the Uniform Commercial Code to the contrary, no instrument by which such a pledge is created need be recorded or filed. Any revenues or other receipts, funds, moneys or income so pledged and thereafter received by the Connecticut State University System shall be subject immediately to the lien of the pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act and such lien shall have priority over all other liens, including without limitation the lien of any person who, in the ordinary course of business, furnishes services or materials to the Connecticut State University System.

(b) The obligations of the Connecticut State University System and any pledge entered into by the Connecticut State University System pursuant to this section and sections 10a-186a and 10a-187 shall be binding upon any successor body or entity and no dissolution or termination of the Connecticut State University System shall take effect unless adequate provision is made for the payment and fulfillment of any obligations entered into by the Connecticut State University System pursuant to this section and said sections 10a-186a and 10a-187.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special act which may require that any revenue from the operation of facilities of the Connecticut State University System or any revenue of all state universities from student fees and dormitory and dining hall income or any other revenue of the Connecticut State University System be paid to the State Treasurer for the payment of debt service on any bonds issued by the state, any revenues pledged by the board of trustees pursuant to this section and said sections 10a-186a and 10a-187 shall be applied first to the extent necessary to fulfill the obligations for which such revenues are pledged, and only thereafter to the State Treasurer.

(d) The Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority shall not borrow any money or issue any bonds or notes which are secured by a pledge of any revenues of the Connecticut State University System, until and unless such borrowing or issuance has been approved by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management or his deputy. In granting such approval the secretary shall consider the adequacy of revenues available to the Connecticut State University System to pay (1) debt service on all the borrowings, bonds or notes issued by the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority for which revenues of the Connecticut State University System are pledged and (2) debt service on all the bonds issued by the state for which revenues of the Connecticut State University System are to be paid to the State Treasurer.

(e) The state covenants with the authority and with the purchasers and all other subsequent owners and transferees of obligations issued by the authority for the benefit of the Connecticut State University System pursuant to this section and said sections 10a-186a and 10a-187, in consideration of the financing by the authority and the acceptance of and payment for the securities of the authority, until all obligations of the Connecticut State University System and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceeding in connection therewith, are fully met and discharged, unless expressly permitted or otherwise authorized by the terms of each contract and agreement made or entered into by or on behalf of the Connecticut State University System with the authority or for the benefit of such other parties, that the state (1) will not create or cause to be created any lien or charge on the assets or revenues pledged to secure such obligations of the Connecticut State University System, prior to or on parity with a lien or pledge created thereon pursuant to this section and sections 10a-186a and 10a-187; (2) will not in any way impair the rights, exemptions or remedies of the authority or the owners of such bonds of the authority; and (3) will not limit, modify, rescind, repeal or otherwise alter the rights or obligations of the Connecticut State University System to take such action as may be necessary to fulfill the terms of its obligations in connection with its borrowing from the authority; provided that nothing herein shall preclude the state from exercising its power, through a change in law, to limit, modify, rescind, repeal or otherwise alter this section and sections 10a-186a and 10a-187 if and when adequate provision shall be made by law for the protection of the authority and the holders of any outstanding securities of the authority, pursuant to the agreement of the Connecticut State University System with the authority and pursuant to the indenture or other instrument under which the bonds of the authority are issued. The Connecticut State University System is authorized to include this covenant of the state, as a contract of the state, in any such agreement with the authority and in any credit facility or reimbursement agreement with respect to the obligations of the Connecticut State University System or the obligations of the authority issued for the benefit of the Connecticut State University System.

(f) The Superior Court shall have jurisdiction to enter judgment against the Connecticut State University System found upon any express agreement between the Connecticut State University System and the authority, any trustee or underwriter for the authority's bonds, or any bond insurer or other credit facility provider. Any action brought under this section shall be brought in the superior court for the judicial district of Hartford. Such action shall be tried to the court without a jury. All legal defenses except governmental immunity shall be reserved to the Connecticut State University System. Any action brought under this section shall be privileged in respect to assignment for trial upon motion of either party.

(P.A. 88-230, S. 1, 12; P.A. 90-98, S. 1, 2; 93-142, S. 4, 7, 8; P.A. 95-220, S. 4–6; 95-270, S. 3, 11; P.A. 08-16, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 95-270, S. 3 effective June 22, 1995 (Revisor's note: P.A. 88-230, 90-98, 93-142 and 95-220 authorized substitution of “judicial district of Hartford” for “judicial district of Hartford-New Britain” in 1995 public and special acts effective September 1, 1998.); P.A. 08-16 amended Subsec. (c) by adding “system” after “Connecticut State University”, effective July 1, 2008.

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Sec. 10a-89c. Financing of the design, construction or renovation of residential and other auxiliary service facilities. (a) If the General Assembly for each fiscal year following the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, inclusive, does not appropriate from the General Fund for the specific purpose of debt service on self-liquidating general obligation bonds of the state or obligations of the Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System financed through the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority for residential and other auxiliary service facilities, excluding any appropriation for such debt service to be paid from revenues from student fees and dormitory and dining hall income to be paid by the Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System to the State Treasurer for the payment of such self-liquidating general obligation bonds of the state, (1) the amount of five million dollars, or (2) an amount equal to half the sum of revenue from student fees received by all the state universities within the Connecticut State University System from the uniform assessment of all full-time students enrolled at any time at any of the state universities within the Connecticut State University System, except for charges for tuition or dormitory or dining charges or student activity fee or other fee charged by an individual state university, commonly called the university fee, for the calendar year ending the preceding December thirty-first, as certified by the chairperson of the board of trustees by February fifteenth to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, whichever amount is less, the State Bond Commission may, in accordance with the provisions of this section, from time to time authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds of the state in one or more series in principal amounts not exceeding five million dollars in any such fiscal year, to finance the design, construction or renovation of residential and other auxiliary service facilities at state universities within the Connecticut State University System, and in any event not exceeding the amount which the General Assembly failed to appropriate for debt service for that fiscal year in the manner provided in this section. For purposes of this section the term “residential and other auxiliary facilities” (A) means any residential facilities, student centers, dining facilities and other auxiliary service facilities at state universities within the Connecticut State University System, and (B) includes, but is not limited to, low rise dormitory code compliance renovations at Central Connecticut State University; code compliance at Central Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University, Southern Connecticut State University and Western Connecticut State University; student center addition and renovations at Central Connecticut State University; student center addition and renovations at Eastern Connecticut State University; construction of a new student center at Southern Connecticut State University; Burr Hall residence hall renovations at Eastern Connecticut State University; improvements to Connecticut Hall at Southern Connecticut State University; and Shafer Hall residence conversion at Eastern Connecticut State University.

(b) All provisions of section 3-20 or the exercise of any right or power granted thereby which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this section are hereby adopted and shall apply to all state bonds authorized by the State Bond Commission pursuant to this section, and temporary notes in anticipation of the money to be derived from the sale of any such state bonds so authorized may be issued in accordance with said section 3-20 and from time to time renewed. Such state bonds shall mature at such time or times not exceeding twenty years from their respective dates as may be provided in or pursuant to the resolution or resolutions of the State Bond Commission authorizing such state bonds. Such state bonds issued pursuant to this section shall be general obligations of the state and the full faith and credit of the state of Connecticut are pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on such bonds as the same becomes due, and accordingly and as part of the contract of the state with the holders of such state bonds, appropriation of all amounts necessary for punctual payment of such principal and interest is hereby made, and the Treasurer shall pay such principal and interest as the same become due.

(c) None of said state bonds shall be authorized except upon a finding by the State Bond Commission that there has been filed with it a request for such authorization, which is signed by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and stating such terms and conditions as said commission, in its discretion, may require. Each such request for an authorization of state bonds shall state an amount equal to half the sum of revenue from student fees received by all of the state universities within the Connecticut State University System for the calendar year ending prior to the last fiscal year, as certified by the chairperson of the board of trustees, and the amount of all state appropriations for debt service on self-liquidating general obligation bonds of the state or obligations of the Connecticut State University System financed through the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority for the prior fiscal year, as described in subsection (a) of this section.

(P.A. 97-293, S. 4, 26.)

History: P.A. 97-293 effective July 1, 1997.

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Sec. 10a-89d. Planning for capital improvements. Section 10a-89d is repealed, effective July 1, 2001.

(P.A. 97-293, S. 10, 26; P.A. 01-141, S. 15, 16.)

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Sec. 10a-89e. Purchasing. The Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System shall: (1) Consolidate the purchasing process for the system at the central office; (2) expedite the purchasing process by adjusting policies and utilizing enabling technologies; and (3) redesign and train central purchasing personnel to focus on customer service, vendor management activities and the establishment of system contracts.

(P.A. 98-252, S. 61, 80.)

History: P.A. 98-252 effective July 1, 1998.

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Sec. 10a-89f. Policy re use of financial aid to purchase textbooks. The Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University System shall develop a policy that (1) provides for the disbursement of financial aid to students who have met all federal, state and institutional requirements for financial aid by the first day of the academic term, or (2) permits students to use financial aid that has not yet been disbursed at stores on the campuses of the universities under the board's jurisdiction to purchase during the first week of the academic term required textbooks for courses taught at the universities.

(P.A. 06-103, S. 3.)

History: P.A. 06-103 effective July 1, 2006.

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Sec. 10a-89g. Voluntary plan for awarding credit hours to beginning teachers. Submission of plan. (a) The Chancellor of the Connecticut State University System shall, after consultation with the Department of Education, the Department of Higher Education, the appropriate bargaining unit for the faculty of the Connecticut State University System and other stakeholders, develop a voluntary plan for beginning teachers participating in the Teacher Education and Mentoring Program to receive credit hours from one of the Connecticut state universities toward a master's degree upon successful completion of all five instructional modules, described in section 10-145o. The plan shall include: (1) A process for awarding the credits; (2) costs associated with the administration of the program; and (3) potential sources of funding.

(b) The Chancellor shall submit the plan on or before February 1, 2011, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education and higher education and employment advancement. The plan shall take effect on July 1, 2011.

(Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-6, S. 38; P.A. 10-71, S. 6.)

History: Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-6 effective October 5, 2009; P.A. 10-71 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective May 18, 2010.

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Sec. 10a-90. (Formerly Sec. 10-109c). Lease of land to private developers for dormitory construction and deed, transfer or lease of land to the State of Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority for dormitories or student housing. The Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System, with the approval of the Governor 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 Administrative Services and the State Properties Review Board and such leases shall be for the periods and upon such terms and conditions as the Commissioner of Administrative Services determines, and such buildings, while privately owned, shall be subject to taxation by the town in which they are located. The Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System may also deed, transfer or lease state-owned land under its care, custody or control to the State of Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority for financing or refinancing the planning, development, acquisition and construction and equipping of dormitory buildings and student housing facilities and to lease or sublease such dormitory buildings or student housing facilities and authorize the execution of financing leases of land, interests therein, buildings and fixtures in order to secure obligations to repay any loan from the State of Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority from the proceeds of bonds issued thereby pursuant to the provisions of chapter 187 made by the authority to finance or refinance the planning, development, acquisition and construction of dormitory buildings. Any such financing lease shall not be subject to the provisions of section 4b-23 and the plans for such dormitories shall be subject only to the approval of the board. Such financing leases shall be for such periods and upon such terms and conditions that the board shall determine. Any state property so leased shall not be subject to local assessment and taxation and such state property shall be included as property of the Connecticut State University System for the purpose of computing a grant in lieu of taxes pursuant to section 12-18b.

(1969, P.A. 564; P.A. 75-425, S. 29, 57; P.A. 77-573, S. 24, 30; 77-614, S. 19, 73, 610; P.A. 82-218, S. 37, 39, 46; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 87-496, S. 58, 110; P.A. 91-256, S. 23, 69; P.A. 92-261, S. 13, 17; P.A. 08-16, S. 2; P.A. 11-51, S. 103; P.A. 13-247, S. 200; P.A. 15-244, S. 196.)

History: P.A. 75-425 made agreements to lease subject to Sec. 4-26b, before original lease made, made building plans subject to approval of public works commissioner and properties review board as well as of the board and transferred determination of lease terms to public works commissioner from board; P.A. 77-573 substituted board of higher education for commission for higher education; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of administrative services for personnel policy board and public works commissioner; P.A. 82-218 reorganized system of higher education, replacing board of higher education with board of governors and renaming state colleges as Connecticut State University, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-109c transferred to Sec. 10a-90 in 1983; P.A. 84-241 added “of higher education” to board of governors' title; P.A. 87-496 replaced administrative services commissioner with public works commissioner; P.A. 91-256 deleted requirement for approval by the board of governors of leasing and made a technical change; P.A. 92-261 provided for the deed, transfer or lease of land to the State of Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority; (Revisor's note: In 1993 the erroneous reference to “section 46-23”, which resulted from a clerical error, was corrected editorially to read “section 4b-23”); P.A. 08-16 amended Subsec. (c) by adding “system” after “Connecticut State University”, effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 11-51 changed “Commissioner of Public Works” to “Commissioner of Construction Services” re plans for buildings and changed “Commissioner of Public Works” to “Commissioner of Administrative Services” re terms of leases, effective July 1, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 13-247, “Commissioner of Construction Services” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Administrative Services”, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 15-244 replaced reference to Sec. 12-19a with reference to Sec. 12-18b, effective July 1, 2016.

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Sec. 10a-91. Lease of land to private developers for rental housing and commercial establishments. Taxation. (a) The Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University System, with the approval of the Governor, the Commissioner of Administrative Services and the State Properties Review Board, 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 Administrative Services 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 Administrative Services 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 12-18b.

(P.A. 82-218, S. 37, 39, 46; 82-342, S. 1, 3; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 87-496, S. 59, 110; P.A. 91-256, S. 24, 69; P.A. 11-51, S. 104; P.A. 13-247, S. 200; P.A. 15-244, S. 197.)

History: P.A. 82-218 authorized substitution of “Connecticut State University” for “state colleges” and “board of governors” for “board of higher education” pursuant to reorganization of higher education system, effective March 1, 1983; P.A. 84-241 added “of higher education” to board of governors' title; P.A. 87-496 replaced administrative services commissioner with public works commissioner in Subsec. (a); P.A. 91-256 deleted requirement for approval by the board of governors of leasing and made technical changes; P.A. 11-51 amended Subsec. (a) to change “Commissioner of Public Works” to “Commissioner of Administrative Services” re leasing and rental terms, and to change “Commissioner of Public Works” to “Commissioner of Construction Services” re approval of plans, effective July 1, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 13-247, “Commissioner of Construction Services” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Administrative Services” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 15-244 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing reference to Sec. 12-19a with reference to Sec. 12-18b, effective July 1, 2016.

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Sec. 10a-91a. Short title: The Board of Regents for Higher Education Infrastructure Act. Sections 10a-91a to 10a-91h, inclusive, are known and may be cited as “The Board of Regents for Higher Education Infrastructure Act”.

(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7, S. 101; P.A. 14-98, S. 50.)

History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7 effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 14-98 replaced “The Connecticut State University System Infrastructure Act” with “The Board of Regents for Higher Education Infrastructure Act”, effective July 1, 2014.

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Sec. 10a-91b. Legislative finding of purpose of The Board of Regents for Higher Education Infrastructure Act. The purpose of The Board of Regents for Higher Education Infrastructure Act is to enhance the intellectual capacity of the state by providing the infrastructure needed to prepare this state's present and future workforce, to contribute to the increased competitiveness of this state's businesses and to have a positive impact on economic development within this state, through a special capital improvement program established for the regional community-technical colleges, the Connecticut State University System and Charter Oak State College that assures a state commitment to support the financing of the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement and equipping of facilities, structures and related systems for the benefit of this state and the regional community-technical colleges, the Connecticut State University System and Charter Oak State College, all to the public benefit and good, and the exercise of the powers, to the extent and manner provided in The Board of Regents for Higher Education Infrastructure Act, is declared to be for a public purpose and to be the exercise of an essential government function. Sections 10a-91c to 10a-91h, inclusive, being necessary for the welfare of this state and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.

(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7, S. 102; P.A. 14-98, S. 51.)

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Sec. 10a-91c. Definitions. As used in this section and sections 10a-91d to 10a-91h, inclusive, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings:

(1) “Board of regents” means the Board of Regents for Higher Education.

(2) “Cost”, as applied to a project or any portion of a project, includes, but is not limited to: The purchase price or acquisition cost of any such project; the cost of planning, designing, constructing, building, altering, enlarging, reconstructing, renovating, improving, equipping and remodeling; the cost of all labor, materials, building systems, machinery and equipment; the cost of all lands, structures, real or personal property, rights, easements and franchises acquired; the cost of all utility extensions, access roads, site developments, financing charges, premiums for insurance; the cost of working capital related to a project, including the cost of Department of Administrative Services administrative functions provided for in subsection (d) of section 10a-91d; the cost of plans and specifications, surveys and estimates of cost and of revenues; the cost of accountants, audits, engineering, feasibility studies, legal and other professional consulting or technical services; the cost of all other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of such construction; and administrative and operating expenses and such other expenses as may be necessary or incidental to the financing authorized by sections 10a-91c to 10a-91h, inclusive. “Cost” does not include the cost of administrative functions provided by the system pursuant to sections 10a-91a to 10a-91h, inclusive.

(3) “CSCU 2020” means the projects at the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities and system-wide that are identified in the facilities and academic plans necessary to modernize, rehabilitate, renew, expand and otherwise stabilize the physical plant and technology infrastructure of the system so as to provide a concentrated, accelerated and cooperative effort for the benefit of the educational and economic development needs of this state and the system in an efficient, cost effective and timely manner and to assure that the system continues to compete successfully for students, faculty and staff.

(4) “CSCU 2020 Fund” means the fund created under section 10a-91d which shall be a general obligation bond fund held and administered by the Treasurer separate and apart from all other general obligation bond funds and accounts of this state and into which the proceeds of the bonds authorized by section 10a-91e shall be deposited.

(5) “Facilities and academic plans” means the long-term capital improvement plans approved by the board of regents biennially and updated from time to time.

(6) “Project” means (A) any structure designed for use as an academic building, administrative facility, library, classroom building, faculty facility, office facility, athletic or recreation facility, health care or wellness facility, laboratory facility, auditorium, public safety facility, parking facility, residence hall or other housing facility, dining facility, student center, maintenance, storage or utility facility or other building or structure essential, necessary or useful for the operation of a university and the system; (B) any multipurpose structure designed to combine two or more of the functions performed by the types of structures enumerated in this definition, including, without limitation, improvements, reconstruction, replacements, additions and equipment acquired in connection with a project or in connection with the operation of any facilities of the system; (C) all real and personal property, lands, improvements, driveways, roads, approaches, pedestrian access roads, parking lots, parking facilities, rights-of-way, utilities, easements and other interests in land, machinery and equipment, and all appurtenances and facilities either on, above or under the ground that are used or usable in connection with any of the structures included in this definition; and (D) landscaping, site preparation, furniture, machinery, equipment and other similar items essential, necessary or useful for the operation of a particular facility or structure in the manner for which its use is intended, but does not include items that are customarily under applicable accounting principles considered as a current operating charge, unless the category and maximum amount thereof is specifically included by a determination of the board of regents in order to preserve the excludability of the interest on the bonds issued therefor from federal taxation under the applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States as from time to time amended. “Project” includes any residential and other auxiliary facility, as defined in subsection (a) of section 10a-89c, and any state facility used for the programs of the system.

(7) “System” means the regional community-technical colleges, the Connecticut State University System, Charter Oak State College and constituent units of the state system of higher education, established pursuant to sections 10a-71 to 10a-101, inclusive, and sections 10a-143 to 10a-143b, inclusive.

(8) “Treasurer” means the State Treasurer or the Deputy State Treasurer appointed pursuant to section 3-12.

(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7, S. 103; P.A. 11-51, S. 90; P.A. 13-247, S. 200; P.A. 14-98, S. 52; P.A. 16-15, S. 29.)

History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7 effective July 1, 2008; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Department of Public Works” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Construction Services” in Subdiv. (3), effective July 1, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 13-247, “Department of Construction Services” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Administrative Services” in Subdiv. (3), effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-98 deleted former Subdivs. (1), (2) and (10) re definitions of “act”, “board of trustees” and “university”, added new Subdiv. (1) defining “board of regents”, redesignated existing Subdivs. (3) to (9) as Subdivs. (2) to (8), redefined “CSUS 2020” as “CSCU 2020” in redesignated Subdiv. (3), redefined “facilities plan” as “facilities and academic plans” in redesignated Subdiv. (5), redefined “system” in redesignated Subdiv. (7) and made technical and conforming changes, effective July 1, 2014; P.A. 16-15 amended Subdiv. (3) by replacing “Connecticut state colleges and universities system” with “Connecticut State Colleges and Universities”, effective July 1, 2016.

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Sec. 10a-91d. CSCU 2020 infrastructure improvement program. (a) It is hereby determined and found to be in the best interest of this state and the system to establish CSCU 2020 as the efficient and cost-effective course to achieve the objective of renewing, modernizing, enhancing, expanding, acquiring and maintaining the infrastructure of the system, the particular project or projects, each being hereby approved as a project of CSCU 2020, and the presently estimated cost thereof being as follows:

	Phase I Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2009-2011	Phase II Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2012-2014	Phase III Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2015-2020
Central Connecticut State University
Code Compliance/ Infrastructure Improvements	16,418,636	6,894,000
Renovate/Expand Willard and DiLoreto Halls (design/construction)		57,737,000
Renovate/Expand Willard and DiLoreto Halls (equipment)			3,348,000
New Classroom Office Building	29,478,000
Renovate Barnard Hall	3,680,000		18,320,000
New Engineering Building (design/construction and equipment)	9,900,000		52,800,000
Burritt Library Renovation, (design, addition and equipment)			16,500,000
New Maintenance/Salt Shed Facility	2,503,000
Renovate Kaiser Hall and Annex	6,491,809	210,000	18,684,000

Eastern Connecticut State University
Code Compliance/ Infrastructure Improvements	8,938,849	5,825,000
Fine Arts Instructional Center (design)	12,000,000
Fine Arts Instructional Center (construction)		71,556,000
Fine Arts Instructional Center (equipment)			4,115,000
Goddard Hall/ Communications Building Renovation (design/construction)		19,239,000	11,048,000
Goddard Hall Renovation (equipment)			1,095,000
Sports Center Addition and Renovation (design)			0
Outdoor Track-Phase II	1,506,396
Athletic Support Building	1,921,000
New Warehouse	1,894,868

Southern Connecticut State University
Code Compliance/ Infrastructure Improvements	16,955,915	8,637,000	2,356,723
New Academic Laboratory Building/Parking Garage (construct garage, design academic laboratory building, demolish Seabury Hall)	8,944,000
New Academic Laboratory Building/Parking Garage (construct academic laboratory building)		63,171,000
New School of Business Building (design/construction)			52,476,933
Health and Human Services Building			76,507,344
Additions and Renovations to Buley Library	16,386,585
Fine Arts Instructional Center			0

Western Connecticut State University
Code Compliance/ Infrastructure Improvements	7,658,330	4,323,000	5,054,000
Fine Arts Instructional Center (construction)	80,605,000
Fine Arts Instructional Center (equipment)		4,666,000
Higgins Hall Renovations (design)		2,982,000
Higgins Hall Renovations (construction/equipment)			31,594,000
Berkshire Hall Renovations (design)			0
University Police Department Building (design)	500,000
University Police Department Building (construction)		4,245,000	1,700,000
Midtown Campus Mini-Chiller Plant			0

Board of Regents for Higher Education
New and Replacement Equipment, Smart Classroom Technology and Technology Upgrades	26,895,000	14,500,000	61,844,000
Alterations/Improvements: Auxiliary Service Facilities	18,672,422	15,000,000	20,000,000
Telecommunications Infrastructure Upgrade	10,000,000	3,415,000	5,000,000
Land and Property Acquisition	3,650,190	2,600,000	4,000,000
Deferred Maintenance/Code Compliance Infrastructure Improvements			48,557,000
Strategic Master Plan of Academic Programs			3,000,000
Consolidation and Upgrade of System Student and Financial Information Technology Systems			20,000,000
Advanced Manufacturing Center at Asnuntuck Community College			25,500,000
Supplemental Project Funding			16,000,000
Totals	285,000,000	285,000,000	499,500,000

(b) The plan of funding CSCU 2020 shall be from the proceeds of general obligation bonds of the state in an amount authorized pursuant to subsection (a) of section 10a-91e. The proceeds of the general obligation bonds issued pursuant to section 10a-91e shall be deposited into the CSCU 2020 Fund.

(c) With respect to CSCU 2020 and within the authorized funding amount, the board of regents may, from time to time, and shall, whenever appropriate or necessary, revise, delete or add a particular project or projects, provided:

(1) A formal approving vote of the board of regents shall be needed for (A) a revision that deviates from the estimated costs of projects pursuant to subsection (a) of this section in an amount that is less than (i) ten per cent of such costs for a project with an estimated cost of one million dollars or lower, or (ii) five per cent of such costs for a project with an estimated cost of more than one million dollars, provided such change in the costs does not include changes in the costs of materials, (B) a deletion, or (C) an addition dictated by a change in system planning as determined by the board of regents or otherwise necessary because of reasons beyond the control of the system;

(2) Any revision shall be subject only to such formal approval of the board of regents as long as the board of regents finds and determines that such revision is consistent with the intent or purpose of the original project; and

(3) (A) A revision that deviates from the estimated costs of projects pursuant to subsection (a) of this section in an amount that is equal to or greater than (i) ten per cent of such costs for a project with an estimated cost of one million dollars or lower, or (ii) five per cent of such costs for a project with an estimated cost of more than one million dollars, provided such change in the costs does not include changes in the costs of materials, (B) an addition, or (C) a deletion, shall be conditioned not only upon such formal approval of the board of regents but also upon a request by the board of regents for, and enactment of, a subsequent public or special act approving (i) such addition or deletion, if such addition is to add a project not outlined in subsection (a) of this section or the deletion is the deletion of a project outlined in subsection (a) of this section, or (ii) such revision, except if such revision is due to the use of funds remaining from a completed project, then such revision shall be conditioned only upon such formal approval of the board of regents.

(4) Subject to the limitations in the authorized funding amount, the board of regents may determine the sequencing and timing of such project or projects, revise estimates of cost and reallocate from any amounts estimated in subsection (a) of this section, for one or more projects to one or more other projects then constituting a component of CSCU 2020 as long as, at the time of such reallocation, it has found that any such project to which a reallocation is made has been revised or added in accordance with this section and such project from which a reallocation is made either has been so revised or added and can be completed within the amounts remaining allocated to it, or has been so deleted. The board of regents' actions under this section shall be included in reports to the Governor and the General Assembly under section 10a-91f. If the board of regents requests a revision, addition or deletion pursuant to subdivision (3) of this subsection, the board of regents shall submit such request to the Governor at the same time that the request is submitted to the General Assembly.

(d) (1) In accordance with the provisions of chapters 59 and 60, the Commissioner of Administrative Services shall be responsible for the duties specified in said provisions, and, on a quarterly basis, the commissioner shall provide the system with information needed for compliance with sections 10a-91a to 10a-91h, inclusive, including, but not limited to, costs, timeliness of completion of projects and any issues that have developed in implementation of any project under the commissioner's jurisdiction.

(2) Not later than January 1, 2009, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner of Administrative Services shall, in accordance with section 11-4a, report to the Governor and the General Assembly on any (A) construction management services costs, (B) administrative services costs, and (C) costs of fees associated with CSCU 2020.

(e) The Commissioner of Administrative Services and the system shall enter into and maintain a memorandum of understanding that shall provide for the assignment of personnel from the Department of Administrative Services to ensure that buildings or projects that are part of the CSCU 2020 program are designed and constructed in compliance with the Fire Safety Code and the State Building Code with respect to buildings or building projects that (1) are part of CSCU 2020, as authorized by sections 10a-91a to 10a-91h, inclusive, (2) do not meet the threshold limits, as defined in section 29-276b, and (3) construction of which is initiated during the period of time in which the memorandum is in effect.

(f) Not later than July 1, 2015, and biannually thereafter, the Board of Regents for Higher Education shall, in accordance with section 11-4a, report to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to higher education and finance on how the Board of Regents for Higher Education disbursed to and divided among each state university and each regional community-technical college the proceeds of the general obligation bonds issued pursuant to subsection (a) of section 10a-91e for each of the projects listed under the Board of Regents for Higher Education in subsection (a) of this section.

(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7, S. 104; P.A. 10-44, S. 28; P.A. 11-48, S. 281; 11-51, S. 90; 11-57, S. 67; P.A. 13-247, S. 200; P.A. 14-98, S. 53; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-4, S. 243; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 438; P.A. 20-1, S. 63.)

History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7 effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 10-44 amended Subsec. (a) by decreasing Phase I authorization for land and property acquisition from $9,250,190 to $4,250,190, and increasing Phase I authorization for telecommunications infrastructure upgrade from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000, effective July 1, 2010; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsecs. (d) and (e) to remove references to chancellor of the Connecticut State University System, effective July 1, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” and “Commissioner of Public Works” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Construction Services”, and “Department of Public Safety” and “Department of Public Works” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Construction Services”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-57 amended Subsec. (a) to decrease Phase I authorization for Southern Connecticut State University for Code Compliance/Infrastructure Improvements from $21,860,500 to $16,955,915 and New Academic Laboratory Building/Parking Garage from $20,426,000 to $8,944,000, and to add Phase I authorization for Southern Connecticut State University for Additions and Renovations to Buley Library in the amount of $16,386,585, effective July 1, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 13-247, “Commissioner of Construction Services” and “Department of Construction Services” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Administrative Services” and “Department of Administrative Services”, respectively, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-98 replaced “CSUS 2020” with “CSCU 2020” and “board of trustees” with “board of regents” throughout, amended Subsec. (a) by changing Phase III ending date from 2018 to 2019, at Central Connecticut State University deleting authorization for Code Compliance/Infrastructure Improvements, decreasing Phase I authorization for New Classroom Office Building from $33,978,000 to $29,478,000, deleting authorization for East Campus Infrastructure Development, adding authorization to renovate Barnard Hall, deleting authorization for Burritt Library Expansion, adding authorization for New Engineering Building, adding “addition and equipment” and increasing authorization for Burritt Library Renovation from $11,387,000 to $16,500,000, and adding authorization to renovate Kaiser Hall and Annex, at Eastern Connecticut State University deleting Phases I and III authorization for Code Compliance/Infrastructure Improvements, decreasing authorization for Outdoor Track - Phase II from $1,816,000 to $1,506,396 and decreasing authorization for New Warehouse from $2,269,000 to $1,894,868, at Southern Connecticut State University deleting Phase III authorization for Code Compliance/Infrastructure Improvements, at Western Connecticut State University deleting Phase III authorization for Code Compliance/Infrastructure Improvements, replacing “State University System” with “Board of Regents for Higher Education”, adding Smart Classroom Technology and Technology Upgrades and increasing Phase III authorization from $31,844,000 to $61,844,000, deleting authorization for land and property acquisition, and adding Deferred Maintenance/Code Compliance Infrastructure Improvements, Strategic Master Plan, Student and Financial Information Technology Systems and Advanced Manufacturing Center at Asnuntuck Community College, amended Subsec. (c) by adding Subdiv. (3)(C)(ii) re revision due to use of funds remaining from completed project, deleted former Subsec. (f) re approval from Department of Administrative Services for purchases or acquisitions and added new Subsec. (f) re reporting requirements, and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2014; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-4 amended Subsec. (a) by, at Eastern Connecticut State University, adding “/Communications Building” to Goddard Hall Renovation design/construction, adding Phase III authorization therefor, and deleting Phase III authorization for Sports Center Addition and Renovation design, at Southern Connecticut State University, adding Phase III authorization for Code Compliance/Infrastructure Improvements, adding authorization for New School of Business Building design/construction, increasing Phase III authorization for Health and Human Services Building from $60,412,000 to $76,507,344, and deleting Phase III authorization for Fine Arts Instructional Center, at Western Connecticut State University, adding Phase III authorization for Code Compliance/Infrastructure Improvements, deleting Phase III authorization for Berkshire Hall Renovations design, adding Phase III authorization for University Police Department Building construction, and deleting Phase III authorization for Midtown Campus Mini-Chiller Plant, effective July 1, 2016; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “2019” with “2020” re Phase III end date, adding authorization for Supplemental Project Funding in the amount of $16,000,000 and making a conforming change, effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 20-1 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “2020” with “2021” re Phase III end date, effective March 12, 2020.

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Sec. 10a-91e. Terms of financing for the CSCU 2020 program. (a) The State Bond Commission shall approve the CSCU 2020 program and authorize the issuance of bonds of the state in principal amounts not exceeding in the aggregate one billion sixty-nine million five hundred thousand dollars. The amount provided for the issuance and sale of bonds in accordance with this section shall be capped in each fiscal year in the following amounts, provided, to the extent the board of regents does not provide for the issuance of all or a portion of such amount in a fiscal year, or the Governor disapproves the request for issuance of all or a portion of the amount of the bonds as provided in subsection (d) of this section, any amount not provided for or disapproved, as the case may be, shall be carried forward and added to the capped amount for a subsequent fiscal year, but not later than the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021, and provided further, the costs of issuance and capitalized interest, if any, may be added to the capped amount in each fiscal year, and each of the authorized amounts shall be effective on July first of the fiscal year indicated as follows:

Fiscal Year Ending June 30	Amount
2009	95,000,000
2010	0
2011	95,000,000
2012	95,000,000
2013	95,000,000
2014	95,000,000
2015	175,000,000
2016	118,500,000
2017	40,000,000
2018	40,000,000
2019	95,000,000
2020	80,000,000
2021	46,000,000
Total	$1,069,500,000

(b) The State Bond Commission shall approve a memorandum of understanding between the board of regents and the state, acting by and through the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and the Treasurer, providing for the issuance of said bonds for the purposes of sections 10a-91a to 10a-91h, inclusive, including provisions regarding the extent to which federal, private or other moneys then available or thereafter to be made available for costs should be added to the proceeds of the bonds authorized pursuant to sections 10a-91a to 10a-91h, inclusive, for such project or projects. The memorandum of understanding shall be deemed to satisfy the provisions of section 3-20 and the exercise of any right or power granted thereby which is not inconsistent with the provisions of sections 10a-91a to 10a-91h, inclusive. The memorandum of understanding dated July 8, 2008, and approved by the State Bond Commission on August 8, 2008, shall be deemed to incorporate the amendments to sections 10a-91a to 10a-91h, inclusive, enacted in sections 50 to 57, inclusive, of public act 14-98.

(c) All bonds issued pursuant to sections 10a-91a to 10a-91h, inclusive, shall be general obligations of the state and the full faith and credit of the state of Connecticut are pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on said bonds as the same become due, and accordingly and as part of the contract of the state with the holders of said bonds, appropriation of all amounts necessary for punctual payment of such principal and interest is hereby made, and the Treasurer shall pay such principal and interest as the same become due.

(d) (1) On or before the first day of March in each year, the board of regents shall submit to the Governor, the Treasurer and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, the most recently approved facilities and academic plans and the amount of bonds required for the CSCU 2020 program for the fiscal year beginning on July first of that year. The Governor may, not later than thirty days after such submission, approve or disapprove all or a portion of such amount of bonding submitted by the board of regents by notifying the board of regents, in writing, of such decision and the reasons for it. If the Governor does not act within such thirty-day period, the issuance of bonds for the CSCU 2020 program for the fiscal year beginning on July first of that year is deemed approved.

(2) In the event the capped amount of authorized bonds is increased by the General Assembly for the fiscal year beginning on July first for which the issuance of such bonds has already been approved by the Governor or deemed approved pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection or the General Assembly authorizes new bonds after the first day of March for the fiscal year beginning on July first of that year, the board of regents shall submit to the Governor, the Treasurer and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, not later than thirty days after the effective date of such increase or authorization of new bonds, an addendum to the most recently approved facilities and academic plans and the amount of additional bonds required for the CSCU 2020 program for the fiscal year beginning on July first of that year. The Governor may, not later than thirty days after such submission, approve or disapprove all or a portion of such additional amount of bonding submitted by the board of regents by notifying the board of regents in writing, of such decision and the reasons for such decision. If the Governor does not act within such thirty-day period, the issuance of additional bonds for the CSCU 2020 program for the fiscal year beginning on July first of that year is deemed approved.

(3) Subject to the amount of limitations of such capping provisions in subsection (a) of this section and following the approval or deemed approval of the request to issue bonds as provided in subdivision (1) of this subsection, the principal amount of the bonds authorized under this section shall be deemed to be an appropriation and allocation of such amount, and such approval of such request shall be deemed the allotment by the Governor of such capital outlays within the meaning of section 4-85.

(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7, S. 105; P.A. 14-98, S. 54; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-1, S. 62; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-4, S. 244; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 439; P.A. 20-1, S. 64.)

History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7 effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 14-98 replaced “CSUS 2020 program” with “CSCU 2020 program” and “board of trustees” with “board of regents” throughout, amended Subsec. (a) by increasing aggregate authorization from $950,000,000 to $1,053,500,000, ending carry-forward of capped amounts at fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, decreasing fiscal year 2010 authorization from $95,000,000 to $0, increasing fiscal year 2015 authorization from $95,000,000 to $175,000,000, increasing fiscal year 2016 authorization from $95,000,000 to $118,500,000 and adding fiscal year 2019 authorization, amended Subsec. (d) by replacing “facilities plan” with “facilities and academic plans”, adding new Subdiv. (2) re approval for increased authorization, and redesignating existing Subdiv. (2) as Subdiv. (3), effective July 1, 2014; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-1 amended Subsec. (b) to add provision re memorandum of understanding dated July 8, 2008, and approved by State Bond Commission on August 8, 2008, to be deemed to incorporate the amendments to Secs. 10a-91a to 10a-91h enacted in Secs. 50 to 57 of P.A. 14-98, effective June 30, 2015; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-4 amended Subsec. (a) by decreasing fiscal year 2017 authorization from $95,000,000 to $40,000,000 and increasing fiscal year 2018 authorization from $95,000,000 to $150,000,000, effective July 1, 2016; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (a) by increasing aggregate authorization from $1,053,500,000 to $1,069,500,000, decreasing fiscal year 2018 authorization from $150,000,000 to $40,000,000, adding fiscal year 2020 authorization in the amount of $126,000,000, and making conforming changes, effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 20-1 amended Subsec. (a) to decrease fiscal year 2020 authorization from $126,000,000 to $80,000,000, add fiscal year 2021 authorization in the amount of $46,000,000 and make a conforming change and amended Subsec. (d)(2) to add provision re authorization by the General Assembly of new bonds after the first day of March for the fiscal year beginning on July first of that year, effective March 12, 2020.

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Sec. 10a-91f. Report on status and progress of CSCU 2020. (a) Not later than January 1, 2015, and semiannually thereafter, the system shall, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the status and progress of CSCU 2020. Each report shall include, but not be limited to: (1) Information on the number of projects authorized and approved hereunder including, relative to such projects, project costs, timeliness of completion and any problems which have developed in implementation, and a schedule of projects remaining and their expected costs; and (2) the amount of money raised from private sources for the capital and endowment programs. For purposes of preparing each report, upon request of the board of regents, the Treasurer shall promptly provide information concerning bonds authorized, approved and issued under sections 10a-91a to 10a-91h, inclusive.

(b) Commencing January 1, 2010, the first semiannual report in each year submitted in accordance with subsection (a) of this section shall include such information as requested by the bonding subcommittee of the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to finance, revenue and bonding, including, but not limited to: (1) The use of bond funds in the current fiscal year, (2) projected use of bond funds for the next succeeding fiscal year, and (3) any updated master plans impacting the balance of the projects. In the event that said bonding subcommittee determines that there has been a significant change in the economic circumstances of the state sufficient to warrant recommendations for modification of the program, the subcommittee may make recommendations for appropriate action to said committee.

(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7, S. 106; P.A. 14-98, S. 55.)

History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7 effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 14-98 amended Subsec. (a) by changing initial reporting date from January 1, 2010, to January 1, 2015, and replacing “CSUS 2020” with “CSCU 2020” and “board of trustees” with “board of regents”, effective July 1, 2014.

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Sec. 10a-91g. CSCU 2020 performance review report. On January 1, 2014, and January 1, 2019, the system shall, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, submit to the Governor and to the General Assembly, a five-year CSCU 2020 performance review report detailing for each project undertaken to date under the program the progress made and the actual expenditures compared to original estimated costs. Not later than sixty calendar days after receipt of said report, the Governor and the General Assembly shall consider the report and determine whether there has been insufficient progress in implementation of CSCU 2020 or whether there have been significant cost increases over original estimates as a result of actions taken by the system. If so, the Governor or the General Assembly may make recommendations for appropriate action to the system and for action by the General Assembly.

(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7, S. 107; P.A. 08-116, S. 5; P.A. 14-98, S. 56.)

History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7 effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 08-116 made a technical change, effective May 27, 2008; P.A. 14-98 replaced “CSUS 2020” with “CSCU 2020”, effective July 1, 2014.

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Sec. 10a-91h. Audit of projects. Submission of results to Governor and General Assembly. The board of regents shall select and appoint independent auditors, as defined in subdivision (7) of section 4-230, to annually conduct an audit of any project of CSCU 2020. Such audit shall review invoices, expenditures, cost allocations and other appropriate documentation in order to reconcile project costs and verify conformance with project budgets, cost allocation agreements and applicable contracts, and shall be submitted to the Governor and the General Assembly in accordance with section 11-4a. The board of regents shall ensure that the auditors have unfettered access to any documentation the auditors need to review any such project. The auditors appointed pursuant to this section may serve in such capacity for five consecutive years and shall not be reappointed at the expiration of such period. Any such auditor appointed pursuant to this section shall not perform any nonaudit services for the system during such period.

(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7, S. 108; P.A. 14-98, S. 57.)

History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7 effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 14-98 replaced “board of trustees” with “board of regents” and “CSUS 2020, as defined in subdivision (4) of section 10a-91c” with “CSCU 2020”, effective July 1, 2014.

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Sec. 10a-92. (Formerly Sec. 10-109d). Campus traffic and parking regulations. 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 Office of the State Traffic Administration, may: (1) Prohibit, limit or restrict the parking of passenger vehicles; (2) determine speed limits; (3) install stop signs; (4) restrict roads or portions thereof to one-way traffic; (5) 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; (6) order signs to be erected and maintained designating such prohibitions or restrictions; and (7) impose a fine upon any person who fails to comply with any such prohibition or restriction. Violation of any provision of this section shall be an infraction. All fines so imposed 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 scholarships and 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.

(P.A. 73-151, S. 1; P.A. 82-218, S. 39, 46; P.A. 91-256, S. 25, 69; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-7, S. 15, 22; P.A. 94-245, S. 36, 46; P.A. 06-133, S. 4; P.A. 11-256, S. 8; P.A. 12-132, S. 4.)

History: P.A. 82-218 replaced “state colleges” with “Connecticut State University” pursuant to reorganization of higher education system, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-109d transferred to Sec. 10a-92 in 1983; P.A. 91-256 deleted provision requiring that fines not exceed $25 and that the money be placed in a scholarship account, added provision that funds be deposited in institutional operating accounts, provided for the use of fines to offset the cost of enforcing traffic and parking regulations, required the fines to be used for library services and acquisitions and made a technical change; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-7 provided for the use of funds for scholarships; P.A. 94-245 made violation of any provision of the section an infraction, effective June 2, 1994; P.A. 06-133 added installing stop signs to list of authorized activities of traffic committees, effective June 6, 2006; P.A. 11-256 inserted numeric Subdiv. designators and made technical changes; P.A. 12-132 replaced “State Traffic Commission” with “Office of the State Traffic Administration”, effective July 1, 2012.

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Sec. 10a-93. (Formerly Sec. 10-110). Expenditure of funds. Teachers. Practice schools. Section 10a-93 is repealed.

(1949 Rev., S. 1413; September, 1957, P.A. 11, S. 13; 1959, P.A. 411, S. 7; February, 1965, P.A. 330, S. 32; P.A. 82-218, S. 39, 46; P.A. 84-546, S. 30, 173; P.A. 88-136, S. 36, 37.)

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Sec. 10a-94. (Formerly Sec. 10-113). Summer sessions. 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.

(1949 Rev., S. 1416; February, 1965, P.A. 330, S. 35; P.A. 82-218, S. 39, 46; P.A. 91-256, S. 54, 69.)

History: 1965 act substituted board of trustees of the state colleges for state board of education and “programs” for “program”; P.A. 82-218 reorganized system of higher education, renaming state colleges as Connecticut State University, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-113 transferred to Sec. 10a-94 in 1983; P.A. 91-256 made a technical change.

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Secs. 10a-95 and 10a-96. (Formerly Secs. 10-114 and 10-115). Connecticut State University Auxiliary Services Fund. Connecticut State University Educational Extension Fund. Sections 10a-95 and 10a-96 are repealed.

(1949 Rev., S. 1417, 1418; 1951, S. 935d, 936d; 1957, P.A. 302, S. 1; 303, S. 1; 1959, P.A. 411, S. 10, 11; February, 1965, P.A. 330, S. 36, 37; 1969, P.A. 451, S. 3, 4; P.A. 75-582, S. 3, 4; P.A. 77-614, S. 73, 610; P.A. 81-275, S. 2; 81-442, S. 5, 6, 9; 81-472, S. 122, 159; P.A. 82-218, S. 17, 18, 39, 46; 82-314, S. 22, 23, 63; P.A. 83-587, S. 20, 23, 96; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 86-37, S. 1, 2; P.A. 87-496, S. 60, 61, 110; 87-529, S. 10, 11; P.A. 88-136, S. 29, 30, 37; P.A. 91-256, S. 68, 69.)

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Sec. 10a-97. (Formerly Sec. 10-115a). Nicholas Copernicus Center. Interchange between colleges and universities. A resource center, to be known as the Nicholas Copernicus Center, is hereby established at Central Connecticut State University, for the primary purpose of teaching and encouraging the study of the Polish language, arts, history, culture, anthropology, and any other subjects that any visiting professor assigned to the resource center shall deem necessary to study. The resource center and its faculty shall also be responsible for encouraging the interchange between colleges and universities in the United States and Poland.

(P.A. 73-618, S. 1, 2; P.A. 82-391, S. 4, 6.)

History: P.A. 82-391 designated Central Connecticut State College as Central Connecticut State University pursuant to reorganization of higher education system, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-115a transferred to Sec. 10a-97 in 1983.

