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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6030
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 2771
Referred to Committee on FINANCE, REVENUE AND
BONDING
Introduced by:
REP. DE LA CRUZ, 41st Dist.
AN ACT REQUIRING A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CONNECTICUT
AND LOWER-COST STATES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management be 1
required to conduct a study of the following, that compares 2
Connecticut to states with lower overall costs, and to report the 3
findings of such study to the General Assembly: (1) The percentage of 4
residents who receive an earned income tax credit and the rate of such 5
credit in each state; (2) the number of municipal employees in each 6
state who receive federal benefits; (3) the number and total amount of 7
federal contracts awarded to each state; (4) the highway funding 8
mechanisms utilized by each state; (5) violent and nonviolent crime 9
rates in each state; and (6) student performance in each state. 10
Statement of Purpose:
To require the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management to
conduct a study comparing Connecticut to states with lower overall
costs.