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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 353
February Session, 2024
LCO No. 2398
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF
INFORMATION RELATED TO THE MAINTENANCE OF ELEVATORS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) Not later than January 1, 1
2025, the Commissioner of Administrative Services shall create and 2
maintain a searchable online electronic database on the Internet web site 3
of the Department of Administrative Services for purposes of making 4
information related to the maintenance of elevators in this state, except 5
those located in private residences, publicly available. Such information 6
shall include, but need not be limited to, (1) registration information 7
filed with the department pursuant to section 29-194 of the general 8
statutes, (2) the date of each inspection by the department conducted 9
pursuant to section 29-195 of the general statutes and a copy of the 10
department inspector's report for each such inspection, (3) a copy of 11
each certificate of operation issued by the department pursuant to 12
section 29-196 of the general statutes and the date of expiration for each 13
such certificate, (4) each order for the discontinuance of operation issued 14
by the department pursuant to section 29-197 of the general statutes, and 15 Raised Bill No. 353
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(5) each accident or incident reported by an owner of an elevator, or such 16
owner's agent, pursuant to section 29-199 of the general statutes and the 17
information from any investigation or inspection by the department of 18
such report. 19
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require the State Building Inspector to create and maintain an online
database of information related to the maintenance of elevators in this
state.
[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.]