(a) As used in this section:

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 4-68aa

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
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(1) “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, or the secretary’s designee;

(2) “Social innovation investment enterprise” means an entity created to coordinate the delivery of preventive social programs by nonprofit service providers, which has the capability of creating a social investment vehicle, entering into outcome-based performance contracts and contracting with service providers;

(3) “Social investment vehicle” means an investment product established by a social innovation investment enterprise to raise private investment capital; and

(4) “Outcome-based performance contract” means a contract entered into between the secretary and a social innovation investment enterprise that establishes outcome-based performance standards for preventive social programs delivered by nonprofit service providers and provides that investors in any social investment vehicle shall receive a return of their investment and earnings thereon only if outcome-based performance standards are met by the social innovation investment enterprise.

(b) The secretary may enter into an outcome-based performance contract with a social innovation investment enterprise for the purpose of accepting a United States Department of Justice fiscal year 2012 Second Chance Act Adult Offender Reentry Program Demonstration Category 2 Implementation grant. The outcome-based performance contract between the secretary and a social innovation investment enterprise may provide for payments from the social innovation account, established pursuant to subsection (d) of this section, to the social innovation investment enterprise or to investors or to both.

(c) The secretary shall comply with the provisions of § 4e-16 relating to privatization contracts when entering into an outcome-based performance contract with a social innovation investment enterprise pursuant to this section.

(d) There is established an account to be known as the “social innovation account” which shall be a separate, nonlapsing account within the General Fund. The account shall contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in the account. Any interest accruing to the account shall be credited to the account. Moneys may be transferred to the account from the General Fund. Moneys in the account shall be expended by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management for the purposes of facilitating the reentry of moderate and high-risk offenders into the community. The secretary may apply for and accept gifts, grants or donations from public or private sources to enable the account to be a source of payments to investors purchasing interests in a social investment vehicle.