2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 2-17. Presession introduction of bills.
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 his election, may introduce any bill for a public or special act by filing the same
with the clerk of the House or Senate, who shall assign to each such bill a House or
Senate serial number and shall cause to be made a sufficient number of photo-offset
copies of such bill. Each such bill shall be filed in triplicate and shall be typewritten or
printed, without interlineation or erasure, on paper eight and one-half by thirteen inches
or eight and one-half by fourteen inches in size, the second and third copies to be on
yellow-colored and blue-colored paper, respectively, of the same size and format as the
original. Any member-elect offering such bill shall endorse by signing thereon his name
in some conspicuous place and shall attach thereto a statement of its purpose in not more
than one hundred and fifty words, which are to be typewritten or printed at the end of
the bill under the caption "statement of purpose". The head of each state department,
board, commission or other state agency shall file his requests for legislative enactment
in the form of bills with the clerk of the House or Senate on or before January fifteenth
of the odd-numbered year and on or before February eighth in the even-numbered year.
Such head of each state department, board, commission or other state agency requiring
assistance from the Legislative Commissioners' Office in the preparation of such bills
shall submit requests for such assistance on or before December first of each year.
History: 1959 act made presession filing actual introduction of bill, required duplicate on yellow paper, same size and format as original, and required endorsement of name by actual signature; 1965 act required bills to be in triplicate; 1971 acts removed from comptroller the responsibility to make photo-offset copies of bills and permitted use of paper 8 1/2" by 14" for bills and added provisions re deadlines for submission of bill requests and requests for assistance in preparing bills.
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