General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6575
January Session, 2017 LCO No. 5600
*05600HB06575GAE*
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
General Assembly
Committee Bill No. 6575
January Session, 2017
LCO No. 5600
*05600HB06575GAE*
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING DISCLOSURE OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES' FEDERAL TAX RETURNS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 9-175 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2017):
(a) (1) The electors in the several towns in the state, at the state election in 1964, and quadrennially thereafter, shall elect electors of President and Vice President of the United States, not exceeding in number the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state is then entitled in the Congress of the United States. Voting shall be conducted and the result declared, and the returns thereof made, as is provided in respect to state elections. The Secretary of the State shall, on or before the first Monday of October of the year in which such presidential electors are to be elected, transmit blank forms to the several town clerks for the return of the votes; and the lists and returns of the votes shall be made out, certified and directed according to such forms. When an election is to be held for the choice of presidential electors, if any political party has nominated candidates for President and Vice President of the United States, and presidential electors to vote for such presidential and vice presidential candidates have been nominated by a political convention of such party in this state, or in such other manner as entitles the names of such electors to be placed upon the official ballots to be used in such election, the Secretary of the State and any other official charged with the preparation of official ballots to be used in such election, in lieu of placing the names of such presidential electors on such official ballots, shall place on such official ballots a space with the words "Presidential electors for (here insert the last name of the candidate for President, the word 'and' and the last name of the candidate for Vice President)", [; and a vote cast therefor] provided each such nominated candidate for President or Vice President of the United States shall have publicly disclosed his or her federal income tax returns, in accordance with subdivision (2) of this subsection, for the three years immediately preceding such election. A vote case in such space on such official ballots shall be counted, and shall be in all respects effective, as a vote for each of the presidential electors representing such candidates for President and Vice President.
(2) Each such nominated candidate for President or Vice President of the United States shall publicly disclose his or her federal income tax returns by filing with the Secretary of the State a copy of such returns and providing written authorization to said secretary for the publication of such returns on the Internet web site of said secretary, which publication shall occur not later than seven days after such filing.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2017 9-175(a)
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
October 1, 2017
9-175(a)
Statement of Purpose:
To require that such candidate nominated by a political party for President or Vice President of the United States publicly disclose his or her federal tax returns for the three years immediately preceding the election for which such candidate is nominated in order for the state's electors for President and Vice President of such political party to appear on the ballot for such election.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: REP. HADDAD, 54th Dist.; REP. ALBIS, 99th Dist. REP. GODFREY, 110th Dist.; SEN. FLEXER, 29th Dist. REP. ELLIOTT, 88th Dist.; REP. WINKLER, 56th Dist. REP. D'AGOSTINO, 91st Dist.; REP. ROSE, 118th Dist. REP. PORTER, 94th Dist.; REP. LEMAR, 96th Dist. REP. SANTIAGO, 130th Dist.; REP. CONLEY, 40th Dist. REP. LESSER, 100th Dist.; REP. ADAMS, 146th Dist. REP. MCCARTHY VAHEY, 133rd Dist.; REP. COOK, 65th Dist. REP. ROSARIO, 128th Dist.
Co-Sponsors:
REP. HADDAD, 54th Dist.; REP. ALBIS, 99th Dist.
REP. GODFREY, 110th Dist.; SEN. FLEXER, 29th Dist.
REP. ELLIOTT, 88th Dist.; REP. WINKLER, 56th Dist.
REP. D'AGOSTINO, 91st Dist.; REP. ROSE, 118th Dist.
REP. PORTER, 94th Dist.; REP. LEMAR, 96th Dist.
REP. SANTIAGO, 130th Dist.; REP. CONLEY, 40th Dist.
REP. LESSER, 100th Dist.; REP. ADAMS, 146th Dist.
REP. MCCARTHY VAHEY, 133rd Dist.; REP. COOK, 65th Dist.
REP. ROSARIO, 128th Dist.
H.B. 6575