Connecticut General Statutes
Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies
Chapter 16 - General Assembly

Section 2-1e. - Interference with the legislative process; firearms; dangerous or deadly weapons; explosives; felony. - (a) A person is guilty of interfering with the legislative...

Section 2-1f. - Office of State Capitol Police. - (a) There is established an Office of State Capitol Police...

Section 2-1g. - Indemnification of legislative personnel. - (a) The state shall save harmless and indemnify all members,...

Section 2-1h. - Compensatory time for permanent full-time employees. - Section 2-1h is repealed, effective May 26, 2006. (P.A. 00-231,...

Section 2-1i. - Compensatory time for permanent full-time employees. - To the extent that a permanent full-time employee of the...

Section 2-2. - Election by illegal practices. - Each person elected to either house of the General Assembly...

Section 2-3. - Allowance to contestants. - No contestants for seats in either house of the General...

Section 2-3a. - Employer not to discriminate against candidate for, member-elect of or member of the General Assembly. Employee permitted choice of shifts. - (a) No employer of twenty-five or more persons shall discriminate...

Section 2-3b. - Members not eligible for unemployment compensation during regular session. - No member of the General Assembly shall, during the regular...

Section 2-4. - Joint convention to elect state officers. - When the Senate and House of Representatives join in convention...

Section 2-5. - Holding of office by members of the General Assembly. - No member of the General Assembly shall, during the term...

Section 2-6. - Convening of sessions by action of members. - After the adjournment sine die of a regular or a...

Section 2-7. - Notice of special and reconvened sessions. - (a) Whenever the Governor, the members of the General Assembly...

Section 2-8. - Compensation and expenses of members and officers of the General Assembly. - (a) On and after January 4, 2023, each member of...

Section 2-8a. - Compensation for interim committees and study commissions. - Section 2-8a is repealed. (1967, P.A. 719, S. 1; June,...

Section 2-8b to 2-8p. - General Assembly pension system. - Sections 2-8b to 2-8p, inclusive, are repealed. (1972, P.A. 281,...

Section 2-8q. - General Assembly Pension Fund abolished. Moneys transferred to State Employees Retirement Fund. - The General Assembly Pension Fund, established under section 2-8o of...

Section 2-8r. - Options of General Assembly members and former members re participation in state employees retirement system. - (a) Any participant in the General Assembly pension system on...

Section 2-9. - Salary and transportation allowance for General Assembly officers and employees. - The clerk of the Senate shall receive a salary of...

Section 2-9a. - Compensation Commission for elected state officers and General Assembly members. - Section 2-9a is repealed, effective July 1, 2022. (1971, P.A....

Section 2-9b. - Compensation increases to be approved by Federal Pay Board. - Section 2-9b is repealed. (1972, P.A. 281, S. 42; P.A....

Section 2-9c. - Adjustment to compensation of members of the General Assembly. - (a) Not later than January 1, 2025, and not later...

Section 2-10. - Clerks' office; assistants; records; duties. - The House and Senate clerks shall continue in office during...

Section 2-11. - Stenographers for General Assembly committees. - The Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall employ all stenographers...

Section 2-12. - Bonus to employees of General Assembly prohibited. Overtime and meritorious service payments permitted. - No bonus, gratuity or extra payment of any sort over...

Section 2-12a. - Temporary legislative employees, reduction of salary for absence. - Legislative employees hired on a temporary basis for a fixed...

Section 2-13. - Records of legislative proceedings. Legislative record index. - (a) The clerk of either house may employ such number...

Section 2-14. - Initiation of local legislation in General Assembly. - The General Assembly shall enact no special legislation relative to...

Section 2-14a. - Legislation affecting municipal retirement systems. - The General Assembly shall enact no legislation which diminishes or...

Section 2-15. - Transportation allowance for General Assembly members and members-elect. - The Comptroller shall draw his order on the Treasurer for...

Section 2-15a. - Annual informational mailing by General Assembly members. - (a) Each member of the General Assembly shall be entitled...

Section 2-15b. - Transportation allowance for member of task force prohibited. - Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2-15 or any other provision...

Section 2-16. - Members as attorneys before the General Assembly. - No member of the General Assembly shall appear as an...

Section 2-16a. - Restriction on former members becoming lobbyists. - No state representative or state senator who is elected at...

