Title 2 — Title 2: General Assembly and Legislative Agencies

Sec. 2-1. Regular sessions; organization. There shall be a regular session of the General Assembly held at Hartford in each year. In the odd-numbered years, such session shall commence on the Wednesday following the first Monday of January. The Senate and House of Representatives…

Sec. 2-10. Clerks' office; assistants; records; duties. The House and Senate clerks shall continue in office during the term of the General Assembly by which they were appointed. The Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall provide space in a building under the supervision…

Sec. 2-11. Stenographers for General Assembly committees. The Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall employ all stenographers required by the joint standing and joint special committees of the General Assembly. It shall provide for and furnish to the State Library one or…

Sec. 2-12. Bonus to employees of General Assembly prohibited. Overtime and meritorious service payments permitted. No bonus, gratuity or extra payment of any sort over and above the amount agreed upon as the salary or wage for each employee at the time of hiring or thereafter sha…

Sec. 2-12a. Temporary legislative employees, reduction of salary for absence. Legislative employees hired on a temporary basis for a fixed salary shall have such salary reduced by a per diem amount for those days on which their job would normally require them to be present, but f…

Sec. 2-13. Records of legislative proceedings. Legislative record index. (a) The clerk of either house may employ such number of qualified persons as are necessary to make a record of the proceedings in the Senate and the House of Representatives and to transcribe the same withou…

Sec. 2-14. Initiation of local legislation in General Assembly. The General Assembly shall enact no special legislation relative to the powers, organization and form of government of any town, city, borough or other unit of local government unless requested by a town, city, borou…

Sec. 2-14a. Legislation affecting municipal retirement systems. The General Assembly shall enact no legislation which diminishes or eliminates the rights or benefits granted to any individual under any municipal retirement or pension system. Nothing contained herein shall prevent…

Sec. 2-15. Transportation allowance for General Assembly members and members-elect. The Comptroller shall draw his order on the Treasurer for a transportation allowance for each member or member-elect of the General Assembly, and the Treasurer shall pay to such member as an allow…

Sec. 2-15a. Annual informational mailing by General Assembly members. (a) Each member of the General Assembly shall be entitled to send an annual mailing to each household in such member's district, for informational purposes. The mailing shall be conducted under the supervision …

Sec. 2-15b. Transportation allowance for member of task force prohibited. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2-15 or any other provision of the general statutes or a public or special act, no member of any task force, including, but not limited to, a member of the General …

Sec. 2-16. Members as attorneys before the General Assembly. No member of the General Assembly shall appear as an attorney before it, or before any committee thereof, or of either house, unless in his own cause, or that of the town which he represents or of some public corporatio…

Sec. 2-16a. Restriction on former members becoming lobbyists. No state representative or state senator who is elected at the 1994 state election or any election thereafter shall engage in the profession of lobbyist, as that term is defined in subdivision (12) of section 1-91, unt…

Sec. 2-17. Presession introduction of bills. Any member-elect of either house of the General Assembly, prior to the beginning of the regular session in the January following such member's election, may introduce any bill for a public or special act by filing the same with the cle…

Sec. 2-18. Form of bills amending statutes and resolutions amending Constitution; ballot designation of proposed constitutional amendments. Each bill for a public act amending any statute, each special act amending any special act and each resolution proposing an amendment to any…

Sec. 2-19. Preliminary printing and franchise fees for special charters. Engrossing fees. Section 2-19 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 9; 1957, P.A. 1, S. 1; 1961, P.A. 350, S. 1.)

Sec. 2-1a. Adoption of rules and regulations. (a) Each house of the General Assembly shall have the power to adopt rules for the orderly conduct of its affairs and to preserve and protect the health, safety and welfare of its members, officers and employees in the performance of …

Sec. 2-1b. Unlawful interference with the General Assembly; injunctive relief. (a) If the presiding officer of either house of the General Assembly has reasonable grounds to believe that any person or persons are then committing an unlawful act or are about to do so, which act is…

Sec. 2-1c. Contempt of the General Assembly; penalty. Either house of the General Assembly may determine by majority vote that a person is guilty of contempt of the General Assembly, after a hearing before an appropriate committee appointed by the presiding officer at which the p…

Sec. 2-1d. Interference with the General Assembly; misdemeanor. (a) A person is guilty of interfering with the legislative process when he: (1) Alone or in concert with others, either by force, physical interference, fraud, intimidation or by means of any unlawful act, with inten…

Sec. 2-1e. Interference with the legislative process; firearms; dangerous or deadly weapons; explosives; felony. (a) A person is guilty of interfering with the legislative process when he, alone or in concert with others, either by force, physical interference, fraud, intimidatio…

Sec. 2-1f. Office of State Capitol Police. (a) There is established an Office of State Capitol Police within the Legislative Department which shall ensure the orderly operation of the House and Senate, the joint standing committees thereof and the security of the State Capitol bu…

Sec. 2-1g. Indemnification of legislative personnel. (a) The state shall save harmless and indemnify all members, officers and employees of the General Assembly, either house thereof or committees of the General Assembly or either house thereof from financial loss arising out of …

Sec. 2-1h. Compensatory time for permanent full-time employees. Section 2-1h is repealed, effective May 26, 2006. (P.A. 00-231, S. 7, 10; P.A. 06-187, S. 97.)

