Bill Text: CT HB05440 | 2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Business Registration, Licensing And Permitting Through The State's Electronic Business Portal.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Passed) 2018-06-07 - Signed by the Governor [HB05440 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2018-HB05440-Introduced.html
General Assembly |
Raised Bill No. 5440 | ||
February Session, 2018 |
LCO No. 2040 | ||
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Referred to Committee on COMMERCE |
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AN ACT CONCERNING BUSINESS REGISTRATION AND PERMITTING THROUGH THE STATE'S ELECTRONIC BUSINESS PORTAL.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) The Secretary of the State and the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development shall study the expansion of the state's electronic business portal, established pursuant to section 3-99d of the general statutes, to serve as a centralized and streamlined business registration and licensing filing system. The goals of such system shall include, but not be limited to, shortening agency processing time and improving communication among state agencies and between state agencies and businesses. Such system shall: (1) Allow a business to create a single online account connected to multiple state agencies; (2) allow a business to register with and apply for and renew licenses from such agencies through such system; (3) allow a business to pay any registration or licensing fees through such system; and (4) include a messaging component that allows such agencies to provide notifications to a business about the status of any business registrations, licenses and applications. Such system shall allow agencies to maintain their own back-end databases for managing business registrations and licenses.
(b) Not later than January 1, 2019, the Secretary of the State shall submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to commerce and government administration. Such report shall include the feasibility of designing and implementing a system as described in subsection (a) of this section, the state agencies that could or should be involved in such system, an estimated cost for the design, implementation and maintenance of such system and a proposed process and timeline for the design and the implementation of such system.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
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Statement of Purpose:
To require the Secretary of the State and the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development to study the feasibility of expanding the state's electronic business portal to serve as a centralized business registration and licensing filing system.
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