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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 2477 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 825 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2025 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 2477 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY | |
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| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | SEN. GORDON, 35th Dist. | |
| 15 | 15 | SEN. SAMPSON, 16th Dist. | |
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| 20 | 20 | AN ACT CONCERNING STATUTORY INTERPRETATION. | |
| 21 | 21 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 22 | 22 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 24 | 24 | That section 1-2z of the general statutes be amended to provide that 1 | |
| 25 | 25 | a court shall (1) interpret state laws independently, with no special 2 | |
| 26 | 26 | weight given to a state agency's view, and (2) decide whether an 3 | |
| 27 | 27 | agency's actions are consistent with the statutes and the legislature's 4 | |
| 28 | 28 | intent. 5 | |
| 29 | 29 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 30 | 30 | To give state courts the power to interpret a statute independently and | |
| 31 | 31 | without having to give deference to a state agency interpretation of a | |
| 32 | 32 | statute. |