General Assembly Committee Bill No. 287
January Session, 2017 LCO No. 3367
*03367SB00287ENV*
Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
General Assembly
Committee Bill No. 287
January Session, 2017
LCO No. 3367
*03367SB00287ENV*
Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TESTING OF SHELLFISH AT ALTERNATIVE LAB FACILITIES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) Not later than January 1, 2018, the Commissioner of Public Health, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, and after consultation with the Commissioner of Agriculture, shall submit to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to the environment a report concerning the status of authorizing additional laboratories to perform the testing of shellfish. Such report shall include, but not be limited to, a description of the requisite laboratory testing for shellfish as prescribed by the Department of Public Health, the Department of Agriculture, federal law and any other provision of law, an explanation of any standards that any such laboratory is required to meet, a description of any requisite equipment and facilities required to perform such testing, a listing of the qualifications that any person who performs such testing is required to possess, an assessment of the adequacy of existing state facilities to perform such testing for the state's shellfish industry, the volume of such testing that could occur at additional laboratories and identification of any existing privately owned facilities, state resources or state facilities that could adequately and appropriately provide locations for such testing, including, but not limited to, a cost-benefit analysis for modifying any such existing state resources or facilities to provide for such testing, and any efforts of the state to authorize such facilities to perform such testing.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
New section
Statement of Purpose:
To ease the burden on the shellfish industry by expanding the network of acceptable labs for shellfish testing.
[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: SEN. SOMERS, 18th Dist.; SEN. FORMICA, 20th Dist. REP. STANESKI, 119th Dist.
Co-Sponsors:
SEN. SOMERS, 18th Dist.; SEN. FORMICA, 20th Dist.
REP. STANESKI, 119th Dist.
S.B. 287