Conn. Gen. Stat. § 4b-55

Current with legislation from the 2024 Regular and Special Sessions.

Section 4b-55 - (Formerly Sec. 4-134a). State Construction Services Selection Panel; Connecticut Health and Education Facilities Authority Construction Services Panel. Definitions

As used in this section, section 4b-1 and sections 4b-56 to 4b-59, inclusive, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

(1) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Administrative Services;

(2) "Consultant" means (A) any architect, professional engineer, landscape architect, land surveyor, accountant, interior designer, environmental professional or construction administrator, who is registered or licensed to practice such person's profession in accordance with the applicable provisions of the general statutes, or (B) any planner or financial specialist;

(3) "Consultant services" includes those professional services rendered by architects, professional engineers, landscape architects, land surveyors, accountants, interior designers, environmental professionals, construction administrators, planners or financial specialists, as well as incidental services that members of these professions and those in their employ are authorized to perform;

(4) "Firm" means any individual, partnership, corporation, joint venture, association or other legal entity (A) authorized by law to practice the profession of architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, land surveying, accounting, interior design, environmental or construction administration, or (B) practicing the profession of planning or financial specialization;

(5) "Priority higher education facility project" means any project which is part of a state program to repair, renovate, enlarge, equip, purchase or construct (A) instructional facilities, (B) academic core facilities, including library, research and laboratory facilities, (C) student residential or related student dining facilities, or (D) utility systems related to such projects, which are or will be operated under the jurisdiction of the board of trustees of any constituent unit of the state system of higher education, except The University of Connecticut provided the project is included in the comprehensive facilities master plan of the constituent unit in the most recent state facility plan of the Office of Policy and Management pursuant to section 4b-23;

(6) "Project" means any state program requiring consultant services if the cost of such services is estimated to exceed seven hundred fifty thousand dollars, adjusted annually on and after July 1, 2024, in accordance with the provisions of section 4b-59a;

(7) "Selection panel" or "panel" means the State Construction Services Selection Panel established pursuant to subsection (a) of section 4b-56 or, in the case of a Connecticut Health and Education Facilities Authority project pursuant to section 10a-186a, means the Connecticut Health and Education Facilities Authority Construction Services Panel established pursuant to subsection (c) of section 4b-56;

(8) "User agency" means the state department or agency requesting the project or the agency for which such project is being undertaken pursuant to law;

(9) "Community court project" means (A) any project to renovate and improve a facility designated for the community court established pursuant to section 51-181c, and (B) the renovation and improvement of other state facilities required for the relocation of any state agency resulting from the placement of the community court;

(10) "Downtown Hartford higher education center project" means a project to develop a higher education center, as defined in subparagraph (B) of subdivision (2) of section 32-600, and as described in subsection (a) of section 32-612, for the regional community-technical college system;

(11) "Correctional facility project" means any project (A) which is part of a state program to repair, renovate, enlarge or construct facilities which are or will be operated by the Department of Correction, and (B) for which there is an immediate need for completion in order to remedy prison and jail overcrowding; and

(12) "Juvenile residential center project" means any project (A) which is part of a state program to repair, renovate, enlarge or construct juvenile residential centers which are or will be operated by the Judicial Department, and (B) for which there is an immediate need for completion in order to remedy overcrowding.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 4b-55

(P.A. 79-450, S. 1, 8; P.A. 82-369, S. 18, 28; P.A. 85-567, S. 3, 6; P.A. 87-496, S. 38, 110; 87-529, S. 4; P.A. 88-117, S. 4, 5; P.A. 89-353, S. 1, 8; P.A. 90-261, S. 1, 19; P.A. 91-230 , S. 1 , 17 ; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-9 , S. 6 , 10 ; P.A. 92-228 , S. 4 , 9 ; P.A. 93-201 , S. 6 , 24 ; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-2 , S. 3 , 203 ; P.A. 95-152 , S. 1 ; 95-230 , S. 37 , 45 ; P.A. 96-235 , S. 5 , 19 ; P.A. 97-293 , S. 11 , 26 ; P.A. 98-21 , S. 2 ; 98-59 , S. 2 , 3 ; 98-235 , S. 4 ; P.A. 99-26 , S. 2 , 39 ; 99-75 , S. 6 ; 99-241 , S. 48 , 66 ; P.A. 00-192 , S. 15 , 102 ; P.A. 01-26 , S. 4 ; 01-172 , S. 2 ; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-7 , S. 15 , 28 ; P.A. 03-215 , S. 11 ; P.A. 05-287 , S. 49 ; P.A. 07-213 , S. 18 ; P.A. 11-51 , S. 90 ; P.A. 12-133 , S. 10 ; 12-156 , S. 3 ; P.A. 13-247 , S. 200 ; P.A. 16-81 , S. 2 ; P.A. 18-31 , S. 10 .)

Amended by P.A. 23-0205,S. 107 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2023 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2023.

Amended by P.A. 21-0104, S. 2 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2021 Regular Session, eff. 1/1/2022.

Amended by P.A. 18-0031, S. 10 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2018 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2018.

Amended by P.A. 16-0081, S. 2 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2016 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2016.

Amended by P.A. 12-0133, S. 10 of the the 2012 Regular Session, eff. 10/1/2012.

Amended by P.A. 12-0156, S. 3 of the the 2012 Regular Session, eff. 6/15/2012.