Sec. 32-23vv. Connecticut job training finance demonstration program. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 32-23vv. Connecticut job training finance demonstration program. Not later than thirty days from July 1, 1993, the authority may enter into a demonstration program with a manufacturing or economic base business employing more than seven thousand five hundred production workers and operating manufacturing facilities located in more than one municipality within the state. The terms of such demonstration program shall include: (1) A five-million dollar loan to such manufacturing or economic base business for educational upgrades for its production workers which loan is either (A) provided by the authority from funds provided under section 32-235, or (B) provided by a third party with a loan guarantee of two million dollars provided by the authority from funds provided under said section 32-235; (2) an agreement under which, if, after five years from the date of such agreement, either: (A) Not less than seventy per cent of the production workers receiving educational upgrades under this section continue to be employed within the state by the manufacturing or economic base business, then (i) in the case of a loan made by the authority, forty per cent of the remaining payments on any such loan shall be forgiven, or (ii) in the case of a loan from a third party, forty per cent of the remaining debt service on such loan shall be assumed by the authority from funds provided under said section 32-235, or (B) not less than forty per cent but less than seventy per cent of the production workers receiving educational upgrades under this section continue to be employed within the state by the manufacturing or economic base business then (i) in the case of a loan made by the authority, twenty per cent of the remaining payment on any such loan shall be forgiven, or (ii) in the case of a loan from a third party, twenty per cent of the remaining debt service on such loan shall be assumed by the authority from funds provided under said section 32-235.

      (P.A. 93-433, S. 5, 26.)

      History: P.A. 93-433 effective July 1, 1993.