Connecticut General Statutes 2-56 – Duties of commissioners
The legislative commissioners shall:
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 2-56
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
(a) Collect and compare the laws of this and other states pertaining to any subject upon which they are requested to report by the Governor or any committee or member of the General Assembly;
(b) Collect upon request of the General Assembly all available information relating to any matter which is the subject of proposed legislation by the General Assembly;
(c) Prepare or advise in the preparation of any bill or resolution when requested to do so by the Governor or any member of the General Assembly;
(d) Upon request of the Governor, advise the Governor concerning any bill which has been passed by the General Assembly and has been or is to be presented to the Governor for his approval or disapproval;
(e) Before any bill is favorably reported to either branch of the General Assembly, either commissioner shall approve its form and note his certification to such effect on such bill. If such commissioner disapproves of the form of any bill submitted to him, he shall return such bill to the committee from which it was received with his disapproval and the reasons therefor noted thereon. Either commissioner shall, on request of the member introducing an amendment, examine the same as to form and return it to the member with his approval, or with his disapproval with the reasons therefor noted thereon. After all amendments to any bill have been adopted by either house of the General Assembly before final passage, such bill and the amendments shall be immediately turned over to either commissioner by the clerk of such house. Such commissioner shall examine such bill, as amended, as to its form, shall cause the amended sections of it to be reprinted as amended, unless reprinting is waived by the majority and minority leaders of such house, and shall return it to such clerk with his approval or disapproval, with the reasons therefor, noted thereon. If such bill, as amended, is disapproved as to form, such clerk shall call such disapproval to the attention of the General Assembly. If any bill is amended during the last five session days, it shall be so submitted to either commissioner but the amended sections of it need not be reprinted. This subsection shall not apply to any amendment adopted solely for the correction of clerical errors or errors as to form or dates, except that a copy of any such amendment shall be immediately transmitted to either commissioner by the clerk of the house in which it is first adopted;
(f) Render such research and advisory services to the Joint Committee on Legislative Management as said committee requests;
(g) Consolidate and codify all the statutes and public acts of the state, and arrange and codify the same under chapter and sections with headnotes, annotations and references to original text and to any decisions of the Supreme Court interpreting the same, and revise such volumes thereof as have become obsolete by reason of the number of amendments thereto or related legislation subsequently enacted. One copy of such consolidation and codification and of each revised volume shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of the State.