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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7220
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 6222
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
(JUD)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE COSTS TO OBTAIN TRANSCRIPTS FOR
PROCEEDINGS CONDUCTED BEFORE PUBLIC AGENCIES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2025) (a) As used in this section: 1
(1) "Public agency" has the same meaning as provided in section 1-2
200 of the general statutes; 3
(2) "Party" has the same meaning as provided in section 4-166 of the 4
general statutes; 5
(3) "Transcript" means the official written record of a public agency 6
proceeding, or any part thereof, including, but not limited to, testimony 7
and arguments of counsel, produced by a stenographer; and 8
(4) "Transcript page" means a page consisting of twenty-seven 9
double-spaced lines on paper eight and one-half by eleven inches in size, 10
if printed, with sixty spaces available per line, on paper or stored in an 11
electronic medium that is retrievable in a perceivable form. 12
(b) Any recording or stenographic record of the proceedings before a 13 Raised Bill No. 7220
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public agency shall be transcribed on the request of any party. The cost 14
of any copy or transcript of such recording or record shall be charged 15
against the party requesting it. A stenographer may charge any party 16
two dollars and forty cents for each transcript page that is requested and 17
transcribed from the official record of a proceeding before a public 18
agency, provided such rate may only be charged once to the party 19
making the request. Any public agency requesting a transcript of the 20
proceedings before the public agency shall be responsible for the costs 21
of obtaining such transcript and may not charge, or otherwise seek 22
reimbursement from, any party to the proceedings for such costs. 23
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2025 New section
JUD Joint Favorable