Senate Bill No. 1048
Public Act No. 19-102
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E ONLINE DATABASE FO R 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 Section 2-53l of the general statutes is repealed and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
(a) On or before July 1, 2011, until the effective date of this section,
the legislative Office of Fiscal Analysis shall establish and maintain
searchable online electronic databases [on the Internet and located] on
said office's Internet web site for purposes of posting state
expenditures, including state contracts and grants. On and after the
effective date of this section, said databases shall be maintained by the
office of the Comptroller on said office's publicly accessible Internet
web site for purposes of posting state and quasi-public agency
expenditures, including disaggregated payments and data related to
state and quasi-public agency contracts and grants, state and quasi-
public agency employee payroll and state retiree pensions.
(b) Each budgeted agency, as defined in section 4-69, and quasi-
public agency, as defined in section 1-120, shall submit, in a timely
manner, any information requested by the [legislative Office of Fiscal
Analysis] Comptroller for the purpose of [establishing and] Senate Bill No. 1048
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maintaining the electronic databases.
[(c) On or before January 15, 2013, and annually thereafter, the
legislative Office of Fiscal Analysis shall report, in accordance with
section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly
having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the
budgets of state agencies on the establishment and maintenance of the
electronic databases, with any recommendations for improving or
expanding the operation or capacity of such databases.
(d) Following the establishment of the electronic databases, the
Auditors of Public Accounts shall review the procedures and security
used to develop the electronic databases and report, in accordance
with section 11-4a, any findings or recommendations based on such
review to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly
having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the
budgets of state agencies.]
[(e)] (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a state
or quasi-public agency to: (1) Create unavailable financial or
management data or an information technology system that does not
exist, or (2) disclose consumer, client, patient, [or] student or other
information otherwise protected by law from disclosure.