Connecticut HB 5150: AN ACT CONCERNING AUTHORIZATION OF STATE GRANT COMMITMENTS FOR SCHOOL BUILDING PROJECTS AND REVISIONS TO THE SCHOOL BUILDING PROJECT STATUTES.

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General Assembly  
Substitute Bill No. 5150  
February Session, 2026 
 
 
 
 
AN ACT CONCERNING AUTHORIZATION OF STATE GRANT 
COMMITMENTS FOR SCHOOL BUILDING PROJECTS AND 
REVISIONS TO THE SCHOOL BUILDING PROJECT STATUTES.  
Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in  General 
Assembly convened: 
 
Section 1. (Effective from passage) The Commissioner of Administrative 1 
Services, having reviewed applications for state grants for public school 2 
building  projects  in  accordance  with  section  10-283  of  the  general 3 
statutes  on  the  basis  of  priorities  for  such  projects  and  standards  for 4 
school  construction  established  by  the  State  Board  of  Education,  and 5 
having prepared a listing of all such eligible projects ranked in order of 6 
priority, as determined by said commissioner together with the amount 7 
of the estimated grant with respect to each eligible project, and having 8 
submitted such listing of eligible projects, prior to December 15, 2025, to 9 
a committee of the General Assembly established under section 10-283a 10 
of  the  general  statutes  for  the  purpose  of  reviewing  such  listing,  is 11 
hereby authorized to enter into grant commitments on behalf of the state 12 
in  accordance  with  said  section  10-283a  with  respect  to  the  priority 13 
listing of such projects and in such estimated amounts as approved by 14 
said committee prior to February 1, 2026, as follows: 15 
T1  School District Estimated Estimated 
T2  School Project Costs Grant 
T3  Project Number   
T4     

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T5  MILFORD   
T6  Jonathan Law High School   
T7  084-0217 EA $12,650,000 $4,968,920 
T8     
T9  NORWICH   
T10  Teachers' Memorial Global Studies   
T11    Magnet Middle School   
T12  104-0122 N $69,367,713 $55,494,170 
T13     
T14  SEYMOUR   
T15  Bungay Elementary School   
T16  124-0058 N $60,000,000 $38,748,000 
T17     
T18  STAMFORD   
T19  Julia Stark Elementary School   
T20  135-0294 A/EC $14,347,081 $8,608,249 
T21     
T22  WATERBURY   
T23  Roberto Clemente International Dual   
T24    Language School   
T25  151-0318 EA $38,755,850 $30,589,992 
T26     
T27  WESTPORT   
T28  Long Lots Elementary School   
T29  158-0101 N $110,472,124 $12,229,264 
 
Sec. 2. Section 10-285a of the 2026 supplement to the general statutes 16 
is amended by adding subsection (m) as follows (Effective July 1, 2026): 17 
(NEW) (m) On and after July 1, 2026, if the student enrollment of a 18 
school  district  has  increased  by  twenty  per  cent  or  more  over  the  ten-19 
year period immediately preceding the date an application is submitted 20 
pursuant to section 10-283, the reimbursement percentage of the town 21 
of such school district shall be increased  by twenty percentage points, 22 
provided such increase shall not result in a reimbursement percentage 23 
exceeding one hundred per cent. 24 

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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following 
sections: 
 
Section 1 
from passage 
New section 
Sec. 2 
July 1, 2026 
10-285a(m) 
 
 
ED Joint Favorable Subst. -LCO  
FIN Joint Favorable