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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6564
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE T IMING OF
THE ADOPTION OF THE STATE BUDGET AND THE EFFECT OF
SUCH TIMING ON MUNICIPAL BUDGET PREPARAT IONS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) There is established a task force 1
to study the timing of the adoption of the state budget and the effect of 2
such timing on municipal budget preparations. 3
(b) The task force shall consist of the following members: 4
(1) Two appointed by the speaker of the House of Representatives; 5
(2) Two appointed by the president pro tempore of the Senate; 6
(3) One appointed by the majority leader of the House of 7
Representatives; 8
(4) One appointed by the majority leader of the Senate; 9
(5) One appointed by the minority leader of the House of 10
Representatives; 11
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(6) One appointed by the minority leader of the Senate; 12
(7) The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, or the 13
secretary's designee; and 14
(8) Two persons appointed by the Governor. 15
(c) Any member of the task force appointed under subdivision (1), 16
(2), (3), (4), (5) or (6) of subsection (b) of this section may be a member 17
of the General Assembly. 18
(d) All appointments to the task force shall be made not later than 19
thirty days after the effective date of this section. Any vacancy shall be 20
filled by the appointing authority. 21
(e) The speaker of the House of Representatives and the president 22
pro tempore of the Senate shall select the chairpersons of the task force 23
from among the members of the task force. Such chairpersons shall 24
schedule the first meeting of the task force, which shall be held not 25
later than sixty days after the effective date of this section. 26
(f) The administrative staff of the joint standing committee of the 27
General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to planning 28
and development shall serve as administrative staff of the task force. 29
(g) Not later than January 1, 2020, the task force shall submit a 30
report on its findings and recommendations to the joint standing 31
committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters 32
relating to planning and development, in accordance with the 33
provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes. The task force shall 34
terminate on the date that it submits such report or January 1, 2020, 35
whichever is later. 36
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
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Statement of Purpose:
To establish a task force to study the timing of the adoption of the state
budget and the effect of such timing on municipal budget
preparations.
[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. BORER, 115th Dist.; REP. MICHEL, 146th Dist.
H.B. 6564