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Statutes > Connecticut > Title10 > Chap184b > Sec10-392Sec. 10-392. Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. Established. Purposes. Successor department. (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that culture, history, the arts and the digital media and motion picture and tourism industries contribute significant value to the vitality, quality of life and economic health of Connecticut and therefore there is established the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. The Connecticut Humanities Council and the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation shall operate in conjunction with the commission for purposes of joint strategic planning, annual reporting on appropriations and fiscal reporting. The purpose of the commission shall be to enhance and promote culture, history, the arts and the tourism and digital media and motion picture industries in Connecticut.
(b) The commission shall:
(1) Market and promote Connecticut as a destination for leisure and business travelers through the development and implementation of a strategic state-wide marketing plan and provision of visitor services to enhance the economic impact of the tourism industry;
(2) Promote the arts;
(3) Recognize, protect, preserve and promote historic resources;
(4) Interpret and present Connecticut's history and culture;
(5) Promote Connecticut as a location in which to produce digital media and motion pictures and to establish and conduct business related to the digital media and motion picture industries to enhance these industries' economic impact in the state;
(6) Beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, and each fiscal year thereafter, prepare and submit to the Office of Policy and Management, in accordance with sections 4-77 and 4-77a, budget expenditure estimates and recommended adjustments for the next succeeding fiscal year or years and a detailed accounting of expenditures for the prior fiscal year, a copy of which shall be submitted to the General Assembly, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a;
(7) Establish a uniform financial reporting system and forms to be used by each regional tourism district, established under section 10-397, in the preparation of the annual budget submitted to the General Assembly;
(8) Integrate funding and programs whenever possible; and
(9) On or before January 1, 2005, and biennially thereafter, develop and submit to the Governor and the General Assembly, in accordance with section 11-4a, a strategic plan to implement subdivisions (1) to (5), inclusive, of this subsection.
(c) Any proposals for projects under the jurisdiction of the commission and projects proposed by the Connecticut Humanities Council that require funding through the issuance of bonds by the State Bond Commission, in accordance with sections 13b-74 to 13b-77, inclusive, shall be submitted to the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. The commission shall review such proposals and submit any project that it believes has merit to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to finance, revenue and bonding with the commission's recommendation for funding.
(d) The Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism shall be a successor agency to the State Commission on the Arts, the Connecticut Historical Commission, the Office of Tourism, the Connecticut Tourism Council, the Connecticut Film, Video and Media Commission and the Connecticut Film, Video and Media Office in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-38d and 4-39.
(e) Wherever the words "State Commission on the Arts", "Connecticut Historical Commission", "Office of Tourism", "Connecticut Film, Video and Media Office" and "Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film" are used in the following sections of the general statutes, or in any public or special act of the 2003 or 2004 session the words "Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism" shall be substituted in lieu thereof: 3-110f, 3-110h, 3-110i, 4-9a, 4b-53, 4b-60, 4b-64, 4b-66a, 7-147a, 7-147b, 7-147c, 7-147j, 7-147p, 7-147q, 7-147y, 8-2j, 10-382, 10-384, 10-385, 10-386, 10-387, 10-388, 10-389, 10-391, 10a-111a, 10a-112, 10a-112b, 10a-112g, 11-6a, 12-376d, 13a-252, 19a-315b, 19a-315c, 22a-1d, 22a-19b, 25-102qq, 25-109q, 29-259 and 32-6a.
(f) The Legislative Commissioners' Office shall, in codifying the provisions of this section, make such technical, grammatical and punctuation changes as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
(June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 210; P.A. 04-20, S. 3; 04-205, S. 2, 5; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, S. 30; P.A. 06-172, S. 1.)
History: June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 effective August 20, 2003; P.A. 04-20 made technical changes in Subsecs. (d) and (e), effective April 16, 2004; P.A. 04-205, effective June 3, 2004, made technical changes and with May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, effective May 12, 2004, also replaced Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film with Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism; P.A. 06-172 replaced references to film industry with references to digital media and motion picture industries in Subsec. (a) and replaced "conduct filming" with "produce digital media and motion pictures" and replaced "film and video industries" with "digital media and motion picture industries" in Subsec. (b)(5).
