Bill Text: CT HB05220 | 2017 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut House Bill 5220 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Unfunded State Mandates To Local Governments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-27 - Public Hearing 04/03 [HB05220 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2017-HB05220-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Proposed Bill No. 5220*
*January Session, 2017*		LCO No. 721
		00721
Referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS
Introduced by:
REP. YACCARINO, 87th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING UNFUNDED STATE MANDATES TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That the general statutes be amended to provide that no bill shall be enacted, except upon approval by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members of each chamber of the General Assembly, that creates or expands a state mandate to local governments for which no state reimbursement of costs resulting from such new or expanded state mandate is provided.

Statement of Purpose:

To require the vote of two-thirds of each chamber of the General Assembly to enact a new unfunded state mandate.