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CT Gen Stat § 2-24b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-24b - Racial and ethnic impact statement required for certain bills and amendments.

 (a) Beginning with the session of the General Assembly commencing on January 9, 2019, a racial and ethnic impact statement shall be prepared with respect to certain bills and amendments at the request of any member of the General Assembly. With respect to a bill favorably reported during the regular session, any such request shall be made not later than ten days after the deadline for the committee that introduced the bill to vote to report favorably under the joint rules of the House of Representatives and the Senate. With respect to an amendment introduced during the regular session, any such request shall be made at least ten days prior to the deadline for adjournment sine die of the regular session.(b) The joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to government administration may make recommendations for a provision to be included in the joint rules of the House of Representatives and the Senate concerning the procedure for the preparation of such racial and ethnic impact statements, the content of such statements and the types of bills and amendments with respect to which such statements should be prepared.(P.A. 08-143, S. 5; P.A. 18-78, S. 1.)History: P.A. 08-143 effective June 5, 2008; P.A. 18-78 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “January 7, 2009” with “January 9, 2019”, to delete reference to increasing or decreasing pretrial or sentenced population of state correctional facilities, to add “at the request of any member of the General Assembly” and add provisions re deadlines for request, and amended Subsec. (b) to replace “shall” with “may”, replace reference to judiciary committee with reference to government administration committee and make a technical change.
CT Gen Stat § 2-25 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-25 - Printing to be done at one establishment.

 Section 2-25 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 23; February, 1965, P.A. 382, S. 1; P.A. 78-237, S. 2, 5; P.A. 90-17, S. 3, 4.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-26 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-26 - Printing and electronic availability of bills prior to passage.

 At each regular or special session of the General Assembly no bill shall be passed or become a law unless it has been printed in its final form, as prescribed by section 2-24, with the exception of germane amendments, and made available in electronic version on the Internet web site of the General Assembly at least two legislative days prior to its final passage, unless the president pro tempore of the Senate and the speaker of the House of Representatives have certified, in writing, the facts which in their opinion necessitate an immediate vote on such bill, in which case it shall nevertheless be upon the desks of the members or available electronically to the members in final form, accompanied by the fiscal note required by section 2-24 when applicable, with the exception of germane amendments, but not necessarily printed, before its final passage.(1955, June, 1955, S. 10d; P.A. 74-108, S. 2; P.A. 11-150, S. 4.)History: P.A. 74-108 amended section to include fiscal notes where applicable; P.A. 11-150 replaced requirement that bills be upon desks of the members prior to passage with requirement that bills be available electronically on the Internet prior to passage and added provision re bills available electronically to members, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 2-27 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-27 - Printing and distribution of file bills.

 Copies of each bill for an act reported favorably by a committee shall be made available electronically on the Internet web site of the General Assembly and shall be printed in sufficient numbers, as determined by the clerks of the House and Senate, for use by the General Assembly. A greater number of copies of any bill shall be printed upon order of either legislative commissioner. Two copies of each printed bill shall be reserved for the use of the Secretary of the State who shall distribute one copy to the State Library and one to the law library of The University of Connecticut.(1949 Rev., S. 32; 1957, P.A. 368; 627; 1959, P.A. 478, S. 1; 1961, P.A. 285; P.A. 93-180; P.A. 11-150, S. 5.)History: 1959 act made technical change required by appointment of two legislative commissioners instead of one; 1961 act removed mandatory quantities of file copies to be printed and left the number within the discretion of the clerks and reduced from 20 to 7 the number of copies to be given the secretary; P.A. 93-180 deleted provision requiring that private-nature bills be printed at the expense of the party applying therefor before being finally considered and substituted reference to “Quinnipiac College” for reference to “the University of Bridgeport”; P.A. 11-150 required copies of bills to be available electronically on the Internet, reduced number of copies distributed and deleted requirements that Secretary bind bills in volumes and that copies be distributed to certain libraries, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 2-27a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-27a - Fiscal review of bills.

