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OLR Bill Analysis
SB 1016
AN ACT CONCERNING MUNICIPAL ETHICS.
SUMMARY
This bill requires each municipality to adopt and maintain a code of
ethics by October 1, 2022. A municipality is deemed in compliance if
it:
adopts an ethics code before January 1, 2022, or
adopts by October 1, 2022, and after that maintains, provisions
of the model ethics code that the Office of State Ethics (OSE)
must establish.
The bill requires OSE, in consultation with the Connecticut
Conference of Municipalities and Connecticut Council of Small Towns,
to (1) develop a model municipal ethics code that municipalities may
adopt and (2) publish this code on its website by January 1, 2022. OSE
must update the model code as it deems necessary.
Under the bill, each municipality must submit a notice to OSE by
January 15, 2023, certifying whether it has complied with the bill’s
requirements and providing a copy of its code. It requires OSE to
submit a report to the Government Administration and
Elections Committee on the status of each municipality’s compliance
by January 1, 2024.
The bill also authorizes OSE, within available appropriations, to
conduct a municipal ethics education program for municipal officials
or employees, or organizations made up of municipal members.
EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 2022, except the code
adoption requirement is effective October 1, 2022. 2021SB-01016-R000456-BA.DOCX
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COMMITTEE ACTION
Government Administration and Elections Committee
Joint Favorable
Yea 14 Nay 4 (03/29/2021)