(a) The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall have authority to receive and review applications for state grants under this chapter, and to approve any such application, or to disapprove any such application if (1) it does not comply with the requirements of the State Fire Marshal or the Department of Public Health, (2) it is not accompanied by a life-cycle cost analysis approved by the Commissioner of Administrative Services, (3) it does not comply with the provisions of sections 10-290d and 10-291, (4) it does not meet (A) the standards or requirements established in regulations adopted in accordance with section 10-287c, or (B) school building categorization requirements described in section 10-283, (5) the estimated construction cost exceeds the per square foot cost for schools established in regulations adopted by the Commissioner of Administrative Services for the county in which the project is proposed to be located, (6) on and after July 1, 2014, the application does not comply with the school safety infrastructure criteria developed by the School Safety Infrastructure Council, pursuant to section 10-292r, except the Commissioner of Administrative Services may waive any of the provisions of the school safety infrastructure criteria if the commissioner determines that the application demonstrates that the applicant has made a good faith effort to address such criteria and that compliance with such criteria would be infeasible, unreasonable or excessively expensive, or (7) the Commissioner of Education determines that the proposed educational specifications for or theme of the project for which the applicant requests a state grant duplicates a program offered by a technical education and career school or an interdistrict magnet school in the same region.

(b) The Commissioner of Administrative Services may also disapprove a grant application if the town or regional school district has not begun construction, as defined in section 10-282, not later than two years after the effective date of the act of the General Assembly authorizing the Commissioner of Education or the Commissioner of Administrative Services to enter into grant commitments for a project as provided in sections 10-283 and 10-283a. The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall cancel any grant commitment for a project for which the General Assembly authorized such grant commitment prior to July 1, 2010, if the town or regional school district has not begun construction, as defined in section 10-282, by April 30, 2015, and such town or regional school district may make a new application for a grant in accordance with section 10-283.

(c) When any such application is approved, the Commissioner of Administrative Services shall certify to the Comptroller the amount of the grant for which the town or regional school district is eligible under this chapter and the amount and time of the payment thereunder. Upon receipt of such certification, the Comptroller is authorized and directed to draw his order on the Treasurer in such amount and at such time as certified by the Commissioner of Administrative Services.

(November, 1949, 1953, S. 981d; 1957, P.A. 593, S. 3; 1959, P.A. 321, S. 2; 611, S. 5; 1967, P.A. 638, S. 3; P.A. 73-165; P.A. 76-418, S. 4, 18; P.A. 77-597, S. 2; 77-614, S. 73, 323, 587, 610; P.A. 78-331, S. 6, 58; P.A. 79-56; P.A. 82-22, S. 1, 4; P.A. 84-460, S. 8, 16; P.A. 85-377, S. 9, 13; P.A. 86-75, S. 1, 2; P.A. 87-496, S. 48, 110; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-6, S. 4; P.A. 11-51, S. 119; P.A. 12-116, S. 87; P.A. 13-3, S. 81; 13-247, S. 200; P.A. 14-90, S. 3, 8; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-3, S. 7; P.A. 16-173, S. 10; P.A. 17-237, S. 84.)

History: 1959 acts limited approval of applications for vocational agriculture centers to two in one year and to an amount totaling not more than $300,000, unless approved by governor and allowed disapproval of applications not in compliance re filing of plans and specifications; 1967 act increased amount of grants which require governor’s approval to $400,000 and made technical changes re amount and time of payments; P.A. 73-165 revised provisions re vocational agriculture centers, deleting limitation on number of centers to be approved and reducing amount of grants allowed without governor’s approval to $300,000, allowed grants for occupational training centers not exceeding $100,000 total, specified “fiscal” year and substituted “commitments” for “applications”; P.A. 76-418 allowed disapproval of applications which do not meet standards or priorities set by state board, deleted phrase which would allow exceptions to limits imposed by provisions with governor’s approval and limited approval of grants for cooperative regional special education facilities to amounts totaling $2,000,000; P.A. 77-597 allowed disapproval of applications not accompanied by life-cycle cost analysis; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of administrative services for public works commissioner and, effective January 1, 1979, substituted department of health services for state department of health; P.A. 78-331 made technical changes; P.A. 79-56 prohibited approval of grants for more than $600,000, rather than $300,000, for vocational agriculture centers; P.A. 82-22 deleted provision prohibiting approval of commitments exceeding $100,000 for regional or local centers for occupational training serving programs under Sec. 10-266f, that section having been previously repealed; P.A. 84-460 amended Subdiv. (4) deleting provision re limitation on total amount of grants to be approved for vocational agriculture centers and regional special education facilities and added new Subdiv. (5) re town having failed to begin construction on the project; P.A. 85-377 substituted references to commissioner of education for references to state board of education; P.A. 86-75 reorganized the section and added provisions for disapproval where grant commitment authorized prior to June 14, 1984, and construction not begun by July 1, 1987; P.A. 87-496 replaced administrative services commissioner with public works commissioner in Subsec. (a); P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department 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; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-6 added Subsec. (a)(5) re duplicate educational specifications or theme of projects at proposed vocational-technical schools or interdistrict magnet schools in same region, effective October 5, 2009; P.A. 11-51 amended Subsec. (a) by limiting authority of Commissioner of Education to receipt and review of applications, adding provision re Commissioner of Construction Services’ authority to review and approve or disapprove applications, replacing Commissioner of Public Works with Commissioner of Construction Services in Subdiv. (2), designating existing language in Subdiv. (4) as Subparas. (A) and (B) and amending same by adding language re requirements established in regulations in Subpara. (A) and replacing language re priorities established by State Board of Education with language re categorization requirements in Subpara. (B), redesignating existing Subdiv. (5) as Subdiv. (6), adding new Subdiv. (5) re estimated construction cost exceeds per square foot cost and making conforming changes, amended Subsec. (b) by replacing Commissioner of Education with Commissioner of Construction Services re disapproving an application, deleting former Subpara. (A) re grant commitment authorized prior to June 14, 1984, and Subpara. (B) designator, adding Commissioner of Construction Services re authority to enter into grant commitments for a project, adding provision authorizing Commissioner of Construction Services to cancel any grant commitment for a project authorized prior to July 1, 2010, if project has not begun construction by April 30, 2015, deleting former Subdiv. (2) re notice of pending disapproval and making conforming and technical changes, and amended Subsec. (c) by replacing “said commissioner” with “the Commissioner of Construction Services”, effective July 1, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 12-116, “vocational-technical school” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “technical high school” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 13-3 amended Subsec. (a) by redesignating existing Subdiv. (6) as Subdiv. (7) and adding new Subdiv. (6) re school safety infrastructure standards, effective July 1, 2013; 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. 14-90 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “Commissioner of Education” with “Commissioner of Administrative Services” in provision re authority to receive and review applications, making a conforming change and, in Subdiv. (6), adding provision re waiver of school safety infrastructure standards, effective July 1, 2014; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-3 amended Subsec. (a)(6) by replacing “standards” with “criteria”, effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 16-173 amended Subsec. (a)(2) by deleting “pursuant to section 16a-38”, effective July 1, 2016; P.A. 17-237 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “technical high school” with “technical education and career school”, effective July 1, 2017.