Source: https://www.cga.ct.gov/2012/ba/2012SB-00001-R000400-BA.htm
Timestamp: 2017-02-20 01:38:38
Document Index: 690649583

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 2', '§ 1', '§ 10', '§4', '§ 6', '§ 8', '§ 7']

sSB 1 AN ACT CONCERNING JOBS AND THE ECONOMY SUMMARY:
This bill expands existing workforce and small business development programs, creates programs for hiring certain unemployed veterans and promoting the state's economic and cultural assets, and makes it a discriminatory employment practice to advertise job openings in a way that discriminates against unemployed people.
The bill expands the Subsidized Training and Employment Program (STEP) and the Small Business Express Program by opening them to more businesses.
The bill establishes a subsidized training and employment program for hiring unemployed Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans modeled after STEP and authorizes $
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§§ 2-3 — STEP Eligible Businesses
The bill resets the schedule for making subsidy payments to non manufacturing small businesses.
STEP Subsidy Schedule for Non Manufacturing Small Businesses Period
(The subsidy for small manufactures, which the bill does not change, is a grant that phases out over six months.
Under current law, DOL must submit the first report by June 30, 2012 and the subsequent reports every six months from that date.
The bill extends the period during which the bonds authorized for STEP's small business and manufacturers components are available.
§ 1 — SMALL BUSINESS EXPRESS PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY The bill opens the Small Business Express Program to more businesses.
Under current law, a business qualifies for Express loans and grants if it employs 50 or fewer people during at least half of its working days during the prior 12 months and meets other specified criteria.
The bill raises the employee ceiling to 100 employees.
Upon passage § 10 — FIRST FIVE PLUS JOBS RELOCATION PREFERENCE
create at least 200 jobs within 24 months after the commissioner approves the assistance or
The bill also reserves $
20 million from an existing FY 13 $
280 million economic development bond authorization for businesses that propose to relocate at least 100 overseas jobs to Connecticut.
§§4-5 — UNEMPLOYED ARMED FORCES MEMBER SUBSIDIZED TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM
Purpose The bill establishes the Unemployed Armed Forces Member Subsidized Training and Employment Program to provide grants subsidizing businesses' costs of hiring unemployed veterans during their first 180 days (about six months) on the job.
Eligibility The program is open to any type of business that is based in Connecticut, has been registered to do business here for at least 12 months, and is in good standing regarding all state and local taxes.
Employees (1) must be unemployed before the business hired them, whether or not they received unemployment benefits, and (2) cannot have been employed by a related person in Connecticut at any time during the 12 months before they were hired.
The business' eligibility for the grant also depends on a new employee's veteran status.
The new employee must have been:
the number and types of businesses that received training and employment grants and
the report covering the July to December period is due, January 15, starting in 2014, and annually thereafter.
§ 6 — “CONNECTICUT-MADE” MARKETING CAMPAIGN
help Connecticut manufacturers and producers needing assistance access the appropriate economic development organizations;
She must make her best efforts to solicit their cooperation and participation in advertising Connecticut products, developing the website, and planning events, including soliciting private funds to match state funds.
§§ 8-9 — CONNECTICUT TREASURES The bill provides a method to identify and promote Connecticut's “cultural treasures” and educate children about them.
It requires the DECD commissioner to consult with the Tourism Advisory Committee about designating culturally, educationally, and historically significant locations and develop a plan to promote them.
She must also outline how existing DECD programs can promote these locations.
The bill also requires the education commissioner to consult with the DECD commissioner on developing a curriculum local and regional school boards can use with respect to the designated Connecticut Treasures.
The curriculum may incorporate student visits to these locations.
The education commissioner must development the curriculum within available appropriations.
Upon passage, except for the requirement regarding the curriculum, which takes effect October 1, 2012.
§ 7 — DISCRIMINATORY HIRING PRACTICES
Under existing law, it is a discriminatory employment practice for these groups to advertise employment opportunities in a way that discriminates against people because of their characteristics or disabilities, unless there is a bona fide occupational qualification or need.
Related Bills sSB 77 (File 46) creates an unemployed armed forces member subsidized training and employment program nearly identical to the bill's.
sSB 81 (File 118) allows more small manufacturers businesses to qualify for STEP by raising the employee ceiling from 50 to 100 and allowing the DOL commissioner to waive some of the eligibility criteria for new employees hired by non manufacturing businesses.
sSB 79 (File 29) also makes it a discriminatory employment practice to advertise employment opportunities in a way that discriminates against anyone because he or she is unemployed unless there is a bona fide occupational qualification or need.
SB 75's (File 24) provisions authorizing a “Connecticut-Made” Marketing campaign are identical to the bill's provisions.