Title 2 — Title 2: General Assembly and Legislative Agencies

Sec. 2-32c. Submission of list of state mandates to General Assembly and municipal chief elected officials. On and after July 1, 2019, the Connecticut Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, established pursuant to section 2-79a, shall, not more than ninety days after…

Sec. 2-33. Specific appropriations. Recurring appropriations. The General Assembly shall make appropriations of specific sums of money for purposes for which appropriations are authorized by law to be made by the state, and shall specify the amount thereof to be made available fo…

Sec. 2-33a. Limitation on expenditures authorized by General Assembly. Base year adjustment for certain expenditures. (a) The General Assembly shall not authorize an increase in general budget expenditures for any fiscal year above the amount of general budget expenditures author…

Sec. 2-33b. Performance-informed budget review. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Program” means any distinguishable service or group of services within a budgeted agency, as defined in section 4-69, designed to accomplish a specific public goal and result in specific public bene…

Sec. 2-33c. Limitation on General Fund and Special Transportation Fund appropriations. (a) In addition to the provisions of section 2-33a, on and after July 1, 2019, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the General Assembly shall not authorize General Fund and Sp…

Sec. 2-34. Title of appropriation bills. The title of the biennial budget bill shall be “An Act Concerning the State Budget for the Biennium Ending June Thirtieth”, (here insert the calendar year) “and Making Appropriations Therefor”. The title of the deficiency bill shall be “An…

Sec. 2-35. Requirements for appropriation bills and acts. Requirements for revenue estimates. State budget act to specify budgeted reductions by branch of government. (a) All bills carrying or requiring appropriations and favorably reported by any other committee, except for paym…

Sec. 2-35a. Government organization and reorganization. The joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to government administration, organization and reorganization shall be charged with the duty and responsibility of overseeing all gov…

Sec. 2-35b. Legislative involvement in Job Training Partnership Act. Recommendations. Reports from Governor. (a) Any proposed plan to implement the provisions of the Job Training Partnership Act (P.L. 97-300) in this state which shall be made available to the General Assembly for…

Sec. 2-35c. Funds appropriated to Judicial Department for specified purposes included in current expense account. Funds appropriated to the Judicial Department for purposes of implementing subsection (a) of section 17a-77, subsection (c) of section 17a-78, subsection (d) of secti…

Sec. 2-36. Deficiency bills. (a) On or before the twenty-fifth day of each month, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall submit to the Governor, the Comptroller and the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to a…

Sec. 2-36a. Legislative committee to meet re potential deficiency in state agency appropriated account. Section 2-36a is repealed, effective October 1, 2019. (June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3, S. 45, 168; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-14, S. 29, 30; P.A. 19-117, S. 399.)

Sec. 2-36b. Legislative committees to meet with Secretary of Office of Policy and Management re report on various state revenue and expenditure issues. Report on nonappropriated moneys held by budgeted state agencies. (a) No later than December fifteenth each year, the joint stan…

Sec. 2-36c. Consensus revenue estimates. (a) Not later than November tenth annually, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and the director of the legislative Office of Fiscal Analysis shall issue the consensus revenue estimate for the current biennium and the next…

Sec. 2-37. Contingent expenses of General Assembly. The Comptroller shall draw his order on the Treasurer in payment of the contingent expenses of each house of the General Assembly upon certification to him by the Joint Committee on Legislative Management. (1949 Rev., S. 31, 197…

Sec. 2-38. Bill re person's service as teacher or public employee. When any bill is introduced in the General Assembly on behalf of any person by reason of such person's service as a teacher or as an employee of the state or any political subdivision thereof, the Teachers' Retire…

Sec. 2-39. Time within which Senate shall act on nominations. Except as provided in sections 4-5 to 4-8, inclusive, pertaining to department heads, including the State Board of Education, the Senate shall act finally upon each nomination or appointment made by the Governor and re…

Sec. 2-3a. Employer not to discriminate against candidate for, member-elect of or member of the General Assembly. Employee permitted choice of shifts. (a) No employer of twenty-five or more persons shall discriminate against, discipline or discharge any employee because such empl…

Sec. 2-3b. Members not eligible for unemployment compensation during regular session. No member of the General Assembly shall, during the regular session of the General Assembly, be deemed to be available for work within the meaning of subdivision (2) of section 31-235. (1967, P.…

Sec. 2-4. Joint convention to elect state officers. When the Senate and House of Representatives join in convention for the election of any state officer, the roll of each house shall, before any ballot is taken, be called by its clerk, and each member shall rise and answer to hi…

Sec. 2-40. Nomination of judges. Action by the judiciary committee. (a) Each nomination made by the Governor to the General Assembly for the Chief Justice or a judge of the Supreme Court, Appellate Court or Superior Court shall be referred, without debate, to the committee on the…

Sec. 2-40a. Disclosure of performance evaluations of judges and judge trial referees. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of section 1-210 and chapter 55, (1) any performance evaluation of any judge or judge trial referee made by the Judicial Department shall be made…

Sec. 2-41. Nomination of judges of municipal courts. Section 2-41 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 72; 1953, S. 22d; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 204.)

