Bill Text: CT HB05497 | 2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Requiring A Publicly Accessible List Of Legislatively Appointed Boards, Commissions And Councils.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-06 - File Number 490 [HB05497 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2016-HB05497-Introduced.html

General Assembly

 

Raised Bill No. 5497

February Session, 2016

 

LCO No. 1901

 

*01901_______GAE*

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS

 

Introduced by:

 

(GAE)

 

AN ACT REQUIRING A PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE LIST OF LEGISLATIVELY APPOINTED BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COUNCILS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) Not later than October 1, 2016, the executive director of the Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall post on the Internet web site of the General Assembly a publicly accessible list of all boards, commissions or councils that have one or more of their members appointed by a member of the General Assembly. Such list shall include, but need not be limited to, the name of each member of the board, commission or council, who made the appointment and whether there are any vacancies on the board, commission or council. The executive director shall update and post such updated list not less than quarterly.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:

Section 1

from passage

New section

Statement of Purpose:

To require the posting of a publicly accessible list of all boards, commissions or councils that have legislative appointments.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]

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