Sec. 10a-4a. Priority Higher Education Facility Project Review Committee.
Sec. 10a-4a. Priority Higher Education Facility Project Review Committee.
(a) There is established a Priority Higher Education Facility Project Review Committee.
The committee shall include the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management,
the State Treasurer and the Commissioner of Public Works, or their designees. The
Commissioner of Public Works or his designee shall serve as chairperson.
(b) On or before October 1, 1991, and annually thereafter, each constituent unit of
the state system of higher education, may submit to the committee a list of proposed
priority higher education facility projects ranked in order of priority. Within sixty days
following such submission, the committee shall review all such lists and approve the
proposed projects as priority higher education facility projects unless (1) a project description is not substantially complete; (2) a project fails to conform to the criteria for
a priority higher education facility project under section 4b-55, or (3) the Department
of Public Works determines that it does not have sufficient staff resources to undertake
such project under the provisions of sections 4b-58 and 4b-55a. If the Department of
Public Works has insufficient staff resources to undertake all otherwise eligible projects,
the committee shall approve projects in accordance with their order of priority as submitted by the constituent units.
(c) Each such constituent unit shall provide the Commissioner of Higher Education
with a copy of the list of proposed priority higher education facility projects at the time
of submitting the list to the committee and the commissioner may file comments and
recommendations with the committee concerning such projects on each list.
(d) On or before January fifteenth and July fifteenth, annually the Priority Higher
Education Facility Project Review Committee shall report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having
cognizance of matters relating to education, capital bonding and government administration on the status of priority higher education facility projects.
(P.A. 91-230, S. 3, 17; P.A. 93-201, S. 7, 24.)
History: P.A. 93-201 amended Subsec. (d) to add a second report in July and to make a technical change, effective July
1, 1993.