Bill Text: CT SB00515 | 2011 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut Senate Bill 515 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: An Act Requiring A Two-thirds Vote To Approve Unfunded Municipal Mandates.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-21 - Referred to Joint Committee on Planning and Development [SB00515 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2011-SB00515-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Proposed Bill No. 515*
*January Session, 2011*		LCO No. 1340

Referred to Committee on Planning and Development
Introduced by:
SEN. MARKLEY, 16th Dist.

AN ACT REQUIRING A TWO-THIRDS VOTE TO APPROVE UNFUNDED MUNICIPAL MANDATES.

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

That section 2-32b of the general statutes be amended to provide that no bill creating or enlarging a state mandate to local governments without state reimbursement for costs resulting from such mandate shall be enacted except upon approval by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members of each house of the General Assembly.

Statement of Purpose:

To require a two-thirds majority vote in each chamber in order to pass any unfunded state mandate.