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Sec. 10a-98. (Formerly Sec. 10-115b). Research foundation. Definitions. As used in this section and sections 10a-98a to 10a-98g, inclusive, “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.

(P.A. 79-202, S. 1; P.A. 82-218, S. 39, 46; P.A. 91-256, S. 55, 69.)

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Sec. 10a-98a. (Formerly Sec. 10-115c). Establishment and management of foundation. 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; (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. 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.

(P.A. 79-202, S. 2; P.A. 82-218, S. 39, 46; P.A. 91-256, S. 56, 69.)

See Sec. 4-73a re determination of actual rate for fringe benefits for funds of the constituent units of the state system of higher education.

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Sec. 10a-98b. (Formerly Sec. 10-115d). Ownership of inventions. 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.

(P.A. 79-202, S. 3; P.A. 82-218, S. 39, 46; P.A. 91-256, S. 57, 69.)

History: P.A. 82-218 replaced “state colleges” with “Connecticut State University” pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; Sec. 10-115d transferred to Sec. 10a-98b in 1983; P.A. 91-256 made a technical change.

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Sec. 10a-98c. (Formerly Sec. 10-115e). Employees to share in proceeds. 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.

(P.A. 79-202, S. 4; P.A. 82-218, S. 39, 46; P.A. 91-256, S. 58, 69.)

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Sec. 10a-98d. (Formerly Sec. 10-115f). Disagreements; procedure. Disagreements as to the allocation of any invention to one of said categories, or as to the obligations of any employee or due performance thereof, or as to participation of any employee in net proceeds, or as to rights or obligations with reference to inventions in any category, shall be disposed of as follows: (a) By voluntary arbitration of all relevant issues, if the disagreeing parties approve and agree to be bound by the decision upon such arbitration; (b) by compulsory arbitration if that is provided for in any applicable contract between the disagreeing parties; (c) by recourse to courts of appropriate jurisdiction within the state if arbitration cannot be resorted to under either subsection (a) or (b) of this section.

(P.A. 79-202, S. 5.)

History: Sec. 10-115f transferred to Sec. 10a-98d in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

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Sec. 10a-98e. (Formerly Sec. 10-115g). Regulations for arbitration. 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.

(P.A. 79-202, S. 6; P.A. 82-218, S. 39, 46; P.A. 91-256, S. 59, 69.)

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Sec. 10a-98f. (Formerly Sec. 10-115h). Enforcement of regulations. 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.

(P.A. 79-202, S. 7; P.A. 82-218, S. 39, 46; P.A. 91-256, S. 60, 69.)

History: P.A. 82-218 replaced “state colleges” with “Connecticut State University” pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; Sec. 10-115h transferred to Sec. 10a-98f in 1983; P.A. 91-256 made a technical change.

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Sec. 10a-98g. (Formerly Sec. 10-115i). Rights as to products of authorship. The provisions of sections 10a-98 to 10a-98g, inclusive, 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.

(P.A. 79-202, S. 8; P.A. 80-483, S. 39, 186; P.A. 82-218, S. 39, 46; P.A. 91-256, S. 61, 69.)

History: P.A. 80-483 substituted “they” for “it”; P.A. 82-218 replaced “state colleges” with “Connecticut State University” pursuant to reorganization of higher education system, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-115i transferred to Sec. 10a-98g in 1983; P.A. 91-256 made a technical change.

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Sec. 10a-99. (Formerly Sec. 10-116). Connecticut State University System: Tuition, fees and refunds. Operating fund. Operating accounts. Waivers. Reimbursement of fund. Course reenrollment for student members of the armed forces called to active duty. Graduation fees. (a) Subject to the provisions of section 10a-26, the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University System shall fix fees for tuition and shall fix fees for such other purposes as the board deems necessary at the university, and may make refunds of the same.

(b) The Board of Regents for Higher Education shall establish and administer a fund to be known as the Connecticut State University System Operating Fund. Appropriations from general revenues of the state and upon request by the Connecticut State University System and with the annual review and approval by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, the amount of the appropriations for fringe benefits pursuant to subsection (a) of section 4-73, shall be transferred from the State Comptroller 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. Income from student fees or related charges, the proceeds of auxiliary activities and business enterprises, gifts and donations, federal funds and grants, subject to the provisions of sections 10a-98 to 10a-98g, inclusive, 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. Any such gifts and donations, federal funds and grants for purposes of research shall be allocated to separate accounts within such central office and institutional operating accounts. If the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management disapproves such transfer, the secretary may require the amount of the appropriation for operating expenses to be used for personal services and fringe benefits to be excluded from said fund. The State Treasurer shall review and approve the transfer prior to such request by the university. The board shall establish an equitable policy, in accordance with section 10a-8, for allocation of appropriations from general revenues of the state, fringe benefits transferred from the State Comptroller 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 (f) of this section shall be charged to 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 not later than sixty days after 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, the Office of Higher Education and the Office of Policy and Management a report on the actual expenditures of the Connecticut State University System Operating Fund.

(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 and is a resident of the state at the time such child is accepted for admission to such institution, (2) subject to the provisions of subsection (e) of this section, for any veteran, as defined in section 27-103, who performed service in time of war, as defined in section 27-103, except that for purposes of this subsection, “service in time of war” shall not include time spent in attendance at a military service academy, which veteran has been accepted for admission to such institution and is domiciled in this state at the time such veteran is accepted for admission to such institution, (3) for any resident of the state sixty-two years of age or older who has been accepted for admission to such institution, provided (A) such resident is enrolled in a degree-granting program, or (B) at the end of the regular registration period, there are enrolled in the course a sufficient number of students other than those residents eligible for waivers pursuant to this subdivision to offer the course in which such resident intends to enroll and there is space available in such course after accommodating all such students, (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, (5) for any active member of the Connecticut Army or Air National Guard who (A) has been certified by the Adjutant General or such Adjutant General's designee as a member in good standing of the guard, and (B) is enrolled or accepted for admission to such institution on a full-time or part-time basis in an undergraduate or graduate degree-granting program, (6) for any dependent child of a (A) police officer, as defined in section 7-294a, or supernumerary or auxiliary police officer, (B) firefighter, as defined in section 7-323j, or member of a volunteer fire company, (C) municipal employee, or (D) state employee, as defined in section 5-154, killed in the line of duty, (7) for any resident of this state who is a dependent child or surviving spouse of a specified terrorist victim who was a resident of the state, (8) for any dependent child of a resident of the state who was killed in a multivehicle crash at or near the intersection of Routes 44 and 10 and Nod Road in Avon on July 29, 2005, and (9) for any resident of the state who is a dependent child or surviving spouse of a person who was killed in action while performing active military duty with the armed forces of the United States on or after September 11, 2001, and who was a resident of this state. 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. Veterans and members of the National Guard described in subdivision (5) of this subsection shall be given the same status as students not receiving tuition waivers in registering for courses at Connecticut state universities. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 10a-30, as used in this subsection, “domiciled in this state” includes domicile for less than one year.

(e) (1) If any veteran described in subsection (d) of this section has applied for federal educational assistance under the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, the board of trustees shall waive the payment of tuition at the Connecticut State University System for such veteran in accordance with subdivision (2) of this subsection. If any such veteran certifies to said board that such veteran's application for such federal educational assistance has been denied or withdrawn, said board of trustees shall waive the payment of tuition in accordance with subsection (d) of this section.

(2) (A) For purposes of this subdivision, “veteran tuition benefit” means the portion of federal educational assistance under the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 to be paid to the Connecticut State University System on behalf of a veteran that represents payment for tuition. Such portion shall be calculated by multiplying (i) the total amount of such federal educational assistance to be paid to the Connecticut State University System on behalf of such veteran by (ii) an amount obtained by dividing (I) the actual tuition charged by the Connecticut State University System to such veteran by (II) the sum of the actual tuition and fees charged by the Connecticut State University System to such veteran.

(B) Said board of trustees shall waive the payment of tuition in excess of the veteran tuition benefit at the Connecticut State University System for such veteran.

(f) Said board shall set aside from its anticipated tuition 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. 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. Said board may also set aside from its anticipated tuition revenue an additional amount equal to one per cent of said tuition revenue for financial assistance for students who would not otherwise be eligible for financial assistance but who do have a financial need as determined by the university in accordance with this subsection. In determining such financial need, the university shall exclude the value of 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 shall assess the earnings of a dependent student at the rate of thirty per cent.

(g) The Connecticut State University 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 tuition revenue through an annual state appropriation. The board of trustees shall request such an appropriation 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.

(i) The Board of Regents for Higher Education shall not assess or charge a graduation fee to any student enrolled in the Connecticut State University System for the purpose of graduating from a state university within such system.

(1949 Rev., S. 1419; 1955, S. 937d; 1959, P.A. 411, S. 12; February, 1965, P.A. 330, S. 38; 372, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 530, S. 4; June, 1971, P.A. 5, S. 123, 127; P.A. 73-542, S. 3; P.A. 74-266, S. 3, 5; 74-282, S. 3; P.A. 75-484, S. 3, 5; P.A. 76-181, S. 3, 5; 76-313, S. 1, 3; P.A. 77-241; 77-573, S. 24, 30; P.A. 78-175, S. 3, 5; P.A. 81-252, S. 3, 5; 81-468, S. 10, 11; P.A. 82-218, S. 37, 39, 46; 82-463, S. 3, 7; P.A. 83-457, S. 3, 6; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; 84-365, S. 4, 12; 84-438, S. 3, 5; P.A. 85-553, S. 3, 5; P.A. 86-325, S. 3, 5; P.A. 87-450, S. 9, 17; P.A. 88-136, S. 22, 37; P.A. 89-380, S. 4, 7; P.A. 90-147, S. 8, 9, 20; P.A. 91-174, S. 10, 16; 91-208, S. 7, 11; 91-256, S. 26, 69; 91-303, S. 8, 22; 91-407, S. 31, 42; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-7, S. 18, 22; P.A. 92-154, S. 10, 23; P.A. 93-293, S. 8, 11; P.A. 96-244, S. 32, 60, 63; P.A. 97-247, S. 20, 27; 97-293, S. 17, 26; P.A. 00-204, S. 11, 13; P.A. 01-173, S. 32, 67; P.A. 02-126, S. 5; P.A. 03-19, S. 23; 03-33, S. 2; 03-278, S. 128; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 200; P.A. 04-27, S. 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 17; P.A. 06-141, S. 2; P.A. 08-57, S. 2; 08-71, S. 2; P.A. 09-159, S. 5; P.A. 10-66, S. 2; P.A. 11-48, S. 222; P.A. 13-137, S. 2; P.A. 18-47, S. 9; P.A. 21-79, S. 10; 21-132, S. 10; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 55; P.A. 22-16, S. 4.)

History: 1959 act changed teachers colleges to state colleges and confined remission of fees to students preparing to teach; 1965 acts substituted board of trustees of the state colleges for state board of education, deleted phrase “under such regulations as it prescribes” in fee provision, deleted phrase restricting fee remission to students who are preparing to teach and added Subsec. (b) allowing waiver of fees for persons 62 or older; 1969 act allowed fees other than tuition to be charged and made fees subject to approval of commission for higher education; 1971 act made fees subject to provisions of Sec. 10-329b, set tuition fees at rate of at least $300 for residents and $850 for nonresidents and deleted provision allowing remission of fees for students of exceptional promise; P.A. 73-542 added Subsecs. (b) and (c) re waiver of fees for children of persons missing-in-action and former prisoners of war and for Vietnam era veterans; P.A. 74-266 deleted Subsec. (c) and incorporated its provisions into Subsec. (b) as Subdiv. (2); P.A. 74-282 allowed waiver of fees for persons 62 or older, incorporated as Subdiv. (3) in Subsec. (b), restoring previous provision enacted in 1965 but inadvertently dropped in 1971 act; P.A. 75-484 added Subsec. (c) allowing waiver of fees for those demonstrating substantial financial need; P.A. 76-181 increased minimum fee for residents to $390 and for nonresidents to $1,030, provided that funds generated by the increase be appropriated to state colleges for educational purposes and increased percentage of students whose fees may be waived in Subsec. (c) from 1% to 10%; P.A. 76-313 allowed waiver of fees for students attending Connecticut state police academy in Subsec. (b); P.A. 77-241 substituted Connecticut police academy for Connecticut state police academy; P.A. 77-573 substituted board of higher education for commission for higher education; P.A. 78-175 substituted “veteran having served in time of war” for “Vietnam era veteran” in Subsec. (b); P.A. 81-252 amended Subsec. (b) to authorize waiver of tuition for eligible members of the Connecticut army or air national guard and to provide for reduction in waiver if eligible person receives educational reimbursement from employer; P.A. 81-468 amended Subsec. (a) increasing tuition fees from $390 to $440 for residents; P.A. 82-218 reorganized higher education system, amending Subsec. (a) to redesignate state colleges as the Connecticut State University and to replace board of higher education with board of governors, effective March 1, 1983; P.A. 82-463 amended Subsec. (c) to restrict waivers to full or part-time resident students and nonresident graduate students enrolled in degree-granting or precollege remedial programs and to include part-time students in calculation of total amount waived; Sec. 10-116 transferred to Sec. 10a-99 in 1983; P.A. 83-457 amended Subsec. (c) to repeal provision that tuition waived or remitted shall not exceed 10% of tuition revenue payable by number of full-time and part-time resident and nonresident students matriculated in a degree-granting program and enrolled in precollege remedial programs at the Connecticut State University for the current academic year, and substituted provision that tuition waived or remitted shall not exceed 10% of tuition revenue due during the preceding year, including revenue lost due to tuition waivers and remissions, adjusted for tuition changes or the appropriation to the Connecticut State University for the current fiscal year for tuition waiver or remittance, whichever is less, and added provision that only the funds in the scholarship aid tuition refund account may be used for the purposes of this section; P.A. 84-241 added “of higher education” to board of governors' title; P.A. 84-365 inserted new Subsecs. (b) and (c) establishing tuition fund for Connecticut State University, relettering subsequent sections accordingly, and deleting provisions in Subsec. (a) which required inclusion in Connecticut State University appropriation of tuition above stated amounts and in Subsec. (e), formerly (c), which limited tuition waivers and remittances to the amount appropriated for the purpose; P.A. 84-438 amended Subsec. (b) authorizing tuition waivers for veterans of Grenada and Lebanon; P.A. 85-553 inserted new Subsec. (e) which required board to set aside from its anticipated tuition fund revenue an amount not less than that required by the board of governors' tuition policy to provide funds for tuition waivers and remissions, grants for educational expenses and student employment, replacing previous provisions re waiver or remittance of tuition; P.A. 86-325 in Subsec. (b) increased 2% of the expenditure level to 102% and added Subsec. (f) to provide for reimbursement of the tuition fund for waivers; P.A. 87-450 in Subsec. (b) provided that the expenditure authority may be increased by the amount the fund income exceeds the authority rather than by the amount the income exceeds the authority up to 2% and eliminated the transfer of fund income for student financial aid; P.A. 88-136 deleted obsolete provision in Subsec. (b) re tuition revenue received for the 1984-1985 academic year; P.A. 89-380 in Subsec. (b) substituted “fund balance or projected fund balance, including reserves and interest earnings from investments”, for “fund income, including interest earnings from investments” as the amount which must exceed the expenditure authority in order for the authority to be increased by the board of trustees and provided that if the authority is increased it be increased by the amount that the fund balance rather than the fund income exceeds the expenditure authority; P.A. 90-147 in Subsec. (b) expanded the authority of the board of trustees to increase expenditures from the tuition fund beyond the governor's recommended expenditure authority and in Subsec. (d) required that a person 62 years of age or older be a resident of the state to be eligible for a tuition waiver; P.A. 91-174 in Subsec. (a) deleted requirement for approval by the board of governors of higher education; P.A. 91-208 in Subsec. (e) added provision concerning the set aside of 1% of tuition revenue for financial assistance and specifying how financial need is to be determined; P.A. 91-256 removed provision for a tuition fund and established an operating fund, in Subsec. (a) deleted requirement for fees to be approved by the board of governors of higher education and made technical changes; P.A. 91-303 in Subsec. (d)(1) removed requirement of residency at the time of entering the armed forces and substituted requirement that the child be a resident of the state at the time of acceptance to the institution, in Subsec. (d)(2) added dates of the actions in Grenada and Lebanon, added reference to Panama and removed requirement that the veteran be a resident at the time he entered the armed forces or be a resident while serving and in Subsec. (d)(3) added requirement that a sufficient number of students other than those eligible for a waiver be enrolled to offer the course; P.A. 91-407 amended Subsec. (b) to add exception re appropriation for personal services; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-7 amended Subsec. (b) to provide for the deposit of federal funds and grants for purposes other than research in the fund; P.A. 92-154 amended Subsec. (a) to remove language specifying the amount of tuition and added Subsec. (g) concerning health insurance coverage for graduate assistants; P.A. 93-293 added Subsec. (d)(6) re dependent child of a police officer or firefighter killed in the line of duty, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 96-244 amended Subsec. (b) to add provision concerning separate accounts for research funds, effective July 1, 1996, and amended Subsec. (d) to provide that veterans and members of the National Guard have the same status as students not receiving tuition waivers in registering for courses, effective June 6, 1996; P.A. 97-247 amended Subsec. (d) to make a technical change, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 97-293 amended Subsec. (b) to add provisions relating to the deposit in the operating fund of the amount of appropriations for operating expenses to be used for personal services and fringe benefits, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 00-204 amended Subsec. (d) to designate existing provisions of Subdiv. (6) as Subparas. (A) and (B) and to add Subparas. (C) and (D) re municipal employee and state employee, respectively, and to make technical changes, effective June 1, 2000; P.A. 01-173 amended Subsec. (d)(6) to include a dependent child of a supernumerary or auxiliary police officer or of a member of a volunteer fire company, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 02-126 added Subsec. (d)(7) requiring tuition waiver for any state resident who is a dependent child or surviving spouse of a specified terrorist victim who was a state resident, effective June 7, 2002; P.A. 03-19 made technical changes in Subsec. (d)(3) and (6), effective May 12, 2003; P.A. 03-33 added Subsec. (h) re course reenrollment for students who are members of the armed forces called to active duty during any semester; P.A. 03-278 changed effective date of P.A. 03-33, S. 2 from October 1, 2003, to May 12, 2003; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 deleted Subsec. (g) re health insurance coverage for graduate assistants, effective August 20, 2003 (Revisor's note: New Subsec. (h), added by P.A. 03-33, was redesignated as Subsec. (g) by the Revisors upon deletion of former Subsec. (g) by this act); P.A. 04-27 made a technical change in Subsec. (g), effective April 28, 2004; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3 amended Subsec. (d)(2) by replacing language re residency with language re domicile, amended Subsec. (d)(5) by replacing language re residency in Subpara. (A) with language re Adjutant General in existing Subpara. (B) and redesignating existing Subpara. (C) as new Subpara. (B) and amended Subsec. (d)(7) by adding language describing “domiciled in this state”, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-141 added Subsec. (d)(8) re dependents of victims of multivehicle crash in Avon, effective June 6, 2006; P.A. 08-57 amended Subsec. (d)(5)(B) by waiving tuition fees for active members of the Connecticut National Guard for graduate programs, effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 08-71 amended Subsec. (d) by adding Subdiv. (9) re tuition waiver applicable to resident of state who is dependent child or surviving spouse of armed forces member killed in action on or after September 11, 2001, effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 09-159 made technical changes in Subsecs. (b) and (c), amended Subsec. (d)(2) by providing that tuition waivers for veterans be subject to provisions of Subsec. (e), added new Subsec. (e) re tuition waivers for veterans who have applied for federal educational assistance under Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 and redesignated existing Subsecs. (e) to (g) as Subsecs. (f) to (h), effective July 1, 2009; P.A. 10-66 amended Subsec. (d)(2) by replacing “having served” with “who performed service”, deleting provisions re service in invasions of Grenada and Panama and peace-keeping mission in Lebanon, and redefining “service in time of war” to exclude time spent in attendance at a military service academy, effective May 18, 2010; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (c) to remove provisions re Board of Governors of Higher Education, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-137 amended Subsec. (c) to add “the Office of Higher Education”, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 18-47 amended Subsec. (d)(2) to designate provision re veteran who performed service in time of war as Subpara. (A), add Subpara. (B) re person with qualifying condition and discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable who served in time of war, and made technical and conforming changes; P.A. 21-79 amended Subsec. (d) to redefine “veteran”, delete “(A)” and former Subpara. (B) re person with qualifying condition in Subdiv. (2), and make conforming changes; P.A. 21-132 added Subsec. (i) re prohibition on assessing or charging graduation fee, effective July 1, 2021; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 made identical changes as P.A. 21-132, effective July 1, 2021; P.A. 22-16 amended Subsec. (b) by changing “Trustees of the Connecticut State University System” to “Regents for Higher Education”, making technical changes and adding a reference to Sec. 10a-8, effective July 1, 2022.

See Sec. 4-73a re determination of actual rate for fringe benefits for funds of the constituent units of the state system of higher education.

See Sec. 10a-104b for definition of “specified terrorist victim”.

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Sec. 10a-99a. Endowment Fund for the Connecticut State University System. (a)(1) The Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University System shall establish a permanent Endowment Fund for the Connecticut State University System to encourage donations from the private sector, with an incentive in the form of an endowment fund state grant, the net earnings on the principal of which are dedicated and made available to a state university or the Connecticut State University System as a whole, for endowed professorships, scholarships and programmatic enhancements. The fund shall be administered by the board of trustees, or by a nonprofit entity entrusted for such purpose and qualified as a Section 501(c)(3) organization under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, and preferably constituted and controlled independent of the state and university so as to qualify the interest on state bonds the proceeds of which have been granted for deposit in the endowment fund as excludable from federal taxation under such code and shall, in any event, be held in a trust fund separate and apart from all other funds and accounts of the state and university. There shall be deposited into the fund: (A) Endowment fund state grants; and (B) interest or other earnings from the investment of moneys in the endowment fund pending transfer of the principal of the fund for the purposes identified in this subdivision. Endowment fund eligible gifts made on behalf of a state university or the system as a whole shall be deposited in a permanent endowment fund created for each such state university and the system as a whole in the appropriate foundation established pursuant to sections 4-37e and 4-37f. A portion of the endowment fund state grant and a portion of earnings on such grant, including capital appreciation, shall be transferred, annually, within thirty days of the receipt of the endowment fund state grant by the permanent Endowment Fund for the Connecticut State University System, to such a state university endowment fund based on the ratio of the total amount of such gifts made to such state university to the total amount of all such gifts made to all the state universities and the system as a whole, provided the provisions of section 4-37f are satisfied.

(2) (A) For each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 2000, to June 30, 2006, inclusive, as part of the state contract with donors of endowment fund eligible gifts, the Office of Higher Education, in accordance with section 10a-8b, shall deposit in the Endowment Fund for the Connecticut State University System a grant in an amount equal to half of the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts received by or for the benefit of the Connecticut State University System as a whole and each state university for the calendar year ending the December thirty-first preceding the commencement of such fiscal year, as certified by the chairperson of the board of trustees by February fifteenth to (i) the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, (ii) the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, and (iii) the executive director of the Office of Higher Education, provided such sums do not exceed the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment for the fiscal year in which the grant is made.

(B) For each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 2007, to June 30, 2014, inclusive, as part of the state contract with donors of endowment fund eligible gifts, the Office of Higher Education, in accordance with section 10a-8b, shall deposit in the Endowment Fund for the Connecticut State University System a grant in an amount equal to one-quarter of the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts, except as provided for in this subdivision, received by or for the benefit of the Connecticut State University System as a whole and each state university for the calendar year ending the December thirty-first preceding the commencement of such fiscal year, as certified by the chairperson of the board of trustees by February fifteenth to (i) the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, (ii) the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, and (iii) the executive director of the Office of Higher Education, provided such sums do not exceed the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment for the fiscal year in which the grant is made. Endowment fund eligible gifts that meet the criteria set forth in this subdivision, made by donors during the period from January 1, 2005, to June 30, 2005, shall continue to be matched by the Office of Higher Education in an amount equal to one-half of the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts received. Commitments by donors to make endowment fund eligible gifts for two or more years that meet the criteria set forth in this subdivision and that are made for the period prior to December 31, 2004, but ending before December 31, 2012, shall continue to be matched by the Office of Higher Education in an amount equal to one-half of the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts received.

(C) In any such fiscal year in which the total of the eligible gifts received by the Connecticut State University System as a whole and each state university exceed the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment for such fiscal year the amount in excess of such endowment fund state grant maximum commitment shall be carried forward and be eligible for a matching state grant in any succeeding fiscal year from the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, inclusive, subject to the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment. Any endowment fund eligible gifts that are not included in the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts certified by the chairperson of the board of trustees pursuant to this subdivision may be carried forward and be eligible for a matching state grant in any succeeding fiscal year from the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, inclusive, subject to the endowment fund state matching grant maximum commitment for such fiscal year.

(3) The Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University System shall adopt, by October 1, 1997, guidelines with respect to (A) the solicitation of endowment fund eligible gifts from private donors, and (B) governing the acceptance of gifts made by a foundation established pursuant to sections 4-37e and 4-37f, to a state university or its employees for reimbursement of expenditures or payment of expenditures on behalf of a state university or its employees. Private donations shall not be construed to include proceeds of federal grants but may include proceeds of municipal grants.

(b) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Endowment fund eligible gift” means a gift to or for the benefit of any of the state universities of the Connecticut State University System or the system as a whole of cash or assets which may be reduced to cash or which has the value that is ascertainable by the state universities or the system as a whole and which the donor has specifically designated for deposit in the endowment fund or which explicitly or implicitly by the terms of the gift, the universities or the system as a whole may and does deposit or permit to be deposited in the endowment funds. (2) “Endowment fund state grant” means moneys transferred by the Office of Higher Education from the fund established pursuant to section 10a-8b to the endowment fund established pursuant to this section in an aggregate amount not exceeding the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment. (3) “Endowment fund state grant maximum commitment” means an amount not exceeding two and one-half million dollars in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, five million dollars for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 2001, and June 30, 2002, and seven million five hundred thousand dollars for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 2003, to June 30, 2014, inclusive.

(P.A. 97-293, S. 5, 26; P.A. 98-252, S. 51, 60, 80; 98-255, S. 5, 24; P.A. 99-285, S. 8, 12; P.A. 01-141, S. 6–8, 16; 01-173, S. 33, 67; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 67; P.A. 06-135, S. 8; P.A. 11-48, S. 285; P.A. 12-156, S. 46.)

History: P.A. 97-293 effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 98-252 and P.A. 98-255 both amended Subsec. (a)(1) to delete requirement that the trust fund be with a bank or trust company and to make a technical change and P.A. 98-252 also amended Subsec. (a)(2) to allow gifts not included in the amount certified by the chairperson to be carried forward and be eligible for a matching state grant in a succeeding fiscal year, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 99-285 amended Subsec. (a)(1) to add provision for the transfer of capital appreciation, to require transfer within 30 days of receipt of endowment fund state grant and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 01-141 amended Subsec. (a)(2) to extend the program to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, amended Subsec. (b)(3) to remove $5,000,000 limit for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2008, and June 30, 2009, and to apply $7,500,000 limit for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 2003, to June 30, 2014, inclusive, and added Subsec. (c) re $60,000,000 cap, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 01-173 amended Subsec. (b) to make a technical change, effective July 1, 2001; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3 amended Subsec. (a)(2) by designating existing language re match in an amount equal to half as new Subpara. (A) and amending same to provide for match terminating with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, and redesignating existing Subparas. (A) to (C) as clauses (i) to (iii), by adding new Subpara. (B) re match in an amount equal to one quarter and by designating existing language re eligible gifts in excess of state grant maximum commitment as new Subpara. (C), effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-135 amended Subsec. (a)(2)(B) by adding provisions re endowment fund eligible gifts made during the period from January 1, 2005, to June 30, 2005, effective July 1, 2006; pursuant to P.A. 11-48, “Department of Higher Education” and “Commissioner of Higher Education” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Board of Regents for Higher Education” and “president of the Board of Regents for Higher Education”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 12-156 replaced “Board of Regents for Higher Education” with “Office of Higher Education” and replaced references to president of Board of Regents for Higher Education with references to executive director of Office of Higher Education, effective June 15, 2012.

See Sec. 10a-8c re restrictions on appropriations.

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Sec. 10a-100. (Formerly Sec. 10-116a). State colleges defined. Section 10a-100 is repealed.

(1959, P.A. 411, S. 15; P.A. 82-83, S. 2, 3; P.A. 83-587, S. 92, 96.)

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Sec. 10a-101. Use of term “state colleges”. 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 and 10-334, it shall be deemed to mean the “Connecticut State University” System.

(P.A. 82-218, S. 39, 46; P.A. 91-256, S. 62, 69; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 251.)

History: P.A. 82-218 effective March 1, 1983; P.A. 91-256 made a technical change; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 deleted reference to Sec. 31-3c, effective July 1, 2021.

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PART III

THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

Sec. 10a-102. (Formerly Sec. 10-117). Object of The University. Enrollment. Degrees. The University of Connecticut shall remain an institution for the education of youths whose parents are citizens of this state. The leading object of said university shall be, without excluding scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the General Assembly prescribes, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in accordance with the provisions of an Act of Congress, approved July 2, 1862, entitled “An Act donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts”, and also in accordance with an Act of Congress, approved August 30, 1890, entitled “An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of an Act of Congress, approved July 2, 1862”. The number of students who are to reside in university dormitories shall be determined by the board of trustees, preference in enrollment in the university being given to qualified students taking the full agricultural course. Said university is authorized to confer the academic and professional degrees appropriate to the courses prescribed by its board of trustees. The board shall establish policies which protect academic freedom and the content of course and degree programs.

(1949 Rev., S. 3271, 3272; P.A. 82-218, S. 19, 46; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 06-196, S. 69; P.A. 11-48, S. 223.)

History: P.A. 82-218 reorganized higher education system, amending section to require board of trustees to establish policies to protect academic freedom and content of course and degree programs, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-117 transferred to Sec. 10a-102 in 1983; P.A. 84-241 added “of higher education” to board of governors' title; P.A. 06-196 made a technical change, effective June 7, 2006; P.A. 11-48 deleted reference to state-wide policy and guidelines established by Board of Governors of Higher Education, effective July 1, 2011.

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Sec. 10a-103. (Formerly Sec. 10-118). Appointment of trustees. There shall continue to be a Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut to consist of twenty-one persons, twelve to be appointed by the Governor, who shall reflect the state's geographic, racial and ethnic diversity; two to be elected by the university alumni; two to be elected by the students enrolled at the institutions under the jurisdiction of said board; and five members ex officio. On or before July 1, 1983, the Governor shall appoint members to the board as follows: Four members for a term of two years from said date; four members 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 trustees of said university to succeed those appointees whose terms expire, and each trustee so appointed shall hold office for a period of six years from the first day of July in the year of his or her appointment, provided two of the trustees appointed for terms commencing July 1, 1995, and their successors shall be alumni of the university, one of the trustees appointed for a term commencing July 1, 1997, and his or her successors shall be such alumni and one of the members appointed for a term commencing July 1, 1999, and his or her successors shall be such alumni. The Commissioner of Agriculture, the Commissioner of Education, the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development and the chairperson of The University of Connecticut Health Center Board of Directors shall be, ex officio, members of the board of trustees. The Governor shall be, ex officio, president of said board. The graduates of all of the schools and colleges of said university shall, prior to September first in the odd-numbered years, elect one trustee, who shall be a graduate of the institution and who shall hold office for four years from the first day of September succeeding his or her election. Not less than two or more than four nominations for each such election shall be made by the alumni association of said university, provided no person who has served as an alumni trustee for the two full consecutive terms immediately prior to the term for which such election is to be held shall be nominated for any such election. Such election shall be conducted by mail prior to September first under the supervision of a canvassing board consisting of three members, one appointed by the board of trustees, one by the board of directors of the alumni association of the university and one by the president of the university. No ballot in such election shall be opened until the date by which ballots must be returned to the canvassing board. In such election, all graduates shall be entitled to vote by signed ballots which have been circulated to them by mail and which shall be returned by mail. Vacancies occurring by death or resignation of either of such alumni trustees shall be filled for the unexpired portion of the term by special election, if such unexpired term is for more than eighteen months. When the unexpired term is eighteen months or less, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the board of directors of said alumni association. On or before November 1, 1975, the students of The University of Connecticut shall, in such manner as the board of trustees of said university shall determine, elect two trustees, each of whom shall be enrolled as a full-time student of said university at the time of his or her 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. Prior to July first, annually, such students shall, in accordance with this section and in such manner as the board shall determine, elect one member of said board, who shall be so enrolled at said university at the time of his or her election and who shall serve for a term of two years from July first in the year of his or her election. The student member elected to fill the term expiring on June 30, 2003, and such elected member's successors, shall be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student at a school or college of the university and shall be elected by the undergraduate students of the schools and colleges of the university. The student member elected to fill the term expiring on June 30, 2004, and such elected member's successors, shall be enrolled as a full-time student in the School of Law, the School of Medicine, the School of Dentistry, the School of Social Work, or as a graduate student of a school or college of the university, and shall be elected by the students of the School of Law, the School of Medicine, the School of Dentistry, the School of Social Work and the graduate students of the schools and colleges of the university. Any student member elected after July 1, 2013, shall be enrolled as a full-time student at the time of his or her election and for the duration of his or her term of service. Any vacancies in the elected membership of said board shall, except as otherwise provided in this section, be filled by special election for the balance of the unexpired term.

(1949 Rev., S. 3273; 1967, P.A. 777; P.A. 73-43; P.A. 75-262, S. 4; 75-504, S. 4, 5; P.A. 77-614, S. 302, 610; P.A. 82-218, S. 20, 46; P.A. 88-64; P.A. 92-154, S. 2, 23; P.A. 94-97, S. 2, 4; 94-245, S. 26, 46; P.A. 01-141, S. 10, 16; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(e); P.A. 04-189, S. 1; P.A. 05-255, S. 1; P.A. 06-196, S. 70; P.A. 13-128, S. 1.)

History: 1967 act required that at least two but not more than four nominations be made by alumni association, provided for election by mail before July first rather than election at university during commencement week, changed membership of canvassing board to specify that one alumni association member is chosen association's board of directors and to replace member to be chosen by other two alumni members of canvassing board with member to be chosen by university president, prohibited opening of ballots until last return date and distinguished between filling vacancies for unexpired terms of more than 18 months and those of 18 months or less; P.A. 73-43 substituted commissioner of agriculture for commissioner of agriculture and natural resources, deleted requirement that electors must be graduates “of two years' standing” and deleted requirement that trustee elected by graduates must be graduate “of at least ten years' standing”; P.A. 75-262 added provisions concerning student trustees; P.A. 75-504 changed trustees appointed by governor from two to four as provided in section; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of education for secretary of the state board of education; P.A. 82-218 reorganized higher education system, amending section to increase number of trustees from 4 to 19, to require that trustees reflect state's diversity and to replace previous appointment provisions, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-118 transferred to Sec. 10a-103 in 1983; P.A. 88-64 provided that no person who has served as an alumni trustee for the two full consecutive terms prior to the term for which such election is to be held shall be nominated for any such election; P.A. 92-154 changed beginning of term for trustee elected by alumni from July to September; P.A. 94-97 added provision requiring that alumni be appointed to terms commencing July 1, 1995, July 1, 1997 and July 1, 1999, effective May 25, 1994; P.A. 94-245 changed the time frame for the election of student members from “On or before November” to “Prior to July” first and changed the start of the student members' terms from November first to July first, effective June 2, 1994; P.A. 01-141 provided for one student member of the board to be an undergraduate student and one student member of the board to be a graduate student and made technical changes for purposes of gender neutrality, effective July 1, 2001; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Agriculture with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004; P.A. 05-255 added the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development and the chairperson of The University of Connecticut Health Center Board of Directors as ex-officio board members and made conforming changes, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-196 made technical changes, effective June 7, 2006; P.A. 13-128 required any student member elected after July 1, 2013, to be enrolled as a full-time student at the time of election and for the duration of such student's term of service, and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2013.

Annotation to former section 10-118:

Cited. 165 C. 507.

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Sec. 10a-104. (Formerly Sec. 10-119). Duties of the Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut. (a) The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut shall: (1) Make rules for the government of the university and shall determine the general policies of the university, including those concerning the admission of students and the establishment of schools, colleges, divisions and departments, which policies shall be consistent with the goals identified in section 10a-11c, and shall direct the expenditure of the university's funds within the amounts available; (2) develop the mission statement for The University of Connecticut, and all campuses thereof, that shall be consistent with such goals and include, but not be limited to, the following elements: (A) The educational needs of and constituencies served by said university and campuses; (B) the degrees offered by said university; and (C) the role and scope of each institution and campus within the university system, which shall include each institution's and campus' particular strengths and specialties; (3) establish policies for the university system and for the individual institutions and campuses under its jurisdiction; (4) review and approve recommendations for the establishment of new academic programs; (5) report all new programs and program changes to the Office of Higher Education; (6) make recommendations, when appropriate, regarding institutional or campus mergers or closures; (7) coordinate the programs and services of the institutions and campuses under its jurisdiction; (8) be authorized to enter into agreements, consistent with the provisions of section 5-141d, to save harmless and indemnify sponsors of research grants to The University of Connecticut, provided such an agreement is required to receive the grant and limits liability to damages or injury resulting from acts or omissions related to such research by employees of the university; (9) promote fund-raising to assist the university and report to the executive director of the Office of Higher Education and the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education by January 1, 1994, and biennially thereafter, on such fund-raising; (10) charge the direct costs for a building project under its jurisdiction to the bond fund account for such project, provided (A) such costs are charged in accordance with a procedure approved by the Treasurer and (B) nothing in this subdivision shall permit the charging of working capital costs, as defined in the applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, or costs originally paid from sources other than the bond fund account; (11) exercise the powers delegated to it pursuant to section 10a-109d; and (12) establish by October 1, 1997, policies governing the acceptance of gifts made by a foundation established pursuant to sections 4-37e and 4-37f to the university or its employees for reimbursement of expenditures or payment of expenditures on behalf of the university or its employees.

(b) The board of trustees shall: (1) Review and approve institutional budget requests and prepare and submit to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management the budget request for the university and all campuses thereof; (2) propose facility planning and capital expenditure budget priorities for the institutions under its jurisdiction; (3) fulfill requirements concerning the auditing and review of projects of UCONN 2000 in accordance with sections 10a-109z to 10a-109bb, inclusive; (4) establish the construction assurance office in accordance with section 10a-109cc; and (5) exercise the powers delegated to it in section 10a-109d. 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.

(c) The board of trustees may create a board of directors for the governance of The University of Connecticut Health Center and may delegate such duties and authority as it deems necessary and appropriate to said board of directors. The board of directors shall include members of the board of trustees designated by the chairperson of the board of trustees and such other persons as the board of trustees deems appropriate.

(1949 Rev., S. 3274; P.A. 82-218, S. 21, 46; P.A. 83-576, S. 4, 5; P.A. 84-87, S. 6, 7; 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 91-174, S. 11, 16; 91-256, S. 27, 69; 91-349, S. 3, 8; P.A. 93-201, S. 13, 24; P.A. 95-230, S. 27, 45; P.A. 97-293, S. 9, 26; P.A. 01-173, S. 35, 67; P.A. 06-134, S. 5; P.A. 11-48, S. 224; 11-70, S. 6; P.A. 12-129, S. 5; 12-156, S. 56; P.A. 13-118, S. 5; P.A. 15-75, S. 4.)

History: P.A. 82-218 reorganized higher education system, amending section to add provisions concerning trustee's duties re development of mission statements, policies and programs and re budget requests, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-119 transferred to Sec. 10a-104 in 1983; P.A. 83-576 added provision prohibiting denial of access to armed forces representatives; P.A. 84-87 repealed language in Subsec. (a) prohibiting board from denying military recruiters the opportunity to recruit on campus; P.A. 84-241 added “of higher education” to board of governors' title; P.A. 91-174 added Subsec. (a)(7), codified as (a)(8), re fund-raising; P.A. 91-256 in Subsec. (b) added provision for the board to request authority to issue payment for claims against the university; P.A. 91-349 added Subsec. (a)(7) re research grants; P.A. 93-201 amended Subsec. (a)(8) to require report and added Subdiv. (9) re charging of the bond fund account for the direct costs of a building project, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-230 added Subsec. (a)(10) and Subsec. (b)(3) re additional powers under UConn 2000, effective June 7, 1995; P.A. 97-293 added Subsec. (a)(11) re acceptance of gifts made by a foundation, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 01-173 added Subsec. (c) re creation of a board of directors for The University of Connecticut Health Center, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 06-134 amended Subsec. (b) by redesignating existing Subdiv. (3) as Subdiv. (5) and by adding new Subdivs. (3) re auditing requirements and (4) re the construction assurance office, effective July 1, 2006; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (a) to remove reference to state-wide policy and guidelines established by Board of Governors of Higher Education, replace “Board of Governors of Higher Education” with “Board of Regents for Higher Education” and replace “Commissioner of Higher Education” with “executive director of the Office of Financial and Academic Affairs for Higher Education” and amended Subsec. (b) to replace “Board of Governors of Higher Education” and reference to Sec. 10a-8 with “Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-70 replaced branches with campuses in Subsecs. (a) and (b); P.A. 12-129 amended Subsec. (a) by eliminating requirements that board of trustees submit university's mission statement and make recommendations re mergers or closures to Board of Regents for Higher Education, effective July 1, 2012; pursuant to P.A. 12-156, “Office of Financial and Academic Affairs for Higher Education” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Office of Higher Education” in Subsec. (a)(8), effective June 15, 2012; P.A. 13-118 amended Subsec. (a) to authorize the board of trustees to review and approve recommendations for new academic programs in Subdiv. (4), add new Subdiv. (5) re reporting of new programs and program changes and redesignate existing Subdivs. (5) to (11) as Subdivs. (6) to (12), effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 15-75 amended Subsec. (a) by adding reference to goals identified in Sec. 10a-11c in Subdiv. (1) and making conforming and technical changes in Subdiv. (2), effective July 1, 2015.

Annotations to former section 10-119:

Cited. 165 C. 507. Intent of legislature was to grant to the board the authority to exercise complete direction and restraint over the actions of those connected with the university, including the teaching staff, employees and students. Id., 757.

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Sec. 10a-104a. Disposition of surplus library material and library fines. (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 University of Connecticut 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 under the jurisdiction of the board shall be deposited in The University of Connecticut Operating Fund or The University of Connecticut Health Center Operating Fund, as appropriate.

(P.A. 83-450, S. 4, 5; P.A. 85-282, S. 4, 5; P.A. 91-256, S. 28, 69.)

History: P.A. 85-282 added Subsec. (b) re deposit of library fines in auxiliary services fund; P.A. 91-256 in Subsec. (b) changed references to auxiliary services fund to operating fund.

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Sec. 10a-104b. “Specified terrorist victim” defined. For purposes of subsection (e) of section 10a-105, subsection (d) of section 10a-99, subsection (d) of section 10a-77 and section 12-724, “specified terrorist victim” means any individual who died as a result of wounds or injury incurred as a result of the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, or who died as a result of an attack involving anthrax occurring on or after September 11, 2001, and before January 1, 2002. “Specified terrorist victim” does not mean or include any individual identified by the Attorney General of the United States to have been a participant or conspirator in any such attack or a representative of such an individual.

(P.A. 02-126, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 02-126 effective June 7, 2002.

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Sec. 10a-104c. Recruitment of research faculty and staff. Progress report. (a) The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut shall develop, continuously maintain and revise from time to time a program to facilitate the recruitment of eminent faculty and their research staffs to the university. Such program shall support economic development in the state through faculty research and promote core sectors of the state economy by accelerating the pace of applied research and development. Such program shall supplement the compensation of such faculty and related costs of personnel and materials needed to secure such faculty for the university. Eligibility shall be limited to individuals who have demonstrated excellence in their field of research and have an interest in working collaboratively on research that meets societal needs or commercialization of discoveries, innovations or technologies.

(b) Not later than April 1, 2020, and biennially thereafter, said board shall develop a plan for the recruitment and hiring of research faculty, including those whose research is focused on societal needs or can be commercialized. Such plan shall outline the operating and capital costs associated with the plan and include recruitment and hiring goals.

(c) (1) The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut shall commence a research faculty recruitment and hiring program in accordance with the plan submitted pursuant to subsection (b) of this section. Such program shall be used (A) to hire faculty who meet the qualifications specified in subsection (a) of this section and who will assist the university in achieving the goals and requirements set forth in said subsection, and (B) to support the compensation of such faculty and related construction, renovation and equipment costs.

(2) Under such program, the university shall encourage and facilitate the creation of new business ventures in the state that fuel economic growth and shall provide resources for proof of concept, technology maturation, early-stage and later-stage venture capital funding and other measures that encourage expansion of the university's entrepreneurial ecosystem.

(d) The president of The University of Connecticut shall submit an annual report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, on the university's progress in meeting hiring goals under this section and the implementation of the program under subsection (c) of this section to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to higher education and finance, revenue and bonding.

(P.A. 06-83, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5, S. 63; P.A. 19-154, S. 1; P.A. 21-111, S. 99.)

History: P.A. 06-83 effective July 1, 2006; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5 amended Subsec. (b) re expenditure of funds to require president to receive commitments of support of not less than $2,000,000, rather than “matching funds” from industry or other sources, effective October 6, 2007; P.A. 19-154 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision re Board of Trustees to continuously maintain and revise program to facilitate recruitment of eminent faculty and staffs, adding “through faculty research”, replacing “competency areas” with “sectors of the state economy”, replacing “scientists” with “individuals”, and replacing “with other scientists at the university and an interest in commercialization of their research” with “on research that meets societal needs or commercialization of discoveries, innovations or technologies”, deleted former Subsec. (b) re expending funds, and added new Subsec. (b) re development of plan for recruitment and hiring of research faculty, effective July 1, 2019; P.A. 21-111 amended Subsec. (b) by designating existing provision re annual report as Subsec. (d) and amending same to add reference to program under Subsec. (c), and added Subsec. (c) re research faculty recruitment and hiring program, effective July 1, 2021.

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Sec. 10a-104d. Efforts to promote entrepreneurship and innovation. Patents release. (a) On and after October 1, 2019, the president of The University of Connecticut shall spearhead efforts to promote the university's entrepreneurship and innovation to prospective students and prospective faculty in ways the president deems appropriate.