Section 2-17. - Presession introduction of bills. - Any member-elect of either house of the General Assembly, prior...

Section 2-18. - Form of bills amending statutes and resolutions amending Constitution; ballot designation of proposed constitutional amendments. - Each bill for a public act amending any statute, each...

Section 2-19. - Preliminary printing and franchise fees for special charters. Engrossing fees. - Section 2-19 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 9; 1957, P.A....

Section 2-20. - Certain charters granted only on petition. - No act of incorporation or alteration thereof shall be granted...

Section 2-20a. - Bills seeking incorporation and franchise for water companies. - No bill for the incorporation and franchise of a water...

Section 2-21. - Notice of claims against the state. - Section 2-21 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 13; 1959, P.A....

Section 2-22. - Numbering of bills and joint resolutions. - Each bill and joint resolution shall be numbered by the...

Section 2-23. - Copies of bills, resolutions, calendars, journals and other legislative publications. Furnishing of publications to public and municipalities. - The Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall provide for the...

Section 2-23a. - Alkaline paper for legislative documents. - All bills and joint resolutions, the calendar and journal of...

Section 2-24. - Style of printing bills; endorsements; file number; fiscal note; ratepayer impact statement. - The words “State of Connecticut” shall be printed at the...

Section 2-24a. - Fiscal note and ratepayer impact statement required for action upon bill. - (a) No bill without a fiscal note appended thereto which,...

Section 2-24b. - Racial and ethnic impact statement required for certain bills and amendments. - (a) Beginning with the session of the General Assembly commencing...

Section 2-25. - Printing to be done at one establishment. - Section 2-25 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 23; February, 1965,...

Section 2-26. - Printing and electronic availability of bills prior to passage. - At each regular or special session of the General Assembly...

Section 2-27. - Printing and distribution of file bills. - Copies of each bill for an act reported favorably by...

Section 2-27a. - Fiscal review of bills. - (a) The speaker of the House, the president pro tempore...

Section 2-27b. - Review of bond acts. - (a) Each bond act, as defined in section 3-20, shall...

Section 2-28. - Time limit on favorable reports of bills. Submission to Legislative Commissioners' Office. Action upon bills not in the files. - Section 2-28 is repealed. (June, 1955, S. 11d; 1957, P.A....

Section 2-29. - Engrossing of bills and amendments; correction of errors after passage. Presentation to the Governor. - Immediately upon the passage of any bill, the clerk of...

Section 2-30. - Engrossing bills after adjournment. Vetoed bills. - Each bill for an act passed by the General Assembly,...

Section 2-30a. - Explanatory texts concerning proposed constitutional amendments; preparation, approval, printing, distribution, posting at polls. - (a) At such time as a proposed constitutional amendment and...

Section 2-30b. - Construction of multiple amendments. - (a) When two or more acts passed at the same...

Section 2-31. - Numbering of public and special acts. - The numbers of the public and special acts of the...

Section 2-32. - Effective date of public and special acts. - All public acts, except when otherwise therein specified, shall take...

Section 2-32a. - Effective date of public acts imposing state mandate. - No public act which imposes a state mandate on any...

Section 2-32b. - State mandates to local governments. Definitions. Cost estimate required. Procedures re bills creating or enlarging mandates. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Local government” means...

Section 2-32c. - Submission of list of state mandates to General Assembly and municipal chief elected officials. - On and after July 1, 2019, the Connecticut Advisory Commission...

Section 2-33. - Specific appropriations. Recurring appropriations. - The General Assembly shall make appropriations of specific sums of...

Section 2-33a. - Limitation on expenditures authorized by General Assembly. Base year adjustment for certain expenditures. - (a) The General Assembly shall not authorize an increase in...

Section 2-33b. - Performance-informed budget review. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Program” means any...

Section 2-33c. - Limitation of General Fund and Special Transportation Fund appropriations. - (a) In addition to the provisions of section 2-33a, on...

Section 2-34. - Title of appropriation bills. - The title of the biennial budget bill shall be “An...

Section 2-35. - Requirements for appropriation bills and acts. Requirements for revenue estimates. State budget act to specify budgeted reductions by branch of government. - (a) All bills carrying or requiring appropriations and favorably reported...

Section 2-35a. - Government organization and reorganization. - The joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance...

Section 2-35b. - Legislative involvement in Job Training Partnership Act. Recommendations. Reports from Governor. - (a) Any proposed plan to implement the provisions of the...

