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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5452
February Session, 2022
LCO No. 2969
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT
ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE CONCERNING THE
ACCESSIBILITY OF STATE AGENCY INTERNET WEB SITES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) There is established the State 1
Agency Internet Web Site Accessibility Task Force to study the 2
accessibility of the Internet web sites of state agencies. Such study shall 3
include, but need not be limited to, an examination of whether (1) the 4
information and services on the state agency Internet web sites are 5
designed to be accessible to people with disabilities; (2) state agencies 6
and the developers of their Internet web sites apply the guidelines for 7
achieving universal accessibility principles when designing and 8
creating any official Internet web site of a state agency; and (3) to 9
recommend reinstating the Connecticut Web Site Accessibility 10
Committee. 11
(b) The task force shall consist of the following members: 12
(1) Two appointed by the speaker of the House of Representatives; 13 Raised Bill No. 5452
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(2) Two appointed by the president pro tempore of the Senate; 14
(3) One appointed by the majority leader of the House of 15
Representatives; 16
(4) One appointed by the majority leader of the Senate; 17
(5) One appointed by the minority leader of the House of 18
Representatives; 19
(6) One appointed by the minority leader of the Senate; 20
(7) The Commissioner of Administrative Services, or the 21
commissioner's designee; 22
(8) The Chief Data Officer within the Office of Policy and 23
Management; 24
(9) The Commissioner of Developmental Services, or the 25
commissioner's designee; 26
(10) The chairperson of the Advisory Board for Persons Who are 27
Deaf, Hard of Hearing or Deafblind, who is the Governor's liaison to the 28
disability community; 29
(11) The state Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator, as defined 30
in section 4-61aa of the general statutes; 31
(12) The Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services, or 32
the commissioner's designee; 33
(13) The Labor Commissioner, or the commissioner's designee; 34
(14) The executive director of the Commission on Human Rights and 35
Opportunities, or the executive director's designee; and 36
(15) The Commissioner of Aging and Disability Services, or the 37
commissioner's designee. 38 Raised Bill No. 5452
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(c) Any member of the task force appointed under subdivision (1), 39
(2), (3), (4), (5) or (6) of subsection (b) of this section may be a member 40
of the General Assembly. 41
(d) All initial appointments to the task force shall be made not later 42
than thirty days after the effective date of this section. Any vacancy shall 43
be filled by the appointing authority. 44
(e) The speaker of the House of Representatives and the president pro 45
tempore of the Senate shall select the chairpersons of the task force from 46
among the members of the task force. Such chairpersons shall schedule 47
the first meeting of the task force, which shall be held not later than sixty 48
days after the effective date of this section. 49
(f) The administrative staff of the joint standing committee of the 50
General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to government 51
administration shall serve as administrative staff of the task force. 52
(g) Not later than January 1, 2023, the task force shall submit a report 53
on its findings and recommendations to the joint standing committee of 54
the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to 55
government administration, in accordance with the provisions of 56
section 11-4a of the general statutes. The task force shall terminate on 57
the date that it submits such report or January 1, 2023, whichever is later. 58
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
GAE Joint Favorable