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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 962
January Session, 2021
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Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT EXTENDING THE MINORITY REPRESENTA TION RULE TO
CERTAIN LEGISLATIVE BODIES AND SPECIAL TAXING DISTRICTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 9-167a of the general statutes is 1
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 2
1, 2021): 3
(a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, the 4
maximum number of members of any board, commission, legislative 5
body, committee or similar body of the state or any political subdivision 6
thereof, whether elective or appointive, who may be members of the 7
same political party, shall be as specified in the following table: 8
T1 COLUMN I COLUMN II
T2 Total Membership Maximum from One Party
T3 3 ……………………………………… 2
T4 4 ……………………………………… 3
T5 5 ……………………………………… 4
T6 6 ……………………………………… 4 Raised Bill No. 962
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T7 7 ……………………………………… 5
T8 8 ……………………………………… 5
T9 9 ……………………………………… 6
T10 More than 9 ………….………........... Two-thirds of
T11 total membership
(2) The provisions of this section shall not apply (A) to any such (i) 9
board, commission, committee or similar body whose members are 10
elected wholly or partially on the basis of a geographical division of the 11
state or political subdivision, or (ii) legislative body whose members are 12
elected wholly or partially on the basis of a geographical division of the 13
state, (B) to a legislative body of a municipality [(i)] having a town 14
meeting as its legislative body, [or (ii) for which the charter or a special 15
act, on January 1, 1987, provided otherwise,] (C) to the city council of an 16
unconsolidated city within a town and the town council of such town if 17
the town has a town council and a representative town meeting, the 18
town charter provides for some form of minority representation in the 19
election of members of the representative town meeting, and the city has 20
a city council and a body having the attributes of a town meeting, or (D) 21
to the board of directors and other officers of any district, as defined in 22
section 7-324, other than a fire district, having annual receipts from all 23
sources not in excess of two hundred fifty thousand dollars. 24
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2021 9-167a(a)
Statement of Purpose:
To extend the minority representation rule to fire districts and certain
legislative bodies presently not subject to said rule.
[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.]