Connecticut 2017 2017 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB05157 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/03/2017

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 5157
January Session, 2017  LCO No. 30
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Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
REP. SAMPSON, 80th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 5157 

January Session, 2017

LCO No. 30

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Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 

Introduced by:

REP. SAMPSON, 80th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE CREATION OR ENLARGEMENT OF STATE MANDATES TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That section 2-32b of the general statutes be amended to provide that no bill creating or enlarging a state mandate to local governments shall be enacted except upon approval by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members of each chamber of the General Assembly.

Statement of Purpose: 

To require new municipal mandates to be approved by at least two-thirds of the members of the House and Senate.