Bill Text: CT SB00880 | 2011 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Guidelines For The Department Of Education For The Charging Of Fees For Certain Records.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-02 - Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate [SB00880 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2011-SB00880-Introduced.html
General Assembly |
Raised Bill No. 880 | ||
January Session, 2011 |
LCO No. 2815 | ||
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Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections |
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Introduced by: |
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AN ACT CONCERNING THE PUBLICATION OF STATE AGENCY REGULATIONS ON THE INTERNET.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 4-173 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2011):
(a) The Commission on Official Legal Publications shall publish and distribute a compilation of all effective regulations adopted by all state agencies subsequent to October 27, 1970, except regulations adopted pursuant to subsection (f) of section 4-168. Such publication may be a supplement to or revision of the most current compilation, and shall be published at least semiannually. The Commission on Official Legal Publications may omit from such compilation (1) any regulation that is incorporated by reference into a Connecticut regulation and published by or otherwise available in printed form from a federal agency, a government agency of another state or a commercial publishing company, (2) any regulation that is too expensive to publish, or (3) any regulation the publication of which would be unduly cumbersome. If the commission omits a regulation from the compilation, it shall publish in the compilation a notice identifying the omitted regulation, stating the general subject matter of the regulation and stating an address, telephone number and any other information needed to obtain a copy of the regulation. Such address and telephone number shall be kept current in each semiannual publication of the compilation. The commission shall publish any regulation that has been omitted from publication under subdivision (2) of this subsection as soon as the commission has sufficient funds.
(b) The Commission on Official Legal Publications shall in addition cause to be published in the Connecticut Law Journal at least monthly the text of all regulations received by the commission from the office of the Secretary of the State pursuant to section 4-172 during the preceding month. The commission may omit from the Connecticut Law Journal (1) any regulation submitted in accordance with subsection (g) of section 4-168, for the purposes of renumbering sections only, if a correlated table of the former and new section numbers is published in lieu of the full text, (2) any regulation that is incorporated by reference into a Connecticut regulation and published by or otherwise available in printed form from a federal agency, a government agency of another state or a commercial publishing company, and (3) any regulation the publication of which would be too expensive or unduly cumbersome. If the commission omits a regulation from publication in the Connecticut Law Journal under subdivision (2) or (3) of this subsection, the commission shall publish in the Connecticut Law Journal a notice identifying the omitted regulation, stating the general subject matter of the regulation and stating an address, telephone number and any other information needed to obtain a copy of the regulation.
(c) Each agency which adopts a regulation shall make the regulation available for inspection and copying at its main office. On and after October 1, 2011, each agency shall post on its Internet web site any regulation of such agency that (1) is published pursuant to subsection (b) of this section on or after said date, or (2) was omitted from such publication pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection (b) of this section and identified in a notice of omission published on or after said date. Not later than January 1, 2012, each such agency shall post on its web site any effective regulation of such agency. Prior to the posting of any regulation on its web site, each agency shall submit the regulation to the office of the Secretary of the State for certification that the content of the regulation is consistent with the content of the regulation that was filed with said office in accordance with the provisions of section 4-172.
(d) Any publication made pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall be made available upon request to agencies and officials of this state free of charge, and to other persons at prices fixed by the Commission on Official Legal Publications, in accordance with section 51-216b.
(e) The compilation of regulations published under subsection (a) of this section and all Connecticut regulations omitted from the compilation under subsection (a) shall be maintained in the reference collection of each law library described in section 11-19a.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
October 1, 2011 |
4-173 |
Statement of Purpose:
To require state agency regulations to be posted on the Internet web site of the state agency adopting such regulations.
[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.]