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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5653
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 1117
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
REP. CANDELORA, 86th Dist.
REP. DEVLIN, 134th Dist.
REP. O'DEA, 125th Dist.
REP. PERILLO, 113th Dist.
REP. REBIMBAS, 70th Dist.
REP. ZUPKUS, 89th Dist.
AN ACT AMENDING THE CIVIL PREPAREDNESS AND PUBLIC
HEALTH EMERGENCY STATUTES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That (1) section 28-9 of the general statutes be amended to redefine 1
"serious disaster" to exclude pandemics, to limit the duration of a 2
declaration of a civil preparedness emergency to no more than thirty 3
days, provided such duration may be extended for an additional thirty 4
days by a majority vote of the joint committee described in said section 5
and to delete the reference to section 19a-131a in subsection (b)(1), and 6
(2) section 19a-131a of the general statutes be amended to add additional 7
parameters for the modification or suspension of law, including, but not 8
limited to, by requiring specific reasons for such modification or 9
suspension and requiring a defined period for such modification or 10
suspension, but no longer than six months unless revoked. 11 Proposed Bill No. 5653
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Statement of Purpose:
To update our civil preparedness and public health emergency statutes
and executive order emergency powers to reflect emerging threats, and
to retain a legislative role in defining the duration of such powers.