General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1135
January Session, 2011 LCO No. 4148
*04148_______CE_*
Referred to Committee on Commerce
Introduced by:
(CE)
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 1135
January Session, 2011
LCO No. 4148
*04148_______CE_*
Referred to Committee on Commerce
Introduced by:
(CE)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE WAIVER OF FINES AND PENALTIES FOR CERTAIN BUSINESS REGULATION VIOLATIONS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) On or before January 1, 2012, the Departments of Economic and Community Development, Environmental Protection and Public Health shall jointly submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, with recommendations for legislative changes to allow said agencies to abate any fine or penalty assessed after July 1, 2012, to a business by said agencies for a first-time violation of a noncriminal regulation by a Connecticut business when such business takes full remedial measures not later than thirty days after such assessment.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
New section
Statement of Purpose:
To permit businesses to remediate regulatory problems without penalty if such problems are regulated in a timely manner.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]