 (a) The speaker of the House, the president pro tempore of the Senate, the minority leader of the House or Senate, the House or Senate chairman or ranking minority member of any committee or the director of the Office of Fiscal Analysis may request the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management to review any bill to provide the General Assembly with information as to its fiscal effect. The secretary, after consultation with any state agency affected by such bill or having special knowledge or information as to its fiscal effect, shall report his estimate of the change in revenue, the amount required to provide for increased liability or the amount of decrease of liability, as the case may be. Such report shall be made to the General Assembly within seven days after the request for review is received.(b) This section shall not apply to (1) any appropriation or revenue bill included in the budget document as provided by section 4-74 or (2) any bill making supplemental appropriations as provided by section 4-82.(1963, P.A. 561; February, 1965, P.A. 166; P.A. 74-108, S. 3; P.A. 77-614, S. 19, 610.)History: 1965 act authorized minority leaders and ranking minority committee members to request fiscal review; P.A. 74-108 included director of office of fiscal analysis among those empowered to request review of bill; P.A. 77-614 changed “commissioner of finance and control” to “secretary of the office of policy and management”.
CT Gen Stat § 2-27b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-27b - Review of bond acts.

 (a) Each bond act, as defined in section 3-20, shall be reviewed by the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to state finance, revenue and bonding no later than five years following the effective date of such act. Such review shall include, but not be limited to, consideration of the amount expended prior to such review on any project provided for in such act and the total cost for completion of such project. Said committee may request whatever information is required to conduct such review from any state official, board, commission or department and such information shall be provided to said committee within fourteen days following receipt of such request. Upon completion of its review, said committee shall recommend to the General Assembly whatever legislation it shall deem necessary with respect to such project.(b) The Treasurer shall compute the aggregate amount of indebtedness in accordance with section 3-21 as of January first and July first each year and shall certify the results of such computation to the Governor and the General Assembly. If the aggregate amount of indebtedness so computed reaches ninety per cent of the limit set forth in said section, the Governor shall review each bond act, as defined in section 3-20, for which, at the time of such certification, no bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness have been issued, and recommend to the General Assembly priorities for repealing authorizations for remaining projects. Such review shall include, but not be limited to, consideration of the amount expended prior to such review on any such project and the total cost for completion of such project. Such recommendations shall be referred to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to capital bonding, which shall consider such recommendations. Said committee may request whatever information is required to conduct such review from any state official, board, commission or department and such information shall be provided to the committee within fourteen days following receipt of such request. Upon completion of its review, the committee shall propose whatever legislation it shall deem necessary with respect to such project.(P.A. 76-349, S. 2, 3; P.A. 79-31, S. 1, 17; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3, S. 128, 168.)History: P.A. 79-31 changed formal designation of finance committee; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3 added Subsec. (b), concerning times of computation, review by the governor if 90% of limit is reached and consideration of such review by the general assembly.
CT Gen Stat § 2-28 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-28 - Time limit on favorable reports of bills. Submission to Legislative Commissioners' Office. Action upon bills not in the files.

 Section 2-28 is repealed.(June, 1955, S. 11d; 1957, P.A. 1, S. 6; 1959, P.A. 1, S. 2; 478, S. 2; P.A. 78-139, S. 1, 2.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-30 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-30 - Engrossing bills after adjournment. Vetoed bills.

 Each bill for an act passed by the General Assembly, but not engrossed prior to the final adjournment thereof, shall be engrossed, signed and presented to the Governor in the same manner as during the session of the General Assembly, such presentation to be not later than the twenty-fifth calendar day after its passage by the General Assembly. The Governor shall, within fifteen days from its receipt by him, either sign the same, endorsing his approval thereon, and transmit it to the Secretary of the State or transmit the same without his signature to said secretary. If any such unsigned bill is accompanied by a statement of the Governor's objections thereto, it shall not become a law unless such bill is reconsidered and repassed by the General Assembly by at least a two-thirds vote of the members of each house of the General Assembly at the time of its reconvening; if not accompanied by such a statement, it shall, at the expiration of the constitutional limit of fifteen days after receipt by the Governor, become a law.(1949 Rev., S. 43; 1957, P.A. 1, S. 12; 1961, P.A. 350, S. 3; 1967, P.A. 222, S. 1.)History: 1961 act extended period for presentation to governor from 15 to 25 days after passage; 1967 act added provisions for passing bill over governor's veto.See Conn. Const. Art. IV, Sec. 15; Conn. Const. Amdts. Art. III.Former section cited. 79 C. 153. Under former constitutional provision and statute, bills became law when signed and approved by Governor and before being engrossed; essential that presentment to Governor be made forthwith following adjournment of General Assembly. 112 C. 134.
CT Gen Stat § 2-30a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-30a - Explanatory texts concerning proposed constitutional amendments; preparation, approval, printing, distribution, posting at polls.

