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Amendment

 

June Special Session, 2011

LCO No. 8773

   
 

*HB0670108773SRO*

Offered by:

 

SEN. MCKINNEY, 28th Dist.

SEN. FASANO, 34th Dist.

SEN. RORABACK, 30th Dist.

 

To: House Bill No. 6701

File No.

Cal. No.

Strike section 13 in its entirety and insert the following in lieu thereof:

"Sec. 13. (Effective from passage) (a) Not later than July 15, 2011, the Governor shall submit a plan to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies and to the General Assembly through the clerks of the House of Representatives and Senate detailing any modifications to allotment requisitions or allotments in force the Governor deems necessary to make pursuant to section 4-85 of the general statutes or section 6 of this act and any reductions in expenditures for the executive branch the Governor approves pursuant to subsection (a) of section 8 of this act for the biennium ending June 30, 2013. Such committee shall hold a public hearing regarding such provisions and submit its findings to the speaker of the House, majority leader of the House, minority leader of the House, president pro tempore of the Senate, majority leader of the Senate and minority leader of the Senate not later than August 15, 2011. Not later than August 31, 2011, the General Assembly shall call itself into special session and may enact legislation that adjusts expenditures for the biennium ending June 30, 2013, by an amount equal to the amount of modifications or reductions proposed in any such provision or may reject such plan or any provision of such plan. No provision of such plan shall take effect without a majority vote by both houses of the General Assembly.

(b) Not later than July 15, 2011, the Chief Court Administrator shall submit a plan to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies and to the General Assembly through the clerks of the House of Representatives and Senate detailing any reductions to judicial branch expenditures said administrator deems necessary to make pursuant to subsection (c) of section 8 of this act for the biennium ending June 30, 2013. Such committee shall hold a public hearing regarding such provisions and submit its findings to the speaker of the House, majority leader of the House, minority leader of the House, president pro tempore of the Senate, majority leader of the Senate and minority leader of the Senate not later than August 15, 2011. