OFFICE OF FISCAL ANALYSIS Legislative Office Building, Room 5200 Hartford, CT 06106 (860) 240-0200 http://www.cga.ct.gov/ofa sHB-5653 AN ACT AMENDING THE CIVIL PREPAREDNESS AND PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY STATUTES. AMENDMENT LCO No.: 8334 File Copy No.: 571 House Calendar No.: 398 Primary Analyst: CP 5/11/21 Contributing Analyst(s): (NF) OFA Fiscal Note No Fiscal Impact This amendment strikes the underlying bill and its associated fiscal impact. This bill, which allows the Governor to renew certain emergency declarations from July 21, 2021 through March 1, 2022, has no direct fiscal impact. The bill also establishes a bipartisan commission to study sections 19a-131a and 28-9 of the general statutes and make recommendations on how these sections should be amended to provide greater legislative oversight of declarations of public health and civil preparedness emergencies and the exercise of executive authority. This provision has no fiscal impact. The preceding Fiscal Impact statement is prepared for the benefit of the members of the General Assembly, solely for the purposes of information, summarization and explanation and does not represent the intent of the General Assembly or either chamber thereof for any purpose. In general, fiscal impacts are based upon a variety of informational sources, including the analyst’s professional knowledge. Whenever applicable, agency data is consulted as part of the analysis, however final products do not necessarily reflect an assessment from any specific department.