LCO No. 1992 1 of 1 General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6069 January Session, 2019 LCO No. 1992 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 1 the total of the amount of any grant under the Citizens' Election 2 Program to a candidate for state senator or state representative and the 3 amount of qualifying contributions to be received by such candidate in 4 order to be eligible for such grant shall not exceed (1) sixty thousand 5 dollars for the office of state senator, and (2) fifteen thousand dollars 6 for the office of state representative. 7 Statement of Purpose: To decrease the amount of grants under the Citizens' Election Program.