Sec. 2-42. Appointment of judges. Each appointment of the Chief Justice or a judge of the Supreme Court, Appellate Court or Superior Court shall be by concurrent resolution. The action on the passage of each such resolution in the House and in the Senate shall be by vote taken on…

Sec. 2-43. When further nomination required. The Governor shall, within five days after he has notice that any judicial nomination made by him has failed to be approved by the affirmative concurrent action of both houses of the General Assembly, make another nomination to such of…

Sec. 2-44. Withdrawal of nomination by Governor. The Governor may withdraw any nomination made by him for appointment by the General Assembly to any office at any time before a vote thereon has been taken in either house of the General Assembly. (1949 Rev., S. 75; 1969, P.A. 375,…

Sec. 2-44a. Notice of appointments by president pro tempore, speaker or minority leaders. Vacancies; notice by chairman. (a) Whenever the president pro tempore of the Senate or the speaker of the House of Representatives, or a minority leader of the Senate or House of Representat…

Sec. 2-45. Legislative appearances. Section 2-45 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 40; 1955, S. 14d; 1969, P.A. 197; P.A. 75-272; P.A. 77-605, S. 20, 21.)

Sec. 2-46. Investigations by the General Assembly; powers; procedure. Witness' rights. (a) The president of the Senate, the speaker of the House of Representatives, or a chairman of the whole, or of any committee of either house, of the General Assembly, shall have the power to c…

Sec. 2-46a. Investigations and inquiries pursuant to Article Ninth of the Constitution commenced after January 1, 2004. Disclosure of information obtained during investigation or inquiry. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, during any inquiry, investigation…

Sec. 2-47. Witness not privileged. No witness shall be privileged to refuse to testify to any fact, or to produce any paper, respecting which he is examined by either house of the General Assembly, or by any committee of either house or any joint committee of both houses, upon th…

Sec. 2-48. Prosecution of witness. Whenever a witness summoned fails to testify and the fact is reported to either house, the president of the Senate or the speaker of the House, as the case may be, shall certify to the fact under the seal of the state to the state's attorney for…

Sec. 2-49. Preparation, printing and distribution of assembly journals. Not later than three months after the adjournment of each General Assembly, the clerk of the Senate and the clerk of the House of Representatives shall prepare a full and accurate alphabetical subject-index t…

Sec. 2-5. Holding of office by members of the General Assembly. No member of the General Assembly shall, during the term for which he is elected, be nominated or appointed by the Governor, the General Assembly or any other appointing authority of this state or serve or be elected…

Sec. 2-50. Legislative identification plates. Section 2-50 is repealed. (1955, S. 16d; 1957, P.A. 1, S. 13; 1959, P.A. 68, S. 2.)

Sec. 2-50a. Motor vehicle number plates for legislators. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall issue, in respect to not more than two motor vehicles owned or regularly used by each member of the General Assembly, on application by such member, on or before January fifteenth in…

Sec. 2-51. Admittance to floor of House and Senate. No persons, except members of the General Assembly, its officers and employees, authorized members of the press and radio, and such other persons as either house of the General Assembly may authorize from time to time, shall be …

Sec. 2-52. Display of United States and state flags at sessions of the General Assembly. The United States flag and the state flag shall be displayed in the Senate chamber and in the hall of the House during each daily session of the General Assembly. The Joint Committee on Legis…

Sec. 2-53. Faith and credit of acts passed by General Assembly. The official record of the acts passed by the General Assembly on file in the office of the secretary shall be presumptive evidence that all constitutional requirements essential to the valid enactment of the several…

Secs. 2-53a to 2-53c. Legislative Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities. Sections 2-53a to 2-53c, inclusive, are repealed. (1967, P.A. 636, S. 1–3; P.A. 78-3; 78-280, S. 2, 127.)

Secs. 2-53d to 2-53j. “Program review” and “investigation” defined. Legislative Program Review and Investigations Committee. Meetings of committee. Duties; confidentiality of information. Corrective action by agency officials; report to General Assembly. Studies by committee. Rep…

Sec. 2-53k. Energy management program compliance review; report and recommendations. Section 2-53k is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 81-376, S. 9, 11; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 2-53l. Electronic databases showing state and quasi-public agency expenditures. (a) On or before July 1, 2011, until July 8, 2019, the legislative Office of Fiscal Analysis shall establish and maintain searchable online electronic databases on said office's Internet web site…

Sec. 2-53m. Annual report card on policies and programs affecting children. (a) The joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to children, in consultation with the Office of Fiscal Analysis, the Office of Legislative Research and the C…

Sec. 2-53n. Quarterly report on overtime granted by state agencies. For purposes of this section, “state agency” has the same meaning as provided in section 4-212. On or before January 1, 2016, and quarterly thereafter, the Office of Fiscal Analysis shall issue a report on the ov…

Sec. 2-6. Convening of sessions by action of members. After the adjournment sine die of a regular or a special session of the General Assembly, if the members judge it necessary to meet again, as provided in article third of the amendments to the Constitution of Connecticut, they…

Sec. 2-7. Notice of special and reconvened sessions. (a) Whenever the Governor, the members of the General Assembly or the president pro tempore of the Senate and the speaker of the House of Representatives call a special session of the General Assembly, the Secretary of the Stat…

Sec. 2-8. Compensation and expenses of members and officers of the General Assembly. (a) On and after January 4, 2023, each member of the General Assembly shall receive compensation of forty thousand dollars for each year of the term for which such member is elected, except that …

Sec. 2-8a. Compensation for interim committees and study commissions. Section 2-8a is repealed. (1967, P.A. 719, S. 1; June, 1972, P.A. 1, S. 16.)

Secs. 2-8b to 2-8p. General Assembly pension system. Sections 2-8b to 2-8p, inclusive, are repealed. (1972, P.A. 281, S. 4–18; P.A. 75-37; 75-628, S. 2–5; P.A. 76-238; 76-407, S. 1–3; P.A. 77-238; P.A. 79-106, S. 1–3; 79-631, S. 42, 111; P.A. 81-343, S. 1, 7; 81-456, S. 1, 2, 6–8…