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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 1 - Provisions of General Application › Chapter 15c - Connecticut Uniform Power of Attorney Act and Connecticut Uniform Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making Documents Act › Section 1-352a. - Agent's certification.

The following optional form may be used by an agent to certify facts concerning a power of attorney.
AGENT'S CERTIFICATION AS TO THE
VALIDITY OF POWER OF ATTORNEY
AND AGENT'S AUTHORITY
State of ______________________________
County of ____________________________
I, _____________________ (Name of Agent), certify under penalty of false statement that ____________________ (Name of Principal) granted me authority as an agent or successor agent in a power of attorney dated ________________________.
I further certify that to my knowledge:
(1) the Principal is alive and has not revoked the Power of Attorney or my authority to act under the Power of Attorney and the Power of Attorney and my authority to act under the Power of Attorney have not terminated;
(2) if the Power of Attorney was drafted to become effective upon the happening of an event or contingency, the event or contingency has occurred;
(3) if I was named as a successor agent, the prior agent is no longer able or willing to serve; and
(4)________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
(Insert other relevant statements)
SIGNATURE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
__________________________________  _______________
(Agent's Signature)            (Date)
____________________________________________
(Agent's Name Printed)
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
(Agent's Address)
____________________________________________
(Agent's Telephone Number)
This document was acknowledged before me on _________________,
(Date)
by ______________________________________.
(Name of Agent)
________________________________________ (Seal, if any)
(Signature of Commissioner of Superior Court/Notary)
My commission expires: _________________________
(P.A. 15-240, S. 42; P.A. 16-40, S. 9.)
History: P.A. 15-240 effective July 1, 2016; P.A. 16-40 changed effective date of P.A. 15-240, S. 42, from July 1, 2016, to October 1, 2016, effective May 27, 2016.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 1 - Provisions of General Application › Chapter 15c - Connecticut Uniform Power of Attorney Act and Connecticut Uniform Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making Documents Act › Section 1-353. - Uniformity of application and construction.

In applying and construing the provisions of sections 1-350 to 1-353b, inclusive, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among the states that enact it.
(P.A. 15-240, S. 43; P.A. 16-40, S. 9.)
History: P.A. 15-240 effective July 1, 2016; P.A. 16-40 changed effective date of P.A. 15-240, S. 43, from July 1, 2016, to October 1, 2016, effective May 27, 2016.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 1 - Provisions of General Application › Chapter 15c - Connecticut Uniform Power of Attorney Act and Connecticut Uniform Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making Documents Act › Section 1-353a. - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.

Sections 1-350 to 1-353b, inclusive, modify, limit, and supersede the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 USC 7001 et seq., but do not modify, limit, or supersede Section 101(c) of that act, 15 USC 7001(c), or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in Section 103(b) of that act, 15 USC 7003(b).
(P.A. 15-240, S. 44; P.A. 16-40, S. 9; P.A. 17-224, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 15-240 effective July 1, 2016; P.A. 16-40 changed effective date of P.A. 15-240, S. 44, from July 1, 2016, to October 1, 2016, effective May 27, 2016; P.A. 17-224 replaced “Section 3(b)” with “Section 103(b)”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 1 - Provisions of General Application › Chapter 15c - Connecticut Uniform Power of Attorney Act and Connecticut Uniform Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making Documents Act › Section 1-353b. - Effect on existing powers of attorney.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in sections 1-350 to 1-353b, inclusive, on and after October 1, 2016, said sections apply to:
(1) A power of attorney created before, on, or after October 1, 2016;
(2) A judicial proceeding concerning a power of attorney commenced on or after October 1, 2016; and
(3) A judicial proceeding concerning a power of attorney commenced before October 1, 2016, unless the court finds that application of a provision of sections 1-350 to 1-353b, inclusive, would substantially interfere with the effective conduct of the judicial proceeding or prejudice the rights of a party, in which case that provision does not apply and the superseded law applies.
(b) An act performed by an agent under a power of attorney before October 1, 2016, is not affected by sections 1-350 to 1-353b, inclusive.
(P.A. 15-240, S. 45; P.A. 16-40, S. 4, 9.)
History: P.A. 15-240 effective July 1, 2016; P.A. 16-40 changed effective date of P.A. 15-240, S. 45, from July 1, 2016, to October 1, 2016, effective May 27, 2016, and amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) by replacing references to October 1, 2015, with references to October 1, 2016, effective October 1, 2016.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 1 - Provisions of General Application › Chapter 15c - Connecticut Uniform Power of Attorney Act and Connecticut Uniform Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making Documents Act › Section 1-360. - Short title: Connecticut Uniform Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making Documents Act.

Sections 1-360 to 1-369, inclusive, may be cited as the “Connecticut Uniform Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making Documents Act”.
(P.A. 17-91, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 1 - Provisions of General Application › Chapter 15c - Connecticut Uniform Power of Attorney Act and Connecticut Uniform Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making Documents Act › Section 1-361. - Definitions.

As used in sections 1-360 to 1-369, inclusive:
(1) “Decision maker” means a person authorized to act for an individual under a substitute decision-making document, whether denominated a decision maker, agent, attorney-in-fact, proxy or representative or by another title. “Decision maker” includes an original decision maker, a co-decision maker, a successor decision maker and a person to which a decision maker's authority is delegated;
(2) “Good faith” means honesty in fact;
(3) “Health care” means a service or procedure to maintain, diagnose, treat or otherwise affect an individual's physical or mental condition;
(4) “Person” means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, or other legal entity;
(5) “Personal care” means an arrangement or service to provide an individual shelter, food, clothing, transportation, education, recreation, social contact or assistance with the activities of daily living;
(6) “Property” means anything that may be subject to ownership, whether real or personal or legal or equitable, or any interest or right therein;
(7) “Record” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; and
(8) “Substitute decision-making document” or “document” means a record created by an individual to authorize a decision maker to act for the individual with respect to property, health care or personal care.
(P.A. 17-91, S. 2.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 1 - Provisions of General Application › Chapter 15c - Connecticut Uniform Power of Attorney Act and Connecticut Uniform Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making Documents Act › Section 1-362. - Validity of substitute decision-making document.

(a) A substitute decision-making document for property executed outside this state is valid in this state if, when the document was executed, the execution complied with the law of the jurisdiction indicated in the document or, if no jurisdiction is indicated, the law of the jurisdiction in which the document was executed.
(b) A substitute decision-making document for health care or personal care, including the appointment of a health care representative, executed outside this state is valid in this state if, when the document was executed, the execution complied with: (1) The law of the jurisdiction indicated in the document or, if no jurisdiction is indicated, the law of the jurisdiction in which the document was executed; or (2) the law of this state, other than sections 1-360 to 1-369, inclusive.
(c) Except as otherwise provided by law, a photocopy or electronically transmitted copy of an original substitute decision-making document has the same effect as the original.
(P.A. 17-91, S. 3.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 1 - Provisions of General Application › Chapter 15c - Connecticut Uniform Power of Attorney Act and Connecticut Uniform Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making Documents Act › Section 1-363. - Meaning and effect of substitute decision-making document.

The meaning and effect of a substitute decision-making document and the authority of the decision maker are determined by the law of the jurisdiction indicated in the document or, if no jurisdiction is indicated, the law of the jurisdiction in which the document was executed.
(P.A. 17-91, S. 4.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 1 - Provisions of General Application › Chapter 15c - Connecticut Uniform Power of Attorney Act and Connecticut Uniform Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making Documents Act › Section 1-364. - Reliance on substitute decision-making document.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (f) of section 1-56b and sections 1-350r, 19a-579b and 19a-580g, a person who in good faith accepts a substitute decision-making document without actual knowledge that the document is void, invalid or terminated, or that the authority of the purported decision maker is void, invalid or terminated, may assume without inquiry that the document is genuine, valid and still in effect and that the decision maker's authority is genuine, valid and still in effect.
(b) A person who is asked to accept a substitute decision-making document may request and without further investigation rely on:
(1) The decision maker's assertion of a fact concerning the individual for whom a decision will be made, the decision maker or the document;
(2) A translation of the document if the document contains, in whole or in part, a language other than English; and
(3) An opinion of counsel regarding any matter of law concerning the document if the person provides in a record the reason for the request.
(P.A. 17-91, S. 5.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 1 - Provisions of General Application › Chapter 15c - Connecticut Uniform Power of Attorney Act and Connecticut Uniform Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making Documents Act › Section 1-365. - Obligation to accept substitute decision-making document.

