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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7211
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E PRESERVATION OF HIST ORICAL
RECORDS AND ACCESS T O RESTRICTED RECORDS IN THE STATE
ARCHIVES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2019) Any record transferred to 1
the state archives established in section 11-1c of the general statutes 2
that the State Archivist determines to be a record of historical value 3
shall be retained for posterity and title to such record shall vest in the 4
state archives. 5
Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2019, and applicable to requests to 6
inspect records made on or after said date) (a) For the purposes of this 7
section: 8
(1) "Public record" has the same meaning as "public record or file" in 9
section 1-200 of the general statutes; and 10
(2) "State archives" has the same meaning as described in section 11-11
1c of the general statutes. 12
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(b) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes providing 13
that a particular public record is confidential, and except as provided 14
in subsection (c) of this section, any person may inspect any such 15
record contained in the state archives if such record was created fifty 16
years or more prior to the date of the request to inspect such record. 17
(c) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes providing 18
that a particular public record is confidential, if the public record is 19
contained in the state archives and relates to a natural person, any 20
person may inspect such record if (1) such record was created fifty 21
years or more prior to the date of the request to inspect such record, or 22
(2) the date of the request to inspect such record occurs fifty years or 23
more after the death of the person who is the subject of such record, 24
whichever is later. 25
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 New section
Sec. 2 October 1, 2019, and
applicable to requests to
inspect records made on or
after said date
New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require the preservation of records of historical value and to lift
restrictions on access to public records contained in the state archives
after a certain amount of time has passed.
[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.]