(b) The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut shall release for open, public use and freely license any and all patents held by the board that have not been utilized for commercialization or otherwise licensed for a period of ten years or more, provided the inventor is first offered the right to license the patent.

(c) The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut and the president of The University of Connecticut shall build and foster, through a series of activities, a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship among the students enrolled at each campus of The University of Connecticut. Such activities shall include, but need not be limited to, organizing and hosting regular networking events for student and faculty entrepreneurs, and the support of relevant student clubs and organizations.

(d) The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut and the president of The University of Connecticut shall seek to build entrepreneurial relationships, when feasible and practical, between The University of Connecticut and other interested public or independent institutions of higher education in the state that are engaged in entrepreneurial efforts, including, but not limited to, Yale University.

(P.A. 19-154, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 19-154 effective July 1, 2019.

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Sec. 10a-105. (Formerly Sec. 10-119a). Tuition, fees and refunds. Operating funds. Special External Gift Fund. Endowment fund. Waivers. Reimbursement to The University of Connecticut Operating Fund. Health care coverage for graduate assistants, postdoctoral trainees, graduate fellows and graduate student interns. Course reenrollment for student members of the armed forces called to active duty. Graduation fees. (a) Subject to the provisions of sections 10a-8 and 10a-26, the Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut shall fix fees for tuition and shall fix fees for such other purposes as the board deems necessary at The University of Connecticut, and may make refunds of the same.

(b) The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut shall establish and administer a fund to be known as The University of Connecticut Operating Fund, and in addition, may establish a Special External Gift Fund, and an endowment fund, as defined in section 10a-109c, and such other funds as may be established pursuant to subdivision (13) of subsection (a) of section 10a-109d. Appropriations from general revenues of the state and, upon request by the university and with an annual review and approval by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, the amount of the appropriations for fringe benefits and workers' compensation applicable to the university pursuant to subsection (a) of section 4-73, shall be transferred from the Comptroller, 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, federal funds and grants for purposes other than research and all receipts derived from the conduct by The University of Connecticut of its education extension program and its summer school session, except funds received by The University of Connecticut Health Center, shall be deposited in said operating fund. If the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management disapproves such transfer, he may require the amount of the appropriation for operating expenses to be used for personal services and fringe benefits to be excluded from said fund. The State Treasurer shall review and approve the transfer prior to such request by the university. All costs of waiving or remitting tuition pursuant to subsection (g) 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 Operating Fund. Appropriations from general revenues of the state except the amount of the appropriation for operating expenses to be used for personal services and the appropriations for fringe benefits pursuant to subsection (a) of section 4-73, 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, federal funds and grants for purposes other than research and other income relative to these activities shall be deposited in said fund. All costs of waiving or remitting tuition pursuant to subsection (g) 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 not later than sixty days after 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, the Office of Higher Education and the Office of Policy and Management a report on the actual expenditures of The University of Connecticut Operating Fund and The University of Connecticut Health Center Operating Fund containing such relevant information as the Office of Policy and Management may require in the form prescribed by the board of regents in accordance with subsection (a) of section 10a-8.

(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 and is a resident of the state at the time such child is accepted for admission to said institution, (2) subject to the provisions of subsection (f) of this section, for any veteran, as defined in section 27-103, who performed service in time of war, as defined in section 27-103, except that for purposes of this subsection, “service in time of war” shall not include time spent in attendance at a military service academy, which veteran has been accepted for admission to said institution and is domiciled in this state at the time such veteran is accepted for admission to said institution, (3) for any resident of the state sixty-two years of age or older who has been accepted for admission to said institution, provided (A) such resident is enrolled in a degree-granting program, or (B) at the end of the regular registration period, there are enrolled in the course a sufficient number of students other than those residents eligible for waivers pursuant to this subdivision to offer the course in which such resident intends to enroll and there is space available in such course after accommodating all such students, (4) for any active member of the Connecticut Army or Air National Guard who (A) has been certified by the Adjutant General or such Adjutant General's designee as a member in good standing of the guard, and (B) is enrolled or accepted for admission to said institution on a full-time or part-time basis in an undergraduate or graduate degree-granting program, (5) for any dependent child of a (A) police officer, as defined in section 7-294a, or supernumerary or auxiliary police officer, (B) firefighter, as defined in section 7-323j, or member of a volunteer fire company, (C) municipal employee, or (D) state employee, as defined in section 5-154, killed in the line of duty, (6) for any resident of the state who is the dependent child or surviving spouse of a specified terrorist victim who was a resident of the state, (7) for any dependent child of a resident of the state who was killed in a multivehicle crash at or near the intersection of Routes 44 and 10 and Nod Road in Avon on July 29, 2005, and (8) for any resident of the state who is a dependent child or surviving spouse of a person who was killed in action while performing active military duty with the armed forces of the United States on or after September 11, 2001, and who was a resident of this state. 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. Veterans and members of the National Guard described in subdivision (4) of this subsection shall be given the same status as students not receiving tuition waivers in registering for courses at The University of Connecticut. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 10a-30, as used in this subsection, “domiciled in this state” includes domicile for less than one year.

(f) (1) If any veteran described in subsection (e) of this section has applied for federal educational assistance under the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, the board of trustees shall waive the payment of tuition at The University of Connecticut for such veteran in accordance with subdivision (2) of this subsection. If any such veteran certifies to said board that such veteran's application for such federal educational assistance has been denied or withdrawn, said board of trustees shall waive the payment of tuition in accordance with subsection (d) of this section.

(2) (A) For purposes of this subdivision, “veteran tuition benefit” means the portion of federal educational assistance under the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 to be paid to The University of Connecticut on behalf of a veteran that represents payment for tuition. Such portion shall be calculated by multiplying (i) the total amount of such federal educational assistance to be paid to The University of Connecticut on behalf of such veteran by (ii) an amount obtained by dividing (I) the actual tuition charged by The University of Connecticut to such veteran by (II) the sum of the actual tuition and fees charged by The University of Connecticut to such veteran.

(B) Said board of trustees shall waive the payment of tuition in excess of the veteran tuition benefit at The University of Connecticut for such veteran.

(g) Said board of trustees shall set aside from its anticipated tuition 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. 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. Said board may also set aside from its anticipated tuition revenue an additional amount equal to one per cent of said tuition revenue for financial assistance for students who would not otherwise be eligible for financial assistance but who do have a financial need as determined by the university in accordance with this subsection. In determining such financial need, the university shall exclude the value of 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 shall assess the earnings of a dependent student at the rate of thirty per cent.

(h) The University of Connecticut 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 tuition revenue through an annual state appropriation. The board of trustees shall request such an appropriation 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.

(i) Said board of trustees shall grant remission or waiver of tuition for graduate assistants at the university. Assistantship payments to graduate assistants shall not be considered salaries and wages under the provisions of section 3-119, and shall be paid according to a schedule prescribed by the university and approved by the State Comptroller.

(j) Said board of trustees may provide health care coverage for graduate assistants, postdoctoral trainees, graduate fellows and graduate student interns identified in subdivision (6) of section 3-123aaa by enrolling such individuals in a partnership plan as defined in section 3-123aaa. All premiums and expenses resulting from the participation of such individuals in the partnership plan shall be paid by the university. No such premiums or expenses shall be charged to the General Fund.

(k) Said board of trustees shall allow any student who is a member of the armed forces called to active duty during any semester to enroll in any course for which such student had remitted tuition but which was not completed due to active duty status. Such course reenrollment shall be offered to any qualifying student for a period not exceeding four years after the date of release from active duty without additional tuition, student fee or related charge, except if such student has been fully reimbursed for the tuition, fees and charges for the course that was not completed.

(l) The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut shall not assess or charge a graduation fee to any student enrolled in The University of Connecticut for the purpose of graduating from such university.

(1969, P.A. 530, S. 5; June, 1971, P.A. 5, S. 122; P.A. 73-542, S. 4; P.A. 74-266, S. 4, 5; 74-282, S. 4; P.A. 75-484, S. 4, 5; P.A. 76-181, S. 4, 5; P.A. 77-528, S. 1, 3; 77-573, S. 24, 30; P.A. 78-175, S. 4, 5; 78-331, S. 48, 49, 58; P.A. 81-252, S. 4, 5; 81-468, S. 2, 11; P.A. 82-91, S. 36, 38; 82-218, S. 37, 46; 82-314, S. 24, 63; 82-463, S. 4, 6, 7; P.A. 83-457, S. 4, 6; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; 84-365, S. 7, 12; 84-438, S. 4, 5; P.A. 85-553, S. 4, 5; P.A. 86-325, S. 4, 5; P.A. 87-450, S. 10, 11, 17; P.A. 89-380, S. 5–7; P.A. 90-147, S. 10–12, 20; P.A. 91-174, S. 12, 16; 91-208, S. 8, 11; 91-256, S. 29, 69; 91-303, S. 9, 22; 91-407, S. 28, 42; June Sp. Sess. 91-7, S. 19, 22; P.A. 92-154, S. 11, 23; P.A. 93-293, S. 9, 11; P.A. 95-230, S. 28, 45; P.A. 96-237, S. 2, 3; 96-244, S. 61, 63; P.A. 97-247, S. 1, 21, 27; P.A. 00-204, S. 12, 13; P.A. 01-173, S. 36, 67; P.A. 02-126, S. 4; P.A. 03-19, S. 24; 03-33, S. 3; 03-278, S. 128; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 201; P.A. 04-27, S. 3; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 18; P.A. 06-141, S. 1; P.A. 08-57, S. 3; 08-71, S. 3; P.A. 09-159, S. 6; P.A. 10-66, S. 3; P.A. 11-48, S. 225; P.A. 12-129, S. 6; P.A. 13-137, S. 3; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 417; P.A. 18-47, S. 10; P.A. 21-79, S. 11; 21-132, S. 12; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 57.)

History: 1971 act made provisions subject to Sec. 10-329b and set minimum tuition fees for residents at $350 and for nonresidents at $850; P.A. 73-542 added Subsecs. (b) and (c) re waiver of fees for children of persons missing-in-action and former prisoners of war and for Vietnam era veterans; P.A. 74-266 deleted Subsec. (c) and incorporated its provisions in Subsec. (b) as Subdiv. (2); P.A. 74-282 allowed waiver of fees for persons 62 or older, incorporated as Subsec. (b)(3); P.A. 75-484 added new Subsec. (c) re waiver of fees for students demonstrating substantial financial need; P.A. 76-181 substantially changed fee scale in Subsec. (a) by creating separate fee rates for schools of law, medicine and dental medicine and increasing regular program fees for residents to $540 minimum and for nonresidents to $1,230 minimum, established levels of fees which are to be appropriated to the university and the law, medicine and dentistry schools for educational purposes and changed percentage of students who may have fees waived in Subsec. (c) from 1% to 10%; P.A. 77-528 added Subsec. (d) waiving tuition for graduate assistants; P.A. 77-573 substituted board of higher education for commission for higher education; P.A. 78-175 substituted “veteran having served in time of war” for “Vietnam era veteran” in Subsec. (b); P.A. 78-331 specified board of trustees in Subsecs. (b) and (c) to avoid confusion with board of higher education; P.A. 81-252 amended Subsec. (b) to authorize waiver of tuition for eligible members of the Connecticut army or air national guard, and to provide for reduction in waiver if eligible person receives educational reimbursement from employer; P.A. 81-468 established tuition funds for The University of Connecticut and the University of Connecticut Health Center; P.A. 82-91 amended Subsec. (a) to require board of trustees, for fiscal year 82-83, to increase nonresident tuition fees, except for medical and dental students, in order to collect $1,837,680 and amended Subsec. (b) to provide that additional tuition revenue deposited in tuition fund attributable to nonresident tuition fee increases pursuant to Subsec. (a) may be expended in addition to amounts recommended by governor pursuant to Sec. 4-72; P.A. 82-218 reorganized higher education system, replacing board of higher education with board of governors, effective March 1, 1983; P.A. 82-314 changed name of appropriations committee; P.A. 82-463 clarified Subsecs. (a) and (b), adding language re implementation of tuition schedule in Subsec. (a) and amended Subsec. (f) to specify certain types of students whose tuition may be waived where previously fees could be waived for any person accepted for admission and having financial need and to include part-time students in calculation of total amount waived; Sec. 10-119a transferred to Sec. 10a-105 in 1983; P.A. 83-457 amended Subsec. (f) to repeal provision that tuition waived or remitted shall not exceed 10% of tuition revenue payable by number of full-time or part-time resident and nonresident students matriculated in degree-granting programs and enrolled in precollege remedial programs at The University of Connecticut for the current academic year, and substituted provision that tuition waived or remitted shall not exceed 10% of tuition revenue due during the preceding year, including revenue lost due to tuition waivers and remissions, adjusted for tuition changes; P.A. 84-241 added “of higher education” to board of governors' title; P.A. 84-365 amended Subsec. (b) deleting provision re expenditure of $1,837,680 in addition to the amount recommended for expenditure by the governor pursuant to Sec. 4-72 and amended Subsecs. (b) and (c) to provide that the board of trustees may increase the expenditure authority up to 2%; P.A. 84-438 amended Subsec. (e) authorizing tuition waivers for veterans of Grenada and Lebanon; P.A. 85-553 inserted new Subsec. (f) which required board to set aside from its anticipated tuition fund revenue an amount not less than that required by the board of governors' tuition policy to provide funds for tuition waivers and remissions, grants for educational expenses and student employment, replacing prior provisions re waiver or remittance of tuition; P.A. 86-325 in Subsec. (b) increased 2% of the expenditure level to 102%, inserted new Subsec. (g) to provide for reimbursement of the tuition fund for waivers, relettering former Subsec. (g) as (h); P.A. 87-450 in Subsecs. (b) and (c) provided that the expenditure authority may be increased by the amount the fund income exceeds the authority rather than by the amount the income exceeds the authority up to 2% and eliminated the transfer of fund income for student financial aid; P.A. 89-380 in Subsec. (b) substituted “fund balance or projected fund balance, including reserves and interest earnings from investments” for “fund income, including interest earnings from investments” as the amount which must exceed the expenditure authority for The University of Connecticut tuition fund in order for the authority to be increased by the board of trustees and provided that if the authority is increased it be increased by the amount that the fund balance rather than the fund income exceeds the expenditure authority and in Subsec. (c) substituted “fund balance or projected fund balance, including reserves and interest earnings from investments” for “fund income, including interest earnings from investments” as the amount which must exceed the expenditure authority for The University of Connecticut Health Center tuition fund in order for the authority to be increased by the board of trustees and provided that if the authority is increased it be increased by the amount that the fund balance rather than the fund income exceeds the expenditure authority; P.A. 90-147 in Subsec. (b) expanded the authority of the board of trustees to increase expenditures from The University of Connecticut tuition fund beyond the governor's recommended expenditure authority, in Subsec. (c) expanded the authority of the board of trustees to increase expenditures from the health center tuition fund beyond the governor's recommended expenditure authority and in Subsec. (e) required that a person 62 years of age or older be a resident of the state to be eligible for a tuition waiver; P.A. 91-174 in Subsec. (a) deleted a requirement for approval by the board of governors of higher education; P.A. 91-208 in Subsec. (f) added provision concerning the set aside of 1% of tuition revenue for financial assistance and specifying how financial need is to be determined; P.A. 91-256 removed provisions for tuition funds and established operating funds at the university and at the health center, in Subsec. (a) deleted requirement for fees to be approved by the board of governors of higher education and made technical changes; P.A. 91-303 in Subsec. (e)(1) removed requirement of residency at the time of entering the armed forces and substituted requirement that the child be a resident of the state at the time of acceptance to the institution, in Subsec. (e)(2) added dates of the actions in Grenada and Lebanon, added reference to Panama and removed requirement that the veteran be a resident at the time he entered the armed forces or be a resident while serving and in Subsec. (e)(3) added requirement that a sufficient number of students other than those eligible for a waiver be enrolled to offer the course; P.A. 91-407 amended Subsecs. (b) and (c) to add exceptions re appropriation for personal services and further amended Subsec. (c) to delete provision requiring that proceeds of auxiliary and business enterprises, gifts and donations be maintained in accordance with federal tax code; June Sp. Sess. 91-7 amended Subsecs. (b) and (c) to provide for the deposit of federal funds and grants for purposes other than research in the funds and deleted language in Subsec. (c) specifying that proceeds of auxiliary and business enterprises, gifts and donations be maintained in accordance with the applicable provisions of the federal tax code; P.A. 92-154 amended Subsec. (a) to remove language specifying the amount of tuition and added Subsec. (h) concerning health insurance coverage for graduate assistants; P.A. 93-293 added Subsec. (e)(5) re dependent child of a police officer or firefighter killed in the line of duty, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-230 amended Subsec. (b) to permit establishment of Special External Gift Fund and Endowment Fund and made technical changes, effective June 7, 1995; P.A. 96-237 amended Subsec. (b) to expand appropriations to be deposited in operating fund to include operating expenses to be used for personal services, to require, upon request by the university and with annual review by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, appropriations for fringe benefits and workers' compensation to be transferred from the Comptroller to the fund, to authorize the secretary to require appropriations for operating expenses to be used for personal services and fringe benefits to be excluded from the fund and to provide that the Treasurer shall review and approve the transfer prior to such request by the university, effective July 1, 1996; P.A. 96-244 amended Subsec. (d) to provide that veterans and members of the National Guard have the same status as students not receiving tuition waivers in registering for courses, effective June 6, 1996; P.A. 97-247 amended Subsec. (e) to make a technical change and amended Subsec. (h) to prohibit the consideration of graduate assistantship payments as salaries and wages under Sec. 3-119 and to require payments to be made according to a schedule prescribed by the university and approved by the State Comptroller, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 00-204 amended Subsec. (e) to designate existing provisions of Subdiv. (5) as Subparas. (A) and (B) and to add Subparas. (C) and (D) re municipal employee and state employee, respectively, and to make technical changes, effective June 1, 2000; P.A. 01-173 amended Subsec. (e)(5) to add a dependent child of a supernumerary or auxiliary police officer or of a member of a volunteer fire company, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 02-126 added Subsec. (e)(6) requiring tuition waiver for any state resident who is the dependent child or surviving spouse of a specified terrorist victim who was a state resident, effective June 7, 2002; P.A. 03-19 made technical changes in Subsec. (e), effective May 12, 2003; P.A. 03-33 added Subsec. (i) re course reenrollment for students who are members of the armed forces called to active duty during any semester; P.A. 03-278 changed effective date of P.A. 03-33, S. 3 from October 1, 2003, to May 12, 2003; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 amended Subsec. (h) by deleting provisions re health insurance coverage for graduate assistants, effective August 20, 2003; P.A. 04-27 made a technical change in Subsec. (i), effective April 28, 2004; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3 amended Subsec. (e)(2) by replacing language re residency with language re domicile, amended Subsec. (e)(4) by replacing language re residency in Subpara. (A) with language re the Adjutant General in existing Subpara. (B) and redesignating existing Subpara. (C) as new Subpara. (B) and amended Subsec. (e)(6) by adding language describing “domiciled in this state”, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-141 added Subsec. (e)(7) re dependents of victims of multivehicle crash in Avon, effective June 6, 2006; P.A. 08-57 amended Subsec. (e)(4)(B) by waiving tuition fees for active members of the Connecticut National Guard for graduate programs, effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 08-71 amended Subsec. (e) by adding Subdiv. (8) re tuition waiver applicable to resident of state who is dependent child or surviving spouse of armed forces member killed in action on or after September 11, 2001, effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 09-159 made technical changes in Subsecs. (b), (c) and (d), amended Subsec. (e)(2) by providing that tuition waivers for veterans be subject to provisions of Subsec. (f), added new Subsec. (f) re tuition waivers for veterans who have applied for federal educational assistance under Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 and redesignated existing Subsecs. (f) to (i) as Subsecs. (g) to (j), effective July 1, 2009; P.A. 10-66 amended Subsec. (e)(2) by replacing “having served” with “who performed service”, deleting provisions re service in invasions of Grenada and Panama and peace-keeping mission in Lebanon, and redefining “service in time of war” to exclude time spent in attendance at a military service academy, effective May 18, 2010; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (d) to replace “Board of Governors of Higher Education” with “Board of Regents for Higher Education” re report on actual expenditures and with “Office of Policy and Management” re relevant information required in such report, and to add provision re form prescribed by board of regents in accordance with Sec. 10a-8(a), effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 12-129 amended Subsec. (d) by eliminating requirement that board of trustees submit report through Board of Regents for Higher Education, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 13-137 amended Subsec. (d) to add “the Office of Higher Education”, effective July 1, 2013; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 amended Subsecs. (g) and (i) to add “of trustees”, added new Subsec. (j) re health care coverage and redesignated existing Subsec. (j) as Subsec. (k), effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 18-47 amended Subsec. (e)(2) to designate provision re veteran who performed service in time of war as Subpara. (A), add Subpara. (B) re person with qualifying condition and discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable who served in time of war, and made technical and conforming changes; P.A. 21-79 amended Subsec. (e) to redefine “veteran”, delete “(A)” and former Subpara. (B) re person with qualifying condition in Subdiv. (2), and make conforming changes; P.A. 21-132 added Subsec. (l) re prohibition on assessing or charging graduation fee, effective July 1, 2021; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 made identical changes as P.A. 21-132, effective July 1, 2021.

See Sec. 4-73a re determination of actual rate for fringe benefits for funds of the constituent units of the state system of higher education.

See Sec. 10a-104b for definition of “specified terrorist victim”.

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Sec. 10a-105a. Policy re use of financial aid to purchase textbooks. The Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut shall develop a policy that (1) provides for the disbursement of financial aid to students who have met all federal, state and institutional requirements for financial aid by the first day of the academic term, or (2) permits students to use financial aid that has not yet been disbursed at stores on the campuses of the university under the board's jurisdiction to purchase during the first week of the academic term required textbooks for courses taught at the university.

(P.A. 06-103, S. 4.)

History: P.A. 06-103 effective July 1, 2006.

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Secs. 10a-106 and 10a-107. Submission of expenditure plan for tuition funds. Review of tuition funds. Sections 10a-106 and 10a-107 are repealed.

(P.A. 81-468, S. 5, 6, 11; P.A. 82-218, S. 37, 46; 82-314, S. 25, 26, 63; P.A. 84-365, S. 11, 12.)

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Sec. 10a-108. (Formerly Sec. 10-120). President. Employment of other personnel; compensation. The board of trustees shall appoint a president of the university. Said president shall be the chief executive and administrative officer of the university and of the board of trustees. Said president shall carry out the policies and enforce the rules adopted by the board of trustees and shall have the authority necessary therefor. The board of trustees may employ the faculty and other personnel needed to operate and maintain the institutions under 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 shall determine who constitutes its professional staff and establish compensation and classification schedules for its professional staff. The board shall annually submit to the Commissioner of Administrative Services a list of the positions which it has included within the professional staff.

(1949 Rev., S. 3275; P.A. 82-218, S. 22, 46.)

History: P.A. 82-218 reorganized system of higher education, amending section to add provisions re employment and compensation of faculty and personnel, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-120 transferred to Sec. 10a-108 in 1983.

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Sec. 10a-108a. Approval of travel requests. Section 10a-108a is repealed.

(P.A. 84-446, S. 1, 2; P.A. 87-458, S. 16, 18; P.A. 90-201, S. 10, 11.)

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Sec. 10a-109. (Formerly Sec. 10-123). Scholarships. Section 10a-109 is repealed.

(1949 Rev., S. 3287; P.A. 88-136, S. 36, 37.)

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Sec. 10a-109a. Short title: University of Connecticut 2000 Act. Sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, are known and may be cited as “The University of Connecticut 2000 Act”.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 1, 45.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995.

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Sec. 10a-109b. Purposes of The University of Connecticut 2000 Act and Next Generation Connecticut. (a) The purpose of The University of Connecticut 2000 Act is to promote the welfare and prosperity of the people of the state and the continuation and improvement of their educational opportunities by approving a special capital improvement program for The University of Connecticut and enabling The University of Connecticut to borrow money and enter into financing transactions in its own name, on behalf of the state, to expand the authority of The University of Connecticut to construct projects and to assure a state commitment to support the financing of the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement and equipping of facilities, structures and related systems for the benefit of the educational and economic development needs of the state and The University of Connecticut, all to the public benefit and good, and the exercise of the powers, to the extent and manner provided in The University of Connecticut 2000 Act, is declared to be for a public purpose and to be the exercise of an essential governmental function.

(b) The purposes of sections 10a-109gg to 10a-109mm, inclusive, and the provisions of sections 10a-109c to 10a-109e, inclusive, 10a-109g, 10a-109n and 32-41s relating to The University of Connecticut Health Center and John Dempsey Hospital are to advance health care, education and economic development in the state by (1) encouraging collaboration, innovation, job creation and new investment by The University of Connecticut, various hospitals and other institutions involved in the health and bioscience industries of the state; (2) enabling (A) the construction of a new bed tower at John Dempsey Hospital, and (B) the renovation of academic, clinical and research space and the construction of a new ambulatory care center at The University of Connecticut Health Center to enhance the academic, clinical and research missions of The University of Connecticut School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine; (3) facilitating the assumption of operational control of the neonatal intensive care unit located at John Dempsey Hospital by Connecticut Children's Medical Center resulting in a regional children's health care system and an increased adult medical surgical bed capacity for John Dempsey Hospital; (4) supporting the development of (A) a comprehensive cancer center to expand clinical trials and advance patient care at multiple sites in the Hartford region, (B) a state-of-the-art simulation and conference center to be located on the campus of Hartford Hospital that will be used to educate and train health care professionals utilizing new technologies and simulated care settings, (C) a primary care institute located on the campus of Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, the Connecticut Institute for Primary Care Innovation, that is intended to increase the number of primary care providers in the state by engaging in research and training to facilitate the effective delivery of primary care, (D) a health disparities institute sponsored by The University of Connecticut that will enhance research and the delivery of care to the minority and medically underserved populations of the state, (E) a Permanent Regional Phase One Clinical Trials Unit to be located at The Hospital of Central Connecticut, (F) a cancer treatment center to be located in its entirety within the city of New Britain, and (G) patient room renovations at Bristol Hospital; and (5) fostering growth in the bioscience sector of the state's economy by extending the same benefits afforded to businesses located in an enterprise zone to businesses that are engaged in bioscience and located in the city of Hartford or certain areas in the town of Farmington, the city of New Britain and the city of Bristol.

(c) The purposes of the construction, renovations, infrastructure and equipment related to Next Generation Connecticut are to: (1) Develop preeminence in The University of Connecticut's research and innovation programs, (2) hire and support outstanding faculty, (3) train and educate graduates to meet the future workforce needs of Connecticut, and (4) initiate collaborative partnerships that lead to scientific and technological breakthroughs. For purposes of this section and section 10a-109oo, “Next Generation Connecticut” means UConn 2000, as modified by this section and subdivision (10) of subsection (a) of section 10a-109d, subsection (a) of section 10a-109e, subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 10a-109g, subsection (a) of section 10a-109n, sections 10a-109x, 10a-109nn and 10a-109oo and section 9 of public act 13-233*.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 2, 45; P.A. 10-104, S. 1; P.A. 11-75, S. 1; P.A. 13-233, S. 1.)

*Note: Section 9 of public act 13-233 is special in nature and therefore has not been codified but remains in full force and effect according to its terms.

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995; P.A. 10-104 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re purposes of Secs. 10a-109gg to 10a-109mm and provisions of Secs. 10a-109c to 10a-109e, 10a-109g, 10a-109n and 32-41s, effective June 3, 2010; P.A. 11-75 amended Subsec. (b)(2) to add construction of a new ambulatory care center and amended Subsec. (b)(4) to delete former Subparas. (E) and (F) re institute for clinical and translational science and re Connecticut Institute for Nursing Excellence and to redesignate existing Subparas. (G) to (I) as Subparas. (E) to (G), effective July 8, 2011; P.A. 13-233 added Subsec. (c) re Next Generation Connecticut, effective July 1, 2013.

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Sec. 10a-109c. Definitions. As used in sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, 10a-109gg to 10a-109mm, inclusive, and 32-41s, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings:

(1) “Act” means The University of Connecticut 2000 Act.

(2) “Assured revenues” means revenues other than project revenues, to be received from fees, tuition, rentals, charges, gifts, investments, endowments and from grants, subsidies, contracts, leases or other agreements made by or with the federal government, the state or any political subdivision, agency or instrumentality of the federal government or the state, or others, including the state debt service commitment, the minimum state operating provision and special eligible gifts.

(3) “Board of trustees” means the Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut.

(4) “Cost”, as applied to a project or any portion of the project, includes, but is not limited to: The purchase price or acquisition cost of any such project; the cost of planning, designing, constructing, building, alteration, enlargement, reconstruction, renovation, improvement, equipping and remodeling; the cost of all labor, materials, building systems, machinery and equipment; the cost of all lands, structures, real or personal property, rights, easements and franchises acquired; the cost of all utility extensions, access roads, site development, financing charges, premiums for insurance, interest prior to and during construction and for six months thereafter; the cost of working capital related to the project; the cost of plans and specifications, surveys and estimates of cost and of revenues; the cost of accountants, audits, engineering, feasibility studies, legal and other professional consulting or technical services; the cost of reserves for payment of future debt service related to the financing transaction proceedings and for future repairs, renewals, replacements, additions and improvements; the cost of all other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of such construction; and administrative and operating expenses and such other expenses as may be necessary or incident to the financing authorized.

(5) “Endowment fund” means the fund described in subsection (b) of section 10a-109i.

(6) “Endowment fund eligible gift” means a gift to or for the benefit of the university of cash or assets which may be reduced to cash or which has a value that is ascertainable by the university which the donor has specifically designated for deposit in the endowment fund or which explicitly or implicitly by the terms of the gift the university may and does deposit or permit to be deposited in the endowment fund.

(7) “Endowment fund state grant” means moneys transferred by the Board of Regents for Higher Education from the fund established pursuant to section 10a-8b for deposit into the endowment fund pursuant to subdivision (2) of subsection (b) of section 10a-109i in an aggregate amount not exceeding the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment.

(8) “Endowment fund state grant maximum commitment” means an amount not exceeding ten million dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, seven million five hundred thousand dollars for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 2000, June 30, 2002, June 30, 2003, June 30, 2004, and June 30, 2005, five million dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, ten million dollars for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2006, and June 30, 2007, and fifteen million dollars for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2008, to June 30, 2014, inclusive.

(9) “Finance committee” means the budget and finance committee of the board of trustees.

(10) “Financing documents” means any securities, loan agreements, credit agreements, financing leases, lease-purchase agreements, trust agreements, indentures, resolutions, security agreements, pledge agreements or other contracts, agreements or documents executed and delivered by the university in connection with a financing transaction proceeding.

(11) “Financing transaction proceedings” means the proceedings of the university authorizing the issuance of securities under sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, the provisions of any indenture of trust or resolution securing securities, which provisions are incorporated into such proceedings, the provisions of any financing or other documents or agreements which are incorporated into such proceedings, and a certificate of determination executed and filed by the Treasurer in accordance with subsection (e) or (f) of section 10a-109g.

(12) “Governor” means the Governor of the state.

(13) “Holder” or “owner” when used with reference to securities means any person or party who is the registered owner of any outstanding security.

(14) “State debt service commitment” means, with respect to securities issued as general obligations of the university pursuant to subsection (c) of section 10a-109g for UConn 2000, an annual amount, commencing in the state fiscal year ending June 30, 1996, and any fiscal year thereafter for any special debt service requirements when due and payable.

(15) “Minimum state operating provision” means the commitment of the state to appropriate, annually, an amount for the university for operations after receiving a request from the university therefor and consideration of other amounts available to the university for its operations which amount so appropriated shall be consistent with the university continuing to operate in furtherance and pursuant to the provisions of section 2 of article eighth of the Constitution of the state and applicable law as an institution dedicated to the excellence in higher education, including the operation of the components of UConn 2000 at Storrs and elsewhere in the state pursuant to section 10a-109e; provided, nothing in sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, shall be construed to preclude the state from appropriating a lower or higher amount than the amount appropriated in the previous fiscal year as long as the appropriation act provides and determines that the university can continue to operate as an institution dedicated to excellence in higher education and such amount so appropriated shall then constitute the minimum state operating provision.

(16) “Project” means any structure designed for use as a dormitory or other housing facility, dining facility, student union, academic building, administrative facility, library, classroom building, research facility, faculty facility, office facility, athletic facility, health care facility, laboratory, maintenance, storage or utility facility or other building or structure essential, necessary or useful for instruction in a program of education provided by the university; or any multipurpose structure designed to combine two or more of the functions performed by the types of structures enumerated in this subsection, including, without limitation, improvements, reconstruction, replacements, additions and equipment acquired in connection with a project or in connection with operation of any facilities of the university existing on June 7, 1995. “Project” includes all real and personal property, lands, improvements, driveways, roads, approaches, pedestrian access roads, parking lots, parking facilities, rights-of-way, utilities, easements and other interests in land, machinery and equipment, and all appurtenances and facilities either on, above or under the ground that are used or usable in connection with any of the structures mentioned in this subsection. “Project” also includes landscaping, site preparation, furniture, machinery, equipment and other similar items necessary or convenient for the operation of a particular facility or structure in the manner for which its use is intended, but does not include items that are customarily under applicable accounting principles considered as a current operating charge, unless the category and maximum amount thereof is specifically included by a determination of the board of trustees in the financing transaction proceedings and by percentage or otherwise as may be limited pursuant to such proceedings in order to preserve the excludability of the interest on the securities issued therefor from federal taxation under the applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States as from time to time amended.

(17) “Project revenues” means revenues received from projects existing on June 7, 1995, from projects under construction or from projects the acquisition, construction or accomplishment of which the university has entered into a binding commitment, anticipated by the board of trustees to produce annual revenues in an amount not less than the anticipated annual cost of operation, maintenance and repair of such project, and annual debt service payments on any financing transaction proceedings for the project during the term of any such proceedings effected under sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, for the project, as determined by the board of trustees.

(18) “Securities” means any bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness or borrowing of the university issued pursuant to sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive.

(19) “Special debt service requirements” means, for any period, and with respect to securities, subject to the financing transaction proceedings authorizing the issuance of the securities, the sum of (A) the principal on serial bonds or sinking fund installment on term bonds and interest accruing and coming due during such period, (B) the amounts, if any, required, with respect to interest rate fluctuations on variable rate debt, or with respect to securities not secured by the state debt service commitment during such period to establish or maintain reserves, sinking funds or other funds or accounts at the respective levels required to be established or maintained therein in accordance with the proceedings authorizing the issuance of securities, (C) annual expenses of issuance and administration with respect to securities, (D) the amounts, if any, becoming due and payable under a reimbursement agreement or similar agreement entered into pursuant to authority granted under the proceedings authorizing the issuance of securities, (E) net amounts owing under interest rate agreements authorized and effective under section 10a-109j, (F) arbitrage rebate requirements pursuant to subsection (b) of section 10a-109q on securities secured by the state debt service commitment, and (G) any other annual costs or expenses necessary or proper to be paid in connection with the securities, including, without limitation, the annual cost of any credit facility, including but not limited to a letter of credit or policy of bond insurance, issued by a financial institution pursuant to an agreement approved in the financing transaction proceedings.

(20) “Special eligible gift” means a gift to or for the benefit of the university of cash or assets which may be reduced to cash by the university which the donor has specifically designated as a donation for use by the university in furtherance of UConn 2000 or which explicitly or implicitly by the terms of the gift the university may use for UConn 2000 and which the university determines to so use for such purpose pursuant to subsection (a) of section 10a-109i.

(21) “Special External Gift Fund” means the fund established pursuant to subsection (a) of section 10a-109i.

(22) “State” means the state of Connecticut.

(23) “State Bond Commission” means the commission established and existing pursuant to subsection (c) of section 3-20, as the same may from time to time be amended, or any successor to said commission.

(24) “Treasurer” means the Treasurer of the state or his deputy appointed pursuant to section 3-12.

(25) “UConn 2000 infrastructure improvement program” or “UConn 2000” means the projects identified or referenced in section 10a-109e, as same may be modified from time to time in accordance with said section 10a-109e and, in bundle, constitutes the special capital improvement program proposed by the university, approved by the state and identified in said section 10a-109e as necessary at this time to modernize, rehabilitate, renew, expand and otherwise stabilize the physical plant of the university so as to provide the Connecticut community with confidence that a concentrated, accelerated and cooperative effort is being made for the benefit of the educational and economic development needs of the state and university and in an efficient, cost effective and timely manner and to assure that the university can continue to properly and proudly compete successfully for students, faculty, staff and external grant support.

(26) “University” means The University of Connecticut, a constituent unit of the state system of public higher education, including The University of Connecticut Health Center.

(27) “Contractor” means any person, firm, corporation or other legal entity (A) seeking prequalification to bid on a contract or seeking the award of a contract, or (B) prequalified to bid on a contract or that has been awarded a contract, in accordance with subsection (c) of section 10a-109n.

(28) “Total cost basis contract” means a design-build contract or a construction manager at-risk project delivery contract between The University of Connecticut and a contractor to accomplish multiple elements of a project, including, but not limited to, site acquisition, architectural design, preconstruction activities, project management and construction.

(29) “Deferred maintenance” means repair of an infrastructure or structure, that was not maintained, repaired or replaced in the usual course of maintenance and repair.

(30) “NICU transfer” means the transfer of the licensure and control of forty neonatal intensive care unit beds located at John Dempsey Hospital to Connecticut Children's Medical Center resulting in (A) no decrease in John Dempsey Hospital's total licensed bed capacity, and (B) an increase in Connecticut Children's Medical Center's total licensed bed capacity by forty.

(31) “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management.

(32) “UConn health network initiatives” means the initiatives to develop a simulation and conference center on the Hartford Hospital campus, a primary care institute on the Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center campus, a comprehensive cancer center, The University of Connecticut-sponsored health disparities institute, a Permanent Regional Phase One Clinical Trials Unit at The Hospital of Central Connecticut, a cancer treatment center in the city of New Britain, and patient room renovations at Bristol Hospital, described in section 10a-109b.

(33) “The University of Connecticut Health Center new construction and renovation” means the planning, design, development, financing, construction, renovation, furnishing, equipping and completion of clinical, academic and research space within John Dempsey Hospital and The University of Connecticut Health Center, including, but not limited to, construction of a new bed tower for John Dempsey Hospital, resulting in an increase in its total licensed bed capacity from the current two hundred twenty-four beds to a number not to exceed two hundred thirty-four beds, including newborn bassinettes.

(34) “Utility, infrastructure, administrative and support facilities” includes any project as defined in subdivision (16) of this section for such facilities at Storrs or the regional campuses or at the health center including any building or structure essential, necessary or useful for such facilities and includes, without limitation, new construction, expansion, extension, addition, renovation, restoration, replacement, repair and deferred maintenance of such facilities, and all appurtenances and facilities either on, above or under the ground that are used or usable in connection with any of such facilities and all other aspects of a project related to or in support of such facilities.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 3, 45; P.A. 97-293, S. 7, 26; P.A. 01-141, S. 11, 16; P.A. 06-134, S. 6; 06-196, S. 71; P.A. 07-166, S. 7, 8; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3, S. 56; P.A. 10-104, S. 2; P.A. 11-48, S. 226; 11-75, S. 2; P.A. 13-177, S. 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 440.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995; P.A. 97-293 amended Subdivs. (6) and (20) to add gifts for the benefit of the university, amended Subdiv. (7) to substitute transferred by the Department of Higher Education pursuant to Sec. 10a-8b for “appropriated or financed by the state” and to change the cap provision, inserted the definition of “endowment fund state grant maximum commitment” as Subdiv. (8) and renumbered existing Subdivs. (8) to (25) as (9) to (26), respectively and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1997; (Revisor's note: In 1999 a reference in Subdiv. (13) to Sec. “10-109g” was changed editorially by the Revisors to Sec. “10a-109g” to correct a clerical error); P.A. 01-141 amended Subdiv. (8) to increase the limit for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2006, and June 30, 2007, from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 and to provide a limit of $15,000,000 for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 2008, to June 30, 2014, inclusive, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 06-134 added Subdivs. (27) to (29), inclusive, defining “contractor”, “total cost basis contract” and “deferred maintenance”, effective July 1, 2006; P.A. 06-196 made technical changes in Subdiv. (15), effective June 7, 2006; P.A. 07-166 amended Subdiv. (28) to delete “as defined in subdivision (27) of this section” and make a technical change and made a technical change in Subdiv. (29), effective June 19, 2007; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3 amended Subdiv. (29) to eliminate exception for repairs to correct code violations for certain projects of UConn 2000 from definition of “deferred maintenance”, effective June 26, 2007; P.A. 10-104 added reference to Secs. 10a-109gg to 10a-109mm and 32-41s re use of terms, redefined “state debt service commitment” in Subdiv. (14) and added Subdivs. (30) to (33) defining “NICU transfer”, “Secretary”, “UConn health network initiatives” and “The University of Connecticut Health Center new construction and renovation”, effective June 3, 2010; P.A. 11-48 amended Subdiv. (7) to replace “Department of Higher Education” with “Board of Regents for Higher Education”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-75 amended Subdiv. (32) to delete references to institute for clinical and translational science and Connecticut Institute for Nursing Excellence, effective July 8, 2011; P.A. 13-177 amended Subdiv. (28) to redefine “total cost basis contract” by adding “design-build contract”, effective July 1, 2013; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 added Subdiv. (34) defining “utility, infrastructure, administrative and support facilities”, effective October 31, 2017.

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Sec. 10a-109d. Powers of the university for UConn 2000. (a) In order for the university to construct and issue securities for UConn 2000 and to otherwise carry out its responsibilities and requirements under sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, the university shall have the following powers, which powers shall be independent of and in addition to any other powers of the university under state law:

(1) To have perpetual succession as a body politic and corporate and an instrumentality and agency of the state pursuant to section 10a-109v;

(2) To adopt and have an official seal and alter it at pleasure;

(3) To contract and be contracted with, sue, be indemnified, insure its assets, activities or actions or be a self-insurer and institute, prosecute, maintain and defend any action or proceeding in any court or before any agency or tribunal of competent jurisdiction;

(4) To indemnify and be sued, solely pursuant to subsection (a) of section 10a-109o;

(5) To retain by contract or employ architects, accountants, engineers, legal and securities counsel in accordance with the provisions of subparagraph (F) of subdivision (4) of subsection (e) of section 10a-109n, and other professional and technical consultants and advisers; provided the university shall continue to be subject to audit, including its operations under sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, pursuant to section 2-90, and provided further, financial advisers, underwriters, counsel, trustee, if any, and other financial consultants retained in connection with the offering and sale of securities shall be selected in consultation with the university, in the same manner as for state general obligation bonds;

(6) To plan, design, acquire, construct, build, enlarge, alter, reconstruct, renovate, improve, equip, own, operate, maintain, dispose of and demolish any project or projects, or any combination of projects, including without limitation any contract in furtherance of UConn 2000, notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of section 10a-105 or any other provisions of the general statutes regarding the powers of the university to undertake capital projects and purchase personal property;

(7) To acquire by purchase, contract, lease, long-term lease or gift, and hold or dispose of, real or personal property or rights or interests in any such property and to hold, sell, assign, lease, rent, encumber, other than by mortgage, or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property, or any interest therein, owned by the university or in its control, custody or possession in accordance with section 10a-109n;

(8) To receive and accept grants, subsidies or loans of money from the federal government or a federal agency or instrumentality, the state or others, upon such terms and conditions as may be imposed, and to pledge the proceeds of grants, subsidies or loans of money received or to be received from the federal government or any federal agency or instrumentality, the state or others, pursuant to agreements entered into between the university and the federal government or any federal agency or instrumentality, the state or others, provided (A) such property shall be deemed property of the state for purposes of sections 4a-19 and 4a-20 and (B) the university may insure its property independent of the state;

(9) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 10a-150, to receive and accept aid or contributions, from any source, of money, property, labor or other things of value, to be held, used and applied to carry out the purposes of sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, subject to the conditions upon which such aid or contributions may be made, including, but not limited to, gifts or grants from any department or agency of the United States or the state for any purpose consistent with said sections;

(10) To borrow money and issue securities to finance the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement or equipping of any one project, or more than one, or any combination of projects, or to refund securities issued after June 7, 1995, or to refund any such refunding securities or for any one, or more than one, or all of those purposes, or any combination of those purposes, and to provide for the security and payment of those securities and for the rights of the holders of them, except that the amount of any such borrowing, the special debt service requirements for which are secured by the state debt service commitment, exclusive of the amount of borrowing to refund securities, or to fund issuance costs or necessary reserves, may not exceed the aggregate principal amount of (A) for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1996, to June 30, 2005, inclusive, one billion thirty million dollars, (B) for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2006, to June 30, 2027, inclusive, three billion two hundred ninety-five million nine hundred thousand dollars, and (C) such additional amount or amounts: (i) Required from time to time to fund any special capital reserve fund or other debt service reserve fund in accordance with the financing transaction proceedings, and (ii) to pay or provide for the costs of issuance and capitalized interest, if any; the aggregate amounts of subparagraphs (A), (B) and (C) of this subdivision are established as the authorized funding amount, and no borrowing within the authorized funding amount for a project or projects may be effected unless the project or projects are included in accordance with subsection (a) of section 10a-109e;

(11) To make, enter into, execute, deliver and amend any and all contracts, including, but not limited to, total cost basis contracts, agreements, leases, instruments and documents and perform all acts and do all things necessary or convenient to plan, design, acquire, construct, build, enlarge, alter, reconstruct, renovate, improve, equip, finance, maintain and operate projects and to carry out the powers granted by sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, or reasonably implied from those powers;

(12) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes to the contrary, including without limitation subsection (a) of section 10a-105, to fix and collect fees, tuition, charges, rentals and other charges for enrollment and attendance at the university and for the use of projects or any part thereof, provided that no tuition or student fee revenue shall be used for repairs performed solely to correct code violations that were applicable at the time of project completion and were for named projects pursuant to section 10a-109e completed prior to January 1, 2007; to provide for the promulgation of such reasonable and proper policies and procedures as may be necessary to assure the maximum use of the facilities of any projects at all times; and

(13) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of section 10a-105, to provide for or confirm the establishment of various funds and accounts respecting university operations, bond proceeds and special debt service requirements for securities issued, renewal and replacement and insurance, special capital reserve and operating reserve, special external gifts, pending receipts, assured revenues, project revenues to the extent not otherwise pledged and securing outstanding general obligation bonds of the state or other revenues and other funds or accounts as may be more particularly required under this subdivision and the indentures of trust or resolutions authorizing securities and to provide, subject to section 10a-109q and the provisions of such indentures or resolutions for the following to be deposited therein, as follows:

(A) All proceeds received from the sale of all securities;

(B) All fees, tuition, rentals and other charges from students, faculty, staff members and others using or being served by, or having the right to use or the right to be served by the university or any project;

(C) All fees for student activities, student services and all other fees, tuition and charges collected from students matriculated, registered or otherwise enrolled at and attending the university, pledged under the terms of financing transaction proceedings;

(D) All rentals from any facility or building leased to the federal government or any other third party;

(E) Federal and state grants, gifts, state appropriations and special external gift funds;

(F) All other assured revenues; and

(G) Project revenues.

