Connecticut 2017 2017 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB06571 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/23/2017

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 6571
January Session, 2017  LCO No. 1233
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Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
REP. KOKORUDA, 101st Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 6571 

January Session, 2017

LCO No. 1233

*01233*

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS 

Introduced by:

REP. KOKORUDA, 101st Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING CERTAIN CANDIDATES PARTICIPATING IN 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 require that the total of the amount of any grant under the Citizens' Election Program to a candidate for state senator or state representative and the amount of qualifying contributions to be received by such candidate in order to be eligible for such grant shall not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars. 

Statement of Purpose: 

To decrease the amount of grants under the Citizens' Election Program.