Bill Text: CT SB00160 | 2017 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Constitutional State Spending Cap.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-27 - Public Hearing 04/03 [SB00160 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2017-SB00160-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Proposed Bill No. 160
January Session, 2017		LCO No. 2921
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Referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS
Introduced by:
SEN. SOMERS, 18th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATE SPENDING CAP.

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

That section 2-33a of the general statutes be amended, by three-fifths of the members of each house of the General Assembly, to redefine "increase in inflation" to mean the increase in the consumer price index for urban consumers during the preceding twenty-four-month period ending December thirty-first of the calendar year preceding the fiscal year to which the budget relates, according to United States Bureau of Labor Statistics data, and "general budget expenditures" to mean expenditures from appropriated funds authorized by public or special act of the General Assembly, provided general budget expenditures shall not include expenditures for payment of the principal of and interest on bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness or expenditures pursuant to section 4-30a of the general statutes and to provide that, if the spending cap is exceeded, the amount by which it is exceeded shall not be considered "general budget expenditures" for the purposes of calculating the spending cap in future years.

Statement of Purpose:

To implement the constitutional spending cap and prohibit any emergency or other expenditures that exceed the cap from being included in the calculation of the cap for future years.