Connecticut 2011 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB05148 Compare Versions

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11 General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5148
22 January Session, 2011 LCO No. 217
33 Referred to Committee on Appropriations
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55 REP. LAVIELLE, 143rd Dist.
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99 Proposed Bill No. 5148
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1111 January Session, 2011
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1313 LCO No. 217
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1919 REP. LAVIELLE, 143rd Dist.
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2121 AN ACT REDEFINING TERMS OF THE SPENDING CAP.
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2323 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
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2525 That section 2-33a of the general statutes be amended by three-fifths of the members of each house of the General Assembly to redefine "increase in inflation" to mean the increase in the consumer price index for urban consumers for the preceding twenty-four-month period ending December thirty-first of the calendar year preceding the fiscal year to which the budget relates, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, and to redefine "general budget expenditures" to mean expenditures from all appropriated funds authorized by public or special act of the General Assembly, provided general budget expenditures shall not include expenditures for payment of the principal of and interest on bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness or expenditures pursuant to section 4-30a of the general statutes.
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2929 To implement the constitutional limitation on expenditures by the General Assembly.