Connecticut 2025 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB07220 Compare Versions

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5	5		General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7220
6	6		January Session, 2025
7	7		LCO No. 6222
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10	10		Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
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13	13		Introduced by:
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18	19		AN ACT CONCERNING THE COSTS TO OBTAIN TRANSCRIPTS FOR
19	20		PROCEEDINGS CONDUCTED BEFORE PUBLIC AGENCIES.
20	21		Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
21	22		Assembly convened:
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23	24		Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2025) (a) As used in this section: 1
24	25		(1) "Public agency" has the same meaning as provided in section 1-2
25	26		200 of the general statutes; 3
26	27		(2) "Party" has the same meaning as provided in section 4-166 of the 4
27	28		general statutes; 5
28	29		(3) "Transcript" means the official written record of a public agency 6
29	30		proceeding, or any part thereof, including, but not limited to, testimony 7
30	31		and arguments of counsel, produced by a stenographer; and 8
31	32		(4) "Transcript page" means a page consisting of twenty-seven 9
32	33		double-spaced lines on paper eight and one-half by eleven inches in size, 10
33	34		if printed, with sixty spaces available per line, on paper or stored in an 11
34	35		electronic medium that is retrievable in a perceivable form. 12
35		-	(b) Any recording or stenographic record of the proceedings before a 13 Raised Bill No. 7220
	36	+	(b) Any recording or stenographic record of the proceedings before a 13
	37	+	Raised Bill No. 7220
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	41	+	LCO No. 6222 2 of 2
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40	43		public agency shall be transcribed on the request of any party. The cost 14
41	44		of any copy or transcript of such recording or record shall be charged 15
42	45		against the party requesting it. A stenographer may charge any party 16
43	46		two dollars and forty cents for each transcript page that is requested and 17
44	47		transcribed from the official record of a proceeding before a public 18
45	48		agency, provided such rate may only be charged once to the party 19
46	49		making the request. Any public agency requesting a transcript of the 20
47	50		proceedings before the public agency shall be responsible for the costs 21
48	51		of obtaining such transcript and may not charge, or otherwise seek 22
49	52		reimbursement from, any party to the proceedings for such costs. 23
50	53		This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
51	54		sections:
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53	56		Section 1 July 1, 2025 New section
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55		-	JUD Joint Favorable
	58	+	Statement of Purpose:
	59	+	To set parameters for the costs of obtaining transcripts of public agency
	60	+	proceedings.
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	62	+	[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
	63	+	that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
	64	+	underlined.]
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