Title 2, General Assembly

The subordinate officers and employees of the General Assembly shall, in like manner, be furnished with certificates of pay in such amounts as shall be fixed by that branch of the General Assembly to which such officers and employees shall respectively belong except that the pay …

The Speaker of the House is authorized to reimburse travel and other expenses incurred by employees of the House of Representatives for official business in accordance with applicable policies and regulations.

Nursing personnel employed to staff the Nursing Stations in the State House and in the L. Marion Gressette Senate Office Building shall accrue annual leave and receive the same annual leave allowance and receive the same basic health and accident insurance coverage as is provided…

Effective after July 1,1995, if a member of the General Assembly resigns or is expelled, he must repay any compensation he has received for that year on a pro rata basis, pro rated from the first day of the session in January each year through the end of the annual session. The C…

A member of the General Assembly who has been convicted of a felony under state or federal law, or who has pled guilty or nolo contendere to these offenses, may not receive compensation or reimbursable expenses provided for members of the General Assembly in the annual general ap…

Except for legislative days which, by Senate or House action, are designated for consideration only of local and uncontested matters, members of the General Assembly must be paid subsistence expenses as may be provided for by law for each legislative day. Provided, such subsisten…

The clerk of the Senate shall, on the first day of each session, draw a pay certificate of fifteen dollars in favor of each Senator and the clerk of the House of Representatives shall likewise, on the first day of each session, draw a pay certificate of fifteen dollars in favor o…

Notwithstanding another provision of law, a member of the House of Representatives who does not use all of his annual allocation for postage or telephone expenses may use the remaining funds in one category in the other category during that year.

The clerks of the Senate and of the House of Representatives shall each furnish for his house for its use and for the use of its several committees, such stationery as may be necessary for each session.

The clerk of the House, upon the request of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, shall furnish for his office such supplies and equipment as are requested by the Speaker, and the clerk of the Senate, upon the request of the President of the Senate, shall furnish for his o…

(A) All vouchers for the payment of the expenses or compensation, or both, of the General Assembly must be prepared by the clerks of the two houses of the General Assembly. (B) The clerks of the two houses and the Legislative Council may issue their warrants on approved accounts …

The clerks of the Senate and the House, with the approval of the Senate Operations and Management Committee and the Speaker of the House, respectively, shall have installed an appropriate telephone service for use of the membership and presiding officers of the two houses of the …

Except as provided for in SECTION 2-3-110, all supplies and equipment for use of the General Assembly shall be purchased only upon authority of either the Clerk of the Senate, Clerk of the House or the Legislative Council for the respective branches of the General Assembly, and t…

(A) The name of the Office of Legislative Printing, Information and Technology Systems (LPITS) on the effective date of this subsection is hereby changed to the Legislative Services Agency (LSA). All references to the former Office of Legislative Printing, Information and Technol…

The Senate and House of Representatives, immediately after assembling in the session following a general election, shall each proceed to the election of a clerk, to be known as the clerk of the Senate and the clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively.

The Senate and House of Representatives shall also, at the same time, each for itself elect a reading clerk and a sergeant at arms. Should a vacancy occur in the sergeant at arms while the General Assembly is not in session, the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House…

This chapter shall be known as the "Emergency Interim Legislative Succession Act."

In the event of an attack, the Governor shall call the General Assembly into session as soon as practicable, and in any case within ninety days following the inception of the attack. If the Governor fails to issue such call, the General Assembly shall, on the ninetieth day from t…

If in the event of an attack a legislator is unavailable, his emergency interim successor highest in order of succession who is not unavailable shall, except for the power and duty to appoint emergency interim successors, exercise the powers and assume the duties of such legislat…

When an emergency interim successor exercises the powers and assumes the duties of a legislator, he shall be accorded the privileges and immunities, compensation, allowances and other perquisites of office to which a legislator is entitled. In the event of attack, each emergency …

In the event of an attack, (1) quorum requirements for the General Assembly shall be suspended, and (2) where the affirmative vote of a specified proportion of members for approval of a bill, resolution or other action would otherwise be required, the same proportion of those vot…

The authority of emergency interim successors to succeed to the powers and duties of legislators, and the operation of the provisions of this chapter relating to quorum, the number of affirmative votes required for legislative action, and limitations on the length of sessions and…

As used in this chapter: (a) "Attack" means any action or series of actions taken by an enemy of the United States resulting in substantial damage or injury to persons or property in this State whether through sabotage, bombs, missiles, shellfire, or atomic, radiological, chemica…

