Bill Text: CT HB05087 | 2010 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Fiscal Notes.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-20 - File Number 604 [HB05087 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2010-HB05087-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Committee Bill No. 5087
February Session, 2010		LCO No. 2511
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Referred to Committee on Finance, Revenue and Bonding
Introduced by:
(FIN)

AN ACT CONCERNING FISCAL NOTES.

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

Section 1. Section 2-24a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2010):

(a) No bill without a fiscal note appended thereto which, if passed, would require the expenditure of state or municipal funds or affect state or municipal revenue in the current fiscal year or any of the next ensuing five fiscal years shall be acted upon by either house of the General Assembly unless said requirement of a fiscal note is dispensed with by a vote of at least two-thirds of such house. Such fiscal note shall clearly identify the cost and revenue impact to the state and municipalities and, where applicable, the number of public sector jobs created in the current fiscal year and in each of the next ensuing five fiscal years.

(b) Not later than twenty-four hours prior to a meeting at which a joint standing committee of the General Assembly is taking final action upon a bill, a fiscal note for any bill which may require the expenditure of state or municipal funds or affect state or municipal revenue in the current fiscal year or any of the next ensuing five fiscal years, shall be made available to members of such committee. Said requirement of a fiscal note may be dispensed with (1) for any bill for which substitute language is proposed, or (2) upon a vote of a majority of committee members present at such meeting.

Sec. 2. Subsection (c) of section 2-71c of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2010):

(c) The legislative Office of Fiscal Analysis shall assist the General Assembly and the Legislative Department, legislative commissions and legislative committees in a research and advisory capacity as follows: (1) Reviewing department and program operating budget requests; (2) analyzing and helping to establish priorities with regard to capital programs; (3) checking executive revenue estimates for accuracy; (4) recommending potential untapped sources of revenue; (5) assisting in legislative hearings and helping to schedule and prepare the agenda of such hearings; (6) assisting in the development of means by which budgeted programs can be periodically reviewed; (7) preparing short analyses of the costs and long-range projections of executive programs and proposed agency regulations; (8) keeping track of federal aid programs to make sure that Connecticut is taking full advantage of opportunities for assistance; (9) reviewing, on a continuous basis, departmental budgets and programs; (10) analyzing and preparing critiques of the Governor's proposed budget; (11) studying, in depth, selected executive programs during the interim; (12) performing such other services in the field of finance as may be requested by the Joint Committee on Legislative Management; (13) preparing the fiscal notes, required under section 2-24, upon [favorably reported] bills having final action taken by a joint standing committee of the General Assembly which require expenditure of state or municipal funds or affect state or municipal revenue, including all such favorably reported bills; (14) preparing at the end of each fiscal year a compilation of all fiscal notes on legislation and agency regulations taking effect in the next fiscal year, including the total costs, savings and revenue effects estimated in such notes; and (15) every second and fourth year after the effective date of each enacted bill, review the fiscal note of such bill to compare it to the fiscal note prepared at the time such bill was enacted. The governing body of any municipality, if requested, shall provide the Office of Fiscal Analysis, within two working days, with any information that may be necessary for analysis in preparation of such fiscal notes. Each officer, board, commission or department of the state government shall assist the Office of Fiscal Analysis in carrying out its duties and, if requested, shall make its records and accounts available to the office in a timely manner, except that where there are statutory requirements of confidentiality with regard to such records and accounts, the identity of any person to whom such records or accounts relate shall not be disclosed.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2010	2-24a
Sec. 2	October 1, 2010	2-71c(c)

FIN

Joint Favorable