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CT Gen Stat § 2-14 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-14 - Initiation of local legislation in General Assembly.

 The General Assembly shall enact no special legislation relative to the powers, organization and form of government of any town, city, borough or other unit of local government unless requested by a town, city, borough or other unit of local government, in the manner hereinafter prescribed, to enact such special legislation. A resolution requesting the General Assembly to enact special legislation and specifying the purpose of such legislation shall be adopted: (1) By a two-thirds vote of the council or board of directors in any town having such a body; of the board of aldermen, council or body charged with the duty of making annual appropriations in any city or consolidated town and city; of the board of burgesses in any borough or consolidated town and borough; or of the board of directors or district committee in any district; or (2) by the board of selectmen or by a majority vote of the town meeting or representative town meeting in any town not having a council or board of directors. A request for the enactment of special legislation by the General Assembly may also be initiated by a petition specifying the purpose of such legislation and signed by not less than ten per cent of the electors of the town, city, borough or other unit of local government as determined by the last-completed registry list and filed with the clerk of such town, city, borough or other unit of local government. Upon the filing of such petition, such clerk shall proceed forthwith to determine its sufficiency by comparing the names thereon with those contained in such registry list and shall certify its sufficiency or insufficiency. Such clerk shall file with the Secretary of the State, not later than ten days prior to the convening of any session of the General Assembly in which such proposed legislation is to be introduced, a certified copy of the resolution as adopted or the text of the petition as signed.(1957, P.A. 465, S. 19.)History: (Revisor's note: In 1995 the Revisors editorially substituted Subdiv. indicators (1) and (2) for (a) and (b) for consistency with statutory usage).See Conn. Const. Art. X and chapter 99.When section is read in connection with Home Rule Act, Ch. 99, it becomes clear legislature intended to provide two separate methods–one with, one without, action by General Assembly–for inaugurating and securing adoption or amendment of municipal charter. 150 C. 24. Cited. 182 C. 93; 185 C. 88; 234 C. 217.Cited. 43 CS 470.
CT Gen Stat § 2-14a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-14a - Legislation affecting municipal retirement systems.

 The General Assembly shall enact no legislation which diminishes or eliminates the rights or benefits granted to any individual under any municipal retirement or pension system. Nothing contained herein shall prevent any municipality, covered under the Connecticut Municipal Employees Retirement Act, from becoming a member of the Old Age and Survivors Insurance System under Title 2 of the Social Security Act.(1963, P.A. 619.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-15 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-15 - Transportation allowance for General Assembly members and members-elect.

 The Comptroller shall draw his order on the Treasurer for a transportation allowance for each member or member-elect of the General Assembly, and the Treasurer shall pay to such member as an allowance for transportation, such rate per mile as shall from time to time be determined by the Joint Committee on Legislative Management. The allowance shall be paid for each mile on each day that such member is required to travel: (1) From his home to the State Capitol and return therefrom to attend a session of the General Assembly or a meeting of a committee of the General Assembly or a public hearing held by any such committee or for other official legislative business, or (2) from his home to such other location within the state at which any such committee meeting or public hearing is held and return therefrom.(1949 Rev., S. 198; 1949, S. 68d; 1957, P.A. 3, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 749, S. 5; P.A. 74-242, S. 2, 4; P.A. 79-102, S. 1, 2; P.A. 85-470, S. 2, 4; P.A. 86-304, S. 1, 2; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2, S. 35.)History: 1969 act made the treasurer responsible for payment of transportation allowances rather than the comptroller; P.A. 74-242 raised transportation allowance to $0.12 per mile, effective January 8, 1975; P.A. 79-102 provided that amount of transportation allowance be determined by legislative management committee; P.A. 85-470 deleted provision requiring payment of transportation allowance for clerks and assistant clerks of senate and house of representatives and deleted provision prohibiting payment of other transportation allowance to clerk pursuant to Sec. 2-9; P.A. 86-304 rephrased section and added provisions re allowance for travel from home to state capitol and return therefrom to attend “public hearing” or for “other official legislative business” and allowance for travel from “home to such other location within the state at which any such committee meeting or public hearing is held and return therefrom”; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2 deleted “Standing” re Joint Committee on Legislative Management.
CT Gen Stat § 2-15a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-15a - Annual informational mailing by General Assembly members.

