Section 46a-64c

Citation: Section 46a-64c
Parent Document: Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities v. Sullivan Associates, 250 Conn. 763 (1999)
Jurisdiction: Connecticut (state)
Effective Date: 1999-10-12
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/7898215/commission-on-human-rights-oppo... ↗

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The legislature created the state program, in 1985, as a pilot rental assistance program modeled after the existing federal section 8 program. The state program was enacted pursuant to a 1985 special report to the legislature, which documented that the reporting committee had reviewed the federal section 8 existing housing program, and that it recommended that a major portion of the state program should “be structured much like . . . the [f]ederal [s]ection8 [e]xisting [program.” Department of Housing Report, “State-Funded Rent Subsidy Pilot Program for Low Income Tenants in Private Rental Housing,” February 8, 1985, pp. 1, 12. Commenting at the time of the state program’s enactment, Representative Alice V. Meyer, the sponsor, stated the legislature’s intent was to “piggyback [the state program] on the federal [s]ection 8 subsidy program which is already in existence ... so that this could be done in a very similar manner to what is currently being done [in the federal program].” 28 H.R. Proc., Pt. 23, 1985 Sess., pp. 8682-83. When the state pilot program expired in 1987, the legislature considered and passed Public Acts 1987, No. 87-517, which *781made the state program permanent. In the course of considering the state program, Representative Richard Blumenthal, the bill’s sponsor, stated that the income eligibility criteria of the state program were based on figures “that [have] been used consistently in the [department of [Idousing [regulations.” 30 H.R. Proc., Pt. 32, 1987 Sess., p. 11874.

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