Connecticut 2017 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB05558 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/11/2017

                            General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 5558
January Session, 2017  LCO No. 578
 *00578*
Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
REP. HARDING, 107th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 5558 

January Session, 2017

LCO No. 578

*00578*

Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 

Introduced by:

REP. HARDING, 107th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE PASSAGE OF NEW STATE MANDATES TO MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS.

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

That the general statutes be amended to require the approval by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members of each chamber of the General Assembly to enact any new state mandate for which no state reimbursement is provided to municipal governments for costs resulting from such new mandate. 

Statement of Purpose: 

To require the vote of two-thirds of each chamber of the General Assembly to enact a new unfunded state mandate.