(b) Any and all powers granted to the university in subdivision (a) of this section may be exercised by majority vote of the board of trustees which, except as specifically required under sections 10a-109e and 10a-109f, by majority vote of the board of trustees, subject to retaining overall control, responsibility and supervision, may be delegated to the finance committee or any officer, official or trustee of the finance committee or other authorized officer or employee of the university.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 4, 45; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-3, S. 1; P.A. 06-134, S. 7; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3, S. 55; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7, S. 58; P.A. 10-104, S. 3; P.A. 11-75, S. 3; P.A. 12-156, S. 47; P.A. 13-233, S. 4; P.A. 14-65, S. 9; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 441; P.A. 21-111, S. 96; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 479.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-3 amended Subsec. (a)(10) to delete former bond authorization amount and provide for bond authorizations in the amount of $1,030,000,000 for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1996, to June 30, 2005, and in the amount of $1,250,000,000 for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2006, to June 30, 2015, effective July 1, 2002; P.A. 06-134 amended Subsec. (a)(11) by including total cost basis contracts, effective July 1, 2006; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3 amended Subsec. (a)(12) to add proviso that tuition or student fee revenue shall not be used for repairs to correct code violations for certain projects, effective June 26, 2007; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7 amended Subsec. (a)(10) to extend the time period in Subpara. (B) from June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2016, effective November 2, 2007; P.A. 10-104 amended Subsec. (a)(10)(B) by increasing cap on amount of borrowing by university to $1,457,000,000 and changing final fiscal year for such borrowing from fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, to fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, effective June 3, 2010; P.A. 11-75 amended Subsec. (a)(10)(B) to increase cap on amount of borrowing by university from $1,457,000,000 to $1,719,900,000, effective July 8, 2011; P.A. 12-156 amended Subsec. (a)(6) by deleting reference to Sec. 10a-9, effective June 15, 2012; P.A. 13-233 amended Subsec. (a)(10)(B) by extending final fiscal year for borrowing from 2018 to 2024, and by increasing cap from $1,719,900,000 to $3,270,900,000, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-65 amended Subsec. (a)(9) by deleting reference to Secs. 10a-150a to 10a-150d re disclosure of gifts from foreign sources, effective July 1, 2014; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (a)(10)(B) by replacing “June 30, 2024” with “June 30, 2027”, effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 21-111 amended Subsec. (a)(10)(B) by increasing cap from $3,270,900,000 to $3,351,000,000, effective July 1, 2021; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 amended Subsec. (a)(10)(B) by decreasing cap from $3,351,000,000 to $3,295,900,000, effective July 1, 2021.

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Sec. 10a-109e. UConn 2000 infrastructure improvement program. (a) The university may administer, manage, schedule, finance, further design and construct UConn 2000, to operate and maintain the components thereof in a prudent and economical manner and to reserve for and make renewals and replacements thereof when appropriate, it being hereby determined and found to be in the best interest of the state and the university to provide this independent authority to the university along with providing assured revenues therefor as the efficient and cost effective course to achieve the objective of avoiding further decline in the physical infrastructure of the university and to renew, modernize, enhance and maintain such infrastructure, the particular project or projects, each being hereby approved as a project of UConn 2000, and the presently estimated cost thereof being as follows:

UConn 2000 Project	Phase I Fiscal Years 1996-1999	Phase II Fiscal Years 2000-2005	Phase III Fiscal Years 2005-2027

Academic and Research Facilities			450,000,000

Agricultural Biotechnology Facility	9,400,000

Agricultural Biotechnology Facility Completion		10,000,000

Alumni Quadrant Renovations		14,338,000

Arjona and Monteith (new classroom buildings)			66,100,000

Avery Point Campus Undergraduate and Library Building			35,000,000

Avery Point Marine Science Research Center – Phase I	34,000,000

Avery Point Marine Science Research Center – Phase II		16,682,000

Avery Point Renovation		5,600,000	15,000,000

Babbidge Library	0

Balancing Contingency		5,506,834

Beach Hall Renovations			10,000,000

Benton State Art Museum Addition		1,400,000	3,000,000

Biobehavioral Complex Replacement			4,000,000

Bishop Renovation			8,000,000

Budds Building Renovation		2,805,000

Business School Renovation		4,803,000

Chemistry Building	53,700,000

Commissary Warehouse			1,000,000

Deferred Maintenance/ Code Compliance/ ADA Compliance/ Infrastructure Improvements & Renovation Lump Sum and Utility, Administrative and Support Facilities	39,332,000		805,000,000

Deferred Maintenance & Renovation Lump Sum Balance		104,668,000

East Campus North Renovations		11,820,000

Engineering Building (with Environmental Research Institute)			36,700,000

Equine Center		1,000,000


Equipment, Library Collections & Telecommunications	60,500,000		470,000,000

Equipment, Library Collections & Telecommunications Completion		182,118,146

Family Studies (DRM) Renovation			6,500,000

Farm Buildings Repairs/ Replacement			6,000,000

Fine Arts Phase II			20,000,000

Floriculture Greenhouse			3,000,000

Gant Building Renovations			34,000,000

Gant Plaza Deck		0

Gentry Completion			10,000,000

Gentry Renovation		9,299,000

Grad Dorm Renovations		7,548,000

Gulley Hall Renovation		1,416,000

Hartford Relocation Acquisition/Renovation		56,762,020	70,000,000

Hartford Relocation Design	1,500,000

Hartford Relocation Feasibility Study	500,000


Heating Plant Upgrade	10,000,000

Hilltop Dormitory New		30,000,000

Hilltop Dormitory Renovations		3,141,000

Ice Rink Enclosure	2,616,000

Incubator Facilities			10,000,000

International House Conversion		800,000

Intramural, Recreational and Intercollegiate Facilities			31,000,000

Jorgensen Renovation			7,200,000

Koons Hall Renovation/ Addition			7,000,000

Lakeside Renovation			3,800,000

Law School Renovations/ Improvements			15,000,000

Library Storage Facility			5,000,000

Litchfield Agricultural Center – Phase I	1,000,000

Litchfield Agricultural Center – Phase II		700,000

Manchester Hall Renovation			6,000,000

Mansfield Apartments Renovation	2,612,000

Mansfield Training School Improvements		27,614,000	29,000,000

Natural History Museum Completion			4,900,000

North Campus Renovation	2,654,000

North Campus Renovation Completion		21,049,000

North Hillside Road Completion			11,500,000

North Superblock Site and Utilities	8,000,000

Northwest Quadrant Renovation	2,001,000

Northwest Quadrant Renovation		15,874,000

Observatory			1,000,000

Old Central Warehouse			18,000,000

Parking Garage #3			78,000,000

Parking Garage – North	10,000,000

Parking Garage – South		15,000,000

Pedestrian Spinepath		2,556,000

Pedestrian Walkways		3,233,000

Psychology Building Renovation/Addition			20,000,000

Residential Life Facilities			162,000,000

Roadways		10,000,000

School of Business	20,000,000

School of Pharmacy/ Biology	3,856,000

School of Pharmacy/ Biology Completion		61,058,000

Shippee/Buckley Renovations		6,156,000

Social Science K Building		20,964,000

South Campus Complex	13,127,000

Stamford Campus Improvements/Housing			13,000,000

Stamford Downtown Relocation – Phase I	45,659,000

Stamford Downtown Relocation – Phase II		17,392,000

Storrs Hall Addition			4,300,000

Student Health Services			12,000,000

Student Union Addition		23,000,000

Support Facility (Architectural and Engineering Services)			2,000,000

Technology Quadrant – Phase IA	38,000,000

Technology Quadrant – Phase IB		16,611,000

Technology Quadrant – Phase II		72,000,000

Technology Quadrant – Phase III		15,000,000

Torrey Life Science Renovation		17,000,000

Torrey Renovation Completion and Biology Expansion			42,000,000

Torrington Campus Improvements			1,000,000

Towers Renovation		17,794,000

UConn Products Store			1,000,000

Undergraduate Education Center	650,000

Undergraduate Education Center		7,450,000

Underground Steam & Water Upgrade	3,500,000

Underground Steam & Water Upgrade Completion		9,000,000

University Programs Building – Phase I	8,750,000

University Programs Building – Phase II Visitors Center		300,000

Waring Building Conversion	7,888,000

Waterbury Downtown Campus			3,000,000

Waterbury Property Purchase	325,000

West Campus Renovations		14,897,000

West Hartford Campus Renovations/ Improvements			25,000,000

White Building Renovation	2,430,000

Wilbur Cross Building Renovation		3,645,000

Young Building Renovation/Addition			17,000,000

HEALTH CENTER

CLAC Renovation Biosafety Level 3 Lab			14,000,000

Deferred Maintenance/ Code Compliance/ADA Compliance/Infrastructure & Improvements Renovation Lump Sum and Utility, Administrative and Support Facilities – Health Center			86,000,000

Dental School Renovation			5,000,000

Equipment, Library Collections and Telecommunications – Health Center			75,000,000


Library/Student Computer Center Renovation			5,000,000

Main Building Renovation			125,000,000

Medical School Academic Building Renovation			9,000,000

Parking Garage – Health Center			8,400,000

Research Tower			60,000,000

Support Building Addition/Renovation			4,000,000

The University of Connecticut Health Center New Construction and Renovation			394,900,000

Planning and Design Costs			25,000,000

Total – Storrs and Regional Campus Project List			2,583,000,000

Total – Health Center Project List			786,300,000

TOTAL	382,000,000	868,000,000	3,394,300,000

(b) The plan of funding UConn 2000 shall be the proceeds of general obligation bonds of the state in an amount authorized before June 7, 1995, and the proceeds of securities subject to the authorized funding amount established in subdivision (10) of subsection (a) of section 10a-109d and the proceeds of the Special External Gift Fund becoming available to the university pursuant to section 10a-109i.

(c) The amount of the state debt service commitment in each fiscal year shall be pledged by the university for the punctual payment of special debt service requirements as the same arise and shall become due and payable. As part of the contract of the state with the holders of the securities secured by the state debt service commitment and pursuant to section 10a-109u, appropriation of all amounts of the state debt service commitment is hereby made out of the resources of the General Fund and the Treasurer shall pay such amount in each fiscal year, to the paying agent on the securities secured by the state debt service commitment or otherwise as the Treasurer shall provide. The university shall be entitled to rely on the amount of the state debt service commitment and minimum state operating provision as and for assured revenues in any financing transaction proceeding, provided, to the extent any such proceeding includes reliance on such state debt service commitment and such minimum state operating provision, the university commits to a rate covenant and covenants, in substance, with the state and the holders of its securities to the effect that as long as any securities thereunder are outstanding that it has established and will charge, collect and increase, from time to time, and in time tuition fees and charges for its educational services, its auxiliary enterprises, including dormitory housing, food services and sale of textbooks and use of the physical university plant and for all other services and goods provided by the university, the amount of which, together with other assured revenues or other revenues otherwise available to the university including proceeds available from the Special External Gift Fund shall in each of its fiscal years be sufficient to pay when due, the special debt service requirements on outstanding securities and to permit the university to operate and maintain itself as an institution dedicated to excellence in higher education and to operate and maintain the physical university plant in sound operating condition and to otherwise permit the performance of all covenants included in the financing documents.

(d) With respect to UConn 2000 and within the authorized funding amount, the university may, from time to time, and shall whenever appropriate or necessary, revise, delete and add a particular project or projects, provided (1) a formal approving vote of its board of trustees shall be needed for a material revision, deletion or addition dictated by a change in university planning as determined by its board of trustees or otherwise necessary because of reasons beyond the control of the university, (2) any material revision shall be subject only to such formal approval of the board of trustees as long as the board finds and determines that such revision is consistent with the intent or purpose of the original project, (3) a material addition or deletion shall be conditioned not only upon such formal approval of the board of trustees but also upon a request by the board of trustees for, and enactment of, a subsequent public or special act approving such addition or deletion, if such addition is to add a project not outlined in subsection (a) of this section or the deletion is the deletion of a project outlined in subsection (a) of this section, and (4) no revision, addition or deletion shall reduce the amount of any state debt service commitment. Further, with respect to UConn 2000 and subject to the limitations in the authorized funding amount, the university may determine the sequencing and timing of such project or projects, revise estimates of cost and reallocate from any amounts estimated in subdivision (a) of this section, for one or more projects to one or more other projects then constituting a component of UConn 2000 as long as, at the time of such reallocation, it has found that any such project to which a reallocation is made has been revised or added in accordance with this section and such project from which a reallocation is made either has been so revised or added and can be completed within the amounts remaining allocated to it, or has been so deleted. University actions under this section shall be included in reports to the General Assembly under section 10a-109y.

(e) Until such time as the State Bond Commission allocates the bonds authorized pursuant to section 10a-109gg for the UConn health network initiatives, the university shall not expend any funds authorized by subdivision (10) of subsection (a) of section 10a-109d, subsection (a) of this section or subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 10a-109g for The University of Connecticut Health Center new construction and renovation, except for twenty-five million dollars for planning and design costs.

(f) The University of Connecticut Health Center shall (1) contribute not less than sixty-nine million dollars of funds from operations, special eligible gifts or other sources toward The University of Connecticut Health Center new construction and renovation, and (2) provide for construction of a new ambulatory care center through debt or equity financing obtained from one or more private developers who contract with the university to construct such new ambulatory care center.

(g) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (d) of this section, within the authorized funding amount, the university may revise, delete or add a particular project or projects to finance implementation of an electronic medical records system at The University of Connecticut Health Center, provided a formal approving vote of its board of trustees shall be needed. University actions under this subsection shall be included in reports to the General Assembly at the time and in the manner set forth in subsection (c) of section 10a-109x.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 5, 45; P.A. 96-244, S. 39, 63; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-3, S. 2; P.A. 06-196, S. 72; P.A. 07-108, S. 5; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7, S. 59; P.A. 10-104, S. 4, 5; P.A. 11-75, S. 4; P.A. 13-233, S. 5; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-1, S. 231; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-4, S. 245; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 442; P.A. 21-111, S. 97; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 S. 480.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995; P.A. 96-244 amended Subsec. (a) to change the estimated cost of the Business School renovation from $48,030,000 to $4,803,000, effective July 1, 1996; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-3 amended Subsec. (a) to revise the list of projects and amounts in Phase II and to add the project list and amounts for Phase III, effective July 1, 2002; P.A. 06-196 made technical changes in Subsecs. (c) and (d), effective June 7, 2006; P.A. 07-108 amended Subsec. (a) to revise list of projects and amounts in Phase III, effective July 1, 2007; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7 amended Subsec. (a) to extend the end year for Phase III from 2015 to 2016, effective November 2, 2007; P.A. 10-104 amended Subsec. (a) by adding $207,000,000 for The University of Connecticut Health Center new construction and renovation to estimated cost of Phase III, reallocating $25,000,000 in Phase III from estimated cost of main building renovation to new estimated planning and design costs for The University of Connecticut Health Center and extending Phase III to fiscal year 2018, and added Subsec. (e) re plan for funding The University of Connecticut Health Center new construction and renovation and Subsec. (f) re expenditure of funds contingent upon availability of federal, private or other nonstate money and allocation of bonds, with exception of $25,000,000 authorized for planning and design costs, effective June 3, 2010; P.A. 11-75 amended Subsec. (a) to increase estimated cost in Phase III of main building renovation from $50,000,000 to $125,000,000 and of The University of Connecticut Health Center new construction and renovation from $207,000,000 to $394,900,000 and to add such increases to project list total and total amounts, deleted former Subsec. (e) re plan of funding, redesignated existing Subsec. (f) as Subsec. (e) and made conforming and technical changes therein, and added new Subsec. (f) to require The University of Connecticut Health Center to contribute not less than $69,000,000 of funds toward new construction and renovation and provide for construction of new ambulatory care center through private debt or equity financing, effective July 8, 2011; P.A. 13-233 amended Subsec. (a) to extend end year for Phase III from 2018 to 2024, and, in Phase III, to add $450,000,000 for academic and research facilities, to add $15,000,000 for Avery Point renovation, to increase from $215,000,000 to $805,000,000 the amount for deferred maintenance/Code/ADA renovation lump sum, to increase from $200,000,000 to $470,000,000 the amount for equipment, library collections & telecommunications, to add $70,000,000 for Hartford relocation acquisition/renovation, to increase from $15,000,000 to $78,000,000 the amount for parking garage #3, to increase from $90,000,000 to $162,000,000 the amount for residential life facilities, to increase from $3,000,000 to $13,000,000 the amount for Stamford campus improvements and add housing at Stamford campus to list, to increase from $50,000,000 to $61,000,000 the amount for deferred maintenance/Code/ADA renovation sum-Health Center, to increase Storrs and Regional campus project list total from $1,043,000,000 to $2,583,000,000, to increase Health Center project list total from $775,300,000 to $786,300,000, and to increase total from $1,818,300,000 to $3,369,300,000, effective July 1, 2013; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-1 added Subsec. (g) re implementation of an electronic medical records system at The University of Connecticut Health Center, effective July 1, 2015; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-4 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “Deferred Maintenance/Code/ADA Renovation Lump Sum” with “Deferred Maintenance/Code Compliance/ADA Compliance/Infrastructure Improvements & Renovation Lump Sum”, effective July 1, 2016; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “2024” with “2027” re end year for Phase III, replace “Deferred Maintenance/Code Compliance/ADA Compliance/Infrastructure Improvements & Renovation Lump Sum” with “Deferred Maintenance/Code Compliance/ADA Compliance/Infrastructure Improvements & Renovation Lump Sum and Utility, Administrative and Support Facilities”, and replace “Deferred Maintenance/Code/ADA Renovation Sum - Health Center” with “Deferred Maintenance/Code Compliance/ADA Compliance/Infrastructure & Improvements Renovation Lump Sum and Utility, Administrative and Support Facilities - Health Center”, effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 21-111 amended Subsec. (a) to increase from $61,000,000 to $110,100,000 the amount for Deferred Maintenance/Code Compliance/Infrastructure & Improvements Renovation Lump Sum and Utility, Administrative and Support Facilities - Health Center, to increase from $75,000,000 to $106,000,000 the amount for Equipment, Library Collections and Telecommunications – Health Center, and to increase total from $3,369,300,000 to $3,449,400,000, effective July 1, 2021; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 amended Subsec. (a) to decrease from $110,100,000 to $86,000,000 the amount for Deferred Maintenance/Code Compliance/Infrastructure & Improvements Renovation Lump Sum and Utility, Administrative and Support Facilities – Health Center, to decrease from $106,000,000 to $75,000,000 the amount for Equipment, Library Collections and Telecommunications – Health Center, and to decrease total from $3,449,400,000 to $3,394,300,000, effective July 1, 2021.

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Sec. 10a-109f. Financing transactions. Submission of resolutions to the Governor. (a) The university may, when directed by vote of its board of trustees, borrow money and enter into financing transactions proceedings in anticipation of assured revenues, project revenues or other funding sources in the name of the university, on behalf of the state, and issue securities in connection with such proceedings, as follows: (1) To finance the cost of UConn 2000 or any one project thereof, or more than one, or any combination of projects thereof; (2) to refund securities issued pursuant to sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive; and (3) to refund any such refunding borrowings. All securities issued in connection with assured revenues, project revenues, or other funding sources financing transaction proceedings entered into pursuant to this section shall be authorized by a resolution approved by not less than a majority vote of its board of trustees. Nothing in this subsection shall increase the annual or aggregate cap on the amount of securities the special debt service requirements of which are secured by the state debt service commitment pursuant to section 10a-109g.

(b) The board of trustees shall submit each resolution for the issuance of securities approved pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, to the Governor accompanied by a summary report of the estimated total completion costs of projects that will not be completed within the issuance which is the subject of the resolution. The Governor may, not later than thirty days after such submission, disapprove such resolution by notifying the board in writing of his disapproval and the reasons for it. If the Governor does not act within such thirty-day period, the resolution is deemed approved.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 6, 45; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-3, S. 3; P.A. 14-98, S. 29.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-3 amended Subsec. (a) to delete former Subdiv. (2) authorizing certain deficit financing and to redesignate existing Subdivs. (3) and (4) as Subdivs. (2) and (3), effective July 1, 2002; P.A. 14-98 amended Subsec. (a) to delete “and subject to the limitations in the authorized funding amount”, to add references to “other funding sources” and to add provision re nothing in subsection to increase the annual or aggregate cap pursuant to Sec. 10a-109g, effective May 22, 2014.

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Sec. 10a-109g. Terms of financing transactions. (a)(1) The university is authorized to provide by resolution, at one time or from time to time, for the issuance and sale of securities, in its own name on behalf of the state, pursuant to section 10a-109f. The board of trustees of the university is hereby authorized by such resolution to delegate to its finance committee such matters as it may determine appropriate other than the authorization and maximum amount of the securities to be issued, the nature of the obligation of the securities as established pursuant to subsection (c) of this section and the projects for which the proceeds are to be used. The finance committee may act on such matters unless and until the board of trustees elects to reassume the same. The amount of securities the special debt service requirements of which are secured by the state debt service commitment that the board of trustees is authorized to provide for the issuance and sale in accordance with this subsection shall be capped in each fiscal year in the following amounts, provided, to the extent the board of trustees does not provide for the issuance of all or a portion of such amount in a fiscal year, all or such portion, as the case may be, may be carried forward to any succeeding fiscal year and provided further, the actual amount for funding, paying or providing for the items described in subparagraph (C) of subdivision (10) of subsection (a) of section 10a-109d may be added to the capped amount in each fiscal year:

Fiscal Year	Amount
1996	$112,542,000
1997	112,001,000
1998	93,146,000
1999	64,311,000
2000	130,000,000
2001	100,000,000
2002	100,000,000
2003	100,000,000
2004	100,000,000
2005	100,000,000
2006	79,000,000
2007	89,000,000
2008	115,000,000
2009	140,000,000
2010	0
2011	138,800,000
2012	157,200,000
2013	143,000,000
2014	204,400,000
2015	315,500,000
2016	312,100,000
2017	240,400,000
2018	200,000,000
2019	200,000,000
2020	197,200,000
2021	260,000,000
2022	215,500,000
2023	125,100,000
2024	84,700,000
2025	56,000,000
2026	14,000,000
2027	9,000,000

(2) Subject to amount limitations of such capping provisions in subdivision (1) of this subsection and following approval of such resolution as provided in subsection (b) of section 10a-109f, the principal amount of the securities authorized therein for such project or projects shall be deemed to be an appropriation and allocation of such amount for such project or projects, respectively, and such approval by the Governor of such resolution shall be deemed the allotment by the Governor of such capital outlays within the meaning of section 4-85 and the university (A) may award a contract or contracts and incur an obligation or obligations with respect to each such project or projects authorized pursuant to and within the amount authorized in such resolution, notwithstanding that such contract or obligation may at any particular time exceed the amount of the proceeds from the sale of securities theretofore received by the university, and (B) may issue and sell securities respecting such contracts or obligations referred to in subparagraph (A) only at such time or times as shall be needed to have the proceeds thereof available to pay requisitions expected thereunder within the year following issuance of such securities and to provide for costs of UConn 2000 of not more than twenty per cent in excess and regardless of such anticipated cash expenditure requirements but subject to section 10a-109q, provided the amount needed for funding, paying or providing for the items described in subparagraph (B) of subdivision (10) of subsection (a) of section 10a-109d may be added to the amount of securities so issued.

(b) After issuance, all securities of the university shall be conclusively presumed to be fully and duly authorized and issued under the laws of the state, and any person or governmental unit shall be estopped from questioning their authorization, sale, issuance, execution or delivery by the university.

(c) Securities issued by the university may be issued under an indenture of trust or bond resolution, shall be general obligations of the university, for which its full faith and credit shall be pledged, payable out of any revenues or other assets, receipts, funds or moneys of the university and may be additionally secured by a pledge of revenues to be derived from the operation of a project, by assured revenues and by other assets other than a mortgage, subject only to any agreements with the holders of particular securities pledging any particular assets, revenues, receipts, funds or moneys, unless the university shall otherwise expressly provide by the indenture or resolution that such securities shall be special obligations of the university payable solely from any revenues or other assets, including project revenues, such assured revenues that may be restricted by the terms of receipt thereof to a particular project or projects to be financed by such special obligations subject only to any agreements with the holders of particular securities pledging any particular assets, revenues, receipts, funds or moneys. The form of the master resolution or indenture for securities, the special debt service requirements for which, are secured by the state debt service commitment and containing the state covenant pursuant to section 10a-109u shall be approved by the State Bond Commission prior to the first issue of such securities and any substantive amendment thereof shall also be approved by the State Bond Commission. At such time as the master resolution or indenture is submitted to the State Bond Commission the university shall file with the State Bond Commission the list of projects to be financed by securities secured by the state debt service commitment for the second phase of UConn 2000. The form of the master resolution or indenture for securities for the third phase of UConn 2000, the special debt requirements for which are secured by the state debt service commitment and containing the state covenant pursuant to section 10a-109u, shall be approved by the State Bond Commission prior to the first issue of such securities and any substantive amendment thereof shall also be approved by the State Bond Commission. At such time as the master resolution or indenture for the third phase of UConn 2000 is submitted to the State Bond Commission, the university shall file with the State Bond Commission the list of projects to be financed by securities secured by the state debt service commitment for the third phase of UConn 2000.

(d) The resolution or indenture pursuant to which securities are issued shall provide for the dates of the securities, the maturity dates, which in the case of securities issued to finance equipment and collections, shall not exceed five years and, in the case of securities issued for any other purpose shall not exceed thirty years from their dated dates, the special debt service requirements and dates thereof, the rate or rates of interest or the manner of varying or determining such rate or rates, the cash flow requirements to cover the cost of UConn 2000 or components thereof to be funded from the proceeds of such securities, and by whom, on behalf of the university, such securities shall be delivered, signed or countersigned, and by whom, on behalf of the university, disbursements and investments may be made and all other particulars thereof and may contain for the benefit of holders, from time to time and as a contract therewith, any agreements and the provisions deemed necessary or appropriate by the university in connection with the issuance of such securities and may provide for the terms and security thereof, including, without limitation, (1) terms and pledges respecting assured revenues or project revenues and respecting the fixing and collection of other revenues of the university or from any project covered by such resolution or indenture provisions, if any; (2) provisions respecting custody of the proceeds from the sale of such securities; (3) provisions for the investment and reinvestment of proceeds of the securities until used to pay costs of a project and for the disposition of any excess proceeds of the securities or investment earnings thereon; (4) provisions for the execution of reimbursement agreements or similar agreements in connection with credit facilities, including, but not limited to, letters of credit or policies of bond insurance, remarketing agreements and, subject to the approval of the State Treasurer under section 10a-109j, agreements for the purpose of moderating interest rate fluctuations, and of such other agreements entered into pursuant to section 3-20a; (5) provisions for the collection, custody, investment, reinvestment and use of revenues or other receipts, funds or moneys pledged therefor; (6) provisions regarding the establishment and maintenance of reserves, sinking funds and any other funds and accounts as shall be approved by the university in such amounts as the university may establish and the requirements, investments and application thereof; (7) covenants for the establishment of pledged revenue coverage requirements for such securities; (8) covenants for the establishment of maintenance and insurance requirements with respect to a project or projects; (9) provision for the issuance of additional securities on a parity with securities theretofore issued, including establishment of coverage requirements with respect thereto; (10) the terms to be incorporated in any loan of the proceeds of such securities, and in any lease of a project or projects; (11) the creation and maintenance of special funds from the revenues of a project or projects; (12) the rights and remedies available to the holder or holders of securities in the event of default, the vesting in a trustee or trustees of such property, rights, powers and duties in trust as the university may determine, which may include any or all of the rights, powers and duties of any trustee appointed by the holders of any securities and limiting or abrogating the right of the holders of any securities of the university to appoint a trustee under sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, or limiting the rights, powers and duties of such trustee; (13) provision for a trust indenture by and between the university and a corporate trustee which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state, which agreement may provide for the pledging or assigning of any revenues, assets or income from assets to which or in which the university has any rights or interest, and may further provide for such other rights and remedies exercisable by the trustee as may be proper for the protection of the holders of any securities and not otherwise in violation of law, and such agreement may provide for the restriction of the rights of any individual holder of securities of the university and may contain any further provisions which are reasonable to delineate further the respective rights, duties, safeguards, responsibilities and liabilities of the university, persons and collective holders of securities of the university and the trustee; (14) covenants to do or refrain from doing such acts and things as may be necessary or convenient or desirable in order to better secure any securities of the university or to maintain the federal or state tax exemption thereon, or which, in the discretion of the university, will tend to make any securities to be issued more marketable notwithstanding that such covenants, acts or things may not be enumerated above; (15) and any other matters of like or different character, which in any way affect the security or protection of the securities of the university, all as the university shall deem advisable and not in conflict with the provisions of sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive.

(e) Securities issued under authority of sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, shall be sold by the Treasurer of the state, on behalf of the university, subject in all respects to the indenture of trust or bond resolution approved by the university respecting the securities to be sold, at public or private sale at such price, whether par, premium or discount, and at such time or times, subject in each fiscal year to the cash flow requirements of the university to cover the cost of UConn 2000, as may be determined in the best interest of the state and university by the Treasurer and evidenced by his execution of a certificate of determination to be filed with the university and the secretary of the State Bond Commission upon completion of the sale pursuant to subsection (f) of this section. All costs of issuance in connection with the authorization, sale and issuance of the securities, including interest during construction of any projects being financed with the proceeds thereof, costs and expenses of financial advisers, underwriters, counsel, initial trustee, interest rate protection, credit enhancement, liquidity, letter of credit, and ratings, if any, shall be paid from the proceeds and accrued interest of the securities unless the university determines to pay any of such costs and expenses out of other funds available to it.

(f) The Treasurer shall set the terms and provisions of the sale of any securities, receive bids or proposals, award and sell any securities, and take all other action appropriate or necessary in connection therewith including rejecting any bid or proposal not meeting the sale requirements, in conjunction with the board of trustees of the university which is hereby authorized by a majority vote to delegate such matters to its finance committee or to any officer, official or trustee serving on such finance committee.

(g) The proceeds of the securities of any issue shall be used solely for the purpose or purposes identified in the master indenture, and shall be disbursed in such manner and under such restrictions, if any, as the university may provide in the resolution authorizing the issuance of such securities or in the indenture or resolution securing the same. The resolution providing for the issuance of securities, and any indenture or resolution securing such securities, may contain such limitations upon the issuance of additional securities as the university may deem proper, and such additional securities shall be issued under such restrictions and limitations as may be prescribed by such indenture or resolution, provided, no such resolution or indenture shall include a covenant committing the university to the issuance of additional securities secured by a pledge of the state debt service commitment. The university may provide for the replacement of any securities which become mutilated, or are destroyed, stolen or lost. Securities may be issued under sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, without obtaining the consent of any department, division, commission, board, bureau, or agency of the state and without any other proceedings or the happening of any other conditions or things other than those proceedings, conditions or things which are specifically required by sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive.

(h) Money borrowed and securities issued and delivered by the university shall not constitute a debt or liability of the state or of any municipality or any political subdivision of the state, but shall be payable solely from the resources of the university described in and pursuant to the indenture of trust or resolution under which they are issued, and all such securities shall contain on their face a statement to that effect. The borrowing of money and the issuance of securities by the university shall not directly or indirectly or contingently obligate the state or any municipality or political subdivision to levy or to pledge any form of taxation and such securities shall not constitute an indebtedness of the state within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory debt limitation or restriction and accordingly, shall not be subject to any statutory limitation on the indebtedness of the state and such securities, when issued, shall not be included in computing the aggregate indebtedness of the state in respect to and to the extent of any such limitation, except that the amount of securities in each fiscal year in which the General Assembly has authorized the board of trustees to provide for the issuance and sale of securities pursuant to subsection (a) of this section for purposes of section 3-21, but subject to the exclusions or deductions provided in said section 3-21, shall be deemed to be indebtedness of the state until deemed paid or retired. For any years for which there is not an estimate of net tax revenues, the Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates projection of consumer price index growth shall be applied to the most recently adopted state revenue estimate and shall be deemed to satisfy the provisions of subsection (d) of said section 3-21.

(i) In connection with the issuance of securities, the university may create and establish one or more reserve funds to be known as special capital reserve funds and may pay into such special capital reserve funds (1) any moneys appropriated and made available by the state for the purposes of such funds, (2) any proceeds of sale of securities, to the extent provided in the resolution of the university authorizing the issuance thereof, and (3) any other moneys which may be made available to the university for the purpose of such funds from any other source or sources. The moneys held in or credited to any special capital reserve fund established under this subsection, except as provided in this subsection, shall be used solely for the payment of the principal of special obligation securities of the university secured by such special capital reserve fund as the same become due, the purchase of such special obligation securities of the university, the payment of interest on such special obligation securities of the university or the payment of any redemption premium required to be paid when such special obligation securities are redeemed prior to maturity; provided the university may provide that moneys in any such fund shall not be withdrawn therefrom at any time in such amount as would reduce the amount of such funds to less than the maximum amount of principal and interest becoming due by reason of maturity or a required sinking fund installment in the succeeding calendar year on the special obligation securities of the university then outstanding and secured by such special capital reserve fund or such lesser amount specified by the university in its resolution authorizing the issuance of any such special obligation securities, such amount being referred to in this subsection as the “required minimum capital reserve”, except for the purpose of paying such principal of, redemption premium and interest on such special obligation securities of the university secured by such special capital reserve becoming due and for the payment of which other moneys of the university are not available. The university may provide that it shall not issue special obligation securities at any time if the required minimum capital reserve on the special obligation securities outstanding and the special obligation securities then to be issued and secured by a special capital reserve fund will exceed the amount of such special capital reserve fund at the time of issuance, unless the university, at the time of the issuance of such special obligation securities, shall deposit in such special capital reserve fund from the proceeds of the special obligation securities so to be issued, or otherwise, an amount which, together with the amount then in such special capital reserve fund, will be not less than the required minimum capital reserve. On or before December first, annually, there is deemed to be appropriated from the state General Fund such sums, if any, as shall be certified by the chairperson of the board of trustees to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and Treasurer of the state, as necessary to restore each such special capital reserve fund to the amount equal to the required minimum capital reserve of such fund, and such amounts shall be allotted and paid to the university for deposit therein. For the purpose of evaluation of any such special capital reserve fund, obligations acquired as an investment for any such fund shall be valued at amortized costs. Nothing contained in this section or section 10a-105 shall preclude the university from establishing and creating other debt service reserve funds in connection with the issuance of securities of the university. Subject to any agreement or agreements with holders of outstanding special obligation securities of the university, any amount or amounts allotted and paid to the university by the state pursuant to this section shall be repaid to the state from moneys of the university at such time as such moneys are not required for any other of its corporate purposes and in any event shall be repaid to the state on the date one year after all special obligation securities of the university theretofore issued on the date or dates such amount or amounts are allotted and paid to the university or thereafter issued, together with interest on such special obligation securities, with interest on any unpaid installments of interest and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceeding by or on behalf of the holders thereof, are fully met and discharged. A special capital reserve fund shall not be created, established or applicable or available pursuant to this subsection unless the board of trustees of the university is of the opinion and determines its self-sufficiency in that (A) project revenues or assured revenues, other than those to be derived from the state debt service commitment and the minimum state operating provision, and as a result of the implementation of its rate covenant, are estimated and expected, assuming continued compliance by the state and the university with the provisions of sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, be sufficient (i) to pay the applicable special debt service requirements on special obligation securities, (ii) to establish, increase and maintain any reserves deemed by the university to be advisable to secure the payment of the special debt service requirements on such special obligation securities and to maintain its renewal and replacement fund and (iii) to operate and maintain in a prudent and economical manner the physical infrastructure of the university and (B) the university has recently reviewed and resolved that it is in compliance with its rate covenant referred to in section 10a-109e. Prior to the issuance of special obligation securities, the security for which is to be enhanced by such a special capital reserve fund, the aforementioned self-sufficiency finding by the university shall be submitted to and confirmed as not unreasonable or arbitrary in the certificate of determination referred to in subsection (e) of this section by the Treasurer of the state. In addition, a special capital reserve fund shall be used only if such use improves or is essential to the rating of the securities or provides interest savings as determined by the Treasurer of the state. The provisions of this subsection respecting the creation, establishment and enhancement of a special capital reserve fund shall not be available or applicable to any general obligation securities issued by the university pursuant to sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 7, 45; P.A. 96-180, S. 134, 166; P.A. 98-124, S. 6, 12; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-3, S. 4–6; P.A. 06-196, S. 73; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7, S. 54; P.A. 10-104, S. 6; P.A. 11-75, S. 5; P.A. 13-233, S. 6; P.A. 14-5, S. 1; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-4, S. 246; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 443; P.A. 20-1, S. 65; P.A. 21-111, S. 98; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 481.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995 (Revisor's note: In Subsec. (g), the phrase “securities which become mutilated or be destroyed, stolen or lost” was replaced editorially by the Revisors with “securities which become mutilated, or are destroyed, stolen or lost” for grammatical accuracy); P.A. 96-180 made a technical change in Subsec. (a)(1), effective June 3, 1996; P.A. 98-124 modified Subdiv. (4) to include agreements entered into pursuant to Sec. 3-20a, effective May 27, 1998; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-3 amended Subsec. (a)(1) to revise the amount authorized for fiscal year 2005, to provide for authorized amounts for fiscal years 2006 to 2015 and to make a technical change, amended Subsec. (c) to add provisions re approval of the master resolution or indenture by the State Bond Commission and amended Subsec. (g) to provide for use of the proceeds of any bond issues for purposes identified in the master indenture, effective July 1, 2002; P.A. 06-196 made technical changes in Subsec. (g), effective June 7, 2006; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7 amended Subsec. (a)(1) to revise amounts authorized for fiscal years 2008 to 2015, and to include authorization of $90,900,000 for fiscal year 2016, effective November 2, 2007; P.A. 10-104 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by authorizing securities in capped amounts of $116,000,000 in fiscal year 2017 and $91,000,000 in fiscal year 2018, reducing authorized capped amount of securities in fiscal year 2010 to $0, reducing authorized capped amount of securities in fiscal year 2011 to $138,800,000 and increasing authorized capped amounts of securities to $157,200,000 in fiscal year 2012, $143,000,000 in fiscal year 2013, $140,000,000 in fiscal year 2014, $128,500,000 in fiscal year 2015 and $119,500,000 in fiscal year 2016, effective June 3, 2010; P.A. 11-75 amended Subsec. (a)(1) to remove reference to repealed Sec. 10a-109ll and increase authorized capped amounts of securities from $140,000,000 to $198,000,000 in fiscal year 2014, from $128,500,000 to $208,500,000 in fiscal year 2015, from $119,500,000 to $199,500,000 in fiscal year 2016, and from $116,000,000 to $160,900,000 in fiscal year 2017, effective July 8, 2011; P.A. 13-233 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by increasing authorized amount in fiscal year 2014 from $198,000,000 to $204,400,000, in fiscal year 2015 from $208,500,000 to $315,500,000, in fiscal year 2016 from $199,500,000 to $312,100,000, in fiscal year 2017 from $160,900,000 to $266,400,000, and in fiscal year 2018 from $91,000,000 to $269,500,000, and by adding authorized amounts for fiscal years 2019 to 2024, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-5 amended Subsec. (g) by deleting prohibition against the university leasing, financing or lease-financing land or buildings outside the Storrs campus through any other state agency or quasi-public agency in certain situations, effective May 8, 2014; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-4 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by reducing capped amount of securities in fiscal year 2017 from $266,400,000 to $240,400,000 and increasing capped amount of securities in fiscal year 2018 from $269,500,000 to $295,500,000, effective July 1, 2016; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by reducing capped amount of securities in fiscal year 2018 from $295,500,000 to $200,000,000, in fiscal year 2019 from $251,000,000 to $200,000,000, in fiscal year 2021 from $191,500,000 to $186,200,000, in fiscal year 2022 from $144,000,000 to $101,400,000, and in fiscal year 2023 from $112,000,000 to $98,000,000, by increasing capped amount of securities in fiscal year 2020 from $269,000,000 to $291,600,000, and in fiscal year 2024 from $73,500,000 to $85,000,000, and by authorizing amounts for fiscal years 2025 to 2027, effective October 31, 2017 (Revisor's note: In the table, the amount for fiscal year 2021, was changed from “$86,200,000” to “$186,200,000” for accuracy, as enacted by June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2); P.A. 20-1 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by reducing capped amount of securities in fiscal year 2020 from $291,600,000 to $197,200,000, in fiscal year 2024 from $85,000,000 to $84,700,000, in fiscal year 2025 from $70,100,000 to $56,000,000, in fiscal year 2026 from $63,600,000 to $14,000,000 and in fiscal year 2027 from $40,600,000 to $9,000,000 and by increasing capped amount of securities in fiscal year 2021 from $186,200,000 to $260,000,000, in fiscal year 2022 from $101,400,000 to $190,500,000 and in fiscal year 2023 from $98,000,000 to $125,100,000, effective March 12, 2020; P.A. 21-111 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by increasing capped amount of securities in fiscal year 2022 from $190,500,000 to $247,600,000 and in fiscal year 2023 from $125,100,000 to $148,100,000, effective July 1, 2021; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by decreasing capped amount of securities in fiscal year 2022 from $247,600,000 to $215,500,000 and in fiscal year 2023 from $148,100,000 to $125,100,000, effective July 1, 2021.

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Sec. 10a-109h. Security for indebtedness; indenture. (a) Any pledge made by the university pursuant to section 10a-109g is and shall be deemed a statutory lien. Such lien shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made. The lien of any pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the university, irrespective of whether the parties have notice of the claims. Notwithstanding any provision of the Uniform Commercial Code to the contrary, neither sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, the indenture or resolution, nor any other instrument by which a pledge is created need be recorded. Any revenues or other receipts, funds, moneys, personal property of fixtures so pledged and thereafter received by the university shall be subject immediately to the lien of the pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act and such lien shall have priority over all other liens, including without limitation the liens of persons who, in the ordinary course of business, furnish services or materials in respect of such assets.

(b) All expenses incurred in carrying out the indenture, any financing document or resolution may be treated as a part of operating expenses of the university unless otherwise paid as part of the special debt service requirements in accordance with the financing transaction proceedings.

(c) Whether or not any securities issued pursuant to sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, are of the form and character to qualify as negotiable instruments under the terms of title 42a, the securities are hereby made negotiable instruments within the meaning of and for all purposes of said title 42a, subject only to the provisions of the securities.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 8, 45; P.A. 01-132, S. 153; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, S. 57.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995; P.A. 01-132 amended Subsec. (a) to replace provision that any pledge made by the university “is and shall be deemed a statutory lien as provided in subsection (2) of section 42a-9-102” with provision that such pledge “is and shall be deemed a statutory lien and, except as expressly provided in this section, is governed by article 9 of title 42a”; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2 amended Subsec. (a) to delete provision making pledges under section subject to article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, effective May 12, 2004, and applicable to any pledge, lien or security interest of this state or any political subdivision of this state in existence on October 1, 2003, or created after that date.

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Sec. 10a-109i. Special External Gift Fund. Endowment Fund for The University of Connecticut. Endowment fund state grant. (a)(1) There is hereby created a Special External Gift Fund to encourage special eligible gifts from the private sector, to be used by the university in furtherance of UConn 2000 pursuant to sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive. The fund shall be administered by the board of trustees, or by the finance committee if so delegated by the board of trustees. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of section 10a-105 or any other provision of the general statutes, there shall be deposited into the fund: (A) Special eligible external gift fund moneys in an amount equal to the special eligible gifts, and (B) interest or other income earned on the investment of moneys in the Special External Gift Fund pending transfer or use of such moneys pursuant to sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive.

(2) Moneys in the Special External Gift Fund may be used to pay costs in connection with any UConn 2000 project or projects and may be added to state or other moneys available or becoming available for any such project; any moneys in the Special External Gift Fund not used to pay costs in connection with any such project or projects may be used to meet special debt service requirements on outstanding securities or for purchase or redemption and cancellation of such securities or by payment thereof at maturity.

(3) The board of trustees shall adopt guidelines with respect to the solicitation of special eligible gifts from private donors. The adoption of such guidelines shall not constitute regulation making as defined in and prescribed by chapter 54.

(b) (1) A permanent Endowment Fund for The University of Connecticut shall be confirmed, established or created to encourage donations from the private sector, with an incentive in the form of an endowment fund state grant, which shall be deposited in the university or in a foundation operating pursuant to sections 4-37e and 4-37f consistent with the deposit of endowment fund eligible gifts, and the net earnings on the principal of which are to be dedicated and made available to the university for endowed professorships, scholarships and programmatic enhancements. The fund shall be administered by the board of trustees, or by a nonprofit entity entrusted for such purpose and created or to be created and qualified as a Section 501(c)(3) organization under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, and preferably constituted and controlled independent of the state and university so as to qualify the interest on state bonds the proceeds of which have been granted for deposit in the endowment fund as excludable from federal taxation under such code and shall, in any event, be held in a trust fund with a bank or trust company separate and apart from all other funds and accounts of the state and university. There shall be deposited into the fund: (A) Endowment fund eligible gifts, (B) endowment fund state grants and (C) interest or other income earned on the investment of moneys in the endowment fund pending application or transfer or use of earnings on the principal thereof for the purposes identified in this subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of this section.

