Bill Text: CT HB05257 | 2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Termination Of New Municipal Mandates.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-04 - Public Hearing 03/10 [HB05257 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2010-HB05257-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5257
February Session, 2010		LCO No. 1175
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Referred to Committee on Planning and Development
Introduced by:
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AN ACT CONCERNING THE TERMINATION OF NEW MUNICIPAL MANDATES.

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

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective January 1, 2011) (a) For purposes of this section, "municipal mandate" means any constitutional, statutory or executive state action that requires a local government to establish, expand or modify its activities in such a way as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues, excluding any order issued by a state court and any legislation necessary to comply with a federal mandate.

(b) Any municipal mandate established on or after the effective date of this section shall terminate three years after the date such municipal mandate is established, unless it is reestablished by the General Assembly for a period not to exceed three years, at the end of which time such mandate shall be subject to review under the provisions of sections 2c-1 to 2c-12, inclusive, of the general statutes.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	January 1, 2011	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To require automatic three-year expiration dates for new municipal mandates.

[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.]