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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1032
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on COMMERCE
Introduced by:
(CE)
AN ACT CONCERNING A BLOCKCHAIN PILOT PROGRAM IN THE
DEPARTMENT OF ADMINI STRATIVE SERVICES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) As used in this section: 1
(1) "Blockchain technology" means distributed ledger technology 2
that uses a distributed, decentralized, shared and replicated ledger that 3
may be public or private, permissioned or permissionless and that may 4
include the use of electronic currencies or electronic tokens as a 5
medium of electronic exchange; and 6
(2) "Distributed ledger technology" means any database that is 7
consensually shared and synchronized across multiple sites, 8
institutions or geographies allowing for public witnesses to such 9
transactions and may include supporting infrastructure, including 10
blockchain technology, that uses a distributed, decentralized, shared 11
and replicated ledger, whether public or private, permissioned or 12
permissionless, and that may include the use of electronic currencies or 13
electronic tokens as a medium of electronic storage. 14 Raised Bill No. 1032
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(b) On or before October 1, 2019, the Department of Administrative 15
Services shall develop and issue a request for proposals to incorporate 16
blockchain technology to make the administration of a department 17
function more efficient. 18
(c) Not later than October 1, 2020, the department shall evaluate the 19
responses to the request for proposals and submit a report, in 20
accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, 21
identifying department functions that may be made more efficient by 22
blockchain technology to the joint standing committees of the General 23
Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to commerce and 24
government administration. 25
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require the Department of Administrative Services to develop and
issue a request for proposals to incorporate blockchain technology in
the administration of a department function.
[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.]