Bill Text: CT SB00416 | 2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Validating Certain Stipulations To Extensions Of Time For The Claims Commissioner To Dispose Of A Claim.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-03 - Senate Recommitted to Judiciary [SB00416 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2016-SB00416-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 416
February Session, 2016		LCO No. 2594
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Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
(JUD)

AN ACT VALIDATING CERTAIN STIPULATIONS TO EXTENSIONS OF TIME FOR THE CLAIMS COMMISSIONER TO DISPOSE OF A CLAIM.

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

Section 1. (Effective from passage) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4-159a of the general statutes requiring that the parties to a claim who choose to stipulate to an extension of time for the Claims Commissioner to dispose of such claim so stipulate within two years of the date of filing of such claim or within the period of any previous extension of time stipulated to or granted by the General Assembly, in the case of (1) any claim filed on or after April 4, 2012, but before July 1, 2014, or (2) any claim for which an extension of time expired on or after April 4, 2012, but not later than July 1, 2016, the parties to any such claim may, not later than January 1, 2017, stipulate to an extension of time, even if such extension is stipulated to (A) two years or more after the date such claim was filed, or (B) after the expiration of the most recent extension previously stipulated to by the parties or granted by the General Assembly. Any such stipulation to an extension of time for the Claims Commissioner to dispose of the claim shall cause such claim to be properly before the Claims Commissioner for the period of such extension.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To validate extensions of times stipulated to by parties to certain claims after the statutory deadline to do so.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]