Connecticut 2017 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB05005 Compare Versions

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11 General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5005
22 January Session, 2017 LCO No. 239
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44 Referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS
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66 REP. PISCOPO, 76th Dist.
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88 General Assembly
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1010 Proposed Bill No. 5005
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1212 January Session, 2017
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1414 LCO No. 239
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1818 Referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS
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2020 Introduced by:
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2222 REP. PISCOPO, 76th Dist.
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2424 AN ACT CONCERNING THE CONSTITUTIONAL SPENDING CAP.
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2626 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
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2828 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 during 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 United States Bureau of Labor Statistics data, and "general budget expenditures" to mean expenditures from 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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3232 To implement the constitutional limitation on expenditures by the General Assembly.