Section 2-35c. - Funds appropriated to Judicial Department for specified purposes included in current expense account. - Funds appropriated to the Judicial Department for purposes of implementing...

Section 2-36. - Deficiency bills. - (a) On or before the twenty-fifth day of each month,...

Section 2-36a. - Legislative committee to meet re potential deficiency in state agency appropriated account. - Section 2-36a is repealed, effective October 1, 2019. (June Sp....

Section 2-36b. - Legislative committees to meet with Secretary of Office of Policy and Management re report on various state revenue and expenditure issues. Report on nonappropriated moneys held by budgeted state agencies. - (a) No later than December fifteenth each year, the joint...

Section 2-36c. - Consensus revenue estimates. - (a) Not later than November tenth annually, the Secretary of...

Section 2-37. - Contingent expenses of General Assembly. - The Comptroller shall draw his order on the Treasurer in...

Section 2-38. - Bill re person's service as teacher or public employee. - When any bill is introduced in the General Assembly on...

Section 2-39. - Time within which Senate shall act on nominations. - Except as provided in sections 4-5 to 4-8, inclusive, pertaining...

Section 2-40. - Nomination of judges. Action by the judiciary committee. - (a) Each nomination made by the Governor to the General...

Section 2-40a. - Disclosure of performance evaluations of judges and judge trial referees. - Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of section 1-210 and...

Section 2-41. - Nomination of judges of municipal courts. - Section 2-41 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 72; 1953, S....

Section 2-42. - Appointment of judges. - Each appointment of the Chief Justice or a judge of...

Section 2-43. - When further nomination required. - The Governor shall, within five days after he has notice...

Section 2-44. - Withdrawal of nomination by Governor. - The Governor may withdraw any nomination made by him for...

Section 2-44a. - Notice of appointments by president pro tempore, speaker or minority leaders. Vacancies; notice by chairman. - (a) Whenever the president pro tempore of the Senate or...

Section 2-45. - Legislative appearances. - Section 2-45 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 40; 1955, S....

Section 2-46. - Investigations by the General Assembly; powers; procedure. Witness' rights. - (a) The president of the Senate, the speaker of the...

Section 2-46a. - Investigations and inquiries pursuant to Article Ninth of the Constitution commenced after January 1, 2004. Disclosure of information obtained during investigation or inquiry. - (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, during any...

Section 2-47. - Witness not privileged. - No witness shall be privileged to refuse to testify to...

Section 2-48. - Prosecution of witness. - Whenever a witness summoned fails to testify and the fact...

Section 2-49. - Preparation, printing and distribution of assembly journals. - Not later than three months after the adjournment of each...

Section 2-50. - Legislative identification plates. - Section 2-50 is repealed. (1955, S. 16d; 1957, P.A. 1,...

Section 2-50a. - Motor vehicle number plates for legislators. - The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall issue, in respect to...

Section 2-51. - Admittance to floor of House and Senate. - No persons, except members of the General Assembly, its officers...

Section 2-52. - Display of United States and state flags at sessions of the General Assembly. - The United States flag and the state flag shall be...

Section 2-53. - Faith and credit of acts passed by General Assembly. - The official record of the acts passed by the General...

Section 2-53a to 2-53c. - Legislative Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities. - Sections 2-53a to 2-53c, inclusive, are repealed. (1967, P.A. 636,...

Section 2-53d to 2-53j. - “Program review” and “investigation” defined. Legislative Program Review and Investigations Committee. Meetings of committee. Duties; confidentiality of information. Corrective action by agency officials; report to General A... - Sections 2-53d to 2-53j, inclusive, are repealed, effective July 1,...

Section 2-53k. - Energy management program compliance review; report and recommendations. - Section 2-53k is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 81-376,...

Section 2-53l. - Electronic databases showing state and quasi-public agency expenditures. - (a) On or before July 1, 2011, until July 8,...

Section 2-53m. - Annual report card on policies and programs affecting children. - (a) The joint standing committee of the General Assembly having...

Section 2-53n. - Quarterly report on overtime granted by state agencies. - For purposes of this section, “state agency” has the same...

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Connecticut General Statutes Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies Chapter 16 - General Assembly

Connecticut General Statutes
Title 2 - General Assembly and Legislative Agencies
Chapter 16 - General Assembly