Connecticut 2017 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB06866 Compare Versions

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11 General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6866
22 January Session, 2017 LCO No. 2194
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44 Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
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66 REP. BOLINSKY, 106th Dist.
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1010 Proposed Bill No. 6866
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1212 January Session, 2017
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1414 LCO No. 2194
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1818 Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
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2020 Introduced by:
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2222 REP. BOLINSKY, 106th Dist.
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2424 AN ACT PROHIBITING STATE CONTRACTING WITH OR INVESTING IN CERTAIN PERSONS AND BUSINESSES.
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2626 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
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2828 That the general statutes be amended to (1) prohibit any state agency from contracting with, or investing in, any person or business that promotes or engages in activities to encourage persons to abstain from commercial, social or political relations with any allied nation or with companies based in an allied nation or in territories controlled by an allied nation, with the intent to penalize, inflict or cause harm to, or otherwise promote or cast disrepute upon such allied nation, its people or its commercial products, and (2) define "allied nation" as any country designated as an ally of the United States by the United States Department of State, including all members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Israel, Japan, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and all signatory countries of the Southeast Asia and Rio Treaties.
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3232 To prohibit state contracting with, and state investment in, persons and businesses that promote or engage in activities to boycott, divest or sanction American allied nations.