Bill Text: CT HB05832 | 2017 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut House Bill 5832 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Resolution Requiring A Two-thirds Vote To Approve Mandates To Municipalities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-27 - Public Hearing 04/03 [HB05832 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2017-HB05832-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Proposed Bill No. 5832*
*January Session, 2017*		LCO No. 2295
		02295
Referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS
Introduced by:
REP. FUSCO, 81st Dist.

RESOLUTION REQUIRING A TWO-THIRDS VOTE TO APPROVE MANDATES TO MUNICIPALITIES.

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

That article third of the Constitution of the state be amended to require the approval by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members of each house of the General Assembly to enact any new state mandate for which no state reimbursement is provided to local governments for costs resulting from such new mandate.

Statement of Purpose:

To require the vote of two-thirds of both chambers of the General Assembly to enact a new unfunded state mandate in order to ease the burden of mandates on municipalities and to provide local property tax relief.