General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5437
January Session, 2017 LCO No. 680
*00680*
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
REP. KUPCHICK, 132nd Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 5437
January Session, 2017
LCO No. 680
*00680*
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
REP. KUPCHICK, 132nd Dist.
AN ACT REDUCING OR ELIMINATING CERTAIN GRANTS UNDER THE CITIZENS' ELECTION PROGRAM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
That chapter 157 of the general statutes be amended to reduce by twenty-five per cent any grant awarded from the Citizens' Election Fund to a candidate committee, except that in the case of a candidate committee for a candidate that is unopposed any such grant shall be eliminated.
Statement of Purpose:
To eliminate grants under the Citizens' Election Program to candidate committees of unopposed candidates and reduce all other grants under said program by twenty-five per cent.