2011 Connecticut Code
Title 2 General Assembly and Legislative Agencies
Chapter 16 General Assembly
Sec. 2-47. Witness not privileged.

      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, or by the Legislative Program Review and Investigations Committee in any program review or investigation, as defined in section 2-53d, upon the ground that his testimony to such fact or his production of such paper may tend to disgrace him or otherwise render him infamous.

      (1949 Rev., S. 52; P.A. 75-388, S. 9; P.A. 93-250, S. 3, 5.)

      History: P.A. 75-388 included the legislative program review and investigations committee among examining bodies listed; P.A. 93-250 amended section to provide that witnesses are not privileged when they are being examined by the legislative program review and investigations committee "in any program review or investigation, as defined in section 2-53d", effective June 23, 1993.