Connecticut HB 5255: AN ACT CONCERNING LIVING ORGAN DONOR INSURANCE DISCRIMINATION.

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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 5255
February Session, 2026

AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE
AUDITORS OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS CONCERNING OVERSIGHT OF
STATE AGENCY GRANTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2026) (a) As used in this section: 1
(1) "Legislatively earmarked grants" means grants of state funds 2
specifically authorized in a special or public act of the General 3
Assembly, and includes appropriated funds and bond funds; 4
(2) "Subaward" means an award of legislatively earmarked grants 5
through a pass-through entity to a subrecipient for purposes of the goals 6
or objectives for which the state funds were authorized; 7
(3) "Subrecipient" means an entity that is receiving an award of a 8
legislatively earmarked grant from a state agency or other pass-through 9
entity; and 10
(4) "State agency" means any department, board, council, 11
commission, institution or other executive branch agency of state 12
government, including, but not limited to, each constituent unit. 13
(b) Not later than December 1, 2026, the Secretary of the Office of 14
Policy and Management shall develop: (1) A standard contract template 15
for legislatively earmarked grant awards, including, but not limited to, 16

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audit specifications and required terms for subawards, (2) general 17
requirements for recipients of legislatively earmarked grant awards that 18
provide a subaward using such legislatively earmarked grant awards, 19
including, but not limited to, verifying that the subrecipient is not 20
suspended, disbarred or otherwise not eligible to receive a legislatively 21
earmarked grant award and obtaining an authorization for the state 22
agency or other pass-through entity to access relevant records, financial 23
statements and performance reports for purposes of monitoring the use 24
of the legislatively earmarked grant award to ensure that the subaward 25
was used for authorized purposes and such use complied with any 26
terms and conditions of the subaward and achieved the performance 27
goals associated with the legislatively earmarked grant award, and (3) a 28
general training program for state agencies in best practices concerning 29
legislatively earmarked grant awards and subawards, including on 30
using the applicable template and the requirements developed under 31
this subsection. The secretary shall offer the training developed 32
pursuant to this subsection not less than quarterly. 33
(c) On and after January 1, 2027, all state agencies shall use such 34
contract template for legislatively earmarked grant awards and shall 35
ensure that any of their employees responsible for awarding 36
legislatively earmarked grant awards and subawards attend the 37
training developed pursuant to subsection (b) of this section. 38
(d) Not later than December 1, 2027, and annually thereafter, each 39
state agency shall submit a report of all legislatively earmarked grant 40
awards and subawards disbursed by the state agency during the 41
preceding year to the Office of Policy and Management, in a form and 42
manner prescribed by the secretary. Such report shall include any 43
evaluations conducted by the state agency of the recipient or 44
subrecipients of such awards or subawards and any concerns the state 45
agency has concerning such recipients or subrecipients and may include 46
any requests of the state agency for additional staffing or resources for 47
purposes of complying with the monitoring requirements of this 48
section. Not later than January 1, 2028, and annually thereafter, the 49
secretary shall compile such reports into a summary of all such awards 50

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and subawards categorized by agency and shall submit such summary, 51
in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, 52
to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having 53
cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state 54
agencies, finance, revenue and bonding and government oversight. 55
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:

Section 1 October 1, 2026 New section

Statement of Legislative Commissioners:
In Subsec. (b), "grantees" was changed to "recipients of", "legislatively
earmarked" was inserted before references to "grant" for consistency
and in Subsec. (d) a reference to "Office of Policy and Management" was
added for clarity.

GOS Joint Favorable Subst. -LCO