 (a) Each member of the General Assembly shall be entitled to send an annual mailing to each household in such member's district, for informational purposes. The mailing shall be conducted under the supervision of the Joint Committee on Legislative Management and in accordance with rules adopted by the committee.(b) In even-numbered years, no such mailing may be sent after July fifteenth. A member shall be deemed in compliance with this subsection if the member delivers the mailing to the offices of the Joint Committee on Legislative Management no later than said July fifteenth.(P.A. 87-583, S. 1, 4; P.A. 99-43.)History: P.A. 99-43 divided existing section into Subsecs. (a) and (b), and amended Subsec. (b) to provide that a member shall be deemed in compliance if the member delivers the mailing to the offices of the Joint Committee on Legislative Management no later than July fifteenth.See Sec. 9-610 re restrictions on use of public funds for mailings from incumbent holding office.
CT Gen Stat § 2-15b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-15b - Transportation allowance for member of task force prohibited.

 Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2-15 or any other provision of the general statutes or a public or special act, no member of any task force, including, but not limited to, a member of the General Assembly, may receive a mileage reimbursement or a transportation allowance for traveling to or from a meeting of such task force.(P.A. 17-236, S. 23.)History: P.A. 17-236 effective July 11, 2017.
CT Gen Stat § 2-16 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-16 - Members as attorneys before the General Assembly.

 No member of the General Assembly shall appear as an attorney before it, or before any committee thereof, or of either house, unless in his own cause, or that of the town which he represents or of some public corporation therein, or where there is so near a relation between such member and either of the parties as between parent and child, brothers, sisters, brother and sister, uncle and nephew or niece, aunt and nephew or niece, by nature or marriage, or landlord and tenant.(1949 Rev., S. 15; September, 1957, P.A. 11, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-16a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-16a - Restriction on former members becoming lobbyists.

 No state representative or state senator who is elected at the 1994 state election or any election thereafter shall engage in the profession of lobbyist, as that term is defined in subdivision (12) of section 1-91, until one year after the expiration of the term for which such state representative or state senator was elected.(P.A. 80-462, S. 3; P.A. 93-156; P.A. 02-89, S. 4; P.A. 13-244, S. 21.)History: P.A. 93-156 extended period during which former legislators are prohibited from engaging in profession of lobbyist, applicable to legislators elected at 1994 state election or thereafter; P.A. 02-89 deleted as obsolete former Subsec. (a) prohibiting a state representative or state senator whose term expires on January 4, 1995, and who resigns before the expiration of such term, from engaging in the profession of lobbyist until the expiration of the term, deleted Subsec. (b) designator and made a technical change for purposes of gender neutrality; P.A. 13-244 replaced reference to Sec. 1-91(l) with reference to Sec. 1-91(12).
CT Gen Stat § 2-17 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-17 - Presession introduction of bills.

 Any member-elect of either house of the General Assembly, prior to the beginning of the regular session in the January following such member's election, may introduce any bill for a public or special act by filing the same with the clerk of the House or Senate, who shall assign to each such bill a House or Senate serial number and shall cause to be made a sufficient number of photo-offset copies of such bill. Each such bill shall be filed in triplicate and shall be typewritten or printed, without interlineation or erasure, on paper eight and one-half by thirteen inches or eight and one-half by fourteen inches in size, the second and third copies to be on yellow-colored and blue-colored paper, respectively, of the same size and format as the original. Any member-elect offering such bill shall endorse by signing thereon such member-elect's name in some conspicuous place and shall attach thereto a statement of its purpose in not more than one hundred and fifty words, which are to be typewritten or printed at the end of the bill under the caption “statement of purpose”. The head of each state department, board, commission or other state agency shall file such head's requests for legislative enactment in the form of bills, appended to each a summary and a fiscal note containing the information required pursuant to section 2-24a, with the clerk of the House or Senate on or before January fifteenth of the odd-numbered year and on or before February eighth in the even-numbered year. Such head of each state department, board, commission or other state agency requiring assistance from the Legislative Commissioners' Office in the preparation of such bills shall submit requests for such assistance on or before December first of each year.(1949 Rev., S. 17; 1957, P.A. 1, S. 2; 1959, P.A. 1, S. 1; February, 1965, P.A. 80; 1971, P.A. 167; 709; P.A. 05-262, S. 3.)History: 1959 act made presession filing actual introduction of bill, required duplicate on yellow paper, same size and format as original, and required endorsement of name by actual signature; 1965 act required bills to be in triplicate; 1971 acts removed from comptroller the responsibility to make photo-offset copies of bills and permitted use of paper 8 1/2 by 14 inches for bills and added provisions re deadlines for submission of bill requests and requests for assistance in preparing bills; P.A. 05-262 added requirement that state agency attach summary and fiscal note to bill request and made technical changes for gender neutrality.
CT Gen Stat § 2-18 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-18 - Form of bills amending statutes and resolutions amending Constitution; ballot designation of proposed constitutional amendments.

