General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5521
February Session, 2012 LCO No. 2416
*02416_______GAE*
Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections
Introduced by:
(GAE)
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 5521
February Session, 2012
LCO No. 2416
*02416_______GAE*
Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT PERMITTING ELECTRONIC OR DIGITAL METHODS OF COMMUNICATION IN LIEU OF MAILED COMMUNICATIONS FOR ALL STATE, MUNICIPAL AND QUASI-PUBLIC AGENCIES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2012) (a) For purposes of this section, "secure electronic delivery service" means a service that possesses safeguards for the delivery or other communication of electronic records to their intended recipients, including, but not limited to, passwords, encryption and matching an electronic mail address to a person's United States Postal Service physical address.
(b) Any provision of the general statutes that specifies that (1) an agency of the executive, legislative or judicial branch of government, (2) a quasi-public agency, or (3) a political subdivision of the state shall send a communication to a person by mail, first class mail, certified mail or United States mail, shall be construed to permit such agency or political subdivision to send such communication using an electronic or digital method, provided any such method uses a secure electronic delivery service and complies with any applicable requirements of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act 15 USC 96 and chapter 15 of the general statutes, and any references to a postmark shall include the automatically generated time stamp of an electronically mailed communication.
Sec. 2. Section 1-2b of the 2012 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
(a) For purposes of sections [1-100oo] 1-101oo, 1-206, 2-71r, 4-176, 4-180, 4-183, 4a-52a, 4a-60q, 4a-63, 4a-100, 4e-34, 4e-35, 7-65, 7-148w, 7-247a, 7-473c, 7-478e, 8-3b, 8-3i, 8-7d, 8-26b, 8-169r, 8-293, 9-388, 9-608, 9-623, 10a-22c, 10a-22i, 10a-34a, 10a-109n, 12-35, 12-157, 12-242ii, 12-242jj, 13a-80, 13a-85c, 13a-123, 15-11a, 16-41, 16-50c, 16-50d, 17a-103b, 19a-87, 19a-87c, 19a-209c, 19a-332e, 19a-343a, 19a-486a, 19a-486c, 19a-486d, 19a-497, 19a-507b, 20-205a, 20-325a, 21-63, 21-80, 22-7, 22a-6b, 22a-6u, 22a-30, 22a-42d, 22a-42f, 22a-66d, 22a-137, 22a-178, 22a-225, 22a-228, 22a-250, 22a-285b, 22a-354p, 22a-354s, 22a-354t, 22a-361, 22a-371, 22a-401, 22a-403, 22a-433, 22a-436, 22a-449f, 22a-449l, 22a-449n, 22a-504, 22a-626, 23-46, 23-65j, 23-651, 23-65p, 25-32, 25-32e, 25-331, 25-34, 25-204, 25-234, 29-108d, 31-57c, 31-57d, 31-355, 32-613, 33-663, 33-929, 33-1053, 33-1219, 34-521, 35-42, 36a-50, 36a-51, 36a-52, 36a-53, 36a-82, 36a-184, 36a-493, 36b-62, 36b-72, 38-323a, 38a-344, 38a-676, 38a-724, 38a-788, 42-158j, 42-161, 42-181, 42-182, 42-186, 42-271, 45a-716, 46b-115w, 46b-128, 47-42d, 47-74f, 47-88b, 47-236, 47-284, 47a-11b, 47a-11d, 47a-13a, 47a-14h, 47a-56b, 49-2, 49-4a, 49-8, 49-8a, 49-10b, 49-31b, 49-51, 49-70, 51-90e, 52-57, 52-59b, 52-63, 52-64, 52-195c, 52-350e, 52-351b, 52-361a, 52-362, 52-565a, 52-605, 52-606, 53-401, 53a-128, 53a-128d, 53a-207 and 54-82c and chapter 965, any reference to certified mail, return receipt requested, shall include mail, electronic, and digital methods of receiving the return receipt, including all methods of receiving the return receipt identified by the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service in Chapter 500 of the Domestic Mail Manual or any subsequent corresponding document of the United States Postal Service.
(b) The Legislative Commissioners' Office shall, in codifying the provisions of this section, make such technical, grammatical and punctuation changes and statutory placements and classifications, including, but not listed in subsection (a) of this section as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2012 New section
Sec. 2 from passage 1-2b
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
October 1, 2012
New section
Sec. 2
from passage
1-2b
Statement of Purpose:
To permit any state, quasi-public or municipal agency to send communications using electronic or digital methods instead of by mail and to make a technical change.
[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.]