Bill Text: CT HB05810 | 2011 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut House Bill 5810 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Implementation Of The Constitutional Spending Cap.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-18 - Public Hearing 04/05 [HB05810 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2011-HB05810-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Proposed Bill No. 5810*
*January Session, 2011*		LCO No. 1318

Referred to Committee on Appropriations
Introduced by:
REP. CAFERO, 142nd Dist. REP. CANDELORA, 86th Dist. REP. KLARIDES, 114th Dist. SEN. MCKINNEY, 28th Dist. SEN. FASANO, 34th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL SPENDING CAP.

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

That section 2-33a of the general statutes be amended, by a vote of three-fifths of the members of each house of the General Assembly, to prohibit the General Assembly from authorizing an increase in general budget expenditures for any fiscal year above the amount of general budget expenditures authorized for the previous fiscal year by a percentage that exceeds the greater of the percentage increase in personal income or the percentage increase in inflation, unless the Governor declares an emergency or the existence of extraordinary circumstances and at least three-fifths of the members of each house of the General Assembly vote to exceed such limit for the purposes of such emergency or extraordinary circumstances; and to define "increase in personal income" to mean the average of the annual increase in personal income in the state for each of the preceding five years, according to United States Bureau of Economic Analysis data, "increase in inflation" to mean the increase in the consumer price index for urban consumers during the preceding twenty-four-month period ending December thirty-first of the calendar year preceding the fiscal year to which the budget relates, according to United States Bureau of Labor Statistics data and "general budget expenditures" to mean expenditures from appropriated funds authorized by public or special act of the General Assembly, provided general budget expenditures shall not include expenditures for payment of the principal of and interest on bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness or expenditures pursuant to section 4-30a of the general statutes.

Statement of Purpose:

To implement the constitutional limitation on the amount of expenditures that may be authorized by the General Assembly by enacting legislation defining the terms "increase in personal income", "increase in inflation" and "general budget expenditures" by a vote of three-fifths of the members of each house of the General Assembly, as required by Article XXVIII of the Amendments to the Constitution of the state of Connecticut.