Section 23-15h - Passport to the Parks account. Established. Subaccounts. Payments from account(a) There is established an account to be known as the Passport to the Parks account which shall be a separate, nonlapsing account within the General Fund. Moneys in such account shall be used to provide expenses of the Council on Environmental Quality, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, and for the care, maintenance, operation and improvement of state parks and campgrounds, the care, maintenance and operation of Batterson Park, a public park owned by the city of Hartford and located in the city of New Britain and the town of Farmington, the operation of the Thames River Heritage Park taxi serving the city of New London and the city of Groton for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2026, to June 30, 2031, inclusive, in an amount not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars in each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 2026, to June 30, 2028, inclusive, one hundred thousand dollars in the fiscal years ending June 30, 2029, and June 30, 2030, and in an amount not to exceed fifty thousand dollars in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2031, the funding of soil and water conservation districts and the funding of environmental review teams, in accordance with subsection (b) of this section. All funds collected from the Passport to the Parks Fee established pursuant to section 14-49b shall be deposited into the Passport to the Parks account. Such account shall contain all moneys required by law to be deposited in such account. Such account may receive funds from private or public sources, including, but not limited to, any municipal government or the federal government. Such account shall contain subaccounts as required by section 23-15b.(b) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2018, and each fiscal year thereafter, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall be paid by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection from the Passport to the Parks account to each of the following entities: (1) The Connecticut River Coastal Conservation District, (2) the Eastern Conservation District, (3) the North Central Conservation District, (4) the Northwest Conservation District, (5) the Southwest Conservation District, (6) the Connecticut Environmental Review Team, and (7) the Connecticut Council on Water and Soil Conservation.Conn. Gen. Stat. § 23-15h
( June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 , S. 331 ; P.A. 18-7 , S. 1 ; 18-81 , S. 14 .)
Amended by P.A. 24-0081,S. 40 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2024 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2024.Amended by P.A. 18-0007, S. 1 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2018 Regular Session, eff. 5/24/2018.Added by P.A. 17-0002, S. 331 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2017 Special Session, eff. 1/1/2018.