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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1048
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 5138
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E ONLINE DATABASE FOR STATE
EXPENDITURES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 2-53l of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage): 2
(a) On or before July 1, 2011, until the effective date of this section, 3
the legislative Office of Fiscal Analysis shall establish and maintain 4
searchable online electronic databases [on the Internet and located] on 5
said office's Internet web site for purposes of posting state 6
expenditures, including state contracts and grants. On and after the 7
effective date of this section, said databases shall be maintained by the 8
office of the Comptroller on said office's publicly accessible Internet 9
web site for purposes of posting state and quasi-public agency 10
expenditures, including disaggregated payments and data related to 11
state and quasi-public agency contracts and grants, state and quasi-12
public agency employee payroll and state retiree pensions. 13 Raised Bill No. 1048
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(b) Each budgeted agency, as defined in section 4-69, and quasi-14
public agency, as defined in section 1-120, shall submit, in a timely 15
manner, any information requested by the [legislative Office of Fiscal 16
Analysis] Comptroller for the purpose of [establishing and] 17
maintaining the electronic databases. 18
[(c) On or before January 15, 2013, and annually thereafter, the 19
legislative Office of Fiscal Analysis shall report, in accordance with 20
section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly 21
having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the 22
budgets of state agencies on the establishment and maintenance of the 23
electronic databases, with any recommendations for improving or 24
expanding the operation or capacity of such databases. 25
(d) Following the establishment of the electronic databases, the 26
Auditors of Public Accounts shall review the procedures and security 27
used to develop the electronic databases and report, in accordance 28
with section 11-4a, any findings or recommendations based on such 29
review to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly 30
having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the 31
budgets of state agencies.] 32
[(e)] (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a state 33
or quasi-public agency to: (1) Create unavailable financial or 34
management data or an information technology system that does not 35
exist, or (2) disclose consumer, client, patient, [or] student or other 36
information otherwise protected by law from disclosure. 37
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage 2-53l
Statement of Purpose:
To transfer responsibility for maintaining the online databases
concerning state expenditures from the Office of Fiscal Analysis to the Raised Bill No. 1048
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office of the Comptroller and to require quasi-public agencies to
submit data for posting on said databases.
[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.]