 Each bill for a public act amending any statute, each special act amending any special act and each resolution proposing an amendment to any provision of the Constitution shall set forth in full the act or constitutional provision, or the section or subsection thereof, to be amended. Matter to be omitted or repealed shall be surrounded by brackets and new matter shall be indicated by underscoring or, where an electric magnetic tape typewriter or other electronic equipment or device is used, by capitalization or underscoring of all words in the manuscript bill and by underscoring, capitalization or italics in its printed form. Each resolution proposing an amendment to any provision of the Constitution shall also include the designation of such proposed amendment to be used on the voting tabulator ballots and absentee ballots in the event such amendment is approved by the General Assembly. Such designation shall be a question, commencing with the words “shall the Constitution of the state be amended to” and ending with a statement of the intended objective addressed by the amendment. Nothing in this section shall preclude the General Assembly from adopting rules authorizing the introduction by members of bills, special acts or resolutions which set forth only a statement of purpose or of intent and do not set forth the statute or constitutional provision to be amended.(1949 Rev., S. 34; 1957, P.A. 1, S. 9; February, 1965, P.A. 1, S. 1; 1967, P.A. 274; 1969, P.A. 156, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 175, S. 1; 610, S. 1; P.A. 83-335, S. 1; P.A. 11-20, S. 1.)History: 1965 act authorized use of capitalization to indicate new material; 1967 act amended to include resolutions proposing constitutional amendments; 1969 act authorized assembly to adopt rules allowing bills or resolutions containing statement of purpose which do not fully set out statute or constitutional provision to be amended; 1971 acts amended section to include special acts, to permit use of any electronic equipment and to permit use of underscoring in manuscript bill and underscoring and capitalization in printed bill to indicate new material and provided that resolutions for constitutional amendments include designation to be used on voting ballots; P.A. 83-335 set forth the form in which proposed amendments to the constitution are designated on voting machine labels and absentee ballots; pursuant to P.A. 11-20, “machine” and “ballot labels” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “tabulator” and “ballots”, respectively, effective May 24, 2011.Validating acts of 1929 not in conflict with former section. 112 C. 140. Cited. 165 C. 338; 199 C. 667; 215 C. 701.
CT Gen Stat § 2-19 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-19 - Preliminary printing and franchise fees for special charters. Engrossing fees.

 Section 2-19 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 9; 1957, P.A. 1, S. 1; 1961, P.A. 350, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-20 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-20 - Certain charters granted only on petition.

 No act of incorporation or alteration thereof shall be granted by the General Assembly, except upon a petition therefor, when the law requires that notice of such petition shall be given by advertisement. Each charter of any railroad company shall confine the road within the limits indicated by such notice, specify the towns through which it may pass, and otherwise designate the route on which the respective roads may be authorized to be made.(1949 Rev., S. 12; P.A. 85-246, S. 1.)History: P.A. 85-246 deleted reference to street railway company charters.
CT Gen Stat § 2-21 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-21 - Notice of claims against the state.

 Section 2-21 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 13; 1959, P.A. 685, S. 26.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-22 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-22 - Numbering of bills and joint resolutions.

 Each bill and joint resolution shall be numbered by the clerk of the house in which it was presented, in the order of presentation, and shall be designated in the journal as “Senate Bill”, “House Bill”, “Senate Joint Resolution” or “House Joint Resolution”, as the case may be, with the addition of its proper number; and each bill or resolution reported as a substitute for another shall be endorsed with the number of the original bill or resolution.(1949 Rev., S. 20.)Acts passed in form of resolutions prior to 1911 validated by Public Acts of 1911, chapter 297. 87 C. 508. See 133 C. 130.
CT Gen Stat § 2-23a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-23a - Alkaline paper for legislative documents.

