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CT Gen Stat § 1-500 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 1 - Provisions of General Application|Chapter 15e - Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 1-500 - Homeless Person's Bill of Rights.

 (a) There is created a Homeless Person's Bill of Rights to guarantee that the rights, privacy and property of homeless persons are adequately safeguarded and protected under the laws of this state. The rights afforded homeless persons to ensure that their person, privacy and property are safeguarded and protected, as set forth in subsection (b) of this section, are available only insofar as they are implemented in accordance with other parts of the general statutes, state rules and regulations, federal law, the state Constitution and the United States Constitution. For purposes of this section, “homeless person” has the same meaning as in 42 USC 11302, as amended from time to time.(b) Each homeless person in this state has the right to:(1) Move freely in public spaces, including on public sidewalks, in public parks, on public transportation and in public buildings without harassment or intimidation from law enforcement officers in the same manner as other persons;(2) Have equal opportunities for employment;(3) Receive emergency medical care;(4) Register to vote and to vote;(5) Have personal information protected;(6) Have a reasonable expectation of privacy in his or her personal property; and(7) Receive equal treatment by state and municipal agencies.(c) Each municipality may post in the usual location for municipal notices a notice entitled “HOMELESS PERSON'S BILL OF RIGHTS” that contains the text set forth in subsection (b) of this section.(P.A. 13-251, S. 1; P.A. 14-122, S. 63.)History: P.A. 14-122 made a technical change in Subsec. (a).
CT Gen Stat § 2-1 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-1 - Regular sessions; organization.

 There shall be a regular session of the General Assembly held at Hartford in each year. In the odd-numbered years, such session shall commence on the Wednesday following the first Monday of January. The Senate and House of Representatives, when any such session is to be held, shall convene at their respective chambers in the Capitol on the day named, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, when the secretary shall call the Senate to order and administer the official oath to the senators present. The speaker of the preceding House of Representatives shall, at the same hour, call the House of Representatives to order and administer the official oath to the members present. In the absence of such speaker, the House of Representatives shall be called to order and said oath administered by the member present who was the senior member of any previous House of Representatives. The secretary, and the person calling the House of Representatives to order, shall have the powers of the president of the Senate and speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively, until said officers have been elected. In the even-numbered years, such session shall commence on the Wednesday following the first Monday of February on which day the Senate and House of Representatives shall convene at their respective chambers in the Capitol at ten o'clock in the forenoon.(1949 Rev., S. 1; 1972, P.A. 76.)History: 1972 act provided for annual sessions of general assembly and established opening dates for odd and even-year sessions.
CT Gen Stat § 2-1b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-1b - Unlawful interference with the General Assembly; injunctive relief.

 (a) If the presiding officer of either house of the General Assembly has reasonable grounds to believe that any person or persons are then committing an unlawful act or are about to do so, which act is interfering, or will interfere, with any proceedings or other business of the General Assembly, either house thereof or any committee of the General Assembly or either house thereof, he may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for an order directing any person or persons to cease and desist from the commission of such unlawful act or restraining such person or persons from committing such an act in the future.(b) Such petition shall be verified and shall set forth the facts upon which it is based. Either house may empower the presiding officer thereof to designate one or more members or officers of such house to make such a petition on his behalf. Any such designation shall be filed with the clerk of such house and, if a petition is made by any person named in such designation, a certified copy of such designation shall be submitted to the court, together with the petition.(c) If a court to which such a petition is presented is satisfied that the petition sets forth a prima facie case for the granting of the relief requested and that interference with the proceedings or other business of the General Assembly may occur unless such relief is granted, the court may forthwith grant a temporary injunction granting the relief requested, in whole or in part, pending the ultimate determination of the matter after due notice and hearing. A copy of such temporary order and of the petition upon which it is based, together with notice of the date and place of a hearing to be held thereon, shall be given to such persons within such time and in such manner as the court shall direct.(d) Such temporary injunction and any preliminary or permanent injunction which thereafter may be granted on the petition following a hearing thereon shall be enforceable by contempt proceedings, or other enforcement proceedings, in the same manner as other orders of such court.(e) Except as otherwise specified herein, all of the provisions of law applicable to the granting of injunctive relief by the court to which a petition hereunder is presented shall apply to proceedings instituted under this section.(P.A. 73-516, S. 6.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-1c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-1c - Contempt of the General Assembly; penalty.