 (a) At such time as a proposed constitutional amendment and its concomitant ballot question are approved by the General Assembly for presentation to the electors of the state for their consideration at a general election, the Office of Legislative Research shall prepare a concise explanatory text as to the content and purpose of the proposed constitutional amendment subject to the approval of the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of constitutional amendments. Upon such approval, the Secretary of the State shall cause such proposed amendment and such explanatory text to be printed and transmitted to the town clerk, and to the registrars of voters in each town in the state in sufficient supply for public distribution.(b) The Secretary of the State shall print the explanations of proposed constitutional amendments, as required by subsection (a) of this section, on posters of a size to be determined by said Secretary and shall mail at least three such posters for every polling place within a town, to the registrars of voters. Said registrars shall cause at least three such posters to be posted at each polling place at which electors shall be voting on such proposed constitutional amendments. Any posters received by the registrars in excess of the number required by this subsection to be so posted may be displayed by said registrars at their discretion at locations which are frequented by the public. No expenditure of state funds shall be made to influence electors to vote for or against any such proposed constitutional amendment.(1967, P.A. 303, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 610, S. 2; P.A. 73-404; P.A. 79-31, S. 8, 17; P.A. 82-314, S. 7, 63; P.A. 83-335, S. 2; P.A. 84-94, S. 1; P.A. 11-173, S. 53.)History: 1971 act deleted reference to the committee on constitutional amendments, giving the secretary of the state responsibility for preparing explanation of amendment, subject to approval of committee on government administration and policy; P.A. 73-404 added Subsec. (b) concerning poster-sized copies of the explanations for display at polling places; P.A. 79-31 changed committee name to committee on government administration and elections; P.A. 82-314 transferred responsibility for approval of constitutional amendments from government administration and elections committee to committee having cognizance of constitutional amendments; P.A. 83-335 transferred the responsibility for preparing an explanatory text for proposed constitutional amendments from the office of the secretary of state to the office of legislative research; P.A. 84-94 prohibited expenditure of state funds to influence vote on constitutional amendments; P.A. 11-173 added language re concomitant ballot question and registrars in Subsec. (a) and replaced references to clerks with references to registrars in Subsec. (b), effective July 13, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 2-30b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-30b - Construction of multiple amendments.

 (a) When two or more acts passed at the same session of the General Assembly amend the same section of the general statutes, or the same section of a public or special act, and reference to the earlier adopted act is not made in the act passed later, each amendment shall be effective except in the case of irreconcilable conflict, in which case the act which was passed last in the second house of the General Assembly shall be deemed to have repealed the irreconcilable provision contained in the earlier act, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section.(b) In the case of an irreconcilable conflict between an act adopted earlier in the same session and an amendment in the legislative commissioners' revisor's bill to a section of the general statutes or to a section of any public or special act made solely for the purposes of correcting a clerical defect or imperfection such as, but not limited to, a grammatical, spelling or computer or data processing error or mistake as to form, and which amendment does not alter the substance of the section, such amendment shall not be deemed to have repealed the irreconcilable provision in the earlier act, and the conflicting provision in the legislative commissioners' revisor's bill shall not be effective.(P.A. 74-15, S. 1, 2; P.A. 86-403, S. 109, 132.)History: P.A. 86-403 added “except as provided in subsection (b) of this section” and added Subsec. (b) concerning irreconcilable conflict between act adopted earlier in same session and amendment in legislative commissioners' revisor's bill.Legislature intended word “amendment” used in section to apply to all acts expressly changing existing legislation regardless of specific prefatory language used, and amendments to Sec. 14-227a in public acts 85-387 and 85-590 are entitled to concurrent effect. 199 C. 667.
CT Gen Stat § 2-31 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-31 - Numbering of public and special acts.

 The numbers of the public and special acts of the General Assembly shall be designated by Arabic numerals.(1949 Rev., S. 35.)
CT Gen Stat § 2-32 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-32 - Effective date of public and special acts.

 All public acts, except when otherwise therein specified, shall take effect on the first day of October following the session of the General Assembly at which they are passed, and special acts, unless otherwise therein provided, from the date of their approval.(1949 Rev., S. 8891.)Former statute cited. 108 C. 77; 131 C. 714. Cited. 143 C. 152; 144 C. 27; 147 C. 358; 180 C. 545; 184 C. 51; 196 C. 53; 199 C. 496; 233 C. 243; 240 C. 658.Cited. 3 CA 201.Cited. 18 CS 162. Provision that special act shall take effect upon approval at annual town meeting in 1935, held to be directory only and not mandatory where act was approved a year later. 19 CS 250. Unless there is a plain indication of an intent that a general statute will supersede a special act, the special act will continue in effect. 26 CS 262. Cited. 44 CS 207.Cited. 4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 471; 6 Conn. Cir. Ct. 462.
CT Gen Stat § 2-32a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-32a - Effective date of public acts imposing state mandate.

