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SB00317

Study on Fee Suspension for Resource Recovery Facilities

Last scannedAug 25, 2026, 6:19 AM

In one sentence

This law creates a working group to study whether the state should stop charging specific fees to certain waste facilities for up to five years.

What it does

  • Creates a new working group inside the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
  • Requires the group to examine if suspending specific fees is needed, possible, or helpful.
  • Limits any potential fee suspension to no more than five consecutive fiscal years.
  • Allows the study to look at other options like state grants or tax breaks instead of fee cuts.
  • Mandates a written report be sent to lawmakers by January 1, 2027.

Who it affects

  • The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
  • Members of the Bristol Resource Recovery Facility Operating Committee towns
  • Resource recovery facilities in Connecticut that might face fee changes

Limits and unknowns

  • The bill does not automatically stop any fees; it only orders a study on whether to do so.
  • No final decision has been made yet about which facilities might get fee relief or how long it would last.
  • The law sets a deadline for the report but does not state when future action must happen.

Plain language

Terms to know

Resource Recovery Facility
A site where waste is processed, often to generate energy or recover materials.
Fee Suspension
Temporarily stopping the requirement for a facility to pay a specific charge to the state.

Official record

Sources

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Official summary

To enable the Bristol Resource Recovery Facility to not pay certain fees to the Department of Revenue Services for a five-year period.

Official activity

Bill history

  1. Signed by the Governor
  2. Transmitted to the Secretary of State
  3. Transmitted by Secretary of the State to Governor
  4. Special Act 26-25LCO
  5. House Passed
  6. In Concurrence
  7. Senate Passed
  8. Rules Suspended, Transmitted to the House
  9. Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
  10. House Calendar Number 517
  11. Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' OfficeLCO
  12. Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
  13. Senate Calendar Number 127
  14. File Number 206LCO
  15. Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/25/26 5:00 PMLCO
  16. Joint Favorable SubstituteENV
  17. Filed with Legislative Commissioners' OfficeLCO
  18. Public Hearing 03/04
  19. Referred to Joint Committee on Environment