(a) The State Bond Commission shall have power, in accordance with the provisions of sections 13a-176 to 13a-183, inclusive, to authorize, in one or more series and in principal amounts not in the aggregate exceeding the respective amounts hereinbelow stated, the issuance of bonds of the state for any of the following purposes: (1) Not more than three hundred ninety-three million one hundred eighty-five thousand dollars for financing all or any part of the cost of planning, designing, laying out, constructing, reconstructing or improving any highways or other facilities, hereinafter sometimes referred to as “highway projects” or, individually, as a “highway project”, on the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways as designated on or after May 8, 1959, pursuant to federal law, including but not limited to costs and expenses of right-of-way or other property acquisitions therefor, expenses of the Department of Transportation in connection therewith for engineering, architectural and legal work or services, and all administrative and other expenses properly attributable thereto, whether or not the United States or agencies thereof are to contribute to such cost by participating in payment or reimbursement thereof or otherwise and for any of the projects or purposes of sections 1 to 6, inclusive, of public act 95-286*; (2) not more than forty-eight million dollars for financing all or any part of the cost of planning, designing, laying out, constructing, reconstructing or improving any highways or other facilities, hereinafter sometimes referred to as “highway projects” or, individually, as a “highway project”, on the federal-aid primary system or federal-aid secondary system as designated on or after May 8, 1959, pursuant to federal law, including but not limited to costs and expenses of right-of-way or other property acquisitions therefor, expenses of the Department of Transportation in connection therewith for engineering, architectural and legal work or services, and all administrative and other expenses properly attributable thereto, whether or not the United States or agencies thereof are to contribute to such cost by participating in payment or reimbursement thereof or otherwise and for any of the projects or purposes of sections 1 to 6, inclusive, of public act 95-286*, and (3) not more than thirty-eight million dollars for financing, refinancing or paying expenditures made before or after May 8, 1959, in connection with bridges or other properties operated by the Greater Hartford Bridge Authority pursuant to part IV of chapter 235 of the 1958 revision of the general statutes, which expenditures may include any payments made before or after said date by said authority and payments on account of acquisition or payment of, or other provision regarding, any indebtedness of said authority including any bonds or notes issued by it before or after May 8, 1959, and payments on account of any sums becoming due from the state pursuant to any contract, agreement or other arrangement with said authority or holders of any of said bonds or notes or representatives thereof.

(b) It is the intention of the legislature that, insofar as practicable and consistent with federal law and regulations, the proceeds of the additional amount of one hundred thirty-three million one hundred eighty-five thousand dollars which may now be authorized pursuant to this section for said National System of Interstate and Defense Highways be spent, to the extent necessary for such purpose, to finance costs referred to above with respect to highway projects located on the following portions of said interstate system: (1) Repealed by P.A. 78-107, S. 2; (2) Connecticut Interstate Route 84, from west of Simmons Road in East Hartford to north of Middle Turnpike in Manchester to Connecticut Routes 83 and 30 in Vernon; (3) Connecticut Interstate Route 84, from Route 6A in Newtown to north of River Road in Southbury; (4) and (5) Repealed by P.A. 78-107, S. 2; (6) Connecticut Interstate Route 84 and interchanges, Danbury; and (7) Connecticut Interstate Route 84 between Manchester and Connecticut Route 52 in Plainfield.