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H5567 • 2025

An Act DCR Skating Rink Leases

An Act DCR Skating Rink Leases

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Sponsor
State Administration and Regulatory Oversight (J)
Last action
2026-07-08
Official status
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act DCR Skating Rink Leases

An Act DCR Skating Rink Leases Status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

What This Bill Does

  • An Act DCR Skating Rink Leases Status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill History

  1. 2026-07-08 House

    Reported from the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight

  2. 2026-07-08 House

    New draft of H5315

  3. 2026-07-08 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

Official Summary Text

An Act DCR Skating Rink Leases
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill H.5567

Section 52 of chapter 206 of the acts of 2024 is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:

(f) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, prior to the solicitation process under subsection (c) for leasing the ice skating rinks and facilities listed in subsection (a), the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance, in consultation with the department of conservation and recreation, shall notify in writing the municipality in which the ice skating rink is located of its intention to lease the property and shall offer to lease and enter into other agreements with said

municipality under terms and conditions that the commissioner, in consultation with the department, considers appropriate, including with regard to rent and other consideration; provided however that the lease shall be for a term not to exceed 30 years and consistent with the conditions established in: (i) subsection (b); (ii) clauses (i) to (xi), inclusive, of the first sentence of subsection (c); and (iii) subsection (d). If the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance receives written notice from the municipality of its intention to enter into a lease and other agreements within 30 days of the date of the commissioner’s written notice, the municipality and the commissioner, in consultation with the department of conservation and recreation, shall promptly commence negotiations of the lease and other agreements for the use, operation, maintenance, repair and improvement of the state-owned ice skating rink and facility.

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