(2) (A) For each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1999, to June 30, 2006, inclusive, as part of the state contract with donors of endowment fund eligible gifts, the Office of Higher Education, in accordance with section 10a-8b, shall deposit in the endowment fund for the university a grant in an amount equal to half of the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts, except as provided in this subparagraph, received by the university or for the benefit of the university for the calendar year ending the December thirty-first preceding the commencement of such fiscal year, as certified by the chairperson of the board of trustees by February fifteenth to (i) the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, (ii) the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, and (iii) the executive director of the Office of Higher Education, provided such sums do not exceed the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment for the fiscal year in which the grant is made. For the fiscal years ending June 30, 1999, and June 30, 2000, the Office of Higher Education shall deposit in the endowment fund for the university grants in total amounts which shall not exceed the endowment fund state grant, as defined in subdivision (7) of section 10a-109c of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 1997, and which shall be equal to the amounts certified by the chairperson of the board of trustees for each such fiscal year of endowment fund eligible gifts received by the university or for the benefit of the university and for which written commitments were made prior to July 1, 1997. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, the funds required to be deposited in the endowment fund pursuant to this subparagraph shall be appropriated to the university for such purpose and not appropriated to the fund established pursuant to section 10a-8b.

(B) For each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 2007, to June 30, 2014, inclusive, as part of the state contract with donors of endowment fund eligible gifts, the Office of Higher Education, in accordance with section 10a-8b, shall deposit in the endowment fund for the university a grant in an amount equal to one-quarter of the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts, except as provided in this subdivision, received by the university or for the benefit of the university for the calendar year ending the December thirty-first preceding the commencement of such fiscal year, as certified by the chairperson of the board of trustees by February fifteenth to (i) the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, (ii) the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, and (iii) the executive director of the Office of Higher Education, provided such sums do not exceed the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment for the fiscal year in which the grant is made. Endowment fund eligible gifts that meet the criteria set forth in this subdivision, made by donors during the period from January 1, 2005, to June 30, 2005, shall continue to be matched by the Office of Higher Education in an amount equal to one-half of the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts received. Commitments by donors to make endowment fund eligible gifts for two or more years that meet the criteria set forth in this subdivision and that are made for the period prior to December 31, 2004, but ending before December 31, 2012, shall continue to be matched by the Office of Higher Education in an amount equal to one-half of the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts received through the commitment.

(C) In any such fiscal year in which the eligible gifts received by the university exceed the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment for such fiscal year, the amount in excess of such endowment fund state grant maximum commitment for such fiscal year shall be carried forward and be eligible for a matching state grant in any succeeding fiscal year, from the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, inclusive, subject to the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment for such fiscal year. Any endowment fund eligible gifts that are not included in the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts certified by the chairperson of the board of trustees pursuant to this subparagraph may be carried forward and be eligible for a matching state grant in any succeeding fiscal year from the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, inclusive, subject to the endowment fund state matching grant maximum commitment for such fiscal year.

(3) Moneys in the endowment fund shall be invested pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of section 10a-109i in such obligations as are eligible for investment of pension funds by the Treasurer provided any deposit in a bank or money market or other banking or money market arrangement, such as repurchase agreement, shall be fully secured unless otherwise insured by a federal corporation and the net earnings of the endowment fund shall be used solely for the purposes for which the fund has been established. There shall be no commingling of the investments of the endowment fund with any other fund or account of the state or the university.

(4) The board of trustees shall adopt guidelines with respect to the solicitation of endowment fund eligible gifts from private donors. Private donations shall not be construed to include proceeds of federal grants but may include proceeds of municipal grants.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 9, 45; P.A. 97-293, S. 8, 26; P.A. 98-252, S. 28, 52, 80; 98-259, S. 8, 17; P.A. 01-141, S. 12, 16; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 65; P.A. 06-135, S. 9; P.A. 11-48, S. 285; P.A. 12-156, S. 48; P.A. 13-261, S. 5.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995; P.A. 97-293 amended Subsec. (b)(2)(A) to add provisions re deposit of funds by the Department of Higher Education, to delete provisions concerning state appropriations and bonding, to change the match from 100% to 50% of the total amount of eligible gifts except as provided in the Subpara. for fiscal years ending June 30, 1999, and June 30, 2000, to add subclauses (ii) and (iii), to substitute cap of the Endowment Fund state grant maximum commitment for specific dollar amounts and to make technical changes, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 98-252 amended Subsec. (b)(1) to provide for the deposit in the university or a foundation operating pursuant to Secs. 4-37e and 4-37f and to make a technical change and amended Subsec. (b)(2) to allow gifts not included in the amount certified by the chairperson to be carried forward and be eligible for a matching state grant in a succeeding fiscal year, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 98-259 amended Subsec. (b)(2) to delete Subparas. (B) to (D), effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 01-141 amended Subsec. (b)(2) to extend the program to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, effective July 1, 2001; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3 amended Subsec. (b)(2) by designating existing language re match in an amount equal to half as Subpara. (A) and amended same to provide for match terminating with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, by adding new Subpara. (B) re match in an amount equal to one quarter and by designating existing language re eligible gifts in excess of state grant maximum commitment as Subpara. (C), effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-135 amended Subsec. (b)(2)(B) by adding provision re endowment fund eligible gifts made during the period from January 1, 2005, to June 30, 2005, effective July 1, 2006; pursuant to P.A. 11-48, “Department of Higher Education” and “Commissioner of Higher Education” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Board of Regents for Higher Education” and “president of the Board of Regents for Higher Education”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 12-156 amended Subsec. (b)(2) by replacing “Board of Regents for Higher Education” with “Office of Higher Education” and replacing references to president of Board of Regents for Higher Education with references to executive director of Office of Higher Education, effective June 15, 2012; P.A. 13-261 amended Subsec. (b)(2)(C) to make technical changes, effective July 11, 2013.

See Sec. 10a-8c re restrictions on appropriations.

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Sec. 10a-109j. Interest rate agreements. The university may enter into any investment or program of investment or contract which the university by resolution of its board of trustees adopting a statement of policy to moderate interest rate fluctuations determines to be necessary or appropriate to place the securities or investments of the university, on the interest rate, currency, cash flow, or other basis identified therein, including, but not limited to, contracts commonly known as interest rate swap agreements or currency swap agreements; provided, however, that any determination by the university to exercise such power to moderate interest rate fluctuations or enter into any investment or program of investment or contract respecting interest rates, currency, cash flow or other similar agreement, including, but not limited to, interest rate or currency swap agreements, shall not be effective until and unless the Treasurer of the state or his deputy appointed pursuant to section 3-12 has approved such agreement or agreements. The approval of the State Treasurer or his deputy shall be based on documentation provided by the university that it has sufficient assured revenues or project revenues, as applicable to meet the financial obligation associated with such agreements.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 10, 45.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995.

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Sec. 10a-109k. Trust funds. (a) All money received by the university pursuant to the authority of sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, except endowment fund state grants that match endowment fund eligible gifts received on or after January 1, 1996, shall be construed, with the approval of the Treasurer, to be state funds held by the State Treasurer or, within the meaning of section 3-13c, trust funds and shall be held and applied solely as provided in said section 10a-109i or in the indenture of trust or resolution of the board of trustees authorizing the financing document. Any officer to whom, or any bank, trust company or other fiscal agent or trustee to which any money shall be paid shall act as trustee of that money and shall hold and apply the money for that purpose, subject to section 10a-109i or such regulations as the resolution or indenture may provide.

(b) Interest earnings on the proceeds of any securities secured by a state debt service commitment, including any accrued interest remaining after all costs of issuance have been paid, shall be credited to the General Fund.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 11, 45; P.A. 98-252, S. 29, 80.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995; P.A. 98-252 added the exception for certain endowment funds state grants for purposes of construing money received by the university as state funds, effective July 1, 1998.

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Sec. 10a-109l. Remedies. Any holder of securities, and the trustee under any resolution or indenture, except to the extent the rights given may be restricted by the resolution authorizing the issuance of securities or an indenture or applicable financing document, may, by action, mandamus or other proceeding, protect and enforce any and all rights under the laws of the state or granted under sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, or under the resolution, financing documents or indenture, including the appointment of a receiver of pledged amounts or a project, and may enforce and compel the performance of any duty required by said sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, or by the resolution, financing document or indenture to be performed by any officer mentioned in said sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, or by the university, including the collecting of assured revenues, project revenues, rates, fees and charges. Any such suit, action or proceeding shall be brought for the benefit of all the holders of securities.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 12, 45.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995.

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Sec. 10a-109m. Refunding indebtedness. Pursuant to sections 10a-109f and 10a-109g, the university may enter into financing documents and issue securities for the purpose of refinancing securities, including the payment of any redemption premium on the securities or any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of redemption of those obligations, and if deemed advisable by the university for the additional purpose of construction or enabling the construction of improvements, extensions, enlargements or additions of the project or projects in connection with which the securities to be refunded have been issued. The university may also borrow and issue securities for the combined purpose of refunding any securities then outstanding or if authorized by law, refunding general obligation debt of the state, including the payment of any redemption premiums on the securities or general obligation debts of the state, and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of redemption of those obligations, and paying all or any part of the cost of acquiring or constructing or enabling the acquisition or construction of any additional project or projects or part of a project, or any improvements, extensions, enlargements or additions of any project or projects. The incurring of indebtedness for refunding purposes and the issuance of securities in connection with the indebtedness, the maturities and other details, the rights and remedies of the holders and the rights, powers, privileges, duties and obligations of the university with respect to the indebtedness are governed by sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, insofar as the same may be applicable. In the event the university refunds general obligation debt of the state not previously issued to finance any project or projects, the Treasurer of the state is authorized to discharge the university from an amount of its obligations to reimburse the state for debt service on general obligation debt of the state issued to finance any project or projects that is equivalent to the general obligation debt of the state actually being refunded by the issuance of bonds under sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive. Equivalent amounts must be determined on the basis of the discounted present value of all such obligations. Any refunding of securities secured by the state debt service commitment shall be conditioned upon a certification of the Treasurer that the refunding is reasonably expected as of the date of the certification to achieve, as a result of the sale of such refunding securities and the investment and application of the proceeds of such sale, net debt service savings.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 13, 45.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995.

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Sec. 10a-109n. Construction by the university of capital improvements. (a) For the period from July 1, 2001, to June 30, 2027, or until completion of the UConn 2000 infrastructure improvement program, whichever is later, the university shall have charge and supervision of the design, planning, acquisition, remodeling, alteration, repair, enlargement or demolition of any real asset or any other project on its campuses.

(b) (1) The university shall cause to be prepared, proposed construction standards for all projects. The proposed standards shall, subject to applicable law, include, among other things, provisions relating to the quality and type of materials to be used, provisions for safety, fire protection, health and sanitation, provisions for the installation of fixtures, furnishings, equipment, machinery and apparatus, and construction features.

(2) Pursuant to such construction standards in effect at such time, the university shall cause to be prepared, within the costs available therefor, the detailed plans and specifications for each project. The university may from time to time modify, or authorize modifications to, such detailed plans and specifications, provided the plans and specifications as so modified shall comply with the construction standards, if any, adopted pursuant to sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, and in effect at the time of the modifications, and the provisions of section 10a-109e are complied with.

(3) The university shall identify the scope of work and hire, and contract with persons with the necessary experience and capability to perform such scope of work.

(4) The university may contract with a design professional for the design of any project, with a general contractor for the construction of any project; and with one or more prime trade contractors with respect to such construction work if the university determines that to do so will be in the public interest of the state.

(c) (1) Any construction contract to which the university is a party may include a provision that the design professional who designed the project, or an architect or professional engineer or construction manager retained or employed specifically for the purpose of supervision, may supervise the work to be performed through to completion and ensure that the materials furnished and the work performed are in accordance with the drawings, plans, specifications and contracts therefor.

(2) (A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B) of this subdivision, any total cost basis contract or other contract for the construction of a university project which is estimated to cost more than five hundred thousand dollars, shall be publicly let by the university. The university shall give notice to contractors interested in prequalifying to submit a project proposal or bid, by posting any such notice on the university web site and on the State Contracting Portal. The notice to prequalify shall contain the requirement that contractors be prequalified pursuant to section 4a-100, a statement of the time and place where the responses shall be received and such additional information as the university deems appropriate. Upon receipt of such responses, the university shall select each contractor who has been prequalified pursuant to section 4a-100 and has shown itself able to post surety bonds required by such contract and has demonstrated that it possesses the financial, managerial and technical ability and the integrity necessary and without conflict of interest for faithful and efficient performance of the work provided for therein. The university shall evaluate whether each such contractor is responsible and qualified based on its experience with projects similar to that for which the bid or proposal is to be submitted and based on objective written criteria included in the application to request prequalification with respect to such contract. The university shall also consider whether a contractor, and any subcontractor on the contractor's previous projects, has been in compliance with the provisions of part III of chapter 557 and chapter 558 during the previous five calendar years.

(B) Notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph (A) of this subdivision, the board of trustees may approve a total cost basis contract or other contract for the construction of a university project which is estimated to cost more than five hundred thousand dollars that has not been publicly let pursuant to the provisions of said subparagraph (A), provided the board deems the contract to address an emergency.

(3) The university shall thereafter give notice to those so prequalified by the university pursuant to subdivision (2) of this section of the time and place where the public letting shall occur and shall include in such notice such information of the work required as appropriate. Each bid or proposal shall be kept sealed until opened publicly at the time and place as set forth in the notice soliciting such bid or proposal. The university shall not award any construction contract, including, but not limited to, any total cost basis contract, after public letting, except to the responsible qualified contractor, submitting the lowest bid or proposal in compliance with the bid or proposal requirements of the solicitation document. The university may, however, waive any informality in a bid or proposal, and may either reject all bids or proposals and again advertise for bids or proposals or interview at least three responsible qualified contractors and negotiate and enter into with any one of such contractors that construction contract which is both fair and reasonable to the university.

(4) The notice to each contractor prequalified to submit a proposal or bid and the construction contract, including each total cost basis contract, awarded by the university shall contain such other terms and conditions, and such provisions for penalties as the university may deem appropriate.

(5) No payments shall be made by the university on account of any contract for the project awarded by or for the university until the bills or estimates presented for such payment shall have been duly certified to be correct by the university. No payments shall be made from any other fund on account of any contract for any project awarded by or for the university until the bills or estimates presented for such payment shall have been duly certified to be correct by the university.

(6) Provision shall be made in each contract to the effect that payment is limited to the amount provided therein and that no liability of the university or state shall and may be incurred beyond such amount.

(7) The university shall require, for the protection of the state and the university, such deposits, bonds and security in connection with the submission of bids or proposals, the award of construction contracts and the performance of work as the university shall determine to be appropriate and in the public interest of the state.

(8) Any contract awarded by the university shall be a contract with the state acting through the university.

(9) The university shall not enter into a construction manager at-risk project delivery contract that does not provide for a maximum guaranteed price for the cost of construction which shall be determined not later than the time of the receipt and approval by the university of the trade contractor bids. Each construction manager at-risk shall invite bids and give notice of opportunities to bid on project elements, by posting any such invitation or notice on the State Contracting Portal. Each bid shall be kept sealed until opened publicly at the time and place as set forth in the notice soliciting such bid. The construction manager at-risk shall, after consultation with and approval by the university, award any related contracts for project elements to the responsible qualified contractor, who shall be prequalified pursuant to section 4a-100, submitting the lowest bid in compliance with the bid requirements, provided (A) the construction manager at-risk shall not be eligible to submit a bid for any such project element, and (B) construction shall not begin prior to the determination of the maximum guaranteed price, except for the project elements of site preparation and demolition that have been previously put out to bid and awarded.

(10) If the university designates a project as suitable for a design-build contract, the university may enter into a single contract with a design-builder recommended by a selection panel and selected by the university. The university shall give notice of such project and specifications for such project by posting such notice on the State Contracting Portal. The university shall establish a selection panel for each project to score the qualifications and past performance of each design-builder who submits a competitive proposal to the university for such project. The selection panel shall score the qualifications and past performance of each design-builder using a predetermined scoring method developed by the university and provided to each design-builder in advance of such design-builder's development of the competitive proposal. The selection panel's scoring method may be unique to each project, but shall consist of combining the score of each design-builder's qualifications and past performance and evaluating the technical merit of the competitive proposal and each design-builder's projected project cost. The design-build contract shall (A) include, but not be limited to, such project elements as permitting, engineering, design, construction and, if applicable, site acquisition, and (B) be based on the competitive proposal submitted by the design-builder that is selected by the university. No design-build contract for which the total cost is estimated to be more than five hundred thousand dollars may be awarded to a design-builder who is not prequalified for the project in accordance with section 4a-100. Such design-build contracts shall state the responsibilities of the design-builder to deliver a completed and acceptable project on a date certain and the maximum costs of the project and, if applicable, as a separate item, the cost of any site acquisition. The university shall determine all other requirements and conditions for such competitive proposals, selection of a design-builder and other awards and shall have sole responsibility for all other aspects of such design-build contracts.

(d) For the purposes of part III of chapter 557, a project undertaken by the university shall be deemed to be a state public works project and consist of public buildings.

(e) (1) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, any license, permit, and approval required or permitted to be issued and any administrative action required or permitted to be taken pursuant to the general statutes in connection with any project by the university shall be issued or taken upon application to the particular commissioner or commissioners having jurisdiction over such license, permit, approval or other administrative action or such other state official as such commissioner shall designate. As used in this section, the term commissioner shall mean commissioners if more than one commissioner has jurisdiction over the subject matter and their designee, if any. No agency, commission, council, committee, panel or other body whatsoever other than such commissioner shall have jurisdiction over or cognizance of any licenses, permits, approvals or administrative actions concerning any project and no notice of any tentative determination or any final determination regarding any such license, permit, approval or administrative action and no notice of any such license, permit, approval or administrative action shall be required except as expressly provided pursuant to this subsection. For purposes of sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, a capital project is a state facility and accordingly, no ordinance, law or regulation promulgated by or any authority granted to any municipality or any other political subdivision of the state shall apply to a capital project. The State Properties Review Board shall have jurisdiction over any project in the same manner as provided in chapter 60 for a priority higher education facility project. Such commissioner may issue licenses and permits, give such approval and take such administrative action as shall be necessary or desirable.

(2) All applications, supporting documentation and other records submitted to the commissioner and pertaining to any application for any license, permit, approval or other administrative action, together with all records of the proceedings of the commissioner relating to any license, permit, approval or administrative action shall be a public record and shall be made, maintained and disclosed in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, as defined in section 1-200.

(3) All applications for licenses, permits, approvals and other administrative action required by any applicable provision of the general statutes shall be submitted to the commissioner as provided in subdivision (1) of this subsection.

(4) (A) Any hearing regarding all or any part of any project, provided for by this section, shall be conducted by the particular commissioner having jurisdiction over the applicable license, permit, approval or other administrative action. Legal notice of such hearing shall be published in a newspaper having general circulation in an area which includes the municipality in which the particular part of such project is proposed to be built or is being built not more than ten nor less than five days in advance of such hearing.

(B) In rendering any decision in connection with any project, the commissioner shall weigh all competent material and substantial evidence presented by the applicant and the public in accordance with the applicable statute. The commissioner shall issue written findings and determinations upon which the commissioner's decision is based. Such findings and determinations shall consist of evidence presented, including such matters as the commissioner deems appropriate, provided such matters, to the extent applicable to the particular permit, shall include the nature of any major adverse health and environmental impact of any project. The commissioner may reverse or modify any order or action at any time on the commissioner's own motion. The procedure for such reversal or modification shall be the same as the procedure for the original proceeding.

(C) Any administrative action taken by any commissioner in connection with any project may be appealed by an aggrieved party to the superior court for the judicial district of New Britain in accordance with the provisions of section 4-183, except as otherwise provided in sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive. Such appeal shall be brought not later than ten days after the date of mailing to the parties to the proceeding of a notice of such order, decision or action by certified mail, return receipt requested, and the appellant shall serve a copy of the appeal on each party listed in the final decision at the address shown in such decision. Failure to make such service within such ten days on parties other than the commissioner who rendered the final decision may not, in the discretion of the court, deprive the court of jurisdiction over such appeal. Within ten days after the service of such appeal, or within such further time as may be allowed by the court, the commissioner who rendered such decision shall cause any portion of the record that had not been transcribed to be transcribed and shall cause either the original or a certified copy of the entire record of the proceeding appealed from to be transmitted to the reviewing court. Such record shall include the commissioner's findings of fact and conclusions of law, separately stated. If more than one commissioner has jurisdiction over the matter, such commissioners shall issue joint findings of fact and conclusions of law. Such appeal shall state the reasons upon which it is predicated and, notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, shall not stay the development of any project. The commissioner who rendered such decision shall appear as the respondent. Such appeals to the superior court shall each be privileged matters and shall be heard as soon after the return date as practicable. A court shall render its decision not later than twenty-one days after the date that the entire record, with the transcript, is filed with the court by the commissioner who rendered the decision.

(D) The court shall not substitute its judgment for that of the commissioner as to the weight of the evidence presented on a question of fact. The court shall affirm the decision of the commissioner unless the court finds that substantial rights of the party appealing such decision have been materially prejudiced because the findings, inferences, conclusions or decisions of the commissioner are: (i) In violation of constitutional or statutory provisions, (ii) in excess of the statutory authority of the commissioner, (iii) made upon unlawful procedure, (iv) affected by an error of law, (v) clearly erroneous in view of the reliable, probative and substantial evidence on the whole record, or (vi) arbitrary, capricious or characterized by abuse of discretion or clearly unwarranted exercise of discretion.

(E) If the court finds material prejudice, it may sustain the appeal. Upon sustaining an appeal, the court may render a judgment which modifies the decision of the commissioner, orders particular action of the commissioner or orders the commissioner to take such action as may be necessary to effect a particular action and the commissioner may issue a permit consistent with such judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an applicant may file an amended application and the commissioner may, pursuant to the procedures set forth in sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, consider an amended application for an order, permit or other administrative action following court action.

(F) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3-125, in consultation with the Attorney General, the university may use the legal services of any private attorney, in connection with the construction, operation and maintenance of any project. The board of trustees shall determine the effective and efficient method or methods of legal services to accomplish the construction, operation and maintenance of all projects, taking into account the capacity, cost and expense of private counsel for such services and the capacity and direct and indirect cost and expense of and identified by the Attorney General for such services.

(f) On or before December thirty-first and June thirtieth of each year, the university shall submit a report to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to finance, revenue and bonding. Such report shall include the following information: (1) The names and addresses of contractors and subcontractors performing repair, addition, alteration and new construction on the university's campuses in the previous six calendar months, (2) the extent to which such contractors and subcontractors have been in compliance with the provisions of part III of chapter 557 and the provisions of chapter 558, and (3) any actions taken by the university to cooperate with the Labor Department in the enforcement of said provisions.

(P.A. 88-230, S. 1, 12; P.A. 90-98, S. 1, 2; P.A. 93-142, S. 4, 7, 8; P.A. 95-220, S. 4–6; 95-230, S. 14, 45; P.A. 97-47, S. 31; P.A. 99-215, S. 24, 29; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-3, S. 7; P.A. 06-134, S. 8, 20; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7, S. 60; P.A. 10-104, S. 7; P.A. 13-177, S. 1; 13-233, S. 7; P.A. 17-230, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 444; P.A. 18-103, S. 4; P.A. 19-32, S. 3.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995 (Revisor's note: P.A. 88-230, 90-98, 93-142 and 95-220 authorized substitution of “judicial district of Hartford” for “judicial district of Hartford-New Britain”, effective September 1, 1998); P.A. 97-47 amended Subsec. (e)(2) by substituting “the Freedom of Information Act, as defined in Sec. 1-18a” for “chapter 3”; P.A. 99-215 replaced “judicial district of Hartford” with “judicial district of New Britain” in Subsec. (e)(4)(C), effective June 29, 1999; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-3 amended Subsec. (a) to delete provision requiring filing with the Commissioner of Public Works for capital improvement projects and, notwithstanding the provisions of chapters 59 and 60, to vest in the university the authority re such projects, amended Subsec. (c)(2) to provide for consideration of bidders' compliance with certain provisions of chapters 557 and 558, amended Subsec. (e) to make a technical change in Subdiv. (1) and to delete provisions for a master process for certain approvals necessary for capital improvements in Subdiv. (3) and added Subsec. (f) re report to the General Assembly, effective July 1, 2002; P.A. 06-134 amended Subsec. (a) to eliminate language notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 59 or 60, effective January 1, 2007, and amended Subsec. (c) by adding language in Subdivs. (2), (3) (4) and (7) re total cost basis contract, monetary threshold requiring project to be publicly let, exception for emergencies and notification to prequalify through advertisement, by replacing “bidder” with “contractor” and adding “proposal” to language re bid throughout said Subdivs. and by adding Subdiv. (9) re construction manager at-risk project delivery contracts, effective July 1, 2006; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7 amended Subsec. (a) to extend the end date from June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2016, effective November 2, 2007; P.A. 10-104 amended Subsec. (a) by extending period during which university has charge and supervision to June 30, 2018, or until completion of UConn 2000 program and made a technical change, effective June 3, 2010; P.A. 13-177 amended Subsec. (c) to add provision re inviting bids and giving notice of opportunities to bid by posting advertisement on the Internet in Subdiv. (9) and add Subdiv. (10) re design-build contracts, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 13-233 amended Subsec. (a) to extend period during which university has charge and supervision from June 30, 2018, to June 30, 2024, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 17-230 amended Subsec. (c) to replace provision re advertising notice in newspapers with posting notice on State Contracting Portal in Subdivs. (2)(A) and (9), and to replace provision re posting notice of design-build contracts on the Internet with posting notice on the State Contracting Portal in Subdiv. (10); June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “June 30, 2024” with “June 30, 2027”, effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 18-103 made a technical change in Subsec. (e)(4)(C), effective July 1, 2018; P.A. 19-32 made technical changes in Subsec. (e)(4).

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Sec. 10a-109o. Jurisdiction of Superior Court. Performance of governmental function. (a) The Superior Court shall have jurisdiction to enter judgment against the university founded upon any express contract, including any indemnification provision thereof, between the university and the purchasers and subsequent owners and transferees of securities issued or contracted to be issued by the university, or between the university and any other parties to any financing documents entered into, pursuant to sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive. Any action brought under this section shall be brought in the superior court for the judicial district of Hartford. The jurisdiction conferred upon the Superior Court by this section includes any set-off, claim or demand whatever on the part of the university against any plaintiff commencing an action under this section. Such action shall be tried to the court without a jury. All legal defenses except governmental immunity shall be reserved to the university. Any action brought under this section shall be privileged in respect to assignment for trial upon motion of either party.

(b) The carrying out by the university of the powers and duties conferred upon it by sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, shall be deemed to be the performance of an essential governmental function. Sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, shall in no way limit or restrict the power and authority of the state to borrow money for the benefit of the university.

(P.A. 88-230, S. 1, 12; P.A. 90-98, S. 1, 2; P.A. 93-142, S. 4, 7, 8; P.A. 95-220, S. 4–6; 95-230, S. 15, 45.)

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Sec. 10a-109p. Liberal construction. Sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, being necessary for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 16, 45.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995.

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Sec. 10a-109q. Tax exemption; investment of proceeds. (a) Securities, their transfer and the income therefrom, including revenues derived from the sale thereof shall at all times be free from taxation except for estate and gift taxes imposed by the state or any political subdivision thereof but the interest on such securities shall be included in the computation of any excise or franchise tax.

(b) Provision may be made in the financing documents or in the financing transaction proceedings for the establishment of a rebate fund and the monitoring thereof and for the execution of a tax regulatory agreement and covenants with respect thereof in order for the interest on the securities to be and to continue to be excludable from gross income for federal income tax purposes pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, to the extent permitted and provided for by such code. The State Treasurer may establish such requirements for compliance with said internal revenue code on securities secured by the state debt service commitment.

(c) Pending the use and application of any proceeds from the sale of any securities issued pursuant to sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, such proceeds may be deposited or invested in obligations permitted for state general obligation bonds pursuant to subsection (f) of section 3-20 and subject to the more particular provisions of the financing transaction proceedings.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 17, 45.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995

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Sec. 10a-109r. Securities as legal investment. The securities of the university shall be legal investments in which all public officers and public bodies of the state, its political subdivisions, all municipalities and municipal subdivisions, all insurance companies and associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, all banks, bankers, banking associations, trust companies, savings banks and savings associations, including savings and loan associations, building and loan associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business, all administrators, guardians, executors, board of trustees and other fiduciaries, and all other persons whatsoever who are now or may be authorized to invest in securities of the state, may properly and legally invest funds, including capital, in their control, or belonging to them. Those securities are also made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and received by all public officers and bodies of the state or any agency or political subdivision and all municipalities and public corporations for any purpose for which the deposit of securities of the state is now or may be authorized by law.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 18, 45.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995.

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Sec. 10a-109s. Applicability of indemnification and immunity statutes. The provisions of sections 4-165 and 5-141d shall apply to any employee or official of the university or other state agency who is discharging his duties or acting within the scope of his employment in furtherance of the UConn 2000 infrastructure improvement program, as defined in subdivision (25) of section 10a-109c.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 19, 45; P.A. 97-293, S. 23, 26.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995; P.A. 97-293 made a technical change, effective July 1, 1997.

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Sec. 10a-109t. Validity of securities. Securities bearing duly authorized signatures of officers or officials holding office on the date of signing shall be valid and binding obligations, notwithstanding that before the delivery of and payment for the obligation any or all persons whose signatures appear on the securities shall have ceased to be such officers or officials. The validity of securities shall not be dependent on nor affected by the validity or regularity of any proceedings to acquire any project financed with the proceeds of securities.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 20, 45.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995.

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Sec. 10a-109u. Covenants. The state covenants with the purchasers and all other subsequent owners and transferees of securities issued by the university, in consideration of the acceptance of and payment for the securities, until the securities, together with the interest thereon, with interest on any unpaid installment of interest and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceeding on behalf of the owners, are fully met and discharged or unless expressly permitted or otherwise authorized by the terms of each contract and agreement made or entered into by or on behalf of the university with or for the benefit of such owners, that the state: (1) Will not create or cause to be created any lien or charge on the assets or revenues pledged to secure such securities, other than a lien or pledge created thereon pursuant to sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive; (2) will not in any way impair the rights, exemptions or remedies of the owners; and (3) will not limit, modify, rescind, repeal or otherwise alter the rights or obligations of the university to take such action as may be necessary to fulfill the terms of the resolution authorizing the issuance of the securities; provided nothing in sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive, shall preclude the state from exercising its power, through a change in law, to limit, modify, rescind, repeal or otherwise alter said sections if and when adequate provision shall be made by law for the protection of the holders of outstanding securities, pursuant to the resolution or indenture under which the securities are issued. The university is authorized to include this covenant of the state, as a contract of the state, in any agreement with the owners of any securities, in any credit facility or reimbursement agreement with respect to the securities and in any agreement authorized by sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 21, 45.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995.

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Sec. 10a-109v. Perpetual succession. The university shall have perpetual succession as a body politic and corporate and an instrumentality and agency of the state. Such succession shall continue until the existence of the university is terminated by law, but no such law shall take effect as long as the university shall have securities and contracts outstanding unless adequate provision by law is made for the discharge of the obligations of the university to the holders of such securities and for the protection of those entering into contracts with the university. Upon termination or dissolution of the university pursuant to law, all of its rights and properties shall pass to and be vested in its successor entity and if there is no successor entity, in the state.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 22, 45; P.A. 06-196, S. 74.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995; P.A. 06-196 made technical changes, effective June 7, 2006.

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Sec. 10a-109w. Authorization for relocation of West Hartford campus. Campus projects under UConn 2000. (a) Prior to any authorization pursuant to section 10a-109f to implement the relocation of The University of Connecticut, West Hartford campus to a location in the city of Hartford or to any other location, the board of trustees of the university shall authorize such relocation by a resolution approved by a majority vote of the board. Such resolution shall be in addition to any decision of the board pursuant to said section 10a-109f. No funds shall be authorized for such relocation until the board has approved the resolution, except that the board may expend funds for the Hartford relocation feasibility study prior to the approval of the resolution. The feasibility study required pursuant to this section shall include consideration, in consultation with officials of the town of West Hartford, of alternative uses for facilities and land of the West Hartford campus, provided such uses do not include correctional facilities, juvenile detention facilities, state agency residential facilities or community residential facilities of any kind. If the board authorizes the relocation of the West Hartford campus, the university, in concurrence with officials of the state and the town of West Hartford, shall make recommendations to the Office of Policy and Management for alternative uses for the facilities and land of the existing West Hartford campus.

(b) With regard to any authorization by the board of trustees of the university, pursuant to said section 10a-109f, to issue securities for a campus project or to initiate or expand academic programs at any campus of the university under the UConn 2000 infrastructure improvement program, the board shall find and determine that the university has considered (1) whether there are opportunities to coordinate programs and services between the university and other state public and independent institutions of higher education and (2) whether there are opportunities to share programs and facilities with other public and independent institutions of higher education in conjunction with the projects being considered by the university. The findings and determinations of the board shall be included in the reports required pursuant to sections 10a-109x and 10a-109y.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 23, 45; 95-270, S. 10, 11; P.A. 11-70, S. 7.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995; P.A. 95-270 added feasibility study requirements, required concurrence, instead of consultation with state and town officials and added land to the considerations for alternative uses for the campus, effective June 22, 1995; P.A. 11-70 replaced “branch” and “branch campus” with “campus”.

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Sec. 10a-109x. Reports to General Assembly on the status and progress of UConn 2000 and Next Generation Connecticut. (a) Not later than October 1, 1995, and semiannually thereafter, the university shall report to the Governor and the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to the Department of Education, to finance, revenue and bonding, and to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies on the status and progress of UConn 2000. Each report shall include, but not be limited to: (1) Information on the number of projects and securities authorized, approved and issued hereunder including, relative to such projects, project costs, timeliness of completion and any problems which have developed in implementation, and a schedule of projects remaining and their expected costs; (2) the amount of revenue available from all sources for such remaining projects and expected receipts for such remaining projects for the succeeding four quarters; (3) the amount of money raised from private sources for the capital and endowment programs and the progress made in the development and implementation of the fund-raising program; and (4) any cooperative activities with other public and independent institutions of higher education commenced in the preceding six months. Each such report shall, for the preceding six-month period, (A) specify the moneys credited to such fund on account of, or derived from, each source of state and federal revenue, (B) specify the amount of investment earnings from the fund, (C) specify the moneys from such fund applied and expended for (i) the payment of debt service requirements, (ii) the payment of the principal of and interest on securities issued hereunder and general obligation bonds of the state issued for university capital improvement purposes, and (iii) each budgeted account under the annual budget appropriation made to the university.

(b) Commencing January 1, 2000, the first semiannual report in each year submitted in accordance with subsection (a) of this section shall include such information as requested by the bonding subcommittee of the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to finance, revenue and bonding, commerce and higher education including but not limited to: (1) The use of bond funds in the current fiscal year, (2) projected use of bond funds for the next succeeding fiscal year, (3) an updated master plan for the balance of the project, and (4) the use of Connecticut-owned businesses, including businesses owned by women and minorities. In the event that said bonding subcommittee determines that there has been a significant change in the economic circumstances of the state sufficient to warrant recommendations for modification of the program, the subcommittee may make recommendations for appropriate action to said committee.

(c) Not later than January 1, 2016, and annually thereafter, the university shall report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to finance, revenue and bonding, commerce and higher education on its progress toward achieving the goals set forth in the plan developed pursuant to section 10a-109oo. The report shall include a summary of the research and economic development activities of the university, including, but not limited to, (1) research proposals, research awards and research expenditures; (2) student applications, student enrollment and degrees awarded at the bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels; (3) industry partnerships including joint projects, consortium projects and incubator support; (4) a summary of university and joint university-industry intellectual property activities, including the number of disclosures, patents, licenses, new businesses and entrepreneurial activities established with university technologies; and (5) identification of research and innovation benchmarks and an analysis of the university's progress in meeting such benchmarks in comparison to nationally ranked research universities.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 24, 45; P.A. 99-241, S. 9, 66; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-3, S. 8; P.A. 13-233, S. 8.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995; P.A. 99-241 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) requiring additional information in reports commencing January 1, 2000, effective July 1, 1999; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-3 made a technical change in Subsec. (a) and amended Subsec. (b) to make a technical change and to provide for a recommendation of the bonding subcommittee in case of certain changes, effective July 1, 2002; P.A. 13-233 added Subsec. (c) re report on plan developed pursuant to Sec. 10a-109oo, effective July 1, 2013.

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Sec. 10a-109y. Performance review report to General Assembly. On January 15, 2006, and January 15, 2011, the university shall submit to the Governor and to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education and finance, revenue and bonding, a five-year UConn 2000 performance review report detailing for each project undertaken to date under the program the progress made and the actual expenditures compared to original estimated costs. In addition, the report shall include a summary of programs, services and facilities which the university coordinates with other public and independent institutions of higher education. Not later than sixty calendar days after receipt of said report, such joint committees shall consider the report and determine whether there has been insufficient progress in implementation of UConn 2000 or whether there has been significant cost increases over original estimates as a result of actions taken by the university. If so, the committees may make recommendations for appropriate action to the university and to the General Assembly.

(P.A. 95-230, S. 25, 45; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-3, S. 9.)

History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-3 provided for a five-year performance review report in 2006 and 2011, effective July 1, 2002.

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Sec. 10a-109z. Audit of projects. The Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut shall select and appoint independent auditors, as defined in subdivision (7) of section 4-230, to annually conduct an audit of any project of UConn 2000, as defined in subdivision (25) of section 10a-109c. Such audit shall review invoices, expenditures, cost allocations and other appropriate documentation in order to reconcile project costs and verify conformance with project budgets, cost allocation agreements and applicable contracts. The Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut shall ensure that the auditors have unfettered access to any documentation the auditors need to review any such project. The auditors appointed pursuant to this section may serve in such capacity for five consecutive years and shall not be reappointed at the expiration of such period. Any such auditor appointed pursuant to this section shall not perform any nonaudit services for the university during such period. The auditors shall report annually to the General Assembly on their findings from the audits conducted pursuant to this section.

(P.A. 06-134, S. 1; P.A. 07-166, S. 13.)

History: P.A. 06-134 effective July 1, 2006; P.A. 07-166 changed requirement that auditors review all invoices, expenditures, cost allocations and other appropriate documentation of any project of UConn 2000 to permit review of a sample of invoices, expenditures, cost allocations and other appropriate documentation, and added requirement that auditors report annually to the General Assembly on their findings from audits conducted, effective July 1, 2007.

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Sec. 10a-109aa. Review of audit reports. The Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut shall annually review reports of audits of any project of UConn 2000, as defined in subdivision (25) of section 10a-109c, pursuant to sections 2-90 and 10a-109z. Such review shall be initially conducted by the board without the presence of university staff members.

(P.A. 06-134, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 06-134 effective July 1, 2006.

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Sec. 10a-109bb. Construction management oversight committee. Duties. (a) There is established a construction management oversight committee consisting of (1) four members appointed jointly by the Governor, the speaker of the House of Representatives, the majority leader of the House of Representatives, the minority leader of the House of Representatives, the president pro tempore of the Senate, the majority leader of the Senate and the minority leader of the Senate, and (2) three members appointed by the Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut, who shall be members of said board. The board of trustees shall replace any such committee member appointed by said board if such committee member's term on the board expires or otherwise ends. The members appointed pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection shall have expertise in the fields of construction management, architectural design or construction project management. The chairperson of the committee shall be designated by the board of trustees. All appointments of the initial committee shall be made no later than July 20, 2006. Appointments shall be for four consecutive years, except that two of the initial appointments pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection shall be for three consecutive years. Upon expiration of the initial members' terms and every four years thereafter, new members shall be appointed in accordance with the procedures for appointment set forth in this section. A majority of the members of the committee shall constitute a quorum for the conduct of business. The committee shall act by a majority vote of the members. The committee shall maintain a record of its proceedings in such form as it determines, provided such record indicates attendance and all votes cast by each member.

(b) The construction management oversight committee established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall review and approve the policies and procedures developed by The University of Connecticut to undertake any project of UConn 2000, as defined in subdivision (25) of section 10a-109c, concerning the selection of design professionals and contractors, as defined in subdivision (27) of section 10a-109c, contract compliance, building and fire code compliance, deferred maintenance, as defined in subdivision (29) of section 10a-109c, and an annual budget for such maintenance prepared pursuant to section 10a-109dd, project and program budgets and schedules and the authorization and review of contract changes. The committee shall prepare, biennially, a summary of construction performance of UConn 2000 based on reports submitted at least quarterly by the construction assurance office established pursuant to section 10a-109cc, and shall, upon the completion of each named project pursuant to section 10a-109e, conduct a review of the university's management of such project for its conformance with the applicable policies and procedures governing construction undertaken pursuant to section 10a-109n. Such review of completed projects shall incorporate information, including, but not limited to, that which is derived from reviews of the reports submitted at least quarterly by the construction assurance office, in accordance with section 10a-109cc.

(c) The construction management oversight committee established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall, upon completion of each assessment, summary and review conducted pursuant to this section, submit such assessment, summary and review to the Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut. The board shall initially review each such assessment, summary and review without the presence of university staff members.

(P.A. 06-134, S. 3; P.A. 07-166, S. 9.)

History: P.A. 06-134 effective July 1, 2006; P.A. 07-166 made technical changes, effective June 19, 2007.

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Sec. 10a-109cc. Construction assurance office. Not later than August 1, 2006, the Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut shall establish the construction assurance office. Positions in the office shall be paid positions. The office shall be led by a director who shall be responsible for reviews of construction performance of UConn 2000, as defined in subdivision (25) of section 10a-109c, and shall report at least quarterly to the construction management oversight committee in accordance with section 10a-109bb and to the president of The University of Connecticut.

(P.A. 06-134, S. 4; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 133.)

History: P.A. 06-134 effective July 1, 2006; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 deleted “full-time” re director, effective October 31, 2017.

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Sec. 10a-109dd. Deferred maintenance needs. The university, as defined in subdivision (26) of section 10a-109c, shall conduct reviews of deferred maintenance needs at the university and annually submit to the construction management oversight committee established pursuant to section 10a-109bb, an annual budget concerning deferred maintenance, as defined in subdivision (29) of section 10a-109c.

(P.A. 06-134, S. 9.)

History: P.A. 06-134 effective July 1, 2006.

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Sec. 10a-109ee. Expenditure of deferred maintenance funds. The university, as defined in subdivision (26) of section 10a-109c, shall provide that all funds allocated to UConn 2000, as defined in subdivision (25) of section 10a-109c, for the purpose of deferred maintenance, as defined in subdivision (29) of section 10a-109c, shall be expended for such purpose.

(P.A. 06-134, S. 13.)

History: P.A. 06-134 effective July 1, 2006.

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Sec. 10a-109ff. Temporary assignment of personnel to Department of Administrative Services. The Commissioner of Administrative Services and the president of The University of Connecticut shall enter into and maintain a memorandum of understanding that shall provide for the temporary assignment of personnel from The University of Connecticut at Storrs Division of Public Safety to the Department of Administrative Services for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the Fire Safety Code and the State Building Code with respect to buildings or building projects that (1) are part of UConn 2000, as defined in subdivision (25) of section 10a-109c, (2) do not meet threshold limits, as defined in section 29-276b, and (3) are initiated during the period of time in which the memorandum is in effect.

(P.A. 06-134, S. 12; P.A. 11-51, S. 90; P.A. 13-247, S. 200.)

History: P.A. 06-134 effective July 1, 2006; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” and “Department of Public Safety” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Construction Services” and “Department of Construction Services”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 13-247, “Commissioner of Construction Services” and “Department of Construction Services” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Administrative Services” and “Department of Administrative Services”, respectively, effective July 1, 2013.

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Sec. 10a-109gg. Issuance of bonds for UConn health network initiatives. (a) The State Bond Commission shall have power, from time to time, to authorize the issuance of bonds of the state in one or more series and in principal amounts in the aggregate, not exceeding twenty-two million dollars.

(b) The proceeds of the sale of the bond issuance described in subsection (a) of this section shall be used by the Office of Policy and Management, in consultation with the chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the university, for the purpose of the UConn health network initiatives in the following manner: (1) Five million dollars of such proceeds shall be used by Hartford Hospital to develop a simulation and conference center on the Hartford Hospital campus to be run exclusively by Hartford Hospital; (2) five million dollars of such proceeds shall be used to fulfill the initiative for a primary care institute on the Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center campus; (3) five million dollars of such proceeds shall be used to fulfill the initiatives for a comprehensive cancer center and The University of Connecticut-sponsored health disparities institute; (4) five million dollars of such proceeds shall be used to fulfill the initiatives for the planning, design, land acquisition, development and construction of (A) a cancer treatment center to be constructed by, or in partnership with, The Hospital of Central Connecticut, provided such cancer treatment center is located entirely within the legal boundaries of the city of New Britain, (B) renovations and upgrades to the oncology unit at The Hospital of Central Connecticut, and (C) if certificate of need approval is received, a Permanent Regional Phase One Clinical Trials Unit located at The Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain; and (5) two million dollars of such proceeds shall be used to fulfill the initiatives for patient room renovations at Bristol Hospital. In the event that the cancer treatment center authorized pursuant to subdivision (4) of this subsection is built in whole or in part outside the legal boundaries of the city of New Britain, The Hospital of Central Connecticut shall repay the entire amount of the proceeds used to fulfill the initiatives for the planning, design, development and construction of such center.

(c) The provisions of section 3-20 or the exercise of any right or power granted pursuant to said section that are not inconsistent with the provisions of sections 10a-109b to 10a-109e, inclusive, 10a-109g, 10a-109n, 10a-109gg to 10a-109mm, inclusive, and 32-41s are hereby adopted and shall apply to all bonds authorized by the State Bond Commission pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section. Temporary notes issued in anticipation of the money to be derived from the sale of any such bonds so authorized may be issued in accordance with section 3-20 and from time to time renewed. Such bonds shall mature at such time or times not exceeding twenty years from their respective dates as may be provided in or pursuant to the resolution or resolutions of the State Bond Commission authorizing such bonds.

(d) None of the bonds described in subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall be authorized, except upon a finding by the State Bond Commission that there has been filed with it a request for such authorization that (1) has been signed by the secretary or by or on behalf of the university, and (2) contains such other terms and conditions as the commission, in its discretion, may require.