Each member of the General Assembly (hereinafter referred to as legislator) shall designate not fewer than three nor more than seven emergency interim successors to his powers and duties and specify their order of succession. Each legislator shall review and, as necessary, prompt…

An emergency interim successor is one who is designated for possible temporary succession to the powers and duties, but not the office, of a legislator. No person shall be designated or serve as an emergency interim successor unless he may under the Constitution and statutes hold…

Prior to an attack, if a legislator fails to designate the required minimum number of emergency interim successors within thirty days following April 7, 1962, or, after such period, if for any reason the number of emergency interim successors for any legislator falls below the re…

Each designation of an emergency interim successor shall become effective when the legislator or presiding officer making the designation files with the Secretary of State the successor's name, address and rank in order of succession. The removal of an emergency interim successor…

Promptly after designation each emergency interim successor shall take the oath required for the legislator to whose powers and duties he is designated to succeed. No other oath shall be required.

Each emergency interim successor shall keep himself generally informed as to the duties, procedures, practices and current business of the General Assembly, and each legislator shall assist his emergency interim successors to keep themselves so informed.

Whenever in the event of an attack, or upon finding that an attack may be imminent, the Governor deems the place of session then prescribed to be unsafe, he may change it to any place within or without the State which he deems safer and convenient.

No act or joint resolution passed by the General Assembly shall take effect or become of force until the twentieth day after the day of its approval by the executive, unless some other day be specially named in the body of the act or joint resolution as the day upon which it shal…

State capital improvement bonds may be authorized by the General Assembly in odd-numbered years. A project may be authorized in the act only for a state agency or institution included in the annual general appropriations act.

Whenever a bill or resolution is introduced in the General Assembly requiring the expenditure of funds by a county, municipality, special purpose district, or school district, the principal author shall affix thereto a statement of estimated fiscal impact and cost of the proposed…

The General Assembly finds that the appropriations for debt service in the general appropriations act are the estimated debt service requirements of bonds of the State for each fiscal year. The inclusion of these appropriations in the annual general appropriations act shall not p…

Whenever the General Assembly appropriates funds for nonrecurring or one-time expenditures, the appropriation must be listed in a separate program entitled "Nonrecurring Appropriation". The Governor, when making annual budget recommendations, shall identify in a separate marking …

(A) For purposes of this section, a 'recorded roll call vote' means a vote recorded in the journals of the respective houses of the General Assembly, which must be by yeas and nays and recorded by name. (B) The Annual General Appropriations Bill must be considered section-by-sect…

The repeal of an act or joint resolution shall not revive any law theretofore repealed or superseded, nor any office theretofore abolished.

As hereinafter provided the clerk of the Senate and the clerk of the House of Representatives shall correct typographical and clerical errors in acts and joint resolutions which have been passed by the General Assembly, either before or after approval thereof by the Governor. The…

When a typographical or clerical error shall have been called to the attention of the clerk of the Senate or the clerk of the House of Representatives, the clerk may correct such error and shall affix upon the page of the act his signature showing such correction together with th…

If, upon examination of such errors as may be called to their attention, the clerk of the Senate and the clerk of the House of Representatives shall be in doubt as to their authority to make a correction as hereinabove provided, said clerks shall withhold their certificates of co…

No act or joint resolution lodged in the Secretary of State's office over fifteen days shall be corrected as hereinabove provided for in this article.

(A) The words "person" and "party" and any other word importing the singular number used in any act or joint resolution shall be held to include the plural and to include firms, companies, associations, and corporations and all words in the plural shall apply also to the singular…

Wherever the term "handicapped person" appears in the laws of this State, unless it is stated to the contrary, it shall mean a person who: (1) Has a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activities including, but not limited to caring for…

In multi-county senatorial districts, all references in existing statutes relative to county affairs and appointments to the members of a county legislative delegation or language of similar import, except in statutes relating to appointments required to be made upon the advice a…

No bill (a) to charter or incorporate or amend the charter of any society, company, organization or body politic of any kind, (b) for the granting of any privilege or immunity or (c) for any other private purpose whatsoever shall be introduced or entertained in either house of th…

In case of an application for a charter or incorporation, other than of a railroad or canal company, the petition shall state and set forth why the charter cannot be obtained under the provisions of the general statutes, in pursuance of the Constitution, relating to incorporation…