 Either house of the General Assembly may determine by majority vote that a person is guilty of contempt of the General Assembly, after a hearing before an appropriate committee appointed by the presiding officer at which the person shall be entitled to give evidence and be represented by counsel. Said house may refer such matter to the Chief State's Attorney. Contempt of the General Assembly shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than six months or both.(P.A. 73-516, S. 7.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-1g (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-1g - Indemnification of legislative personnel.

 (a) The state shall save harmless and indemnify all members, officers and employees of the General Assembly, either house thereof or committees of the General Assembly or either house thereof from financial loss arising out of any claim, demand, suit or judgment by reason of alleged negligence or other act by such member, officer or employee, provided such member, officer or employee, at the time damages were sustained, was performing duties relating to the maintenance of order in connection with the operation of the General Assembly, either house thereof or any committee of the General Assembly or either house thereof, or involving the security, health or safety of any member, officer or employee of the General Assembly, either house thereof, or committee, or the general public, and provided such damage did not result from the wilful and wrongful act or gross negligence of such member, officer or employee and provided such member, officer or employee shall, within five days of the time he is served with any summons, complaint, process, notice, demand or pleading, deliver the original or a copy thereof to the Attorney General.(b) Upon such delivery the Attorney General may assume control of the representation of such member, officer or employee. Such member, officer or employee shall cooperate fully with the Attorney General's defense.(c) This section shall not in any way impair, limit or modify the rights or obligations of any insurer under any policy of insurance.(d) The benefits of this section shall inure only to such members, officers and employees and shall not enlarge or diminish the rights of any other party.(e) The Joint Committee on Legislative Management may insure against the liability of the state imposed by subsection (a) of this section utilizing funds in the General Assembly budget therefor.(P.A. 73-516, S. 4.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-1h (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-1h - Compensatory time for permanent full-time employees.

 Section 2-1h is repealed, effective May 26, 2006.(P.A. 00-231, S. 7, 10; P.A. 06-187, S. 97.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-1i (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-1i - Compensatory time for permanent full-time employees.

 To the extent that a permanent full-time employee of the Joint Committee on Legislative Management received one hour of compensatory time for each two hours of overtime worked by such employee prior to May 26, 2006, such employee shall receive, on and after January 1, 2006, one hour of compensatory time for each one hour of overtime worked by such employee after January 1, 2006. On and after May 26, 2006, each such permanent full-time employee shall receive one hour of compensatory time for each one hour of overtime worked.(P.A. 06-187, S. 72.)History: P.A. 06-187 effective May 26, 2006.
CT Gen Stat § 2-2 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-2 - Election by illegal practices.

 Each person elected to either house of the General Assembly by any illegal practice shall be incapable of holding his seat unless he can show to the satisfaction of such house that he was not directly or indirectly concerned in such illegal practice.(1949 Rev., S. 47; 1953, S. 4d.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-3 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-3 - Allowance to contestants.

 No contestants for seats in either house of the General Assembly shall be allowed more than one hundred dollars for attorney fees and expenses, together with the legal fees of witnesses summoned with the approval of the committee on contested elections.(1949 Rev., S. 46.)Cited. 23 CA 579.
CT Gen Stat § 2-3b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-3b - Members not eligible for unemployment compensation during regular session.

 No member of the General Assembly shall, during the regular session of the General Assembly, be deemed to be available for work within the meaning of subdivision (2) of section 31-235.(1967, P.A. 245, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-4 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-4 - Joint convention to elect state officers.

 When the Senate and House of Representatives join in convention for the election of any state officer, the roll of each house shall, before any ballot is taken, be called by its clerk, and each member shall rise and answer to his name; and the names of those absent shall be entered on the journal of the house to which they belong. If, on any ballot, the whole number of votes exceeds the number of persons who have answered to their names, the president shall, before declaring the ballot, cause the names of absentees to be called and, if any answer, shall inquire if they have voted; and if the number of votes still exceeds the number of persons who have answered to their names, and if such excess of votes, subtracted from the highest number given for either candidate, is sufficient to change the result, the convention shall order another ballot.(1949 Rev., S. 3.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-5 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-5 - Holding of office by members of the General Assembly.