(P.A. 10-104, S. 8; 10-179, S. 81; P.A. 11-75, S. 6; P.A. 18-91, S. 78; P.A. 19-56, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 10-104 effective June 3, 2010; P.A. 10-179 amended Subsec. (b) by providing that from proceeds of sale of bond issuance, $5,000,000 shall be used by Hartford Hospital to develop simulation and conference center to be run exclusively by Hartford Hospital, $5,000,000 shall be used for primary care institute, and $10,000,000 shall be used for institute for clinical and translational science, and by making conforming changes effective May 7, 2010; P.A. 11-75 amended Subsec. (a) to decrease aggregate amount from $30,000,000 to $22,000,000, amended Subsec. (b)(3) to delete provisions re institute for clinical and translational science and $5,000,000 of proceeds to be used to fulfill initiatives for such institute, deleted former Subsec. (b)(4) re Connecticut Institute for Nursing Excellence, redesignated existing Subsec. (b)(5) and (6) as Subsec. (b)(4) and (5), deleted former Subsec. (d)(2) re $100,000,000 of federal, private or nonstate money and redesignated existing Subsec. (d)(3) as Subsec. (d)(2), effective July 8, 2011; P.A. 18-91 amended Subsec. (b) by deleting reference to Sec. 10a-109ii, effective May 14, 2018; P.A. 19-56 made technical changes in Subsec. (b), effective June 28, 2019.

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Sec. 10a-109hh. Bonds issued for UConn health network initiatives to be general obligations. The bonds issued pursuant to section 10a-109gg shall be general obligations of the state and the full faith and credit of the state of Connecticut are pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on said bonds as the same become due, and accordingly and as part of the contract of the state with the holders of said bonds, appropriation of all amounts necessary for punctual payment of such principal and interest is hereby made, and the Treasurer shall pay such principal and interest as the same become due.

(P.A. 10-104, S. 9.)

History: P.A. 10-104 effective June 3, 2010.

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Sec. 10a-109ii. NICU transfer and increase in bed capacity of John Dempsey Hospital. Discontinuation of NICU transport services. Section 10a-109ii is repealed, effective May 14, 2018.

(P.A. 10-104, S. 10; P.A. 11-75, S. 7; P.A. 13-234, S. 146; P.A. 18-91, S. 80.)

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Sec. 10a-109jj. Connecticut Institute for Primary Care Innovation. The Connecticut Institute for Primary Care Innovation is a collaborative enterprise between The University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center that will focus on research and training relevant to primary care and will not engage in or manage the delivery of health care services. The institute shall, at all times, operate in accordance with the requirements and policies of The University of Connecticut School of Medicine and the requirements of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center shall enter into an affiliation agreement that shall provide that the institute shall not be constrained by the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services with regard to research and training pertaining to primary health care or any report or recommendation generated from such research. The institute shall disclose any research findings or results concerning medically accepted best practices.

(P.A. 10-104, S. 11.)

History: P.A. 10-104 effective June 3, 2010.

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Secs. 10a-109kk and 10a-109ll. Connecticut Institute for Nursing Excellence. Contribution of federal, private or other nonstate money; notification. Sections 10a-109kk and 10a-109ll are repealed, effective July 8, 2011.

(P.A. 10-104, S. 12, 14; P.A. 11-75, S. 9.)

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Sec. 10a-109mm. UConn health network initiatives and The University of Connecticut Health Center new construction and renovation. Report. Not later than January 1, 2011, and biennially thereafter until completion of the UConn health network initiatives and The University of Connecticut Health Center new construction and renovation, The University of Connecticut shall report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to higher education, public health, finance, revenue and bonding, and appropriations on the progress of the UConn health network initiatives and The University of Connecticut Health Center new construction and renovation.

(P.A. 10-104, S. 15.)

History: P.A. 10-104 effective June 3, 2010.

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Sec. 10a-109nn. Assessment of progress in meeting purposes of Next Generation Connecticut. Not later than December 31, 2019, and five years thereafter, the university shall conduct an assessment of the university's progress in meeting the purposes set forth in subsection (c) of section 10a-109b. The university shall select peers from nationally ranked research universities to conduct such assessment. The selected peers shall seek input from the chairpersons and ranking members of the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to finance, revenue and bonding, commerce and higher education prior to the completion of such assessment.

(P.A. 13-233, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 13-233 effective July 1, 2013.

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Sec. 10a-109oo. Plan for Next Generation Connecticut investments. The University of Connecticut shall develop a comprehensive plan to guide Next Generation Connecticut investments. The university shall develop such plan in consultation with: (1) An industry advisory board selected by the university that shall be representative of the state's science, technology, engineering and math-related industries and shall include, but not be limited to, chief science officers or chief technology officers from such industries; (2) an independent research and development advisory firm selected by the university; (3) university academic leaders; (4) federal and private funding agencies; and (5) research and innovation benchmarks identified by the university and an analysis of the university's progress in meeting such benchmarks in comparison to nationally ranked research universities. Such plan shall identify strategic growth areas for the research, innovation, workforce and economic development needs of Connecticut. The industry advisory board, independent research and development advisory firm and university academic leaders shall seek input from the chairpersons and ranking members of the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to finance, revenue and bonding, commerce and higher education prior to the completion of the plan. The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut shall review and approve such plan not later than July 1, 2014.

(P.A. 13-233, S. 3.)

History: P.A. 13-233 effective July 1, 2013.

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Sec. 10a-110. (Formerly Sec. 10-124). Research foundation. Definitions. As used in sections 10a-110a to 10a-110g, inclusive, “university” means The University of Connecticut; “board” means the board of trustees of the university; “foundation” means the research foundation established in accordance with section 10a-110a; “employee” means any member of the faculty or staff of the university 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.

(1949 Rev., S. 3278.)

History: Sec. 10-124 transferred to Sec. 10a-110 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

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Sec. 10a-110a. (Formerly Sec. 10-125). Establishment and management of foundation. 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-110 to 10a-110g, inclusive; (3) file and prosecute patent applications and obtain patents, relating to inventions or discoveries which the university 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-110 to 10a-110g, inclusive. 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 university. The entire beneficial ownership thereof shall vest in the university and the board shall exercise complete control thereof.

(1949 Rev., S. 3279.)

History: Sec. 10-125 transferred to Sec. 10a-110a in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

See Sec. 4-73a re determination of actual rate for fringe benefits for funds of the constituent units of the state system of higher education.

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Sec. 10a-110b. (Formerly Sec. 10-126). Ownership of inventions. The university shall own, or participate in the ownership of, and shall be entitled to place in the custody of the foundation to the extent of such ownership, any invention as follows:

(1) In any instance in which any invention in category A 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, the entire right, title and interest in and to such invention shall automatically vest in the university. In each such instance, the employee inventor shall be obligated, by reason of his or her employment by the university, to disclose his or her invention fully and promptly to an authorized executive of the university; to execute instruments of assignment; and 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;

(2) With respect to inventions in category B, to the extent to which an employee has or employees have disposable interests therein, all such interests shall automatically vest in the university and, by reason of such employee's or employees' employment by the university, such employee or employees shall be obligated to take the same actions required by subdivision (1) of this section with respect to inventions in category A; and

(3) 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.

(1949 Rev., S. 3280; P.A. 12-129, S. 4.)

History: Sec. 10-126 transferred to Sec. 10a-110b in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 12-129 reorganized section into introductory provision and Subdivs. (1) to (3), required automatic vesting in the university of the entire right, title and interest in and to inventions in categories A and B, and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2012.

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Sec. 10a-110c. (Formerly Sec. 10-127). Employees to share in proceeds. Each employee who conceives any invention and discharges his obligations to the university 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.

(1949 Rev., S. 3281.)

History: Sec. 10-127 transferred to Sec. 10a-110c in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

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Sec. 10a-110d. (Formerly Sec. 10-128). Disagreements; procedure. Disagreements as to the allocation of any invention to one of said categories, or as to the obligations of any employee or due performance thereof, or as to participation of any employee in net proceeds, or as to rights or obligations with reference to inventions in any category, shall be disposed of as follows: (a) By voluntary arbitration of all relevant issues, if the disagreeing parties approve and agree to be bound by the decision upon such arbitration; (b) by compulsory arbitration if that is provided for in any applicable contract between the disagreeing parties; (c) by recourse to courts of appropriate jurisdiction within the state if arbitration cannot be resorted to under either subsection (a) or (b) of this section.

(1949 Rev., S. 3282.)

History: Sec. 10-128 transferred to Sec. 10a-110d in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

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Sec. 10a-110e. (Formerly Sec. 10-129). Regulations for arbitration. 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 university or of the foundation.

(1949 Rev., S. 3283.)

History: Sec. 10-129 transferred to Sec. 10a-110e in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

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Sec. 10a-110f. (Formerly Sec. 10-130). Enforcement of regulations. The board is authorized to make and enforce regulations to govern the operations of the university and the foundation in accordance with the provisions of sections 10a-110 to 10a-110g, inclusive.

(1949 Rev., S. 3284.)

History: Sec. 10-130 transferred to Sec. 10a-110f in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

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Sec. 10a-110g. (Formerly Sec. 10-131). Rights as to products of authorship. The provisions of sections 10a-110 to 10a-110g, inclusive, shall not entitle the university 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 it may make with reference to any such subject matter.

(1949 Rev., S. 3285.)

History: Sec. 10-131 transferred to Sec. 10a-110g in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

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Secs. 10a-110h to 10a-110l. Reserved for future use.

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Sec. 10a-110m. The University of Connecticut technology park. Bond authorization. (a) For the purposes described in subsection (b) of this section, the State Bond Commission shall have the power, from time to time, to authorize the issuance of bonds of the state in one or more series and in principal amounts not exceeding in the aggregate one hundred sixty-nine million five hundred thousand dollars, provided one hundred fifty-four million five hundred thousand dollars of said authorization shall be effective July 1, 2012.

(b) (1) The proceeds of the sale of said bonds, to the extent of the amount stated in subsection (a) of this section, shall be used by The University of Connecticut for the purpose of the development of a technology park and related buildings at the university, including planning, design, construction and improvements, land acquisition, purchase of equipment, on-site and off-site utilities and infrastructure improvements.

(2) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the university shall have the charge and supervision of all aspects of the project authorized under this section, as provided in section 10a-109n. Such charge and supervision shall extend to any off-campus improvements undertaken as part of said project. The university shall work in consultation with the town of Mansfield regarding any on-site or off-site utilities that are financed pursuant to this section.

(c) All provisions of section 3-20, or the exercise of any right or power granted thereby, which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this section are hereby adopted and shall apply to all bonds authorized by the State Bond Commission pursuant to this section, and temporary notes in anticipation of the money to be derived from the sale of any such bonds so authorized may be issued in accordance with said section 3-20 and from time to time renewed. Such bonds shall mature at such time or times not exceeding twenty years from their respective dates as may be provided in or pursuant to the resolution or resolutions of the State Bond Commission authorizing such bonds. None of said bonds shall be authorized except upon a finding by the State Bond Commission that there has been filed with it a request for such authorization which is signed by or on behalf of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and states such terms and conditions as said commission, in its discretion, may require. Said bonds issued pursuant to this section shall be general obligations of the state and the full faith and credit of the state of Connecticut are pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on said bonds as the same become due, and accordingly and as part of the contract of the state with the holders of said bonds, appropriation of all amounts necessary for punctual payment of such principal and interest is hereby made, and the State Treasurer shall pay such principal and interest as the same become due.

(P.A. 11-57, S. 92; P.A. 14-98, S. 30.)

History: P.A. 11-57 effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 14-98 amended Subsec. (a) to decrease aggregate authorization from $172,500,000 to $169,500,000, effective July 1, 2014.

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Sec. 10a-110n. Program to facilitate recruitment of eminent faculty and research staff. Bond authorization. (a) For the purposes described in subsection (b) of this section, the State Bond Commission shall have the power from time to time to authorize the issuance of bonds of the state in one or more series and in principal amounts not exceeding in the aggregate forty-six million one hundred thousand dollars, provided (1) six million four hundred sixty thousand dollars of such authorization shall be effective July 1, 2021, (2) eleven million seven hundred twenty-nine thousand two hundred dollars of such authorization shall be effective July 1, 2022, (3) fourteen million four hundred eighty-nine thousand two hundred dollars of such authorization shall be effective July 1, 2023, (4) nine million two hundred twenty thousand dollars of such authorization shall be effective July 1, 2024, and (5) four million two hundred one thousand six hundred dollars shall be effective July 1, 2025.

(b) The proceeds of the sale of such bonds, to the extent of the amount stated in subsection (a) of this section, shall be used by the Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut for the purposes of subsection (c) of section 10a-104c.

(c) All provisions of section 3-20, or the exercise of any right or power granted thereby, that are not inconsistent with the provisions of this section are hereby adopted and shall apply to all bonds authorized by the State Bond Commission pursuant to this section. Temporary notes in anticipation of the money to be derived from the sale of any such bonds so authorized may be issued in accordance with section 3-20 and from time to time renewed. Such bonds shall mature at such time or times not exceeding twenty years from their respective dates as may be provided in or pursuant to the resolution or resolutions of the State Bond Commission authorizing such bonds. None of such bonds shall be authorized except upon a finding by the State Bond Commission that there has been filed with it a request for such authorization that is signed by or on behalf of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and states such terms and conditions as said commission, in its discretion, may require. Such bonds issued pursuant to this section shall be general obligations of the state and the full faith and credit of the state of Connecticut are pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on such bonds as the same become due, and accordingly and as part of the contract of the state with the holders of such bonds, appropriation of all amounts necessary for punctual payment of such principal and interest is hereby made, and the State Treasurer shall pay such principal and interest as the same become due.

(P.A. 21-111, S. 100.)

History: P.A. 21-111 effective July 1, 2021.

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Sec. 10a-111. (Formerly Sec. 10-132). State Ornithologist. Said trustees shall appoint a member of the faculty of said university as a State Ornithologist, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the board and shall serve without compensation. He shall investigate the food supply of the birds of this state and determine, so far as possible, the effect of birds upon insects or other sources of damage to fruits and vegetation, experiment with a view to discovering the best methods for the protection of fruits and crops from birds, insects or other sources of destruction thereof, act in an advisory capacity as to legislation concerning such matters and issue such reports and bulletins as he thinks expedient.

(1949 Rev., S. 3286.)

History: Sec. 10-132 transferred to Sec. 10a-111 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

See Sec. 22-8 re duties of Commissioner of Agriculture with regard to avian ecology.

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Sec. 10a-111a. (Formerly Sec. 11-1d). State Historian. (a) The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut, shall appoint an appropriate history scholar to serve as State Historian, who shall serve at the pleasure of the board of trustees.

(b) The State Historian shall: (1) Edit or supervise the editing and publication of the public records of the state, (2) provide information and advice to members of the government at all levels, (3) assist the State Board of Education in efforts to promote the teaching of history in schools and teacher preparation programs, (4) respond to requests for advice from historical societies, (5) respond to requests for information on the state's history, (6) make public appearances and addresses on the state's history, (7) prepare bibliographies and other research aids relating to the history of the state, and (8) promote by appropriate informative and educational programs the celebration or commemoration of significant historical events.

(P.A. 84-14, S. 11, 14; P.A. 01-173, S. 42, 67; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 210(e), 237; P.A. 04-20, S. 3; 04-205, S. 5; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, S. 30; P.A. 11-48, S. 158; P.A. 21-193, S. 8.)

History: P.A. 01-173 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and clarified that the State Historian serves at the pleasure of the board of trustees, and added Subsec. (b) re duties, effective July 1, 2001; Sec. 11-1d transferred to Sec. 10a-111a in 2003; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-20 amended Subsec. (b)(1) to substitute Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film established pursuant to Sec. 10-392 for Connecticut Historical Commission established pursuant to Sec. 10-320b, effective August 20, 2003; P.A. 04-205, effective June 3, 2004, and May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, effective May 12, 2004, both replaced Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film with Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (b) to replace “Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, established pursuant to section 10-392” with “Culture and Tourism Advisory Committee, established pursuant to section 10-393”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 21-193 amended Subsec. (b) by deleting requirement that State Historian be a member of the Culture and Tourism Advisory Committee and making conforming changes, effective July 13, 2021.

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Sec. 10a-112. (Formerly Sec. 10-132a). State Archaeologist. Duties. (a) Until such time as a State Archaeologist is appointed pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, the trustees of The University of Connecticut shall designate a member of the faculty of said university to serve as State Archaeologist, who shall serve without additional compensation. He shall conduct research in the ethnohistory of the Indians of this region and of their archaeology, and shall cooperate with agencies of this state and of the federal government and with private individuals and corporations in an effort to protect and preserve archaeological remains which are threatened with destruction or loss by the construction of dams or highways or otherwise.

(b) The Board of Directors of the State Museum of Natural History shall appoint a State Archaeologist and staff for the Office of Archaeology established pursuant to section 10a-112a. The State Archaeologist shall have the following powers and duties: (1) To supervise the care and study of the archaeological collection of the State Museum of Natural History; (2) to coordinate (A) the archaeological salvage of properties threatened with destruction, (B) public and private archaeological research and the encouragement of the highest possible standards in archaeological investigations, and (C) the preservation of native American and other human osteological remains and cemeteries with the Department of Economic and Community Development, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the Indian Affairs Council and other state agencies; (3) to conduct research on the state's prehistory and history and disseminate the results of such research through publications and other means; (4) to educate the public about the significance and fragility of archaeological resources; (5) to respond to inquiries about the state's archaeological resources; and (6) to maintain comprehensive site files and maps.

(1963, P.A. 304; P.A. 87-466, S. 1; P.A. 03-278, S. 26; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 210(e); P.A. 04-20, S. 3; 04-205, S. 5; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, S. 30; P.A. 11-48, S. 159.)

History: Sec. 10-132a transferred to Sec. 10a-112 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 87-466 added Subsec. (b) which specified the duties of the state archaeologist and designated museum of natural history board of directors as appointing authority on and after October 1, 1987; P.A. 03-278 made technical changes in Subsec. (b), effective July 9, 2003; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-20 replaced Connecticut Historical Commission with Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film, effective August 20, 2003; P.A. 04-205, effective June 3, 2004, and May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, effective May 12, 2004, both replaced Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film with Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (b)(2)(C) to replace “Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism” with “Department of Economic and Community Development”, effective July 1, 2011.

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Sec. 10a-112a. State Museum of Natural History, Office of Archaeology. The museum of natural history at The University of Connecticut shall be the State Museum of Natural History. The museum shall (1) acquire, collect, preserve, research and interpret living, extinct and fossil organisms, anthropological and archaeological specimens, rocks and minerals, with preference to those native to this state; (2) preserve related scientific equipment, instruments and data; and (3) prepare public exhibits at the museum and educational exhibits and programs that may be used by colleges, universities, schools, libraries, institutions, appropriate state agencies or other public organizations. There shall be an Office of Archaeology at the museum. The museum shall be within The University of Connecticut.

(P.A. 85-563, S. 1, 4; P.A. 87-466, S. 2; P.A. 89-271, S. 1, 2.)

History: P.A. 87-466 required establishment of an office of archaeology; P.A. 89-271 replaced provision establishing museum as an independent entity within The University of Connecticut for administrative purposes only with provision establishing museum within The University of Connecticut.

See Sec. 10-383 re designation of museum as repository for artifacts found and data gathered during archaeological investigations on state lands.

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Sec. 10a-112b. Board of Directors of the State Museum of Natural History. (a) The Board of Directors of the State Museum of Natural History shall consist of the following: The Commissioners of Education, Energy and Environmental Protection, Economic and Community Development and Agriculture, or their designees, and not more than eleven members appointed by the president of The University of Connecticut, of which seven shall be professors, at least one from each of the following fields: Anthropology or archaeology, geology, vertebrate biology, invertebrate biology, botany, systematic biology and any other field the president deems appropriate. The terms of one-third of the initial appointments shall expire one year after the date of such appointment; the terms of one-third shall expire two years after the date of such appointment and the terms of one-third shall expire three years after the date of such appointment. The president shall appoint members to succeed members whose terms expire. Such members shall serve for a term of three years. Members shall be eligible for reappointment.

(b) The board shall annually elect a chairman and other officers.

(P.A. 85-563, S. 2, 4; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(e), 210(e); P.A. 04-20, S. 3; 04-189, S. 1; 04-205, S. 5; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, S. 30; P.A. 11-48, S. 160; 11-80, S. 1.)

History: June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-20 replaced the State Historical Commission with the Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film, effective August 20, 2003, and replaced Commissioner of Agriculture with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004; P.A. 04-205, effective June 3, 2004, and May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, effective May 12, 2004, both replaced Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film with Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism (Revisor's note: The word “State” was added editorially by the Revisors re “State Museum of Natural History” for consistency); P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (a) to replace director of the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism with Commissioner of Economic and Community Development as a board member, effective July 1, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.

See Sec. 10-383 re establishment of collections policy.

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Sec. 10a-112c. Duties of board of directors. Director. The board of directors shall be responsible for the planning and establishment of the State Museum of Natural History and shall recommend a director who shall be appointed by the president of The University of Connecticut.

(P.A. 85-563, S. 3, 4.)

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Secs. 10a-112d to 10a-112f. Reserved for future use.

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Sec. 10a-112g. State Museum of Art. Advisory committee. (a) The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut shall be the State Museum of Art. The museum shall collect, preserve and research works of art and prepare public exhibits at the museum and educational exhibits and programs that may be used by colleges, universities, schools, libraries, institutions, appropriate state agencies or other public organizations.

(b) The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut may establish an advisory committee to advise the president of The University of Connecticut with respect to the policies, collections, programs, activities and operations of the State Museum of Art.

(P.A. 87-188, S. 1, 2; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 210(e); P.A. 04-20, S. 3; 04-205, S. 5; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, S. 30; P.A. 11-48, S. 161, 285; P.A. 13-299, S. 7.)

History: June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-20 replaced State Commission on the Arts with Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film, effective August 20, 2003; P.A. 04-205, effective June 3, 2004, and May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, effective May 12, 2004, both replaced Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film with Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (b) to replace “Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism” with “Culture and Tourism Advisory Committee” and replace “said commission” with “the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development”, effective July 1, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 11-48, “Commissioner of Higher Education” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “president of the Board of Regents for Higher Education” in Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-299 amended Subsec. (b) to replace provisions re establishment of advisory committee, membership and election of chairperson with provision authorizing Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut to establish advisory committee, effective July 1, 2013.

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Secs. 10a-112h to 10a-112l. Reserved for future use.

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Sec. 10a-112m. State Museum of Puppetry. The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at The University of Connecticut shall be designated the State Museum of Puppetry. Said museum shall collect, preserve and research works of puppetry and puppet theater and prepare public exhibits at the museum and educational exhibits and programs that may be used by institutions of higher education, public and nonpublic schools, libraries, appropriate state agencies or other public institutions.

(P.A. 03-237, S. 1.)

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Sec. 10a-113. (Formerly Sec. 10-133). Encouragement of sheep industry. Said trustees may supervise and establish such distribution of demonstration flocks of sheep throughout the state and conduct such experiments and investigations as seem to them most conducive to the encouragement of the sheep industry throughout the state.

(1949 Rev., S. 3288; 1959, P.A. 300, S. 1.)

History: 1959 act made this section discretionary rather than mandatory and deleted provision for expenditures from the dog license funds for this purpose; Sec. 10-133 transferred to Sec. 10a-113 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

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Sec. 10a-114. (Formerly Sec. 10-134). Loans for construction of housing for students and financing by the State of Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority for dormitories. The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut is authorized to accept, on behalf of said university, the use of money, without interest charges, for the construction, upon lands owned by said university, of houses which shall serve as living quarters for student groups, such houses to be under the administrative control of said trustees. Said trustees shall enter into an agreement providing for amortization, without interest, of the principal of each such loan through payment from rents and the terms of each such agreement shall be subject to approval by the Attorney General. Any construction of housing, however, shall be subject to the provisions of section 4b-23. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, said trustees are authorized to approve the execution of loan agreements with the State of Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority in connection with the issuance of bonds by said authority pursuant to the provisions of chapter 187 to finance dormitories for students on such terms and conditions as said board shall determine are necessary or appropriate to effect said financing.

(1949 Rev., S. 3289; P.A. 75-425, S. 30, 57; P.A. 92-261, S. 14, 17.)

History: P.A. 75-425 made housing construction subject to provisions of Sec. 4-26b; Sec. 10-134 transferred to Sec. 10a-114 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 92-261 provided for the financing of dormitories by the State of Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority.

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Sec. 10a-114a. Loans for projects for The University of Connecticut Health Center. (a) The University of Connecticut may, when authorized by the board of trustees, borrow money from the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority for any project for The University of Connecticut Health Center for which the authority would be authorized to make loans to a participating health care institution pursuant to chapter 187 and to refinance any such borrowing, and in connection with such borrowing, The University of Connecticut is authorized to enter into any loan or other agreement and to make such covenants, representations and indemnities as the board of trustees deems necessary or desirable to obtain such loans from the authority or to facilitate the issue of bonds by the authority to finance such loans, including agreements with providers of letters of credit, insurance or other credit facilities for such financings. Any such agreement, covenant, representation and indemnification shall be a full faith and credit obligation of The University of Connecticut. The University of Connecticut may secure such obligations by a pledge of the revenues to be derived from the operation or use of a clinical services project or projects, from rates, amounts, rents, fees, charges and other income and receipts from clinical services or from other general revenues of The University of Connecticut Health Center, provided any such pledge shall not violate any covenant of the state under section 10a-109u. Bonds of the authority issued pursuant to this section to finance a clinical services project for The University of Connecticut Health Center shall be deemed to have been issued to finance a project at a participating health care institution for purposes of chapter 187 and shall be eligible for the benefit of a special capital reserve fund created and established pursuant to subsection (a) of section 10a-186a.

(b) Any pledge made by The University of Connecticut pursuant to this section is and shall be deemed a statutory lien. The lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against The University of Connecticut, irrespective of whether the parties have notice of the claims. Notwithstanding any provision of the Uniform Commercial Code, no instrument by which such a pledge is created need be recorded or filed. Any revenues or other receipts, funds, moneys or income so pledged and thereafter received by The University of Connecticut Health Center shall be subject immediately to the lien of the pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act and such lien shall have priority over all other liens, including without limitation the lien of any person who, in the ordinary course of business, furnishes services or materials to The University of Connecticut.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general statute or public or special act which may require that any revenue from the operation of facilities of The University of Connecticut Health Center or any other revenue of The University of Connecticut Health Center be paid to the State Treasurer for the payment of debt service on any bonds issued by the state for The University of Connecticut Health Center, any revenues pledged by the board of trustees pursuant to this section shall be applied first to the extent necessary to fulfill the obligations for which such revenues are pledged, and only thereafter to the State Treasurer.

(d) The Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority shall not borrow any money or issue any bonds or notes which are secured by a pledge of any revenues of The University of Connecticut Health Center, unless such borrowing or issuance has been approved by the State Treasurer and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management or their deputies. In granting such approval the State Treasurer and the secretary shall consider the adequacy of revenues available to The University of Connecticut Health Center to pay (1) debt service on all the borrowings, bonds or notes issued by the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority for which revenues of The University of Connecticut Health Center are pledged, (2) debt service on all the bonds issued by the state for which revenues of The University of Connecticut Health Center are to be paid to the State Treasurer, and (3) debt service on any other borrowings for which the revenues of The University of Connecticut Health Center have been pledged.

(e) The state covenants with the authority and with the purchasers and all other subsequent owners and transferees of obligations issued by the authority for the benefit of The University of Connecticut Health Center pursuant to this section, in consideration of the financing by the authority and the acceptance of and payment for the securities of the authority, until all obligations of The University of Connecticut and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceeding in connection therewith, are fully met and discharged, unless expressly permitted or otherwise authorized by the terms of each contract and agreement made or entered into by or on behalf of The University of Connecticut with the authority or for the benefit of such other parties, that the state will not (1) create or cause to be created any lien or charge on the assets or revenues pledged to secure such obligations of The University of Connecticut, prior to or on parity with a lien or pledge created thereon pursuant to this section; (2) in any way impair the rights, exemptions or remedies of the authority or the owners of such bonds of the authority; and (3) limit, modify, rescind, repeal or otherwise alter the rights or obligations of The University of Connecticut to take such action as may be necessary to fulfill the terms of its obligations in connection with its borrowing from the authority; provided nothing in this section precludes the state from exercising its power, through a change in law, to limit, modify, rescind, repeal or otherwise alter this section if and when adequate provision is made by law for the protection of the authority and the holders of any outstanding securities of the authority, pursuant to the agreement of The University of Connecticut with the authority and pursuant to the indenture or other instrument under which the bonds of the authority are issued pursuant to this section. The University of Connecticut is authorized to include this covenant of the state, as a contract of the state, in any such agreement with the authority and in any credit facility or reimbursement agreement with respect to the obligations of The University of Connecticut or the obligations of the authority issued for the benefit of The University of Connecticut Health Center.

(f) The Superior Court shall have jurisdiction to enter judgment against The University of Connecticut found upon any express contract, including any indemnification provisions thereof, between The University of Connecticut and the authority, any trustee or underwriter for the authority's bonds issued pursuant to this section, or any bond insurer or other credit facility provider. Any action brought under this section shall be brought in the superior court for the judicial district of Hartford. The jurisdiction conferred upon the Superior Court by this subsection includes any set-off, claim or demand whatever on the part of The University of Connecticut against any plaintiff commencing or joining an action under this subsection. Such action shall be tried to the court without a jury. All legal defenses except governmental immunity shall be reserved to The University of Connecticut. Any action brought under this section shall be privileged in respect to assignment for trial upon motion of either party.

(g) For purposes of this section, “clinical services” means clinical and patient services and programs, both in-patient and ambulatory, and including, but not limited to, university physicians' clinical operations, offered by The University of Connecticut Health Center, including, but not limited to, services at the John Dempsey Hospital, the faculty physician practice or at clinics or other facilities operated by The University of Connecticut Health Center elsewhere in the state, exclusive of educational and research functions; and “clinical services project” means a project to be used principally to provide or support clinical services.

(h) The powers granted pursuant to this section to The University of Connecticut shall be in addition to the powers granted by The University of Connecticut 2000 Act pursuant to sections 10a-109a to 10a-109y, inclusive.

(P.A. 05-255, S. 2; P.A. 06-196, S. 75.)

History: P.A. 05-255 effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-196 made a technical change in Subsec. (c), effective June 7, 2006.

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Sec. 10a-115. (Formerly Sec. 10-135). Agricultural College Fund. The Agricultural College Fund of the state, constituted by virtue of a grant to the state under an Act of the Congress of the United States, approved July 2, 1862, which grant was accepted upon the terms, conditions and restrictions contained in said Act of Congress, as evidenced by an act of the General Assembly passed at a special session December, 1862, shall remain in the custody of the State Treasurer. Said Treasurer shall pay to The University of Connecticut the net income earned by said fund. Said net income shall be computed by deducting from the gross income of said fund all expenses incurred for the conservation and physical maintenance of the assets held in said fund.

(1949 Rev., S. 3290.)

History: Sec. 10-135 transferred to Sec. 10a-115 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

See part II of chapter 32 re Agricultural College Fund.

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Sec. 10a-116. (Formerly Sec. 10-136). Money received under Act of Congress of August 30, 1890. The State Treasurer is directed to pay to the treasurer of The University of Connecticut all moneys received by virtue of an Act of Congress for the endowment and support of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, approved August 30, 1890, the provisions of which act were accepted by this state by an act approved June 11, 1903. The trustees of said university shall annually make and distribute the reports called for by said Act of Congress.

(1949 Rev., S. 3291.)

History: Sec. 10-136 transferred to Sec. 10a-116 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

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Secs. 10a-117 and 10a-118. (Formerly Secs. 10-137 and 10-138). The University of Connecticut Auxiliary Services Fund. The University of Connecticut Educational Extension Fund. Sections 10a-117 and 10a-118 are repealed.

(1949 Rev., S. 3292, 3293; 1957, P.A. 423, S. 1; 495, S. 1; P.A. 75-582, S. 5, 6; P.A. 77-614, S. 73, 610; P.A. 78-57; P.A. 81-275, S. 3; 81-442, S. 7–9; P.A. 82-218, S. 23, 24, 46; 82-314, S. 27, 28, 63; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 86-37, S. 7, 8; P.A. 87-496, S. 62, 63, 110; 87-529, S. 12, 13; P.A. 88-136, S. 31, 32, 37; P.A. 91-256, S. 68, 69.)

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Sec. 10a-119. (Formerly Sec. 10-139). Trust funds for course in agriculture. The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut is authorized to enter into any agreement for the acceptance and disbursement of trust funds for the establishment of a two-year course in agriculture. Said board is authorized to accept money and income from such trusts for the construction and maintenance of buildings and for scholarships and instruction in said course.

(1949 Rev., S. 3295.)

History: Sec. 10-139 transferred to Sec. 10a-119 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

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Sec. 10a-119a. Sea Grant Marine Advisory Service; grants. The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut is authorized to make grants, within available appropriations, to the Sea Grant Marine Advisory Service. The grants shall be used: (1) To provide technical education to the Connecticut marine industry including fin fisherman, shell fishermen, lobstermen, marine operators, the marine recreational industry, town commissions and other citizens of Connecticut; (2) to coordinate marine advisory service educational programs with marine advisory services in other states; and (3) to encourage the development of the marine industry.

(P.A. 84-269, S. 1, 3.)

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Secs. 10a-119b to 10a-119d. Reserved for future use.

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Sec. 10a-119e. Water and land resource management education and training programs. The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources of The University of Connecticut, through the cooperative extension service, may, in consultation and cooperation with the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, design and implement comprehensive education and training programs concerning water and land resource management.

(P.A. 87-493, S. 3, 4; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)

History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.

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Sec. 10a-120. (Formerly Sec. 10-140). Instruction and degrees in pharmacy. The University of Connecticut is authorized to offer instruction in pharmacy as a part of the university's program and to grant suitable degrees. All assets transferred to it and all moneys received in connection with the program of instruction in pharmacy are made available to the trustees of said university for such instruction.

(1949 Rev., S. 3297.)

History: Sec. 10-140 transferred to Sec. 10a-120 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

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Sec. 10a-121. (Formerly Sec. 10-140a). Connecticut Transportation Institute. The University of Connecticut with the cooperation of the Department of Transportation shall plan and develop a program for the establishment of a Connecticut Transportation Institute for education and training in transportation technology. Consideration shall be given to locating the institute in the southeastern campus of The University of Connecticut at Avery Point, Groton. The program shall include, but not be limited to, the following areas: (1) A description of undergraduate and graduate courses for transportation technology; (2) a budget projection for the first five years of operation, including personnel services, other expenses and equipment; (3) a description of a program for continuing education in transportation technology with emphasis on community involvement; and (4) recommendations for the encouragement of participation by other New England states with a view to establishing the institute as a New England Regional Transportation Institute. The Institute shall be operational for the fall semester of 1975.

(P.A. 74-323, S. 1; P.A. 11-70, S. 8.)

History: Sec. 10-140a transferred to Sec. 10a-121 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 11-70 replaced “branch” with “campus”.

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Sec. 10a-122. (Formerly Sec. 10-141). Instruction in physical therapy. The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut is authorized to offer instruction in physical therapy as a part of the university program and to grant suitable degrees. All assets transferred to The University of Connecticut and all moneys received by The University of Connecticut from the New Haven School of Physical Therapy, Incorporated, made available through the termination of the New Haven School of Physical Therapy, Incorporated, are made available to the trustees of said university for such instruction. The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut is authorized to accept any funds made available by any branch of the federal government for such instruction.

(1951, S. 1777d.)

History: Sec. 10-141 transferred to Sec. 10a-122 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

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Sec. 10a-123. (Formerly Sec. 10-141a). Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies. (a) There is established at The University of Connecticut within the school of business administration a Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies.

(b) The purposes, objectives and duties of said center shall be as follows: (1) To conduct studies in real estate and urban economics and to publish and disseminate the findings and results of such studies; (2) to assist the teaching program in real estate offered by The University of Connecticut; (3) to supply material to the Connecticut Real Estate Commission for the preparation by it of examinations for real estate salespersons and brokers, if requested to do so by the commission; (4) to develop and from time to time revise and update materials for use in the extension courses in real estate offered by The University of Connecticut; (5) to assist the Connecticut Real Estate Commission in developing standards for the accreditation of technical education and career schools and other teaching agencies giving courses in the field of real estate and standards for the approval of courses in the field of real estate, as and when requested to do so by the commission.

(February, 1965, P.A. 621, S. 1, 3, 5; P.A. 96-200, S. 28; P.A. 12-116, S. 87; P.A. 17-237, S. 91.)

History: Sec. 10-141a transferred to Sec. 10a-123 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 96-200 substituted “salespersons” for “salesmen” in Subsec. (b); pursuant to P.A. 12-116, “vocational schools” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “technical high schools” in Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 17-237 amended Subsec. (b)(5) by replacing “technical high schools” with “technical education and career schools”, effective July 1, 2017.

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Sec. 10a-124. (Formerly Sec. 10-141b). Advisory committee. Section 10a-124 is repealed, effective July 1, 2013.

(February, 1965, P.A. 621, S. 2; P.A. 13-299, S. 95.)

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Sec. 10a-125. (Formerly Sec. 10-141c). Support of program by license fees. Publications. Receipt of gifts. From each fee received by the Connecticut Real Estate Commission for the issuance or renewal of licenses to real estate brokers for any period subsequent to September 30, 1965, and to salesmen for any period subsequent to September 30, 1971, there shall be paid over by the State Treasurer to The University of Connecticut for the support, maintenance and use of the Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies an amount equal to eight and three-quarters per cent of each broker's license fee and each salesmen's license fee, which amounts shall be irrevocably dedicated to the support, maintenance and use of said center. Said center is authorized, within the limits of the funds received by it, to publish and disseminate its studies and findings and to make a charge therefor and is authorized to receive gifts and grants from foundations, individuals and other sources.

(February, 1965, P.A. 621, S. 4; June, 1971, P.A. 8, S. 93; P.A. 73-118; P.A. 85-454.)

History: 1971 act included real estate salesmen's licenses under provisions of section and replaced deduction of 25% of each fee for purposes of real estate and urban economics study center with deduction of $17.50 from brokers' fees and $5.00 from salesmen's fees; P.A. 73-118 changed initial date for payments from salesmen's fees from September 30, 1965, to September 30, 1971, and reduced amount of payments to $8.75 from brokers' fees and to $2.50 from salesmen's fees; Sec. 10-141c transferred to Sec. 10a-125 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 85-454 provided that the center would receive 8.75% of each license fee, rather than $8.75 from each broker's license fee and $2.50 from each salesmen's license fee.

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Sec. 10a-125a. Center for Entrepreneurship. The University of Connecticut shall establish a Center for Entrepreneurship. The purpose of the center shall be to train the next generation of entrepreneurs in an experiential manner that would assist businesses in the state today. This center shall (1) develop an entrepreneurial program that trains faculty and student inventors in commercialization and business issues and that generates business opportunities; (2) expand the accelerator program of the school of business to provide innovation services to technology-based companies using a proven model of faculty and students working with companies on real time solutions to the company's business problems; and (3) establish an intellectual property law clinic, in conjunction with the law school.

(P.A. 06-83, S. 2; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3, S. 19.)

History: P.A. 06-83 effective July 1, 2006; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3 deleted provision re accelerator program and law clinic located with Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, effective July 1, 2016.

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Sec. 10a-125b. Program to assist small and medium businesses that develop innovations in manufacturing technologies. (a) For the purposes of this section, “small business” means a business located in Connecticut with fifty employees or less, and “medium business” means a business located in Connecticut with fifty-one to one hundred employees.

(b) The University of Connecticut at Storrs, or any campus thereof, in concert with the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, shall establish a program to assist small and medium businesses that develop innovations in advanced manufacturing technologies. The university and the center shall collaborate with small and medium businesses participating in such program. Such program may include, but not be limited to, use of the university's or said center's facilities or equipment or access to university faculty, staff or students or staff of the center. The university and the center shall establish eligibility criteria for such program that shall include, but need not be limited to, minimum levels of contributions required from participating businesses.

(c) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, The University of Connecticut shall provide two hundred fifty thousand dollars of any appropriation for the program established in this section to the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology.

(June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 146.)

History: June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1 effective July 1, 2012.

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Sec. 10a-126. (Formerly Sec. 10-141d). Operation of McCook Hospital. The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut is authorized to operate and control McCook Hospital in accordance with terms of an agreement to be made between the university and the city of Hartford. As used in this section and section 5-268d, McCook Hospital includes the following: (a) McCook Hospital building, (b) Jones Home Infirmary, (c) Jones Home psychiatric in and outpatient facilities, (d) staff house, (e) laundry, (f) outpatient building, (g) space for outpatient facilities to be constructed in the Burgdorf Health Center.

(1967, P.A. 424, S. 1.)

History: Sec. 10-141d transferred to Sec. 10a-126 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

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Sec. 10a-127. (Formerly Sec. 10-141e). Operation of hospital facilities. Uncas-on-Thames Hospital Fund. (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, including, on and after July 1, 1995, 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 Health Center Operating Fund established under the provisions of section 10a-105, 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.

(b) For the period beginning on July 1, 1989, and ending on June 30, 1995, the Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut is authorized to establish and administer a fund, to be known as the Uncas-on-Thames Hospital Fund, for the operation of the Uncas-on-Thames Hospital facilities, clinics and programs. All balance sheet accounts, including assets, liabilities and fund balance, of the Uncas-on-Thames Hospital Fund on June 30, 1995, shall be transferred to the Hospital Fund on July 1, 1995, for the operation of the Uncas-on-Thames Hospital facilities, clinics and programs. Revenues received on and after July 1, 1995, from and in connection with such balance sheet accounts, including moneys received from federal, state, municipal and private sources, shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Hospital Fund for purposes of maintaining operations at the Uncas-on-Thames campus. The sum of four hundred thousand dollars of the Uncas-on-Thames Hospital Fund balance shall be reserved within the Hospital Fund for renovations in conjunction with the possible replacement of equipment at the Uncas-on-Thames Phelps Clinic. If a sum of less than four hundred thousand dollars is required for such renovations, the difference between the amount required for such renovations and four hundred thousand dollars shall be transferred to the General Fund at such time as such renovations have been completed, or a determination has been made that no renovations are necessary.

(c) For the period beginning on July 1, 1989, and ending on June 30, 1995, any revenue received by the state which is attributable to services provided by Uncas-on-Thames Hospital on and after July 1, 1989, and prior to July 1, 1995, shall be credited to the Uncas-on-Thames Hospital Fund.

(1967, P.A. 424, S. 6; P.A. 85-424, S. 1, 3; P.A. 89-268, S. 1, 2, 4; P.A. 91-256, S. 30, 69; P.A. 93-80, S. 43, 67; P.A. 96-158, S. 1, 3; P.A. 97-247, S. 22, 27.)

History: Sec. 10-141e transferred to Sec. 10a-127 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 85-424 added Subsec. (b) re disposition of revenue attributable to the operation of Uncas-on-Thames Hospital; P.A. 89-268 amended Subsec. (a) to provide that the fund not be for the operation of the Uncas-on-Thames Hospital and made a technical change, inserted new Subsec. (b) establishing the Uncas-on-Thames Hospital Fund, relettered Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (c) and provided that certain revenues be credited to the Uncas-on-Thames Hospital Fund rather than the general fund in former Subsec. (b) now (c), and Sec. 2 of the act was designated editorially by the Revisors as a new Subsec. (d) re an evaluation of the fund, to be submitted to the general assembly; P.A. 91-256 changed a reference to the auxiliary services fund to the operating fund and made a technical change; P.A. 93-80 amended Subsec. (b) to extend ending date for administration of hospital fund from June 30, 1993, to June 30, 1995, and to make corresponding changes in dates re reversion of any hospital fund balance to general fund and use of such balance, Subsec. (c) to extend ending date for crediting of revenues to hospital fund from June 30, 1993, to June 30, 1995, and Subsec. (d) to delete reference to evaluation submitted by January 6, 1993, and require evaluation to be submitted by January 4, 1995, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 96-158 amended Subsec. (a) to provide that Hospital Fund shall be used for operation of hospital facilities, clinics and programs of Uncas-on-Thames Hospital on and after July 1, 1995, and amended Subsec. (b) to delete provision that balance in Uncas-on-Thames Hospital Fund on June 30, 1995, shall revert to the General Fund and be credited to The University of Connecticut for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1996, for the operation of Uncas-on-Thames Hospital and to substitute provision that balance in Uncas-on-Thames Hospital Fund on June 30, 1995, shall be transferred to the Hospital Fund on July 1, 1995, for the operation of Uncas-on-Thames Hospital, and earmarked $400,000 of such balance for possible renovations at the Uncas-on-Thames Phelps Clinic, effective May 31, 1996; P.A. 97-247 deleted obsolete Subsec. (d) re Uncas-on-Thames Hospital Fund, effective July 1, 1997.

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Sec. 10a-128. (Formerly Sec. 10-141f). John Dempsey Hospital and The University of Connecticut Health Center accounts receivable as expendable assets. (a) The University of Connecticut may record as assets, and spend not more than ninety per cent of, the book value of accounts receivable that are estimated as collectible at the John Dempsey Hospital and for its clinical programs at The University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington. A report of book value shall be made by the university to the State Comptroller each quarter and verified by the Auditors of Public Accounts as requested by the State Comptroller. The State Comptroller shall record the value on the books of the state and approve expenditures against said value.

(b) The University of Connecticut may record as assets, and spend not more than seventy per cent of, the book value of accounts receivable that are estimated as collectible at The University of Connecticut Health Center for its university physicians' clinical operations, provided no expenditures against said value shall be approved by the Comptroller unless and until the balance of funds held in the health center fund established under subsection (c) of section 10a-105 is zero or less than zero. The health center shall defray the cost to the state of any such expenditures by paying, at least quarterly, to the State Treasurer the state's cost of funds at an average rate of interest equivalent to the rate or rates of interest payable on the state's outstanding short term borrowings or, if there are no outstanding borrowings, the rate of interest for thirty-day state obligations of comparable security and quality as determined by the State Treasurer, or as determined by the State Treasurer based upon at least two quotations from dealers thereof. Any interest payments received by the State Treasurer from the health center pursuant to this subsection which have not been applied to pay debt service on the state's short term borrowings, if any, by the end of any fiscal year, shall be treated as revenue to the General Fund. A report of book value shall be made by the university to the State Comptroller each quarter and verified by the Auditors of Public Accounts as requested by the State Comptroller. The State Comptroller shall record the value on the books of the state and approve expenditures against said value.

