Section 4-28e - [Effective 7/1/2025] Tobacco Settlement Fund. Disbursements(a) There is created a Tobacco Settlement Fund which shall be a separate nonlapsing fund. Any funds received by the state from the Master Settlement Agreement executed November 23, 1998, shall be deposited into the fund.(b)(1) The Treasurer is authorized to invest all or any part of the Tobacco Settlement Fund and all or any part of the Tobacco and Health Trust Fund created under section 4-28f . The interest derived from any such investment shall be credited to the resources of the fund from which the investment was made.(2) Notwithstanding sections 3-13 to 3-13h, inclusive, the Treasurer shall invest the amounts on deposit in the Tobacco Settlement Fund and the Tobacco and Health Trust Fund in a manner reasonable and appropriate to achieve the objectives of such funds, exercising the discretion and care of a prudent person in similar circumstances with similar objectives. The Treasurer shall give due consideration to rate of return, risk, term or maturity, diversification of the total portfolio within such funds, liquidity, the projected disbursements and expenditures, and the expected payments, deposits, contributions and gifts to be received. The Treasurer shall not be required to invest such funds directly in obligations of the state or any political subdivision of the state or in any investment or other fund administered by the Treasurer. The assets of such funds shall be continuously invested and reinvested in a manner consistent with the objectives of such funds until disbursed in accordance with this section or section 4-28f . (c) Commencing with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, annual disbursements from the Tobacco Settlement Fund shall be made as follows: (1) To the Tobacco and Health Trust Fund in an amount equal to twelve million dollars; and (2) the remainder to the General Fund; except that for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, the annual disbursement from the Tobacco Settlement Fund shall be made to the General Fund.(d) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, five million dollars shall be disbursed from the Tobacco Settlement Fund to a tobacco grant account to be established in the Office of Policy and Management. Such funds shall not lapse on June 30, 2000, and shall continue to be available for expenditure during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001.(e) Tobacco grants shall be made from the account established pursuant to subsection (d) of this section by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management in consultation with the speaker of the House of Representatives, the president pro tempore of the Senate, the majority leader of the House of Representatives, the majority leader of the Senate, the minority leader of the House of Representatives, the minority leader of the Senate, and the cochairpersons and ranking members of the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public health and appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, or their designees. Such grants shall be used to reduce tobacco abuse through prevention, education, cessation, treatment, enforcement and health needs programs.(f) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005, and each fiscal year thereafter, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars is appropriated to the Department of Revenue Services and the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is appropriated to the office of the Attorney General for the enforcement of the provisions of sections 4-28h to 4-28q, inclusive.( June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-2 , S. 26 , 72 ; P.A. 00-170 , S. 40 , 42 ; 00-216 , S. 14 , 28 ; P.A. 04-218 , S. 11 ; P.A. 05-149 , S. 5 ; P.A. 13-184 , S. 71 ; P.A. 14-98 , S. 40 ; 14-217 , S. 138 ; P.A. 15-227 , S. 10 ; 15-244 , S. 90 ; Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-1 , S. 12 ; P.A. 16-1 , S. 3 ; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-2 , S. 10 , 11 ; P.A. 17-51 , S. 3 ; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 , S. 663 ; P.A. 18-81 , S. 60 .)
Amended by P.A. 24-0081,S. 95 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2024 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2025.Amended by P.A. 24-0081,S. 92 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2024 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2024.Amended by P.A. 22-0146, S. 25 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2022 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2022.Amended by P.A. 22-0118, S. 196 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2022 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2022.Amended by P.A. 17-0002, S. 663 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2017 Special Session, eff. 10/31/2017.Amended by P.A. 17-0051, S. 3 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2017 Regular Session, eff. 6/13/2017.Amended by P.A. 16-0002, S. 11 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2016 Special Session, eff. 7/1/2016.Amended by P.A. 16-0002, S. 10 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2016 Special Session, eff. 6/2/2016.Amended by P.A. 16-0001, S. 3of the Connecticut Acts of the 2016 Regular, eff. 3/30/2016.Amended by P.A. 15-0001, S. 12 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2015 Second Special Session, eff. 12/29/2015.Amended by P.A. 15-0244, S. 90 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2015 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2015.Amended by P.A. 15-0227, S. 10 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2015 Regular Session, eff. 7/7/2015.Amended by P.A. 14-0098, S. 40 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2014 Regular Session, eff. 10/1/2014.Amended by P.A. 14-0217, S. 138 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2014 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2014.This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.