 No member of the General Assembly shall, during the term for which he is elected, be nominated or appointed by the Governor, the General Assembly or any other appointing authority of this state or serve or be elected to any position in the Judicial, Legislative or Executive Department of the state government including any commission established by any special or public act of the General Assembly, except that the provisions of this section shall not apply where it is expressly provided by law that a member of the General Assembly as such shall be nominated or appointed to any board, commission, council or other agency in the legislative department, and except that the provisions of this section shall not apply to a member-elect.(1953, S. 2d; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 162; 152, S. 3; 1963, P.A. 452; P.A. 78-331, S. 52, 58; P.A. 85-489, S. 4.)History: 1959 acts eliminated references to positions in county government, trial justices and prosecuting grand jurors and limited exception to positions in legislative department; 1963 act removed restrictions on candidacy for, or service as, judge of probate; P.A. 78-331 included commissions established by the general assembly in general prohibition of section; P.A. 85-489 exempted members-elect from provisions of section.Statute prohibits appointment of one already a state legislator to position in any department of state government. 175 C. 586.
CT Gen Stat § 2-6 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-6 - Convening of sessions by action of members.

 After the adjournment sine die of a regular or a special session of the General Assembly, if the members judge it necessary to meet again, as provided in article third of the amendments to the Constitution of Connecticut, they may so notify the Secretary of the State in writing. No such notice shall be valid as to any member for more than thirty days after its execution by such member. Said secretary, upon receiving valid notices from a majority of the members of each house, shall forthwith notify all members of said assembly to meet in their respective chambers in the Capitol at ten o'clock in the forenoon on a date not less than ten nor more than fifteen days thereafter. Said secretary shall give notice in the manner customarily followed by the Governor in calling special sessions. When so assembled, if a majority of the members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, judge, by vote taken by yeas and nays and recorded in the journals, that the convening of the General Assembly is necessary, specifying in such vote the facts constituting such necessity, the two houses shall then complete their organization and proceed to the consideration of matters proper for legislative action. Nothing herein shall limit the power of the General Assembly to convene in any other constitutional manner when it judges necessary.(1953, S. 5d; P.A. 84-546, S. 1, 173; P.A. 89-349, S. 2, 4; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 1, 130.)History: P.A. 84-546 made technical change; P.A. 89-349 provided for the exception in Sec. 5-278(b); May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1 eliminated obsolete reference to Subsec. (b) of Sec. 5-278, effective July 1, 1994.
CT Gen Stat § 2-8a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-8a - Compensation for interim committees and study commissions.

 Section 2-8a is repealed.(1967, P.A. 719, S. 1; June, 1972, P.A. 1, S. 16.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-8q (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-8q - General Assembly Pension Fund abolished. Moneys transferred to State Employees Retirement Fund.

 The General Assembly Pension Fund, established under section 2-8o of the general statutes, revised to 1985, is abolished and all moneys in said fund on July 1, 1985, shall be transferred to the State Employees Retirement Fund, except that a reserve, to be determined on an actuarial basis, shall be retained for payments to participants in the General Assembly Pension Fund who are no longer members but are receiving retirement benefits under the General Assembly pension system as defined in section 2-8c of the general statutes, revised to 1985.(P.A. 85-502, S. 1, 9.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-9b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-9b - Compensation increases to be approved by Federal Pay Board.

 Section 2-9b is repealed.(1972, P.A. 281, S. 42; P.A. 73-1, S. 1, 2; P.A. 90-271, S. 23, 24.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-10 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-10 - Clerks' office; assistants; records; duties.