 No public act which imposes a state mandate on any political subdivision of this state which requires the appropriation of funds for the budget of such political subdivision in order to comply with the provisions of such act shall be effective as to such political subdivision earlier than the first fiscal year of such political subdivision beginning after five months following the date of passage of such act.(1972, P.A. 234, S. 1; P.A. 93-434, S. 15, 20.)History: P.A. 93-434 changed the term “duty” to “state mandate”, effective June 30, 1993.Cited. 197 C. 554.
CT Gen Stat § 2-32c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-32c - Submission of list of state mandates to General Assembly and municipal chief elected officials.

 On and after July 1, 2019, the Connecticut Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, established pursuant to section 2-79a, shall, not more than ninety days after adjournment of any regular or special session of the General Assembly or November fifteenth immediately following adjournment of a regular session, whichever is later, submit to the speaker of the House of Representatives, the president pro tempore of the Senate, the majority leader of the House of Representatives, the majority leader of the Senate, the minority leader of the House of Representatives, the minority leader of the Senate and the chief elected official of each municipality a report that lists each state mandate enacted during said regular or special session of the General Assembly. Not later than five days after receipt of the report, the speaker and the president pro tempore shall refer each state mandate to the joint standing committee or select committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of the subject matter of the mandate.(P.A. 93-434, S. 17, 20; P.A. 97-243, S. 64, 67; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 107; P.A. 19-193, S. 3.)History: P.A. 93-434 effective June 30, 1993; P.A. 97-243 deleted requirement for committee public hearing and report to speaker and president pro tempore, effective June 24, 1997; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 added reference to January 1, 2019, and made technical changes, effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 19-193 replaced “January 1, 2019” with “July 1, 2019”, replaced “September first” with “November fifteenth”, replaced “whichever is sooner” with “whichever is later” and replaced “Within five days of” with “Not later than five days after”, added provision re submission by commission of report to chief elected official of each municipality, deleted provision re submission by speaker and president pro tempore of report to Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, deleted provision re notice of report provided to the chief elected official of each municipality by secretary and made a technical change, effective July 1, 2019.
CT Gen Stat § 2-33 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-33 - Specific appropriations. Recurring appropriations.

 The General Assembly shall make appropriations of specific sums of money for purposes for which appropriations are authorized by law to be made by the state, and shall specify the amount thereof to be made available for expenditure in each fiscal year. No statutory provision requiring a recurring appropriation for aid to or in support of a state institution or agency shall specify the amount to be appropriated.(1949 Rev., S. 25, 28; 1971, P.A. 1, S. 1.)History: 1971 act changed “biennial” to “recurring”.Scope of section. 89 C. 562. Cited. 163 C. 537.
CT Gen Stat § 2-33c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies|Chapter 16 - General Assembly|Section 2-33c - Limitation of General Fund and Special Transportation Fund appropriations.

 (a) In addition to the provisions of section 2-33a, on and after July 1, 2019, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the General Assembly shall not authorize General Fund and Special Transportation Fund appropriations for any fiscal year in an amount that, in the aggregate, exceeds the percentage of the statement of estimated revenue passed pursuant to subsection (b) of section 2-35 for each fiscal year indicated as follows:||||Fiscal Year Ending June 30,Percentage of Estimated Revenue202099.5  202199.25202299     202398.75202498.5  202598.252026, and eachfiscal year thereafter98     (b) The General Assembly may authorize General Fund and Special Transportation Fund appropriations for any fiscal year in an amount that, in the aggregate, exceeds the percentage of estimated revenue specified in subsection (a) of this section for such fiscal year, if:(1) (A) The Governor declares an emergency or the existence of extraordinary circumstances and at least three-fifths of the members of each house of the General Assembly vote to exceed such percentage for the purposes of such emergency or extraordinary circumstances, and (B) any such appropriation is for the fiscal year in progress only. Any such declaration shall specify the nature of such emergency or circumstances; or(2) Each house of the General Assembly approves by majority vote any such appropriation for purposes of an adjusted appropriation and revenue plan.(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 705.)History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 effective October 31, 2017.