(1969, P.A. 458, S. 1; P.A. 74-178, S. 1, 2; P.A. 86-190, S. 1, 2; P.A. 89-268, S. 3, 4; P.A. 91-178, S. 1, 2; 91-406, S. 23, 29; P.A. 12-129, S. 3.)

History: P.A. 74-178 amended Subsec. (a) to include book value of accounts receivable at Burgdorf Health Center and at the Farmington Health Center, as well as at McCook Hospital provided that only accounts deemed collectible by independent auditors may be recorded as assets and to require that financial accounts at Farmington Health Center be kept separately; Sec. 10-141f transferred to Sec. 10a-128 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 86-190 amended Subsec. (a) to delete reference to McCook Hospital and Burgdorf Health Center and substitute reference to John Dempsey Hospital, to require quarterly rather than monthly reports to comptroller, and to delete requirement that financial accounts of clinical activities at health center in Farmington be kept separately from those at McCook Hospital and Burgdorf Health Center and repealed Subsec. (b) which provided that comptroller shall reimburse The University of Connecticut auxiliary services fund for advances made prior to July 8, 1969, to provide working capital at McCook Hospital, and that reimbursement shall be in an amount of $800,000 and shall be made as provided in Subsec. (a); P.A. 89-268 added Subsec. (a) designation and new Subsec. (b) re percentage of accounts receivable at Uncas-on-Thames Hospital as expendable assets; P.A. 91-178 added Subsec. (c) re recording of as assets and spending of certain health center accounts receivable; P.A. 91-406 added “or less than zero” after “zero” in the phrase, “established under subsection (c) of section 10a-105 is zero” in Subsec. (c); (Revisor's note: In 1995 the words “University of Connecticut” were inserted editorially by the Revisors in Subsec. (a) for consistency with other statutory references); P.A. 12-129 deleted former Subsec. (b) re accounts receivable at Uncas-on-Thames Hospital, redesignated existing Subsec. (c) as Subsec. (b) and amended Subsec. (a) and redesignated Subsec. (b) by eliminating requirements that accounts receivable be estimated by independent auditors and requiring reports of book value to be verified by Auditors of Public Accounts as requested by State Comptroller, effective July 1, 2012.

See chapter 187c re John Dempsey Hospital Finance Corporation.

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Sec. 10a-129. (Formerly Sec. 10-141g). Health Center Auxiliary Services Fund. Section 10a-129 is repealed.

(1969, P.A. 208; P.A. 75-425, S. 46, 57; P.A. 82-218, S. 25, 46; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 91-256, S. 68, 69.)

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Sec. 10a-130. (Formerly Sec. 10-141h). The University of Connecticut Health Center Research Fund. The University of Connecticut is authorized to establish and manage a fund to be known as The University of Connecticut Health Center Research Fund. The fund may be used, subject to direction, regulation and authorization by the board of trustees: (1) For deposit of the proceeds of grants and endowments, or other things tangible or intangible that may be acceptable to the fund; (2) for disbursements for operations or projects on the order of duly authorized officers of the health center; provided, however, that acquisitions of real estate shall be subject to the provisions of section 4b-23.

(1969, P.A. 207; P.A. 75-425, S. 47, 57.)

History: P.A. 75-425 made acquisition of real estate subject to Sec. 4-26; Sec. 10-141h transferred to Sec. 10a-130 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

See chapter 187c re John Dempsey Hospital Finance Corporation.

See Sec. 4-73a re determination of actual rate for fringe benefits for funds of the constituent units of the state system of higher education.

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Sec. 10a-131. (Formerly Sec. 10-141i). Hospital of The University of Connecticut Health Center authorized to join Capital Area Health Consortium. The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut is authorized to contract with the Capital Area Health Consortium for the hospital of The University of Connecticut Health Center to become a member of said consortium. Said board may enter into such long term contracts and other agreements as will further the purposes of the consortium as contained in said consortium's certificate of incorporation.

(P.A. 74-111, S. 1, 2.)

History: Sec. 10-141i transferred to Sec. 10a-131 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

See chapter 187c re John Dempsey Hospital Finance Corporation.

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Sec. 10a-132. (Formerly Sec. 10-141k). The University of Connecticut Health Center to include Poison Information Center. Hospitals to report treatments of accidental poisonings. (a) The University of Connecticut Health Center, at Farmington, shall include a Poison Information Center for the collection, exchange and dissemination of information needed to minimize damage from potentially toxic substances. Said Poison Information Center shall: (1) Establish and maintain a file on the general composition of substances which, if ingested, inhaled or applied topically to any part of the body, would cause concern for possible toxic reactions; (2) establish and maintain a file on potentially toxic substances, including physiological effects of the toxic substance, the symptoms and signs of toxic reactions and specific antidotes, if any; (3) establish and maintain a file or library of reference material on toxicology; (4) operate twenty-four hours each day, every day of the year to provide such information upon request; and (5) disseminate information contained in subdivisions (1) and (2) to hospitals in the state which establish regional information centers through duplicate index sets and periodic bulletins. Information in the indexes and reference material shall be provided on request according to policy established by said Poison Information Center and, if the requested information is not available in said center or in regional centers, appropriate steps shall be taken by said center to locate the information desired. Said Poison Information Center shall utilize its resources and information to reduce the incidence of accidental poisonings in the state. Said Poison Information Center may develop forms and methods for collecting additional information and require such reports as may be necessary for the discharge of the responsibilities of said center.

(b) Each hospital in the state shall report to the Poison Information Center each incident of accidental poisoning treated by such hospital. Said reports shall be submitted to the center not later than sixty days from the date of treatment on forms prescribed and provided by the Commissioner of Public Health and shall contain such information as the center requires.

(1957, P.A. 583, S. 1, 2; P.A. 76-376, S. 1, 3; P.A. 84-336, S. 4; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58.)

History: P.A. 76-376 deleted provisions giving health department and commissioner responsibilities for poison information center and required year-round, twenty-four-hour operation; Sec. 19-23 was transferred to Sec. 10-141k in 1977; Sec. 10-141k transferred to Sec. 10a-132 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 84-336 added Subsec. (b) requiring a hospital to report each incident of accidental poisoning treated by it to the poison information center; P.A. 93-381 replaced commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993 (Revisor's note: In codifying public act 93-381, the words “The health center of The University of Connecticut” in Subsec. (a) were changed editorially by the Revisors to “The University of Connecticut Health Center” for consistency with other statutory references and in 1995 the Revisors editorially substituted the numeric indicators (1), (2), (3) (4) and (5) for (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) in Subsec. (a) for consistency with statutory usage); P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995.

See chapter 187c re John Dempsey Hospital Finance Corporation.

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Sec. 10a-132a. Endowed chair in infectious diseases. The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut shall establish at The University of Connecticut Health Center an endowed chair in infectious diseases in accordance with the provisions of subsections (a) and (c) to (g), inclusive, of section 10a-20a. The purpose of this endowed chair will be to support a senior faculty member in the school of medicine who will direct programs in teaching, research and patient care in the area of infectious diseases. This chair will provide support for an investigator or investigators who will coordinate research activities into the microbiologic, immunologic and clinical aspects of infectious diseases, including acquired immune deficiency syndrome, at The University of Connecticut Health Center and its affiliated institutions. The investigators will provide a link between ongoing basic science research in infectious diseases and the clinical application of the new knowledge that is being generated. This position will be a focal point for infectious disease research in Connecticut.

(P.A. 87-527, S. 1, 7; P.A. 89-334, S. 1, 3; P.A. 11-48, S. 285; P.A. 17-63, S. 8.)

History: P.A. 89-334 deleted former Subsec. (a) which established an endowed chair in law and medicine in The University of Connecticut Health Center and School of Law; pursuant to P.A. 11-48, “Board of Governors of Higher Education” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Board of Regents for Higher Education”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 17-63 replaced “Board of Regents for Higher Education” with “Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut” and replaced reference to Sec. 10a-20a(a), (b), (d), (e) and (f) with reference to Sec. 10a-20a(a) and (c) to (g), effective July 1, 2017.

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Sec. 10a-132b. Transferred to Chapter 368a, Sec. 19a-56a.

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Sec. 10a-132c. Study of alternative methods for the surveillance of birth defects in Connecticut. Advisory committee. Section 10a-132c is repealed, effective July 1, 1997.

(P.A. 88-286, S. 2, 4; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; June 18 Sp. Sess. 97-8, S. 87, 88.)

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Sec. 10a-132d. Transferred to Chapter 368a, Sec. 19a-56b.

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Sec. 10a-132e. Outreach and education program concerning utilization of prescription drugs. Funding. (a) The University of Connecticut Health Center shall, in consultation with the Yale University School of Medicine, develop, implement and promote an evidence-based outreach and education program concerning the therapeutic and cost-effective utilization of prescription drugs for the benefit of licensed physicians, pharmacists and other health care professionals authorized to prescribe and dispense prescription drugs. In developing such program, The University of Connecticut Health Center shall consider whether such program may be developed in coordination with, or as a part of, the Connecticut Area Health Education Center.

(b) The program established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall: (1) Arrange for licensed physicians, pharmacists and nurses to conduct in person educational visits with prescribing practitioners, utilizing evidence-based materials, borrowing methods from behavioral science and educational theory and, when appropriate, utilizing pharmaceutical industry data and outreach techniques; (2) inform prescribing practitioners about drug marketing that is designed to prevent competition to brand name drugs from generic or other therapeutically equivalent pharmaceutical alternatives or other evidence-based treatment options; and (3) provide outreach and education to licensed physicians and other health care practitioners who are participating providers in state-funded health care programs, including, but not limited to, Medicaid, the HUSKY Health program, the Department of Correction inmate health services program and the state employees' health insurance plan.

(c) The University of Connecticut Health Center shall, to the extent feasible, utilize or incorporate into the program other independent educational resources or models that are proven to be effective in disseminating high quality, evidenced-based, cost-effective information to prescribing practitioners regarding the effectiveness and safety of prescription drugs. Such other resources or models that The University of Connecticut Health Center reviews shall include: (1) The Pennsylvania PACE Independent Drug Information Service affiliated with the Harvard Medical School; (2) the Vermont Academic Detailing Program sponsored by the University of Vermont College of Medicine Office of Primary Care; and (3) the Drug Effectiveness Review project conducted by the Oregon Health and Science University Evidence-based Practice Center.

(d) The University of Connecticut Health Center shall seek federal funds for the administration of the program. In addition, The University of Connecticut Health Center may seek funding from nongovernmental health access foundations for the program. The University of Connecticut Health Center shall not be required to develop, implement and promote the program described in this section, if federal, state and private funds in the aggregate are insufficient to pay for the initial and ongoing expenses of such program.

(P.A. 09-232, S. 91; P.A. 11-44, S. 124; P.A. 13-234, S. 90; P.A. 15-69, S. 4.)

History: P.A. 09-232 effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-44 amended Subsec. (b) by deleting “the state-administered general assistance program”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-234 amended Subsec. (b)(3) to delete references to Charter Oak Health Plan and ConnPACE program, effective January 1, 2014; P.A. 15-69 amended Subsec. (b) to change “HUSKY Plan, Parts A and B” to “HUSKY Health program”, effective June 19, 2015.

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Sec. 10a-133. (Formerly Sec. 10-141l). State aid for family practice residency programs. Regulations. Upon application to The University of Connecticut Health Center, any licensed community hospital in the state may receive annually from the state a grant for the improvement and expansion of existing family practice residency programs in such licensed community hospital.

(P.A. 75-433, S. 1, 2; P.A. 76-434, S. 6, 12.)

History: P.A. 76-434 substituted University of Connecticut Health Center for state department of health, deleted references to university hospitals and deleted provision giving commissioner of health authority to make regulations; Sec. 19-30c transferred to Sec. 10-141l in 1979; Sec. 10-141l transferred to Sec. 10a-133 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

See chapter 187c re John Dempsey Hospital Finance Corporation.

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Secs. 10a-134 and 10a-135. Pilot program concerning purchases by the health center. Pilot program concerning leasing procedures of the health center. Sections 10a-134 and 10a-135 are repealed.

(P.A. 81-374, S. 2–4; P.A. 82-314, S. 29, 30, 63; P.A. 87-496, S. 64, 110; P.A. 88-136, S. 36, 37.)

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Sec. 10a-136. (Formerly Sec. 10-142). Buildings for religious activities. The trustees of The University of Connecticut are authorized to convey land of the university for the purpose of providing sites for buildings to house religious activities for students attending the university. Such religious buildings shall be constructed by, and under the auspices of, religious organizations. Said university is authorized under conditions imposed by the board of trustees to permit such buildings to connect to the water and heat and waste disposal systems of said university, such water and waste disposal connections to be removed when facilities for such services have been provided by the town.

(1949 Rev., S. 3296.)

History: Sec. 10-142 transferred to Sec. 10a-136 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

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Sec. 10a-137. (Formerly Sec. 10-142a). Use by public agencies of swimming pool at Avery Point campus. The Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut may contract with public agencies for the use of the swimming pool at the university campus at Avery Point, provided such contract shall include provision for compensation to the university for all expenses incurred in connection with such use.

(1969, P.A. 238, S. 1; P.A. 11-70, S. 9.)

History: Sec. 10-142a transferred to Sec. 10a-137 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 11-70 replaced “branch” with “campus”.

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Sec. 10a-138. (Formerly Sec. 10-143). Water and waste disposal service. The University of Connecticut is authorized to furnish, for compensation, running water and sewage, garbage and waste disposal service for any property owned or occupied by it or in which it has an interest by reason of a possibility of reverter or of a restriction on alienation in its favor.

(1949 Rev., S. 3294; 1967, P.A. 656, S. 5.)

History: 1967 act substituted “on” for “or” in phrase “restriction on alienation in its favor”; Sec. 10-143 transferred to Sec. 10a-138 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

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Sec. 10a-139. (Formerly Sec. 10-144). Traffic regulations on grounds of The University of Connecticut and The University of Connecticut Health Center. Disposition of fines. (a) The trustees of The University of Connecticut, subject to the approval of the Office of the State Traffic Administration, may: (1) Prohibit, limit or restrict the parking of vehicles; (2) determine speed limits; (3) install stop signs; (4) restrict roads or portions thereof to one-way traffic; (5) designate the location of crosswalks on any portion of any road or highway upon the grounds controlled by The University of Connecticut; and (6) erect and maintain signs designating such prohibitions or restrictions. Any person who fails to comply with any such prohibition or restriction shall be fined. 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 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 University of Connecticut Health Center, at Farmington, shall be deposited in a scholarship account within The University of Connecticut Health Center Operating Fund established pursuant to section 10a-105, or an account of said fund for the purpose of library services or acquisitions.

(c) All other fines imposed at The University of Connecticut Health Center, at Farmington, shall be deposited in The 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 university pursuant to this section prior to July 1, 2001, shall be remitted to the town of Mansfield and a share of such fines as determined under an agreement between the university and the town shall be returned to the university. On and after July 1, 2001, all parking fines imposed pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the University of Connecticut Operating Fund.

(1949 Rev., S. 3298; 1957, P.A. 387, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 589; P.A. 79-350, S. 1; P.A. 82-223, S. 3; P.A. 83-577, S. 9; P.A. 86-333, S. 30, 32; P.A. 91-256, S. 31, 69; P.A. 98-252, S. 46, 80; P.A. 11-256, S. 3; P.A. 12-132, S. 5.)

History: 1969 act increased fine in Subsec. (a) from $10 to $25, deleted from Subsec. (b) specific fine for parking violations by students and provision that disciplinary action be in lieu of proceeding in Subsec. (a), leaving only provision that student fines be deposited in scholarship account, and added Subsecs. (c) to (e) re remission of fines to towns; P.A. 79-350 amended Subsecs. (b) and (c) to provide exception for fines imposed at Farmington Health Center; P.A. 82-223 amended Subsec. (a) by providing that violation of the Subsec. constituted an infraction, amended Subsec. (c) by deleting the provision that all other fines belong to the town in which the violation occurred, deleted Subsec. (d) as obsolete and redesignated Subsec. (e) as Subsec. (d) and clarified that parking fines imposed upon nonstudents are remitted to Mansfield; Sec. 10-144 transferred to Sec. 10a-139 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 83-577 amended Subsec. (a) to increase the fine from not more than $25 to $35; P.A. 86-333 specified that fine shall not be “not more than” $35 in Subsec. (a); P.A. 91-256 deleted provision that fines not exceed $35, specified fines be deposited in the operating funds, deleting references to auxiliary services fund and language on library services and acquisitions and made technical changes; (Revisor's note: In 1993 the words “the health center of the university,” were changed editorially by the Revisors in Subsecs. (b) and (c) to “The University of Connecticut Health Center,” for consistency with other statutory references); P.A. 98-252 amended Subsec. (d) to allow the university to receive a share of the fines collected prior to July 1, 2001 and to require that fines collected after said date be deposited in the university operating fund rather than remitted to the town of Mansfield, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 11-256 amended Subsec. (a) to add authority to install stop signs, insert numeric Subdiv. designators and make technical changes; P.A. 12-132 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “State Traffic Commission” with “Office of the State Traffic Administration”, effective July 1, 2012.

Annotation to former section 10-144:

Cited. 30 CS 524.

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(1967, P.A. 575, S. 1, 2; 1969, P.A. 564; P.A. 75-425, S. 31, 32, 57; P.A. 77-573, S. 24, 30; 77-614, S. 19, 73, 610; P.A. 82-218, S. 37, 46; 82-342, S. 2, 3; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 87-496, S. 65, 66, 110; P.A. 91-256, S. 32, 69; P.A. 92-261, S. 15, 17; P.A. 95-230, S. 29, 45; P.A. 97-247, S. 26, 27.)

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Sec. 10a-142. Transferred to Sec. 10a-156b.

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Secs. 10a-142a to 10a-142e. Reserved for future use.

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Sec. 10a-142f. Litchfield County Center for Higher Education. Section 10a-142f is repealed.

(P.A. 85-555, S. 1, 3; P.A. 86-259, S. 1, 2; P.A. 91-303, S. 21, 22.)

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PART IV

CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE

Sec. 10a-143. (Formerly Sec. 10-330a). New methods of awarding degrees and credits. Charter Oak State College. Operating fund. Reports. (a) The Board of Regents for Higher Education, in concert with the state's institutions of higher education, shall study, develop and coordinate the implementation of new methods of awarding undergraduate degrees and college credits including but not limited to: (1) External degrees awarded on the basis of acceptable performance in an educational field whether or not the necessary education was obtained by the candidate at an institution of higher education, and (2) examinations and methods other than classroom instruction for determining qualifications. On or before July 1, 1993, each constituent unit of the state system of higher education shall establish procedures to award college credits pursuant to this subsection and subsection (e) of this section.

(b) The Board of Regents for Higher Education shall promulgate regulations to authorize accredited institutions of higher education to award degrees by such new procedures.

(c) Charter Oak State College shall be an independent constituent unit of the state system of higher education with authority to grant undergraduate and graduate credits and degrees on the basis of (1) examinations, (2) courses offered by Charter Oak State College, and (3) other forms of evaluation and validation of learning including transfer of credit. Said college is authorized to use the term “Charter Oak State College” on diplomas and other documents and utterances to affirm the status of the college as a degree-granting institution of higher education. It shall be the responsibility of the college to serve the interest of all Connecticut residents by providing open access to academic credentials which are based on a consensus of professional judgment. The purpose of such credentials shall be to identify and give recognition to higher learning acquired by individuals through independent study, work experience and programs of noncollegiate educational activity.

(d) (1) The Board of Regents for Higher Education shall develop and implement programs at Charter Oak State College to improve opportunities in higher education through alternative modes of service, including, but not limited to, guidance and information services, registration and validation services, examination and degree-granting services, technological delivery systems, and projects of research and development. The board may appoint a chief academic and administrative officer and a professional academic staff of Charter Oak State College. The board may appoint and remove executive staff responsible for the operation of Charter Oak State College. The board may determine the size of the academic staff and the duties, terms, and conditions of employment of said director and staff. The board shall establish through appointments on an adjunct basis a faculty of consulting examiners at Charter Oak State College to make recommendations as to requirements and standards of the college's programs and to make recommendations for the award of academic undergraduate and graduate credits and degrees. Persons serving as members of the faculty of consulting examiners shall have appropriate professional qualifications as determined by the board and may hold professional appointments in active status at accredited institutions of postsecondary or higher learning. Within the limit of appropriations, the board shall fix the compensation of persons serving with adjunct appointment as members of the faculty of consulting examiners. The board shall confer such undergraduate and graduate certificates and degrees as are appropriate to programs of postsecondary and higher learning at Charter Oak State College and in accordance with the recommendations of the board's faculty of consulting examiners on the basis of (A) examinations, (B) courses offered by Charter Oak State College, and (C) other forms of validation and evaluation of learning, including transfer of credit. The board shall assist public institutions of higher education in establishing and implementing procedures to award college credits pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.

(2) The Board of Regents for Higher Education shall develop a mission statement for Charter Oak State College which shall include, but not be limited to, the following elements: (A) The educational needs of, and constituencies served by said college; (B) the degrees offered by said college; and (C) the role and scope of the programs offered by said college.

(e) The board shall fix fees for examinations and for such other purposes as the board deems necessary on behalf of Charter Oak State College 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. The Board of Regents for Higher Education shall not assess or charge a graduation fee to any student enrolled in Charter Oak State College for the purpose of graduating from such college.

(f) The Board of Regents for Higher Education shall establish and administer a fund to be known as the Board of Regents for Higher Education for Charter Oak State College Operating Fund, which shall be a separate account within the General Fund. The operating fund shall be used for the expenses of Charter Oak State College, including personnel expenses and equipment, and for the support of college activities pursuant to this section, including validation and evaluation of learning, guidance and public information services, projects of research and development for the improvement of learning materials and the technology of delivery systems, and for the purchase of such services, materials and equipment as are required for use in connection with said activities. Appropriations from general revenues of the state, all fees and proceeds of the board's activities on behalf of Charter Oak State College, including grants and donations, not required by statute or regulation to be deposited to the credit of the General Fund, shall be credited to and become a part of the resources of said operating fund. Any balance of receipts above expenditures shall remain in said operating fund. Not later than sixty days after the close of each quarter, the Board of Regents for Higher Education shall submit to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, the Office of Higher Education and the Office of Policy and Management a report on the actual expenditures of the Board of Regents for Higher Education for Charter Oak State College Operating Fund.

(g) The Board of Regents for Higher Education shall promote fund-raising to assist Charter Oak State College's programs pursuant to this section and shall report to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to higher education by January 1, 1994, and biennially thereafter, on such fund-raising.

(1971, P.A. 537, S. 1–3; P.A. 73-656, S. 1, 6; P.A. 75-442, S. 1, 2; P.A. 77-573, S. 24, 30; 77-581, S. 1, 2; P.A. 79-631, S. 8, 111; P.A. 80-8, S. 1, 2; P.A. 81-472, S. 102, 159; P.A. 82-218, S. 26, 46; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; 84-256, S. 8, 17; P.A. 85-418, S. 1, 2; P.A. 86-312, S. 4, 21; P.A. 88-117, S. 1, 5; P.A. 89-380, S. 1, 7; P.A. 91-174, S. 14, 16; 91-230, S. 15, 17; 91-256, S. 34, 69; P.A. 92-154, S. 13, 14, 23; P.A. 93-201, S. 14, 24; P.A. 95-259, S. 24, 32; P.A. 96-244, S. 45, 63; P.A. 09-159, S. 1, 2; P.A. 11-48, S. 227; P.A. 13-137, S. 4; P.A. 14-117, S. 10; P.A. 21-132, S. 11; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 56.)

History: P.A. 73-656 deleted Subsec. (a)(3) re relative cost of new program compared with traditional program, replaced former Subsec. (c) re constituent units' provision of assistance to commission with new Subsec. (c) re administrative and clerical services provided by commission, replaced former Subsec. (d) re report to governor and general assembly with new Subsec. (d) re board for state academic awards and added Subsecs. (e) to (g) re duties of academic awards board and advisory council; P.A. 75-442 amended Subsec. (c) to make clear that administrative and clerical staff to be provided specifically for academic awards board rather than for “state-wide and regional programs ...” and amended Subsec. (d) to clarify that academic awards board is within commission for higher education; P.A. 77-573 replaced commission for higher education with board of higher education; P.A. 77-581 replaced former Subsec. (c) with new Subsec. (c) generally stating awards board's powers, removed from Subsec. (d) statement that board continued and placed within commission, i.e. board of higher education, amended Subsec. (d) to remove provisions requiring commission's (board of higher education's) approval for actions of academic awards board, to replace executive secretary and executive staff with executive director and professional academic staff and to specify that examiners be “consulting” examiners and added Subsec. (h) re educational services fund; P.A. 79-631 replaced reference to repealed Sec. 10-324 with reference to Sec. 10-323e(a)(10); P.A. 80-8 amended Subsec. (c) to allow board to use term “college” to affirm its degree-granting authority; P.A. 81-472 made technical changes; P.A. 82-218 reorganized higher education system, replacing board of higher education with board of governors, revising appointment provisions of Subsec. (b), adding provisions re development of mission statement in Subsec. (e), requiring that contracts exceeding $1,000 be approved by board of governors in Subsec. (g) and specifying that authority to continue educational services fund is subject to board of governors' guidelines in Subsec. (h), effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-330a transferred to Sec. 10a-143 in 1983; P.A. 84-241 added “of higher education” to board of governors' title; P.A. 84-256 increased board membership from five to seven, adding one member elected by students and an alumnus of Charter Oak College and established meeting and attendance requirements; P.A. 85-418 amended Subsec. (h) by adding provision requiring that enrollment fee revenues be deposited in the general fund; P.A. 86-312 amended Subsec. (h) to change educational services “fund” to a separate “account” within the general fund; P.A. 88-117 deleted the provision in Subsec. (g) that agreements in excess of $1,000 be subject to the approval of the board of governors; P.A. 89-380 amended Subsec. (h) to provide that the revenue from enrollment fees be credited to the educational services account rather than deposited to the credit of the general fund; P.A. 91-174 in Subsec. (a) added requirement for procedures to be developed by July 1, 1993, in Subsec. (e)(1) added provision requiring board to assist institutions in establishing and implementing procedures, in Subsec. (g) deleted provision requiring board of governors approval of fees and added Subsec. (i) re fund-raising; P.A. 91-230 made a technical change in Subsec. (f); P.A. 91-256 reiterated change to Subsec. (g) made by P.A. 91-174; P.A. 92-154 amended Subsecs. (c) and (d) to add “state” to the name of Charter Oak College and amended Subsec. (h) to eliminate the educational services account and to establish the operating fund; P.A. 93-201 amended Subsec. (i) to require report, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-259 amended Subsec. (d) to reduce the number of the Governor's appointments from seven to six and to add a member elected by the students enrolled in Charter Oak State College, effective July 6, 1995; P.A. 96-244 amended Subsec. (d) to increase the membership from seven to nine by requiring the Governor to appoint two additional members, on or before July 1, 1996, effective June 6, 1996; P.A. 09-159 amended Subsec. (c) by allowing Board for State Academic Awards to grant graduate degrees and to grant credits and degrees on basis of courses offered by Charter Oak State College and amended Subsec. (e)(1) by adding provisions re faculty of consulting examiners to make recommendations for award of academic undergraduate and graduate credits and degrees and re board to confer undergraduate and graduate certificates and degrees on basis of courses offered by Charter Oak State College, effective July 1, 2009; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) to replace “Board of Governors of Higher Education” with “Board of Regents for Higher Education”, amended Subsec. (d) to replace Board for State Academic Awards with Board of Regents for Higher Education serving as Board for State Academic Awards beginning on January 1, 2012, and create a transition period through December 31, 2011, during which the Board for State Academic Awards shall remain in office, amended Subsec. (e) to permit board to appoint and remove executive staff, remove provisions re Board of Governors of Higher Education and make conforming changes, deleted former Subsec. (f) re advisory council, redesignated existing Subsecs. (g) to (i) as Subsecs. (f) to (h) and amended Subsec. (h) to delete “Commissioner of Higher Education” and make a technical change, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-137 amended Subsec. (g) to add provision requiring Board of Regents for Higher Education to submit a report on actual expenditures, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-117 deleted former Subsec. (d) re the Board for State Academic Awards, redesignated existing Subsecs. (e) to (h) as Subsecs. (d) to (g) and replaced references to the Board for State Academic Awards with references to Charter Oak State College and the Board of Regents for Higher Education in Subsec. (c) and redesignated Subsecs. (d) to (g), effective July 1, 2014; P.A. 21-132 amended Subsec. (e) to add prohibition on assessing or charging graduation fee, effective July 1, 2021; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 made identical changes as P.A. 21-132, effective July 1, 2021.

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Sec. 10a-143a. Endowment Fund for Charter Oak State College. (a)(1) The Board of Regents for Higher Education shall establish a permanent Endowment Fund for Charter Oak State College to encourage donations from the private sector, with an incentive in the form of an endowment fund state grant, the net earnings on the principal of which are dedicated and made available to Charter Oak State College for scholarships and programmatic enhancements. The fund shall be administered by the Board of Regents for Higher Education or by a nonprofit entity entrusted for such purpose and qualified as a Section 501(c)(3) organization under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, and preferably constituted and controlled independent of the state and college so as to qualify the interest on state bonds the proceeds of which have been granted for deposit in the endowment fund as excludable from federal taxation under such code and shall, in any event, be held in a trust fund separate and apart from all other funds and accounts of the state and the Board of Regents for Higher Education. There shall be deposited into the fund: (A) Endowment fund eligible gifts; (B) endowment fund state grants; and (C) interest or other earnings from the investment of moneys in the endowment fund pending transfer or use of earnings on the principal of the fund for the purposes identified in this subdivision.

(2) (A) For each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 2000, to June 30, 2006, inclusive, as part of the state contract with donors of endowment fund eligible gifts, the Office of Higher Education, in accordance with section 10a-8b, shall deposit in the Endowment Fund for Charter Oak State College a grant in an amount equal to half of the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts received by or for the benefit of Charter Oak State College for the calendar year ending the December thirty-first preceding the commencement of such fiscal year, as certified by the chairperson of the Board of Regents for Higher Education by February fifteenth to (i) the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, (ii) the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, and (iii) the executive director of the Office of Higher Education, provided such sums do not exceed the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment for the fiscal year in which the grant is made.

(B) For each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 2007, to June 30, 2014, inclusive, as part of the state contract with donors of endowment fund eligible gifts, the Office of Higher Education, in accordance with section 10a-8b, shall deposit in the Endowment Fund for Charter Oak State College a grant in an amount equal to one-quarter of the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts, except as provided in this subdivision, received by or for the benefit of Charter Oak State College for the calendar year ending the December thirty-first preceding the commencement of such fiscal year, as certified by the chairperson of the Board of Regents for Higher Education by February fifteenth to (i) the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, (ii) the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, and (iii) the executive director of the Office of Higher Education, provided such sums do not exceed the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment for the fiscal year in which the grant is made. Endowment fund eligible gifts that meet the criteria set forth in this subdivision, made by donors during the period from January 1, 2005, to June 30, 2005, shall continue to be matched by the Office of Higher Education in an amount equal to one-half of the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts received. Commitments by donors to make endowment fund eligible gifts for two or more years that meet the criteria set forth in this subdivision and that are made for the period prior to December 31, 2004, but ending before December 31, 2012, shall continue to be matched by the Office of Higher Education in an amount equal to one-half of the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts received through the commitment.

(C) In any such fiscal year in which the total of the eligible gifts received by Charter Oak State College exceeds the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment for such fiscal year the amount in excess of such endowment fund state grant maximum commitment shall be carried forward and be eligible for a matching state grant in any succeeding fiscal year from the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, inclusive, subject to the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment. Any endowment fund eligible gifts that are not included in the total amount of endowment fund eligible gifts certified by the chairperson of the Board of Regents for Higher Education pursuant to this subdivision may be carried forward and be eligible for a matching state grant in any succeeding fiscal year from the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, inclusive, subject to the endowment fund state matching grant maximum commitment for such fiscal year.

(3) The Board of Regents for Higher Education shall adopt, by October 1, 1997, guidelines with respect to (A) the solicitation of endowment fund eligible gifts from private donors, and (B) governing the acceptance of gifts made by a foundation established pursuant to sections 4-37e and 4-37f, to Charter Oak State College or its employees for reimbursement of expenditures or payment of expenditures on behalf of Charter Oak State College or its employees. Private donations shall not be construed to include proceeds of municipal grants.

(b) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Endowment fund eligible gift” means a gift to or for the benefit of Charter Oak State College of cash or assets which may be reduced to cash or which has a value that is ascertainable by such college which the donor has specifically designated for deposit in the endowment fund or which explicitly or implicitly by the terms of the gift Charter Oak State College may and does deposit or permit to be deposited in the endowment fund. (2) “Endowment fund state grant” means moneys that are transferred by the Office of Higher Education from the fund established pursuant to section 10a-8b to the endowment fund established pursuant to this section in an aggregate amount not exceeding the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment. (3) “Endowment fund state grant maximum commitment” means an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars for each fiscal year from the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, inclusive.

(c) Notwithstanding the endowment fund state grant maximum commitment level provided for each fiscal year pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, the total of the endowment fund state grant maximum commitments for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2000, to June 30, 2014, inclusive, shall not exceed nine hundred thousand dollars.

(P.A. 97-293, S. 2, 26; P.A. 98-252, S. 30, 49, 80; P.A. 01-141, S. 13, 16; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 66; P.A. 06-135, S. 10; P.A. 12-156, S. 49; P.A. 14-117, S. 11.)

History: P.A. 97-293 effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 98-252 amended Subsec. (a)(1) to add provision for the fund to be administered by a nonprofit entity and to make technical changes and amended Subsec. (a)(2) to allow gifts not included in the amount certified by the chairperson to be carried forward and be eligible for a matching state grant in a succeeding fiscal year, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 01-141 extended the program to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, in Subsec. (a)(2), applied the limit in Subsec. (b)(3) to the extension and added Subsec. (c) re $900,000 cap, effective July 1, 2001 (Revisor's note: In Subsec. (b)(1), “endowment funds” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “endowment fund” for consistency); June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3 amended Subsec. (a)(2) by designating existing language re match in an amount equal to half as new Subpara. (A) and amended same to provide for match terminating with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, and by redesignating Subparas. (A) to (C) as clauses (i) to (iii), by adding new Subpara. (B) re match in an amount equal to one quarter and by designating existing language re eligible gifts in excess of state grant maximum commitment as new Subpara. (C), effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-135 amended Subsec. (a)(2)(B) by adding provisions re endowment fund eligible gifts made during the period from January 1, 2005, to June 30, 2005, effective July 1, 2006; P.A. 12-156 replaced “Department of Higher Education” with “Office of Higher Education” and replaced “Commissioner of Higher Education” with “executive director of the Office of Higher Education”, effective June 15, 2012; P.A. 14-117 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing references to Board for State Academic Awards with references to Board of Regents for Higher Education, effective July 1, 2014.

See Sec. 10a-8c re restrictions on appropriations.

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Sec. 10a-143b. Technology training programs. The Board of Regents for Higher Education shall establish, on behalf of Charter Oak State College and within available appropriations, innovative on-line teacher and higher education faculty training programs on the integration of technology into the public school curriculum and courses at public institutions of higher education in order to improve student learning.

(P.A. 00-187, S. 40, 75; P.A. 14-65, S. 10; 14-117, S. 12.)

History: P.A. 00-187 effective July 1, 2000; P.A. 14-65 deleted provision re training program for public school teachers be consistent with standards developed pursuant to Sec. 4d-85, effective July 1, 2014; P.A. 14-117 replaced reference to Board for State Academic Awards with reference to Board of Regents for Higher Education on behalf of Charter Oak State College, effective July 1, 2014.

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PART V

MISCELLANEOUS

Sec. 10a-144. (Formerly Sec. 10-326a). Central Naugatuck Valley Region Higher Education Center. There is established a higher education center for the central Naugatuck Valley region. The regional community-technical college established for the greater Waterbury area pursuant to subsection (g) of section 10a-78, shall be located at such center. The University of Connecticut shall have access to classrooms, faculty office space and concurrent and cooperative use of common student facilities including, but not limited to, library and athletic fields, at such center. The Board of Trustees for the Regional Community-Technical Colleges and the Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut shall jointly develop, in conjunction with the president of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities, or his designee, an annual joint use plan for such center. On or before September 1, 1993, and annually thereafter, the president of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities shall call and convene an initial meeting for the development of such plan.

(1969, P.A. 726, S. 1, 2, 7; P.A. 74-115, S. 1, 2; P.A. 75-425, S. 33, 57; P.A. 77-573, S. 24, 30; P.A. 82-218, S. 29, 46; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 93-293, S. 2, 11; P.A. 11-48, S. 285; P.A. 16-15, S. 30; P.A. 17-63, S. 6.)

History: P.A. 74-115 substituted “plant” for “plan” and deleted commission's authority to receive appropriations for transfer to boards in Subsec. (a); P.A. 75-425 added phrase “Subject to the provisions of Sec. 4-26b” and deleted commission's authority to “arrange for ... constructing ... of the physical plant” in Subsec. (a); P.A. 77-573 substituted board of higher education for commission for higher education; P.A. 82-218 reorganized system of higher education, replacing board of higher education with board of governors and replacing language authorizing establishment of higher education center with language authorizing its continuance, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-326a transferred to Sec. 10a-144 in 1983; P.A. 84-241 added “of higher education” to board of governors' title; P.A. 93-293 replaced existing language with Subsec. (a) re establishment of the higher education center and Subsec. (b) re report, effective July 1, 1993; pursuant to P.A. 11-48, “Commissioner of Higher Education” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “president of the Board of Regents for Higher Education” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 16-15 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “president of the Board of Regents for Higher Education” with “president of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities”, effective July 1, 2016; P.A. 17-63 deleted former Subsec. (b) re joint use plan report and deleted Subsec. (a) designator, effective June 30, 2017.

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(1969, P.A. 726, S. 3–6; P.A. 75-425, S. 34, 57; P.A. 77-573, S. 24, 30; P.A. 80-483, S. 46, 186; P.A. 82-218, S. 30–33, 39, 46; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 88-12, S. 1, 2; P.A. 89-260, S. 32, 41; P.A. 90-260, S. 2–6; P.A. 91-230, S. 16, 17; P.A. 93-293, S. 10, 11.)

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Sec. 10a-149. (Formerly Sec. 10-325c). Operation of state institutions of higher education. (a) 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 research doctoral, doctor of medicine, doctor of dental medicine and juris doctor 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, education doctoral degree programs, including an education doctoral degree program in nursing education, and other graduate study in education, and authority for providing (A) liberal arts and career programs at the bachelors, masters and sixth year level, and (B) professional doctoral degree programs, except programs leading to research doctoral, doctor of medicine, doctor of dental medicine and juris doctor degrees, (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 Regents for Higher Education and for such terminal vocational retraining and continuing education programs leading to occupational certificates as are appropriate, and (4) the Board of Regents for Higher Education which shall have responsibility for the award of external degrees and credits earned at Charter Oak State College 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.

(b) In approving programs provided under subparagraph (B) of subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this section, the Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System shall consider (1) the effect a proposed professional doctoral degree program would have on the budget of the state university seeking to offer such program, (2) whether expertise in the subject matter of such program currently exists at the state university, (3) the current and projected accreditation standards governing such program, and (4) the current and projected professional standards in the occupational field for which students would qualify for employment upon graduation from such program.

(P.A. 77-573, S. 16, 30; P.A. 82-218, S. 37, 39, 46; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 89-260, S. 33, 41; P.A. 91-256, S. 63, 69; P.A. 05-4, S. 1; P.A. 10-8, S. 1; P.A. 11-48, S. 285; P.A. 14-117, S. 13; P.A. 15-37, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 82-218 reorganized higher education system, replacing board of higher education with board of governors and redesignating state colleges as the Connecticut State University, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-325c transferred to Sec. 10a-149 in 1983; P.A. 84-241 added “of higher education” to board of governors' title; P.A. 89-260 made the board of trustees of the community-technical colleges responsible for the programs formerly the responsibility of the boards of trustees of the regional community colleges and of the state technical colleges by combining Subdivs. (3) and (4) and renumbering Subdiv. (5) as Subdiv. (4), substituted “board of trustees of the community-technical colleges” for the board of trustees of regional community colleges and of the state technical colleges and made a technical change; P.A. 91-256 made technical changes; P.A. 05-4 amended Subdivs. (1) and (2) to permit the Connecticut State University system to offer education doctoral degree programs and made a technical change, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 10-8 amended Subdiv. (2) by adding provision re education doctoral degree program in nursing education, effective May 5, 2010; pursuant to P.A. 11-48, “Board of Governors of Higher Education” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Board of Regents for Higher Education”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 14-117 changed “Board for State Academic Awards” to “Board of Regents for Higher Education” and added reference to Charter Oak State College, effective July 1, 2014; P.A. 15-37 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and amended same by replacing “doctoral degrees” with “research doctoral, doctor of medicine, doctor of dental medicine and juris doctor degrees” and deleting provision re postbaccalaureate professional degrees with the exception of education doctoral degrees in Subdiv. (1), adding provision re professional doctoral degree programs in Subdiv. (2), and making technical changes, and added Subsec. (b) re factors to be considered by the Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System in approving professional doctoral degree programs, effective July 1, 2015.

Annotation to former section 10-325c:

Cited. 175 C. 586.

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Sec. 10a-149a. Military recruiters; access to directory information and on-campus recruiting. Section 10a-149a is repealed, effective October 30, 1997.

(P.A. 84-87, S. 2, 7; Oct. 19 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-2, S. 2, 3.)

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Sec. 10a-149b. Independent study programs for the tutoring of disadvantaged seventh and eighth graders. At each public institution of higher education, independent study programs that award credit shall include opportunities for students enrolled in such institutions to tutor seventh and eighth-grade students, particularly students in school districts that have a significant number of students requiring remedial assistance as demonstrated by the results of the most recent mastery examination for students in grade six, administered pursuant to section 10-14n.

(P.A. 93-45, S. 1, 2; P.A. 13-207, S. 12.)

History: P.A. 93-45 effective May 5, 1993; P.A. 13-207 replaced “on the most recent sixth grade mastery examination” with “by the results of the most recent mastery examination for students in grade six,” and made a technical change, effective July 1, 2013.

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Sec. 10a-149c. Military recruiting on campus. (a) Each constituent unit of the state system of higher education shall provide access to directory information and on-campus recruiting opportunities to representatives of the armed forces of the United States of America and state armed services to the extent necessary under federal law to prevent the loss of federal funds to such constituent unit or to the State of Connecticut. The disclosure of information pursuant to this subsection shall otherwise be subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, as defined in section 1-200.

(b) Any independent institution of higher education which receives state funds may provide access to directory information and on-campus recruiting opportunities to representatives of the armed forces of the United States of America and state armed services to the extent necessary under federal law to prevent the loss of federal funds to such institution or to the State of Connecticut.

(Oct. 29 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-2, S. 1, 3.)

History: October 29 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-2 effective October 30, 1997.

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Sec. 10a-149d. College credit for military training. Guidelines and policies. (a) An institution of higher education shall award college credit for military occupational specialty training to a member of the armed forces or the National Guard or a veteran who enrolls at such institution and has experience in a military occupation recognized by such institution as substituting for or meeting the requirements of a particular course of study. For the purposes of this section, “veteran” and “armed forces” have the same meanings as provided in section 27-103.

(b) Not later than July 1, 2016, the Board of Regents for Higher Education and the Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut, in consultation with the institutions of higher education in the state, shall develop and adopt guidelines on awarding college credit for a student's military training, coursework and education. Such guidelines shall include course equivalency recommendations adopted by the American Council on Education or by other institutions or organizations deemed reputable by the Board of Regents for Higher Education and the Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut. Until the adoption of such guidelines, any institution of higher education that awards college credit for such training, coursework and education shall use course equivalency recommendations adopted by the American Council on Education, a portfolio assessment process when appropriate or the institution's transfer and articulation policies when assigning college credit to a military occupation. Upon adoption of such guidelines, the governing body of each institution of higher education in the state shall develop and implement policies governing the awarding of college credit for a student's military training, coursework and education. Not later than July 1, 2022, and every five years thereafter, the governing body of each institution of higher education in the state shall review and update its policies governing the award of college credit for a student's military training, coursework and education.

(P.A. 14-131, S. 11; P.A. 21-79, S. 12; 21-132, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 14-131 effective July 1, 2014; P.A. 21-79 amended Subsec. (a) to redefine “veteran” and make technical changes; P.A. 21-132 amended Subsec. (b) to require policies governing the award of college credit for military training, coursework and education to be reviewed and updated every 5 years, effective July 1, 2021.

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Sec. 10a-150. (Formerly Sec. 10-327b). Receipt and disposition of gifts of lands, money or other property. The boards of trustees of each of the constituent units of the state system of higher education are empowered to accept, on behalf of the state, any gifts of lands, money or other property donated to the institutions under their control. Said boards shall direct the application, distribution or disbursement of such lands, money or other donated property, or the income therefrom, for any purpose connected with said institutions under their respective control, consistent with the conditions, if any, upon which the gift was created. The State Treasurer shall be advised of the receipt of any such gift of money and where practicable shall hold on behalf of the respective boards of trustees, any such gift of money or income therefrom. The approval of the Commissioner of Administrative Services and the State Properties Review Board under section 4b-23 where acquisitions of real estate are involved shall be required.

(P.A. 77-573, S. 11, 30; 77-614, S. 73, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 85-597, S. 5, 6; P.A. 87-496, S. 67, 110; P.A. 11-48, S. 285; 11-51, S. 44; P.A. 13-240, S. 9.)

History: P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 substituted commissioner of administrative services for public works commissioner; Sec. 10-327b transferred to Sec. 10a-150 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 85-597 added requirement that commissioner be notified of gifts which are subject to reporting requirements of Sec. 10a-150c; P.A. 87-496 substituted “public works” for “administrative services” commissioner; pursuant to P.A. 11-48, “Commissioner of Higher Education” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “president of the Board of Regents for Higher Education”, effective July 1, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Works” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Administrative Services”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-240 deleted requirement that president of the Board of Regents for Higher Education be advised of any gift subject to the provisions of Sec. 10a-150b, effective July 1, 2013.