 The House and Senate clerks shall continue in office during the term of the General Assembly by which they were appointed. The Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall provide space in a building under the supervision and control of said committee for the clerks' office. In addition to such assistants as the clerks require for the performance of their duties during sessions of the General Assembly, each clerk may, subject to the approval of said committee, appoint and fix the compensation of a permanent full-time assistant, whose term of office shall not be limited by that of the clerk first appointing him. Records and indexes of the proceedings of the current or last-preceding regular session and of any special sessions held following such regular session and before the convening of the next regular session shall be kept in the clerks' office, which shall be open at regular hours on all business days, whether or not the General Assembly is in session. When the General Assembly is not in session, the services of the full-time assistants may, with the approval of the clerks, be made available to said committee and to any committee of the General Assembly functioning between sessions.(1957, P.A. 1, S. 18; 29, S. 1; March, 1958, P.A. 15, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 749, S. 4; P.A. 84-48, S. 3, 17.)History: 1969 act replaced references to public works commissioner and the legislative council with references to the joint committee on legislative management; P.A. 84-48 provided that offices be in a building under the supervision and control of joint committee on legislative management rather than in state capitol.
CT Gen Stat § 2-11 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-11 - Stenographers for General Assembly committees.

 The Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall employ all stenographers required by the joint standing and joint special committees of the General Assembly. It shall provide for and furnish to the State Library one original copy of all such reports of committee hearings as any of the several committees shall require to be made and transcribed by the stenographer of such committee for its use.(1949 Rev., S. 193; P.A. 82-472, S. 149, 183; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2, S. 34.)History: P.A. 82-472 provided that the legislative management committee, rather than the comptroller, shall employ all necessary stenographers for general assembly committees and removed all references to the joint and house committees on constitutional amendments; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2 deleted “Standing” re Joint Committee on Legislative Management.
CT Gen Stat § 2-12 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-12 - Bonus to employees of General Assembly prohibited. Overtime and meritorious service payments permitted.

 No bonus, gratuity or extra payment of any sort over and above the amount agreed upon as the salary or wage for each employee at the time of hiring or thereafter shall be voted or paid to any employee of the General Assembly or of either house thereof from public funds. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit (1) the payment of extra or overtime pay for extra or overtime work in accordance with a regularly established policy of any department, or (2) the award of specified annual lump sum payments for meritorious service, in accordance with an incentive plan established by the Joint Committee on Legislative Management or any subcommittee of said committee having cognizance of matters relating to personnel policies and based on annual performance appraisals made by office directors, or their designees, to nonpartisan employees of the General Assembly whose salaries equal the maximum salary for their job classification under the compensation plan for nonpartisan employees of the General Assembly. The amount of any such lump sum payment shall not be deemed an increase in salary.(June, 1955, S. 17d; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5, S. 18.)History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5 made a technical change and inserted Subdiv. (1) designator and new Subdiv. (2) re award of specified annual lump sum payments for meritorious service, effective October 6, 2007.
CT Gen Stat § 2-12a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-12a - Temporary legislative employees, reduction of salary for absence.

 Legislative employees hired on a temporary basis for a fixed salary shall have such salary reduced by a per diem amount for those days on which their job would normally require them to be present, but for which they are absent.(S.A. 74-31, S. 20, 22.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-13 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-13 - Records of legislative proceedings. Legislative record index.

 (a) The clerk of either house may employ such number of qualified persons as are necessary to make a record of the proceedings in the Senate and the House of Representatives and to transcribe the same without unnecessary delay. A copy of such record of each day's proceedings shall be filed in the State Library not later than two days after the transcript has been completed and shall be available to the public.(b) The clerks of the Senate and House shall, during sessions of the General Assembly, publish at such times during the session, as may be determined by said clerks, a legislative record index which shall report the status of each bill and resolution pending in or acted upon by the General Assembly. Said clerks shall make not more than twenty-five printed copies of the legislative record index and shall make the legislative record index available electronically to representatives of the press, the State Library, the Governor, the Secretary of the State, the Attorney General and such other persons as the speaker of the House or the president of the Senate may designate.(1949 Rev., S. 19, 36; March, 1950, 1951, 1955, S. 8d; 1961, P.A. 2; P.A. 76-188, S. 1, 2; P.A. 11-150, S. 1.)History: 1961 act eliminated requirement of weekly publication of legislative record and added requirement publication include status of bills and resolutions acted upon as well as pending; P.A. 76-188 changed “legislative record” to “legislative record index” and gave clerks power to publish it “at such times” as they determine during a session, deleting requirement that it be published at least nine but no more than twelve times; P.A. 11-150 made a technical change in Subsec. (a) and amended Subsec. (b) to require not more than 25 printed copies of the index and that the index be made available electronically, effective July 1, 2011.