Researcher: JSB Page 1 3/29/22
OLR Bill Analysis
sSB 190
AN ACT CONCERNING MUNICIPAL ASSESSMENT, TAX
COLLECTION AND FINANCE PERSONNEL.
SUMMARY
This bill broadly authorizes the Office of Policy and Management
(OPM) secretary to make recommendations about assessor, tax
collector, and municipal finance officer training programs to support
these career pathways. The recommendations may include online or in-
person training programs at public higher education institutions (§ 1).
Under existing law, the OPM secretary may hold meetings, conferences,
or schools for these professions.
The bill also requires the OPM-appointed assessment personnel
training, examination, and certification committee to amend its
regulations to ensure that assessor exams and training are readily
available online or at various locations statewide (§ 2).
Additionally, the bill transfers responsibility for adopting regulations
for tax collectors from the OPM secretary to existing law’s tax collection
personnel training, examination, and certification committee. It also
requires the committee to amend the regulations to ensure that tax
collector exams and training are readily available online or at various
locations statewide. Under existing law, one member of the seven-
member OPM-appointed committee is an OPM employee. The bill
makes this member a voting member (§ 3).
The bill also makes technical changes.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
COMMITTEE ACTION
General Law Committee
Joint Favorable Substitute
Yea 18 Nay 0 (03/15/2022)