Sec. 2-1i. Compensatory time for permanent full-time employees. To the extent that a permanent full-time employee of the Joint Committee on Legislative Management received one hour of compensatory time for each two hours of overtime worked by such employee prior to May 26, 2006, …

Sec. 2-2. Election by illegal practices. Each person elected to either house of the General Assembly by any illegal practice shall be incapable of holding his seat unless he can show to the satisfaction of such house that he was not directly or indirectly concerned in such illega…

Sec. 2-20. Certain charters granted only on petition. No act of incorporation or alteration thereof shall be granted by the General Assembly, except upon a petition therefor, when the law requires that notice of such petition shall be given by advertisement. Each charter of any r…

Sec. 2-20a. Bills seeking incorporation and franchise for water companies. No bill for the incorporation and franchise of a water company shall be heard by the General Assembly, or any committee thereof, unless the applicant has filed with the bill written reports from each of th…

Sec. 2-21. Notice of claims against the state. Section 2-21 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 13; 1959, P.A. 685, S. 26.)

Sec. 2-22. Numbering of bills and joint resolutions. Each bill and joint resolution shall be numbered by the clerk of the house in which it was presented, in the order of presentation, and shall be designated in the journal as “Senate Bill”, “House Bill”, “Senate Joint Resolution…

Sec. 2-23. Copies of bills, resolutions, calendars, journals and other legislative publications. Furnishing of publications to public and municipalities. The Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall provide for the printed and electronic reproduction of copies of each bill…

Sec. 2-23a. Alkaline paper for legislative documents. All bills and joint resolutions, the calendar and journal of each house of the General Assembly, including the journal printed in accordance with the provisions of section 2-49, the legislative record index published in accord…

Sec. 2-24. Style of printing bills; endorsements; file number; fiscal note; ratepayer impact statement. The words “State of Connecticut” shall be printed at the head of each bill and document printed by order of the General Assembly, or either house thereof, and on its title page…

Sec. 2-24a. Fiscal note and ratepayer impact statement required for action upon bill. (a) No bill without a fiscal note appended thereto which, if passed, would require the expenditure of state or municipal funds or affect state or municipal revenue in the current fiscal year or …

Sec. 2-24b. Racial and ethnic impact statement required for certain bills and amendments. (a) Beginning with the session of the General Assembly commencing on January 9, 2019, a racial and ethnic impact statement shall be prepared with respect to certain bills and amendments at t…

Sec. 2-25. Printing to be done at one establishment. Section 2-25 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 23; February, 1965, P.A. 382, S. 1; P.A. 78-237, S. 2, 5; P.A. 90-17, S. 3, 4.)

Sec. 2-26. Printing and electronic availability of bills prior to passage. At each regular or special session of the General Assembly no bill shall be passed or become a law unless it has been printed in its final form, as prescribed by section 2-24, with the exception of germane…

Sec. 2-27. Printing and distribution of file bills. Copies of each bill for an act reported favorably by a committee shall be made available electronically on the Internet web site of the General Assembly and shall be printed in sufficient numbers, as determined by the clerks of …

Sec. 2-27a. Fiscal review of bills. (a) The speaker of the House, the president pro tempore of the Senate, the minority leader of the House or Senate, the House or Senate chairman or ranking minority member of any committee or the director of the Office of Fiscal Analysis may req…

Sec. 2-27b. Review of bond acts. (a) Each bond act, as defined in section 3-20, shall be reviewed by the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to state finance, revenue and bonding no later than five years following the effective d…

Sec. 2-28. Time limit on favorable reports of bills. Submission to Legislative Commissioners' Office. Action upon bills not in the files. Section 2-28 is repealed. (June, 1955, S. 11d; 1957, P.A. 1, S. 6; 1959, P.A. 1, S. 2; 478, S. 2; P.A. 78-139, S. 1, 2.)

Sec. 2-29. Engrossing of bills and amendments; correction of errors after passage. Presentation to the Governor. Immediately upon the passage of any bill, the clerk of the house last taking action thereon shall cause a copy thereof to be sent to the Governor. All bills and propos…

Sec. 2-3. Allowance to contestants. No contestants for seats in either house of the General Assembly shall be allowed more than one hundred dollars for attorney fees and expenses, together with the legal fees of witnesses summoned with the approval of the committee on contested e…

Sec. 2-30. Engrossing bills after adjournment. Vetoed bills. Each bill for an act passed by the General Assembly, but not engrossed prior to the final adjournment thereof, shall be engrossed, signed and presented to the Governor in the same manner as during the session of the Gen…

Sec. 2-30a. Explanatory texts concerning proposed constitutional amendments; preparation, approval, printing, distribution, posting at polls. (a) At such time as a proposed constitutional amendment and its concomitant ballot question are approved by the General Assembly for prese…

Sec. 2-30b. Construction of multiple amendments. (a) When two or more acts passed at the same session of the General Assembly amend the same section of the general statutes, or the same section of a public or special act, and reference to the earlier adopted act is not made in th…

Sec. 2-31. Numbering of public and special acts. The numbers of the public and special acts of the General Assembly shall be designated by Arabic numerals. (1949 Rev., S. 35.)

Sec. 2-32. Effective date of public and special acts. All public acts, except when otherwise therein specified, shall take effect on the first day of October following the session of the General Assembly at which they are passed, and special acts, unless otherwise therein provide…

Sec. 2-32a. Effective date of public acts imposing state mandate. No public act which imposes a state mandate on any political subdivision of this state which requires the appropriation of funds for the budget of such political subdivision in order to comply with the provisions o…

Sec. 2-32b. State mandates to local governments. Definitions. Cost estimate required. Procedures re bills creating or enlarging mandates. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Local government” means any political subdivision of the state having power to make appropriations or to lev…