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Secs. 10a-150a to 10a-150d. Grants from foreign sources; definitions. Disclosure required. Content of disclosure statement. Disclosure statement to be a public record. Sections 10a-150a to 10a-150d, inclusive, are repealed, effective July 1, 2013.

(P.A. 85-597, S. 1–4, 6; P.A. 11-48, S. 285; P.A. 12-156, S. 50; P.A. 13-240, S. 12.)

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Sec. 10a-150e. Offering for adoption of cat or dog used for conducting research or testing. (a) For purposes of this section, “animal adoption or animal rescue organization” means any collaboration of individuals or any nonprofit organization that is exempt from taxation pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as amended from time to time, that has, as part of such collaboration's or organization's purposes, the sale or placement of animals that were removed from animal shelters, municipal dog pounds or an individual's home.

(b) Each constituent unit of the state system of higher education, each public institution of higher education and each independent institution of higher education shall offer for adoption by an animal adoption or animal rescue organization any cat or dog that such constituent unit or institution of higher education possesses for the purpose of conducting research or testing provided such offer occurs after the completion of any such research or testing, such research or testing does not require the destruction of such cat or dog and such animal is no longer needed by such constituent unit or institution of higher education. Any constituent unit of higher education or institution of higher education that is required to offer a cat or dog for adoption pursuant to this section may enter into an agreement with an animal adoption or animal rescue organization for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this section.

(P.A. 15-201, S. 1; P.A. 16-89, S. 6.)

History: P.A. 16-89 amended Subsec. (a) to make a technical change, effective June 1, 2016.

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Sec. 10a-151. (Formerly Sec. 10-327c). Use of library facilities at state higher education institutions. (a) Any student enrolled as a full or part-time student at any of the constituent units of the state system of higher education shall be permitted to use the library facilities and services of any other institution in said system.

(b) The Board of Regents for Higher Education shall promulgate such regulations as are necessary to implement the provisions of this section.

(P.A. 77-573, S. 12, 30; P.A. 82-218, S. 38, 46; P.A. 11-48, S. 285.)

History: P.A. 82-218, which reorganized higher education system, here used as authority for replacing board of higher education with department of higher education, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-327c transferred to Sec. 10a-151 in 1983; pursuant to P.A. 11-48, “Department of Higher Education” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Board of Regents for Higher Education” in Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2011.

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Sec. 10a-151a. Purchase of equipment for research, library media and library books by constituent units. (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.

(b) Within the limitations of funds designated pursuant to subsection (a) of this section by each board of trustees for the purchase of equipment used for research purposes, library media and library books, the expenditure of such funds and the purposes therefor shall be in the sole jurisdiction of the chief executive officer of each institution, subject to the policies of the board of trustees and shall not be subject to the approval of any other state agency, but shall be subject to auditing procedures required pursuant to section 2-90, provided the purchase of equipment used for research purposes and library media shall be made from the most competitive source. Such officer shall report annually to the board of trustees of his respective institution on the expenditure of funds.

(P.A. 84-274, S. 1, 2; P.A. 89-260, S. 34, 41; P.A. 90-201, S. 4, 11; P.A. 91-256, S. 64, 69.)

History: P.A. 89-260 substituted “board of trustees for the community-technical colleges” for the boards of trustees for the regional-community and state technical colleges in Subsec. (a); P.A. 90-201 added equipment used for research purposes to the items which may be purchased pursuant to the section; P.A. 91-256 made a technical change in Subsec. (a).

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Sec. 10a-151b. Purchase of equipment, supplies and contractual services by constituent units and their institutions. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 58, and sections 4-98, 4a-4, 4a-5, 4a-6, 4d-2, and 4d-5 to the contrary, a chief executive officer may purchase equipment, supplies and contractual services, execute personal service agreements, as defined in section 4-212, or lease personal property compatible, where relevant, with standards for computer architecture established by the Department of Administrative Services, without the approval of the Comptroller, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management or the Commissioner of Administrative Services, provided the chief executive officer consults with the commissioner and such purchases are made in accordance with this section and in accordance with policies which are (1) adopted by the board of trustees of the constituent unit after reasonable opportunity for interested persons to present their views, and (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. The provisions of sections 4-212 to 4-219, inclusive, and section 9 of public act 93-336* shall not apply to personal service agreements executed pursuant to this section.

(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, purchases made pursuant to this section shall be based, when possible, on competitive bids or competitive negotiation. Such chief executive officer shall solicit competitive bids or proposals by sending notice to prospective suppliers and by posting notice on a public bulletin board in such officer's office. Such notice shall contain a notice of state contract requirements pursuant to section 4a-60. Each bid or proposal shall be kept sealed until opened publicly at the time stated in the notice soliciting such bid or proposal. Sealed bids or proposals shall include bids or proposals sealed within an envelope or maintained within a safe and secure electronic environment until such time as they are publicly opened. If the amount of the expenditure is estimated to exceed fifty thousand dollars, not later than five calendar days before the final date of submitting competitive bids or proposals, competitive bids or proposals shall be solicited by public notice posted on the Internet. All purchases fifty 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. If desired by the constituent unit, competitive quotations may include quotations submitted to the constituent unit within a safe and secure electronic environment. The constituent unit shall not refuse to consider a bid, proposal or quotation because it is not submitted electronically.

(c) Competitive bidding or competitive negotiation is not required in the case of (1) minor purchases of ten thousand dollars or less in amount, (2) purchases made pursuant to subsection (k) of this section, (3) emergency purchases, (4) agricultural purchases of dairy products, poultry, farm-raised seafood, beef, pork, lamb, eggs, fruits, vegetables or other farm products in an amount of fifty thousand dollars or less, or (5) a qualified contract, as described in subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of section 10a-151f, that is entered into pursuant to the policies adopted by either the Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut or the Board of Regents for Higher Education pursuant to section 10a-151g. 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. The chief executive officer, when making an agricultural purchase in accordance with subdivision (4) of this subsection, shall give preference to dairy products, poultry, farm-raised seafood, beef, pork, lamb, eggs, fruits, vegetables or other farm products grown or produced in this state when such products, poultry, farm-raised seafood, beef, pork, lamb, eggs, fruits or vegetables are comparable in cost to other dairy products, poultry, eggs, fruits or vegetables being considered for purchase by the chief executive officer that have not been grown or produced in this state.

(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 pursuant to section 4a-52a, or 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 that 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.

(h) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a constituent unit from entering into a corporate sponsorship agreement which contains provisions for the barter of goods and services, provided such agreement is entered into in accordance with policies and procedures governing such agreements adopted pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.

(i) For the period from July 1, 2002, to June 30, 2006, inclusive, any funds or revenues collected from ticket sales by the contractor hired by Western Connecticut State University to operate and manage its O'Neill Center, shall not be deemed to be state funds for the purposes of sections 4-32 and 4-33 and may be deposited in the contractor's account for a period of time not to exceed forty days, during which time the contractor shall pay all expenses related to the event for which the tickets were sold and make an accounting of the portion of the funds to be remitted to the university, and then remit such funds to the university pursuant to the terms of the contract. Upon receipt of such funds, the university shall deposit such funds in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-32 and 4-33.

(j) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, a chief executive officer may not extend a contract with a value of fifty thousand dollars or more per year to perform janitorial, building maintenance, security or food and beverage services unless: (1) Such contract is in effect on May 1, 2005; (2) such extension is for a period of one year from the date such contract would otherwise expire; and (3) any such extension includes any applicable increase in the standard wage and the payroll burden to administer the standard wage, as established by the Labor Department.

(k) The chief executive officer of a constituent unit may purchase, or make expenditures related to the development of, any technology, product or process for the purpose of testing such technology, product or process in the operation of the constituent unit on a trial basis, if (1) such technology, product or process (A) is part of or related to a research program at the constituent unit, (B) has the potential, as determined by the chief executive officer, to provide economic benefit to the state, (C) will not adversely affect the safety of any individual, and (D) has potential for commercialization, and (2) the chief executive officer has received a recommendation to test such technology, product or process from a constituent unit committee whose membership includes the chief purchasing official, the chief academic officer and the chief economic development officer for the constituent unit, or their designees.

(l) The chief executive officer of a constituent unit that purchases or makes expenditures related to the development of any technology, product or process for the purpose of testing such technology, product or process in the operation of the constituent unit on a trial basis, pursuant to subsection (k) of this section, shall, not later than January first of the year following such purchase or expenditure, submit a report, on the number of times such constituent unit tested such technology, product or process during the last twelve months, or if such tests are not complete, will test such technology, product or process in the next twelve months, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to higher education and commerce, in accordance with section 11-4a.

(m) The chief executive officer of a constituent unit may join with a federal agency, another state government, political subdivision of this state or private or nonprofit organization in a cooperative purchasing plan when the best interests of the state would be served by such plan.

(n) The state, through the chief executive officer of a constituent unit, may purchase equipment, supplies, materials and services from a person who has a contract to sell such property or services to another state government, political subdivision of this state, nonprofit organization or private or public purchasing consortium, in accordance with the terms and conditions of such contract.

(P.A. 90-201, S. 3, 11; P.A. 91-256, S. 35, 69; P.A. 92-154, S. 16, 23; P.A. 93-201, S. 8, 24; P.A. 96-244, S. 33, 34, 63; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9, S. 22, 50; P.A. 99-285, S. 11, 12; P.A. 00-66, S. 29; P.A. 02-140, S. 1, 2; P.A. 05-287, S. 24; P.A. 11-51, S. 87; P.A. 12-97, S. 1; 12-129, S. 1; P.A. 13-177, S. 3; P.A. 14-106, S. 1; P.A. 17-130, S. 4.)

*Note: Section 9 of public act 93-336 is special in nature and therefore has not been codified but remains in full force and effect according to its terms.

History: P.A. 91-256 in Subsec. (a) added references to Secs. 4a-4, 4a-5 and 4a-6 and the executive director of the office of information and technology, deleted language limiting the types of purchases allowed and the circumstances under which purchases may be made, added language concerning the lease of personal property and made technical changes, in Subsec. (b) changed $10,000 to $25,000, in Subsec. (c) changed $600 to $2,000 and added Subsec. (g) re contracts between chief executive officer and administrative services department; P.A. 92-154 amended Subsec. (a) to add the reference to Sec. 4-98 and to require comptroller's approval of certain expenditures; P.A. 93-201 amended Subsec. (a) to add the provisions relating to personal service agreements, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 96-244 added reference to Sec. 16a-118 in Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (h) re corporate sponsorship agreements and the barter of goods and services, effective July 1, 1996; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9 amended Subsec. (a) by substituting “Department of Information Technology” for “Office of Information and Technology” and “Chief Information Officer” for “executive director of the Office of Information and Technology” and adding proviso that chief executive officer consults with Chief Information Officer, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 99-285 amended Subsec. (b) to add competitive negotiations and to add proposals, to increase the amount of expenditure that requires specified public notice from $25,000 to $50,000 and to make a corresponding change for the provision concerning purchases on the open market, and to change the type of notice required from “not fewer than three daily newspapers” to two or more publications, at least one of which is a major daily newspaper and to require posting on the Internet and amended Subsec. (c) to add competitive negotiation and to increase the amount for minor purchases from $2,000 or less to $10,000 or less, effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 00-66 made a technical change and deleted reference to repealed Sec. 4-210 in Subsec. (a); P.A. 02-140 amended Subsec. (b) by adding provisions re sealed bids within an envelope or secure electronic environment and re electronic submissions and added Subsec. (i) re funds and revenues from O'Neill Center, effective July 1, 2002; P.A. 05-287 added Subsec. (j) re extension of contracts with a value of $50,000 or more per year for janitorial, building maintenance, security or food and beverage services, effective July 13, 2005; P.A. 11-51 amended Subsec. (a) to change “Department of Information Technology” to “Department of Administrative Services” and “Chief Information Officer” to “commissioner” and to add reference to Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management re approval of purchases, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 12-97 amended Subsec. (c) to make technical changes and add reference to purchases made pursuant to Subsec. (k) and added Subsecs. (k) and (l) re purchases of technology, product or process for testing on a trial basis, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 12-129 amended Subsec. (b) by eliminating requirement that public notice be inserted in 2 or more publications and making technical changes, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 13-177 amended Subsec. (c) to add Subdiv. (4) re agricultural purchases and to add provision re preference requirements for such purchases, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-106 made technical changes in Subsecs. (c), (f) and (h) and added Subsec. (m) re cooperative purchasing plan and Subsec. (n) re purchase from person with contract to sell to another state government, political subdivision of this state, nonprofit organization or private or public purchasing consortium, effective July 1, 2014; P.A. 17-130 amended Subsec. (b) to add provision re exception as provided in Subsec. (c), amended Subsec. (c) to delete provision re notwithstanding Subsec. (b) and add Subdiv. (5) re qualified contract, and made technical and conforming changes, effective July 1, 2017.

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Sec. 10a-151c. Approval of travel requests and the payment of travel expenses. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes to the contrary, 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 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.

(P.A. 90-201, S. 6, 11; P.A. 91-256, S. 36, 69.)

History: P.A. 91-256 deleted Subsec. (b) concerning payment from general fund appropriations upon order of the comptroller, made Subsec. (a) the section and deleted provision limiting the section to requests and expenses of faculty and professional employees.

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Sec. 10a-151d. Report concerning expenditures. On or before January 1, 2015, and annually thereafter, the board of trustees of each constituent unit of the state system of higher education shall submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies concerning expenditures pursuant to section 4a-52a, 10a-151b and 10a-151c during the preceding fiscal year.

(P.A. 90-201, S. 7(a),(b), 11; P.A. 14-202, S. 6.)

History: Subsec. (c) of section 7 of P.A. 90-201 was codified as Subsec. (b) of Sec. 10-21e; P.A. 14-202 deleted Subsec. (a) designator, changed report date from “1991” to “2015”, added reference to submission of report in accordance with Sec. 11-4a and deleted former Subsec. (b) re report of Department of Administrative Services concerning purchasing requests, effective June 12, 2014.

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Sec. 10a-151e. Course book contracts. On and after July 1, 1999, each constituent unit of the state system of higher education and each public institution of higher education that negotiates a contract with a vendor for the provision of course books for purchase by students shall ensure that such contract: (1) Includes a provision requiring the vendor to post its policies concerning the return of used books and the exchange rate for books used the previous semester that are in good condition, and (2) does not prevent student organizations from holding used book exchange programs.

(P.A. 99-285, S. 6, 12; P.A. 04-257, S. 16.)

History: P.A. 99-285 effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 04-257 made a technical change, effective June 14, 2004.

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Sec. 10a-151f. Exemption for qualified, revenue and nonmonetary contracts. (a) For the purposes of this section:

(1) “Qualified contract” means a purchase contract entered into (A) pursuant to subsection (a) of section 10a-151b, and (B) by 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 unit;

(2) “Purchase contract” means a contract for the purchase of equipment, supplies or contractual services, a personal service agreement, as defined in section 4-212, or a lease of personal property;

(3) “Revenue contract” means a contract entered into by a chief executive officer with another entity where the constituent unit or an institution within the jurisdiction of such a unit is receiving monetary consideration from the other entity;

(4) “Nonmonetary contract” means a contract entered into by a chief executive officer with another entity where neither the constituent unit or institution or the other entity provides monetary consideration;

(5) “State and certain other institutional funds” means any (A) funds appropriated or bonds authorized by the General Assembly, (B) revenue generated from tuition, (C) funds collected from student fees, housing fees or dining services, (D) revenue generated from athletic sponsorship deals or ticket sales, or (E) revenue collected from the clinical operations of The University of Connecticut Health Center and the John Dempsey Hospital; and

(6) “Chief executive officer” has the same meaning as provided in section 10a-151b.

(b) The provisions of sections 4-252 and 4a-81 shall not apply to:

(1) Any qualified contract entered into or amended on or after July 1, 2017, that: (A) Does not involve the expenditure of state and certain other institutional funds, (B) is for the purchase of equipment, supplies or services or the lease of personal property (i) to be used outside of the United States, and (ii) where the other party to the contract is located outside of the United States, or (C) is a collaboration with another entity and involves at least two of the following: (i) Philanthropic support, (ii) sponsored research, (iii) research collaboration, (iv) employment opportunities for students, or (v) some other substantial value to the constituent unit or the state; or

(2) Any revenue contract or nonmonetary contract entered into by the chief executive officer that is not a qualified contract.

(P.A. 17-130, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 17-130 effective July 1, 2017.

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Sec. 10a-151g. Adoption of policies for entering into or amending qualified contracts. (a)(1) On and after July 1, 2017, the Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut may adopt, and update as necessary, policies relating to the process for entering into or amending a qualified contract, as described in subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of section 10a-151f, provided the board of trustees provides a reasonable opportunity for interested persons to present their views on such policies prior to adoption, and such policies are subject to the provisions of section 4-175. The board of trustees shall post such policies on its Internet web site.

(2) On and after July 1, 2017, the Board of Regents for Higher Education may adopt, and update as necessary, policies relating to the process for entering into or amending a qualified contract, as described in subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of section 10a-151f, provided the board provides a reasonable opportunity for interested persons to present their views on such policies prior to adoption, and such policies are subject to the provisions of section 4-175. The board shall post such policies on its Internet web site.

(3) Nothing in this subsection shall exempt a constituent unit from complying with the provisions of title 4e applicable to constituent units, provided any policies adopted pursuant to this section shall supersede any regulations of Connecticut state agencies adopted pursuant to section 4e-47.

(b) Not later than January 1, 2018, and annually thereafter, The University of Connecticut and the Board of Regents for Higher Education shall each submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to higher education and government administration. Such report shall include, but need not be limited to, (1) any policies adopted pursuant to this section, (2) a description of any revisions or amendments made in the previous fiscal year to any previously adopted policies, and (3) a description of each contract entered into or amended in the previous fiscal year pursuant to such policies.

(P.A. 17-130, S. 3.)

History: P.A. 17-130 effective July 1, 2017.

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Sec. 10a-151h. Exemption from summary and affirmation requirements re state ethics law summary for certain qualified, revenue and nonmonetary contracts. Any qualified contract described in subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of section 10a-151f, and any revenue contract or nonmonetary contract that is not a qualified contract, as such terms are defined in section 10a-151f, that is (1) entered into or amended on or after July 1, 2017, by the chief executive officer of the Board of Regents for Higher Education, the chief executive officer of an institution within the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents for Higher Education or the chief executive officer of The University of Connecticut, and (2) a large state construction or procurement contract, as defined in section 1-101mm, shall not be required to comply with the provisions of section 1-101qq. If the chief executive officer of said board or such an institution opts to not comply with section 1-101qq for such a qualified, revenue or nonmonetary contract, the contract shall contain the following provision: “Any person who is a party to the contract, and any key employees, subcontractors and consultants working under the contract, shall comply with the provisions of the state code of ethics set forth in sections 1-84, 1-86e and 1-101nn of the general statutes.”.

(P.A. 17-130, S. 11.)

History: P.A. 17-130 effective July 1, 2017.

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Sec. 10a-151i. Affirmation in lieu of representation requirements re nondiscrimination and affirmative action for certain qualified, revenue and nonmonetary contracts. For any qualified contract described in subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of section 10a-151f, and any revenue contract or nonmonetary contract that is not a qualified contract, as such terms are defined in section 10a-151f, that is entered into or amended on or after July 1, 2017, by the chief executive officer of the Board of Regents for Higher Education or the chief executive officer of an institution within the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents for Higher Education or by the chief executive officer of The University of Connecticut, the chief executive officer shall require such contract to either (1) comply with the provisions of subsection (c) of section 4a-60, and subsection (b) of section 4a-60a, and set forth the full text of subdivisions (1) to (5), inclusive, of subsection (a) of section 4a-60, and subdivisions (1) to (4), inclusive, of subsection (a) of section 4a-60a, or (2) set forth the following affirmation: “Each party agrees, as required by sections 4a-60 and 4a-60a of the Connecticut General Statutes, not to discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religious creed, age, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, intellectual disability, mental disability or physical disability, including, but not limited to, blindness, unless it is shown by such party that such disability prevents performance of the work involved. Each party agrees to comply with all applicable federal and state of Connecticut nondiscrimination and affirmative action laws, including, but not limited to, sections 4a-60 and 4a-60a of the Connecticut General Statutes.”.

(P.A. 17-130, S. 9.)

History: P.A. 17-130 effective July 1, 2017.

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Sec. 10a-151j. Provision of free menstrual products by public institutions of higher education. On and after July 1, 2023, each public institution of higher education, as defined in section 10a-173, shall provide free menstrual products, as defined in section 18-69e, in no fewer than one designated and accessible central location on each campus of the institution and in a manner that does not stigmatize any student seeking such products, pursuant to guidelines established by the Department of Public Health under section 19a-131l. Each public institution of higher education shall post notice of such location on its Internet web site. To carry out the provisions of this section, each public institution of higher education may (1) accept donations of menstrual products and grants from any source for the purpose of purchasing such products, and (2) partner with a nonprofit or community-based organization.

(P.A. 22-118, S. 85.)

History: P.A. 22-118 effective July 1, 2022.

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Sec. 10a-152. (Formerly Sec. 10-327d). Receipt and expenditure of federal funds. The boards of trustees of each constituent unit, subject to the provisions of the general statutes, may receive any federal funds made available to this state for postsecondary educational purposes and expend such funds for the purpose or purposes for which they are made available. The State Treasurer shall be the custodian of such funds. Said boards may allocate and use any appropriate or special fund to meet the matching requirements of any federal act making funds available to the state for postsecondary educational purposes.

(P.A. 77-573, S. 13, 30.)

History: Sec. 10-327d transferred to Sec. 10a-152 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system.

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Sec. 10a-153. Remodeling, alteration, repair or enlargement projects, set-aside requirements. The constituent units of the state system of higher education shall comply with the provisions of section 4a-60g when undertaking remodeling, alteration, repair or enlargement projects pursuant to the provisions of sections 4b-51, 4b-52, 4b-55 and 4b-91.

(P.A. 87-529, S. 14; P.A. 04-257, S. 17.)

History: P.A. 04-257 made a technical change, effective June 14, 2004.

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Sec. 10a-154. Policies re service by tenured faculty members beyond mandatory retirement age. Section 10a-154 is repealed.

(P.A. 87-484, S. 9, 10; P.A. 89-147, S. 2, 3.)

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Sec. 10a-154a. Performance and evaluation records of faculty and professional staff members not public records. Any record maintained or kept on file by a board of trustees of a constituent unit of the state system of higher education which is a record of the performance and evaluation of a faculty or professional staff member of such constituent unit shall not be deemed to be a public record and shall not be subject to disclosure under the provisions of section 1-210, unless such faculty or professional staff member consents in writing to the release of his records by the board of trustees of the constituent unit. Such consent shall be required for each request for a release of such records.

(P.A. 89-229, S. 1, 4.)

Reports relating to the resolution of a formal grievance alleging misconduct against a state university faculty member do not constitute a “record of the performance and evaluation” of a faculty member and do not fall within exemption from disclosure contained in section; interpretation of section should parallel narrow interpretation of Sec. 10-151c. 319 C. 748.

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Sec. 10a-154b. Establishment of positions and the filling of vacancies. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 5-214 and 5-215 or any other provision of the general statutes or special act 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.

(P.A. 91-256, S. 37, 69; P.A. 92-126, S. 43, 48; 92-154, S. 8, 23.)

History: P.A. 92-126 and P.A. 92-154 both added the reference to special act provisions.

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Sec. 10a-154c. Increase of full-time faculty, plan. Not later than December 31, 2005, and biennially thereafter, the Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges, the Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut and the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University System shall each develop a plan to increase the number of full-time faculty teaching at the colleges and universities under the boards' jurisdiction. Not later than December 31, 2005, and biennially thereafter, each board of trustees shall report the plans in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a to the committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to higher education and employment advancement.

(P.A. 05-255, S. 3.)

History: P.A. 05-255 effective July 13, 2005.

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Sec. 10a-155. Required immunizations for college students. (a) Each institution of higher education shall require each full-time or matriculating student born after December 31, 1956, to provide proof of adequate immunization against measles, rubella, mumps and varicella as recommended by the national Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices before permitting such student to enroll in such institution.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, any student who (1) presents a certificate, in a form prescribed by the Commissioner of Public Health pursuant to section 19a-7q, from a physician, a physician assistant or an advanced practice registered nurse stating that in the opinion of such physician, physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse such immunization is medically contraindicated, (2) prior to April 28, 2021, provided a statement that such immunization is contrary to his or her religious beliefs, (3) presents a certificate from a physician, a physician assistant, an advanced practice registered nurse or the director of health in the student's present or previous town of residence, stating that the student has had a confirmed case of such disease, (4) is enrolled exclusively in a program for which students do not congregate on campus for classes or to participate in institutional-sponsored events, such as students enrolled in distance learning programs for individualized home study or programs conducted entirely through electronic media in a setting without other students present, or (5) graduated from a public or nonpublic high school in this state in 1999 or later and was not exempt from the measles, rubella and mumps vaccination requirement pursuant to subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 10-204a shall be exempt from the appropriate provisions of this section.

(c) Each institution of higher education shall keep uniform records of the immunizations and immunization status of each student, based on the certificate of immunization or other evidence acceptable pursuant to subsection (b) of this section. The record shall be part of the student's permanent record. By November first of each year, the chief administrative officer of each institution of higher education shall cause to be submitted to the Commissioner of Public Health, on a form provided by the commissioner, a summary report of the immunization status of all students enrolling in such institution.

(P.A. 89-90, S. 1, 3; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 98-252, S. 31, 80; P.A. 03-13, S. 1; P.A. 08-184, S. 44; P.A. 12-197, S. 23; P.A. 21-6, S. 3; 21-196, S. 5.)

History: P.A. 93-381 replaced commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 98-252 added Subsec. (a)(4) re exemption for students enrolled in certain types of programs, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 03-13 added Subsec. (a)(5) re graduation from high school in this state in 1999 or later and not exempt pursuant to Sec. 10-204a (a)(2) or (3), effective July 1, 2003; P.A. 08-184 amended Subsec. (a) by requiring proof of adequate immunization against mumps and varicella on and after August 1, 2010, and, in Subdiv. (5), by adding “and on and after August 1, 2010, the mumps” re exemptions from certain vaccination requirements; P.A. 12-197 amended Subsec. (a)(1) and (3) by adding provisions allowing certification by an advanced practice registered nurse; P.A. 21-6 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting reference to August 1, 2010, and making a technical change, redesignated existing provisions re exemptions as Subsec. (b) and amended same by adding provision re certificate being in form prescribed by the commissioner and references to physician assistant in Subdiv. (1), adding date reference and making technical changes in Subdiv. (2), and deleting date reference and reference to Sec. 10-204a(a)(3) in Subdiv. (5), redesignated existing Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (c) and amended same by making a conforming change, effective April 28, 2021; P.A. 21-196 amended Subsec. (a) by adding references to physician assistant.

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Sec. 10a-155a. Presence in institution of a student who has not been immunized. When a public health official has reason to believe that the continued presence in an institution of higher education of a student who has not been immunized against measles or rubella presents a clear danger to the health of others, the public health official shall notify the chief administrative officer of such institution. Such chief administrative officer shall cause the student to be excluded from the institution, or confined in an infirmary or other medical facility at the institution, until the student presents to such chief administrative officer a certificate from a physician, a physician assistant or an advanced practice registered nurse stating that, in the opinion of such physician, physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse, the presence in the institution of the student does not present a clear danger to the health of others.

(P.A. 89-90, S. 2, 3; P.A. 12-197, S. 24; P.A. 21-196, S. 6.)

History: P.A. 12-197 added provision allowing certification by an advanced practice registered nurse; P.A. 21-196 added references to physician assistant.

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Sec. 10a-155b. Meningitis vaccination for residents of on-campus housing. Meningitis information and records. (a) For students who first enroll in the 2014-2015 school year, and first enroll in each school year thereafter, each public or private college or university in this state shall require that each student who resides in on-campus housing be vaccinated against meningitis and submit evidence of having received a meningococcal conjugate vaccine not more than five years before enrollment as a condition of such residence. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any such student who (1) presents a certificate, in a form prescribed by the Commissioner of Public Health pursuant to section 19a-7q, from a physician, an advanced practice registered nurse or a physician assistant stating that, in the opinion of such physician, advanced practice registered nurse or physician assistant, such vaccination is medically contraindicated because of the physical condition of such student, or (2) prior to April 28, 2021, presented a statement that such vaccination is contrary to the religious beliefs of such student.

(b) For the 2002-2003 school year, and each school year thereafter, each public or private college or university in this state shall (1) provide information about meningitis to all prospective students prior to their matriculation and include with that information notice of the availability and benefits of a meningitis vaccine, and (2) develop procedures for receiving and keeping a record of student vaccination status.

(P.A. 01-93; P.A. 12-197, S. 25; P.A. 14-231, S. 39; P.A. 21-6, S. 4.)

History: P.A. 12-197 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by adding provision allowing certification by an advanced practice registered nurse; P.A. 14-231 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing reference to 2002-2003 school year with reference to students who first enroll in the 2014-2015 school year, adding provision re submission of evidence of having received vaccine not more than 5 years before enrollment, adding references to physician assistant and making technical changes, effective January 1, 2015; P.A. 21-6 amended Subsec. (a) by requiring certificate described in Subdiv. (1) to be in form prescribed by the commissioner and requiring statement described in Subdiv. (2) to have been presented prior to April 28, 2021, effective April 28, 2021.

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Sec. 10a-155c. Hepatitis B information. For the school year commencing in 2005, and each school year thereafter, each public or independent institution of higher education shall provide (1) information about hepatitis B and the risks of contracting hepatitis B by college-age individuals, to all matriculated students, and (2) notice of the availability and benefits of a hepatitis B vaccine.

(P.A. 04-221, S. 20.)

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Sec. 10a-156. Institutional assessments. Section 10a-156 is repealed, effective July 1, 2000.

(P.A. 91-154, S. 1, 2; P.A. 92-126, S. 32, 48; 92-154, S. 15, 23; P.A. 93-201, S. 15, 24; P.A. 00-220, S. 42, 43.)

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Sec. 10a-156a. Security protocol plan. Threat assessment team. (a) Not later than October 1, 2013, each constituent unit of the state system of higher education and each independent institution of higher education, as defined in subsection (a) of section 10a-173, shall submit an up-to-date security protocol plan to the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection. Such plan shall identify procedures specifically designed to heighten awareness by all faculty and staff regarding potentially at-risk students and other individuals on campus through effective educational strategies. Such procedures shall be designed to educate faculty and staff on how to recognize and respond to students and such other individuals who may be at risk of harm to themselves or others. Not later than July 1, 2015, and biennially thereafter, each constituent unit and independent institution of higher education shall review the security protocol plan with each of its chiefs of police or heads of campus security to determine whether such plan adequately addresses campus security concerns or requires revisions. In the event that revisions are required, the constituent unit or independent institution of higher education making revisions shall submit a revised security protocol plan to the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection not later than August first of the year in which revisions are deemed necessary.

(b) Not later than January 1, 2014, each constituent unit and independent institution of higher education shall establish a trained threat assessment team for each of its campuses. The threat assessment team shall consist of individuals selected by the president of each state college, regional community-technical college or independent institution of higher education in consultation with its chief of police or head of campus security and may include not less than one member of its special police force or campus security personnel, administration, faculty and senior and mid-level staff. The chief of police or head of campus security at each state college, regional community-technical college and independent institution of higher education shall be responsible for ensuring that every member of the threat assessment team (1) is capable of executing the security protocol plan developed in accordance with subsection (a) of this section, and (2) receives comprehensive training in identifying potentially at-risk students, other potentially at-risk individuals on campus and any other potential threats to campus safety.

(P.A. 08-157, S. 1; P.A. 13-3, S. 92; 13-220, S. 22; P.A. 14-65, S. 11.)

History: P.A. 08-157 effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 13-3 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and amended same by requiring submission of an up-to-date security protocol plan to the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection by October 1, 2013, requiring biennial review of such plan with each constituent unit's and independent institution of higher education's chief of police or head of campus security and making technical changes, and added Subsec. (b) requiring establishment of a trained threat assessment team on each campus of each constituent unit and independent institution of higher education, effective April 4, 2013; P.A. 13-220 made a technical change in Subsec. (b), effective June 18, 2013; P.A. 14-65 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2014.

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Sec. 10a-156b. (Formerly Sec. 10a-142). Special police forces. (a) There are established special police forces for The University of Connecticut at Storrs and its several campuses, including, but not limited to, The University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, and for 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. Subject to the approval of the Board of Regents for Higher Education, there are established special police forces for Asnuntuck Community College in Enfield, Capital Community College in Hartford, Gateway Community College in New Haven, Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, Manchester Community College in Manchester, Middlesex Community College in Middletown, Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury, Northwestern Connecticut Community College in Winsted, Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, Quinebaug Valley Community College in Danielson, Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, and Tunxis Community College in Farmington. The members of each special police force 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 forces 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 the special police forces shall continue to be state employees and shall be subject to the provisions of chapter 67, and parts II and III of this chapter. The provisions of part V of chapter 104 and section 7-433c shall not apply to such members.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, positions in the special police forces for The University of Connecticut at Storrs and its several campuses and The University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington shall be unclassified in state service and shall not be subject to the provisions of section 5-206, section 5-208 and subsection (b) of section 5-200a. The positions held by such special police forces shall be within the bargaining unit that represents protective services employees and shall not be severed.

(d) The president of The University of Connecticut shall establish classifications for the special police forces positions for The University of Connecticut at Storrs and its several campuses, including The University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, using objective job-related criteria, including, but not limited to: (1) Knowledge and skill required to carry out the duties of each position, (2) mental and physical effort required to carry out the duties of each position, and (3) the level of accountability assigned to each position. The president shall establish and administer all necessary examinations for such special police forces.

(e) The special police force for any institution listed in subsection (a) of this section shall have access to, and use of, the Connecticut on-line law enforcement communications teleprocessing system without charge.

(f) The chief executive officer of any institution listed in subsection (a) of this section which maintains a special police force may enter into an agreement with one or more of said other institutions which maintain a special police force to furnish or receive police assistance under the same conditions and terms specified in subsection (a) of section 7-277a.

(g) The state shall protect and save harmless any member of the special police force for any institution listed in subsection (a) of this section from financial loss and expense, including reasonable legal fees and costs, if any, arising out of any claim, demand, suit or judgment by reason of the alleged deprivation by such member of any person's civil rights, which deprivation was not wanton, reckless or malicious, provided such member, at the time of such acts resulting in such alleged deprivation, was acting in the discharge of such member's duties or within the scope of such member's employment or under the direction of a superior officer.

(h) Reasonable legal fees and costs incurred as a result of the retention, by any member of the special police force for any institution listed in subsection (a) of this section, of an attorney to represent such member's interests in any action referred to in subsection (g) of this section shall be borne by the state in those cases in which (1) such member is ultimately found not to have acted in a wanton, reckless or malicious manner, or (2) no punitive damages are ultimately assessed against such member.

(1972, P.A. 119, S. 1; P.A. 76-178, S. 1, 2; P.A. 79-350, S. 2; P.A. 82-391, S. 5, 6; P.A. 83-466, S. 2; P.A. 84-255, S. 16, 21; P.A. 89-376, S. 1; P.A. 91-256, S. 33, 69; P.A. 92-154, S. 12, 23; P.A. 96-66; P.A. 11-70, S. 10; P.A. 13-3, S. 93; 13-195, S. 1; 13-247, S. 63; P.A. 14-217, S. 221; P.A. 16-154, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 76-178 extended provisions to include Central, Southern, Eastern and Western Connecticut State Colleges and included reference to Ch. 164, Part VII in Subsec. (b); P.A. 79-350 included University of Connecticut Health Center at Farmington in Subsec. (a); P.A. 82-391 revised college names to reflect change to university status pursuant to reorganization of higher education system, effective March 1, 1983; Sec. 10-144c transferred to Sec. 10a-142 in 1983; P.A. 83-466 added exception re Subsec. (b) of Sec. 7-277a; P.A. 84-255 amended Subsec. (a) clarifying that the police force covers the branches of The University of Connecticut; P.A. 89-376 added Subsec. (c), allowing special police force to have free use of COLLECT system; P.A. 91-256 in Subsec. (a) extended the jurisdiction to property occupied by The University of Connecticut in the town of Mansfield and added Subsec. (d) concerning the purchase of public safety and emergency vehicles and equipment; P.A. 92-154 deleted Subsec. (d) concerning the purchase of public safety and emergency vehicles and equipment; P.A. 96-66 made technical changes in Subsecs. (a), (b) and (c) and added Subsec. (d) allowing mutual aid agreements among institutions for police assistance; (Revisor's note: In 2003 a reference in Subsec. (b) to “chapter 185b” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “this chapter”); P.A. 11-70 replaced “branches” with “campuses” in Subsec. (a); P.A. 13-3 amended Subsec. (b) to add exception re Subsec. (e) and added Subsec. (e) re determination of preliminary requirements for members and timeline for filling vacancies, effective April 4, 2013; P.A. 13-195 added Subsec. (e) re state to protect and save members harmless and added Subsec. (f) re legal fees and costs, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 13-247 amended Subsec. (b) to delete exception re Subsec. (e) and deleted former Subsec. (e) re preliminary requirements for members and timeline for filling vacancies, effective July 1, 2013; Sec. 10a-142 transferred to Sec. 10a-156b in 2014; P.A. 14-217 made technical changes in Subsecs. (a) and (b), added new Subsec. (c) re unclassified positions for The University of Connecticut and The University of Connecticut Health Center, added new Subsec. (d) re president of The University of Connecticut establishing classifications for positions, and redesignated existing Subsecs. (c) to (f) as Subsecs. (e) to (h) and made technical changes in same, effective June 13, 2014; P.A. 16-154 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision re establishment of special police forces for regional community-technical colleges and making a technical change, effective July 1, 2016.

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Sec. 10a-156c. Certification of armed security personnel. Any armed security personnel of any public institution of higher education or armed member of a special police force established under section 10a-156b shall be certified under the provision of sections 7-294a to 7-294e, inclusive.

(P.A. 13-3, S. 95.)

History: P.A. 13-3 effective April 4, 2013.

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Sec. 10a-156d. Inclusion of 9-8-8 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline number on student identification cards at The University of Connecticut. The University of Connecticut shall include the 9-8-8 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline number on each student identification card that is printed for a student at said university after said lifeline has been operational in the state for three hundred sixty-six days.

(P.A. 22-47, S. 30.)

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Sec. 10a-157. General education core of courses. (a) Not later than July 1, 2013, the regional community-technical college system and the Connecticut State University System shall develop and implement a general education core of courses for which not fewer than thirty academic credits shall be offered by each such constituent unit as part of its liberal arts and sciences programs and any other degree program designated as a transfer program. A student who graduates from any such liberal arts and sciences program or transfer program or transfers from such program to another of such constituent units or to another institution within the same constituent unit shall transfer any credits earned while enrolled in such program toward the general education core curriculum requirements of the constituent unit to which such student transfers.

(b) Teaching faculty from the regional community-technical college system and the Connecticut State University System, elected pursuant to a uniform, system-wide election by the faculty senates representing each of such constituent units, shall be included in the development and implementation of the general education core of courses.

(P.A. 12-31, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 12-31 effective July 1, 2012.

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Sec. 10a-157a. Embedded remedial support. (a) For purposes of sections 10a-157a to 10a-157c, inclusive: (1) “Connecticut's P-20 Council” means the state-wide council of educators, business leaders and civic officials formed by Executive Order Number 2A by Governor M. Jodi Rell in 2009 to build stronger ties among educators and policymakers at all levels of education in this state, from preschool to graduate school; and (2) “public institution of higher education” means those constituent units identified in subdivisions (2) and (3) of section 10a-1.

(b) Not later than the start of the fall semester of 2014 for the Connecticut State University System and not later than the start of the fall semester of 2015 for the regional community-technical colleges, and for each semester thereafter, if a public institution of higher education determines, by use of multiple commonly accepted measures of skill level, that a student is likely to succeed in college level work with supplemental support, the public institution of higher education shall offer such student remedial support that is embedded with the corresponding entry level course in a college level program. Such embedded support shall be offered during the same semester as and in conjunction with the entry level course for purposes of providing the student with supplemental support in the entry level course.

(c) Not later than the start of the fall semester of 2015 and for each semester thereafter, if a public institution of higher education determines, by use of multiple commonly accepted measures of skill level, that a student is below the skill level required for success in college level work with supplemental support, the public institution of higher education shall offer such student one intensive semester of remedial support that (1) is designed to provide such student with the knowledge and skills necessary to be placed in an entry level course in a college level program, and (2) such student may repeat subject to the public institution of higher education's course repeat policy provided that such policy shall not prohibit a minimum of one repeat attempt.

(d) Not later than the start of the fall semester of 2015 and for each semester thereafter, if a public institution of higher education determines, by use of multiple commonly accepted measures of skill level, that a student is below the skill level required for success in an intensive semester of remedial support, the public institution of higher education shall offer such student the opportunity to participate in a transitional college readiness program before the start of the next semester. Such student shall complete such transitional college readiness program prior to receiving embedded remedial support, as provided in subsection (b) of this section or intensive remedial support, as provided in subsection (c) of this section. The Board of Regents for Higher Education, in consultation with Connecticut's P-20 Council and the faculty advisory committee to the Board of Regents for Higher Education, shall develop options for a transitional college readiness program.

(e) Not later than the start of the fall semester of 2014 for the Connecticut State University System and not later than the start of the fall semester of 2015 for the regional community-technical colleges, and for each semester thereafter, each public institution of higher education shall offer only remedial support, including remedial courses, that is authorized pursuant to subsections (b), (c) and (d) of this section.

(f) In accordance with subsection (d) of this section and subsection (a) of section 10-69, the Board of Regents for Higher Education may enter into a memorandum of understanding with the State Department of Education for the purpose of delivering a transitional college readiness program that will enable adults to enroll directly in a program of higher learning, as defined in section 10a-34, at an institution of higher education upon completion of such program.

(g) Not later than the start of the fall semester of 2014, the Board of Regents for Higher Education, in consultation with Connecticut's P-20 Council, shall report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to higher education regarding (1) its recommendations concerning the successful transition of adults returning to or first enrolling in a higher education program at a public institution of higher education after spending time in the workforce, and (2) the application of the provisions of sections 10a-157a to 10a-157c, inclusive, to each higher education program for students who are deaf or hard of hearing that is offered by a public institution of higher education.

(P.A. 12-40, S. 1; P.A. 14-217, S. 209; P.A. 17-202, S. 19.)

History: P.A. 12-40 effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 14-217 amended Subsec. (b) to extend implementation of embedded remedial support requirements to the fall semester of 2015 for regional community-technical colleges, added new Subsec. (c) re intensive semester of remedial support, redesignated existing Subsec. (c) as Subsec. (d) and amended same to change “2014” to “2015”, “college level work” to “an intensive semester of remedial support” and “intensive” to “transitional” and to add reference to intensive remedial support, redesignated existing Subsec. (d) as Subsec. (e) and amended same to add provision re extension of implementation deadline for regional community-technical colleges to fall semester of 2015, delete provision re remedial support not embedded with entry level course and add references to embedded remedial support, intensive semester of remedial support and transitional college readiness program, added Subsec. (f) re memorandum of understanding and redesignated existing Subsec. (e) as Subsec. (g), effective July 1, 2014; P.A. 17-202 amended Subsec. (g) to replace “hearing impaired or deaf students” with “students who are deaf or hard of hearing” and made a technical change.

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Sec. 10a-157b. Curricular alignment with public schools. Not later than the start of the fall semester of 2016 and for each semester thereafter, each public high school and public institution of higher education shall complete curricular alignment to enable the successful completion of the high school mathematics and language arts curricula, as described in Connecticut's Common Core State Standards adopted by the State Board of Education, to be the indicator of readiness for college level work. A public institution of higher education may use available evaluation instruments to assess adults, who are returning to or first enrolling in a higher education program at a public institution of higher education after spending time in the workforce, for readiness for college level work.

(P.A. 12-40, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 12-40 effective July 1, 2012.

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Sec. 10a-157c. Early assessment of potential for college readiness. Not later than the start of the school year commencing July 1, 2014, and for each school year thereafter, the Board of Regents for Higher Education, in consultation with Connecticut's P-20 Council, as defined in subsection (a) of section 10a-157a, shall ensure that each public institution of higher education works with the Department of Education and the local and regional school districts to (1) use available evaluation methods for early assessment of the potential for college readiness of each student enrolled in the eighth and tenth grades in a public school, and (2) share the results of such assessment with such student, such student's parents or legal guardian and the public school in which such student is enrolled.

(P.A. 12-40, S. 3.)

History: P.A. 12-40 effective July 1, 2012.

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Sec. 10a-158. Comparison of administrator salaries and ratio of administrators to students and faculty. Report. (a) For purposes of this section, “administrator” means a full-time employee who is, as of November first in the year preceding the year in which the report required under subsection (d) of this section is due, in a position on the payroll that qualifies as a management occupation classification in accordance with the standard occupational classification system of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor.

(b) Not later than January 1, 2014, and biennially thereafter, the Board of Regents for Higher Education shall compare (1) the salaries of the administrators at each public institution of higher education within the Connecticut State University System and the regional-community technical college system with the salaries of administrators with similar responsibilities at peer public institutions of higher education in the United States, (2) the ratio of administrators to students and of administrators to faculty at each public institution of higher education within the Connecticut State University System and the regional-community technical college system with the ratio of administrators to students and of administrators to faculty at peer public institutions of higher education in the United States, and (3) the salaries of the administrators in the central office of the Board of Regents for Higher Education with the salaries of administrators with similar responsibilities in the central office of similar state university systems in the United States.

(c) Not later than January 1, 2014, and biennially thereafter, the Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut shall compare (1) the salaries of administrators at The University of Connecticut with the salaries of administrators with similar responsibilities at peer public institutions of higher education in the United States, and (2) the ratio of administrators to students and of administrators to faculty at The University of Connecticut with the ratio of administrators to students and of administrators to faculty at peer public institutions of higher education in the United States.

(d) Upon completion of the biennial comparisons made pursuant to subsections (b) and (c) of this section, the Board of Regents for Higher Education and the Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut shall report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, on such comparisons to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to higher education and appropriations.

(P.A. 13-143, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 13-143 effective July 1, 2013.

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Secs. 10a-159 and 10a-160. Reserved for future use.

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