(a) Except as provided in section 1-350s, a person who is asked to accept a substitute decision-making document shall accept within a reasonable time a document that purportedly meets the validity requirements of section 1-362. The person may not require an additional or different form of document for authority granted in the document presented.
(b) A person who is asked to accept a substitute decision-making document is not required to accept the document if:
(1) The person otherwise would not be required in the same circumstances to act if requested by the individual who executed the document;
(2) The person has actual knowledge of the termination of the decision maker's authority or the document;
(3) The person's request under subsection (b) of section 1-364 for the decision maker's assertion of fact, a translation or an opinion of counsel is refused;
(4) The person in good faith believes that the document is not valid or the decision maker does not have the authority to request a particular transaction or action; or
(5) The person makes, or has actual knowledge that another person has made, a report to an agency responsible for investigating allegations of abuse, neglect, exploitation or abandonment stating a belief that the individual for whom a decision will be made may be subject to abuse, neglect, exploitation or abandonment by the decision maker or a person acting for or with the decision maker.
(c) A person who refuses to accept a substitute decision-making document in violation of this section is subject to:
(1) A court order mandating acceptance of the document; and
(2) Liability for reasonable attorney's fees and costs incurred in an action or proceeding that mandates acceptance of the document.
(P.A. 17-91, S. 6.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 1 - Provisions of General Application › Chapter 15c - Connecticut Uniform Power of Attorney Act and Connecticut Uniform Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making Documents Act › Section 1-366. - Remedies under other law.

The remedies under sections 1-360 to 1-369, inclusive, are not exclusive and do not abrogate any right or remedy under any other law of this state.
(P.A. 17-91, S. 7.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 1 - Provisions of General Application › Chapter 15c - Connecticut Uniform Power of Attorney Act and Connecticut Uniform Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making Documents Act › Section 1-367. - Uniformity of application and construction.

In applying and construing sections 1-360 to 1-369, inclusive, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among the states that enact it.
(P.A. 17-91, S. 8.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 1 - Provisions of General Application › Chapter 15c - Connecticut Uniform Power of Attorney Act and Connecticut Uniform Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making Documents Act › Section 1-368. - Operation of Connecticut Uniform Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making Documents Act with respect to federal act.

Sections 1-360 to 1-369, inclusive, modify, limit and supersede the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 USC 7001 et seq., but do not modify, limit or supersede Section 101(c) of said act, 15 USC 7001(c), or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in Section 103(b) of said act, 15 USC 7003(b).
(P.A. 17-91, S. 9.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 1 - Provisions of General Application › Chapter 15c - Connecticut Uniform Power of Attorney Act and Connecticut Uniform Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making Documents Act › Section 1-369. - Applicability.

Sections 1-360 to 1-369, inclusive, apply to a substitute decision-making document created before, on or after October 1, 2017.
(P.A. 17-91, S. 10.)
2023 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).
2023 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.
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.
2023 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.)
2023 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.
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies › Chapter 16 - General Assembly › Section 2-8b to 2-8p. - General Assembly pension system.

Sections 2-8b to 2-8p, inclusive, are repealed.
(1972, P.A. 281, S. 4–18; P.A. 75-37; 75-628, S. 2–5; P.A. 76-238; 76-407, S. 1–3; P.A. 77-238; P.A. 79-106, S. 1–3; 79-631, S. 42, 111; P.A. 81-343, S. 1, 7; 81-456, S. 1, 2, 6–8; P.A. 84-546, S. 6, 173; P.A. 85-502, S. 8, 9.)
2023 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.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies › Chapter 16 - General Assembly › Section 2-9a. - Compensation Commission for elected state officers and General Assembly members.

Section 2-9a is repealed, effective July 1, 2022.
(1971, P.A. 636, S. 1–3; P.A. 79-376, S. 1; P.A. 84-546, S. 7, 173; P.A. 88-349, S. 4, 5; P.A. 12-93, S. 3; P.A. 22-85, S. 8.)
2023 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.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies › Chapter 16 - General Assembly › Section 2-9c. - Adjustment to compensation of members of the General Assembly.

(a) Not later than January 1, 2025, and not later than January first every two years thereafter, the executive director of the Office of Legislative Management, in consultation with the Labor Commissioner, shall determine the adjustment to be made under subsection (b) of this section to the compensation of members of the General Assembly set forth in subsections (a) and (c) of section 2-8, by the percentage change in the employment cost index, or its successor index, for wages and salaries for all civilian workers, as calculated by the United States Department of Labor, over the twenty-four-month period ending on June thirtieth of the preceding year, rounded to the nearest whole cent. Thereafter, any such adjustment shall be based on the compensation of members of the General Assembly set forth in subsections (a) and (c) of section 2-8, as adjusted by the immediately preceding adjustment under this section.
(b) On January 8, 2025, the executive director shall adjust the compensation of members of the General Assembly in accordance with the determination made under subsection (a) of this section. Thereafter, any subsequent adjustment of such compensation in accordance with the determination made under subsection (a) of this section shall not take effect until the first Wednesday following the first Monday of January succeeding such determination.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not be construed to apply to any health, pension or other benefits of members of the General Assembly.
(P.A. 22-85, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 22-85 effective July 1, 2022.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.)
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.)
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.