 All bills and joint resolutions, the calendar and journal of each house of the General Assembly, including the journal printed in accordance with the provisions of section 2-49, the legislative record index published in accordance with the provisions of section 2-13, the public and special acts published in accordance with the provisions of section 2-58, all stationery and all other publications, reports, records and documents of the General Assembly and its committees, commissions, task forces and offices, shall be printed on paper that meets or exceeds the American National Standards Institute standards for permanent paper. All photocopies made by the General Assembly and its committees, commissions, task forces and offices shall be made using paper that meets or exceeds such standards. The provisions of this section shall not apply if such paper is not available.(P.A. 91-144, S. 2.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-24 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-24 - Style of printing bills; endorsements; file number; fiscal note; ratepayer impact statement.

 The words “State of Connecticut” shall be printed at the head of each bill and document printed by order of the General Assembly, or either house thereof, and on its title page or cover, if any. Before printed, electronic or photographic copies of an original bill are made, the bill shall be endorsed with (1) the date of its introduction; (2) its number; (3) the name of the member or committee introducing it; and (4) the name of the committee to which it was referred. Copies of bills or resolutions printed or produced electronically after favorable report by a committee or reprinted or produced electronically after amendment on the third reading, i.e., files, shall bear the file number of such bill or resolution, placed conspicuously at the head of the same, which file number shall be assigned by the Legislative Commissioners' Office in the order printed or produced, the number and title of the bill, the name of the committee to which it was referred, the date and nature of the committee's report, in any case where the bill, if passed, would require the expenditure of state or municipal funds or affect state or municipal revenue, a fiscal note, including an estimate of the cost or of the revenue impact shall be appended thereto, and, in any case where the bill, if passed, would have a financial impact on electric ratepayers, a ratepayer impact statement, as described in subsection (b) of section 2-24a. When a bill or resolution is accompanied with a report of a committee, other than a recommendation that it ought or ought not to pass, it shall then have an additional endorsement, as follows: “Accompanied by special report, No.-”. Bills shall be designated in the calendar of each house by their file numbers, as well as by the titles and numbers of the bills.(1949 Rev., S. 21, 22; 1953, S. 9d; 1957, P.A. 1, S. 4; P.A. 74-108, S. 1; P.A. 78-176, S. 1, 4; P.A. 11-150, S. 3; P.A. 17-144, S. 6.)History: P.A. 74-108 required fiscal notes on bills affecting state revenue; P.A. 78-176 further required fiscal notes on bills affecting municipal revenue; P.A. 11-150 added references to electronic production of bills or resolutions, replaced reference to “printer” with “Legislative Commissioners' Office” re assigning of file number and deleted “printed” re calendar of each house, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 17-144 added provision re ratepayer impact statement, effective July 1, 2017.
CT Gen Stat § 2-24a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-24a - Fiscal note and ratepayer impact statement required for action upon bill.

 (a) No bill without a fiscal note appended thereto which, if passed, would require the expenditure of state or municipal funds or affect state or municipal revenue in the current fiscal year or any of the next ensuing five fiscal years shall be acted upon by either house of the General Assembly unless said requirement of a fiscal note is dispensed with by a vote of at least two-thirds of such house. Such fiscal note shall clearly identify the cost and revenue impact to the state and municipalities in the current fiscal year and in each of the next ensuing five fiscal years.(b) Beginning with the session of the General Assembly commencing on January 9, 2019, no bill without a ratepayer impact statement appended thereto which, if passed, would have a financial impact on electric ratepayers, shall be acted upon by either house of the General Assembly unless said requirement of a ratepayer impact statement is dispensed with by a vote of at least two-thirds of such house. Such statement shall (1) be prepared by the Office of Fiscal Analysis; and (2) provide an assessment as to whether such bill will have a significant direct financial impact on the cost of electricity to the majority of Connecticut electric ratepayers.(P.A. 78-176, S. 2, 4; P.A. 05-262, S. 2; P.A. 15-244, S. 169; P.A. 17-144, S. 7, 8; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 729.)History: P.A. 05-262 added requirement that fiscal note include costs and revenues for five fiscal years, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 15-244 provided that if a bill has impact on personal income tax or corporation business tax, fiscal note shall identify resulting impact on deposits to Budget Reserve Fund, effective July 1, 2019; P.A. 17-144 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re ratepayer impact statement, effective July 1, 2017; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 repealed P.A. 15-244, S. 169, effective July 1, 2019, as amended by P.A. 17-144, S. 8, effective October 31, 2017.