Connecticut General Statutes 32-41dd – Bond authorization for Connecticut Bioscience Innovation Fund
(a)(1) The State Bond Commission shall authorize the issuance of bonds of the state, in accordance with the provisions of § 3-20, in principal amounts not exceeding in the aggregate two hundred four million dollars for the Connecticut Bioscience Innovation Fund established pursuant to § 32-41cc. The amount authorized for the issuance and sale of such bonds in each of the following fiscal years shall not exceed the following corresponding amount for each such fiscal year, provided, to the extent the advisory committee does not provide for the use of all or a portion of such amount in any such fiscal year, such amount not provided for shall be carried forward and added to the authorized amount for the next succeeding fiscal year, 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 |
Amount    |
|
June Thirtieth |
  |
|
2013 |
$10,000,000 |
|
2014 |
10,000,000 |
|
2015 |
15,000,000 |
|
2016 |
15,000,000 |
|
2017 |
0 |
|
2018 |
15,000,000 |
|
2019 |
15,000,000 |
|
2020 |
25,000,000 |
|
2021 |
25,000,000 |
|
2022 |
25,000,000 |
|
2023 |
25,000,000 |
|
2024 |
24,000,000 |
|
Total |
$204,000,000 |
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 32-41dd
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
- succeeding: when used by way of reference to any section or sections, mean the section or sections next preceding, next following or next succeeding, unless some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
(2) For each fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, June 30, 2019, and June 30, 2020, not less than three million dollars of the amount for each such fiscal year authorized in accordance with subdivision (1) of this subsection shall be made available as a grant-in-aid to the Yale Connecticut Precision Medicine Initiative.
(b) The State Bond Commission shall approve a memorandum of understanding between the administrator 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 the Connecticut Bioscience Innovation Fund, 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 this section for such project or program. The memorandum of understanding shall be deemed to satisfy the provisions of § 3-20 and the exercise of any right or power granted thereby that is not inconsistent with the provisions of this section.
(c) All provisions of § 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 said section, and from time to time renewed. All 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 Treasurer shall pay such principal and interest as the same become due.
(d) Subject to the amount of limitations of the capping provisions in subsection (a) of this section, 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 § 4-85.