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Commerce committee considers broad DECD statutory changes, including prevailing wage, IDD hiring grants and AdvanceCT updates
Summary
HB 7165 packages several DECD-sponsored statutory revisions, including prevailing wage clarifications, changes to grants for hiring employees with IDD, and a statutory rename to AdvanceCT.
The committee considered HB 7165 (LCO 6587), an agency bill from the Department of Economic and Community Development that packages six substantive statutory changes intended as housekeeping and program updates.
Representative Meskers summarized the bill's components: authorizing DECD to sell branded merchandise with proceeds deposited to the tourism fund; clarifying when prevailing wage applies to projects that receive state funding; expanding and relaxing eligibility criteria for a grant program supporting employers who hire individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD); revising the non-relocation agreement language tied to tax credits; allowing conveyance of certain state-owned properties for cultural or historic use;…
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