Bill Text: CT SB00224 | 2018 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Organization Of The Connecticut State Guard.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-26 - File Number 46 [SB00224 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2018-SB00224-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 224
February Session, 2018		LCO No. 1140
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Referred to Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS
Introduced by:
(VA)

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CONNECTICUT STATE GUARD.

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

Section 1. Section 27-9 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2018):

[Whenever the Connecticut National Guard is called into the federal service or whenever such a call, in the opinion of the Governor, is deemed to be imminent, the Governor shall forthwith] The Governor may raise, organize, maintain and govern [, from the unorganized militia,] a body of volunteer troops for state military duty. Said body of troops [, when so organized,] shall be known as "the Connecticut State Guard" and [for and during the time of its existence as herein provided it] shall be a part of the organized militia.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2018	27-9

VA

Joint Favorable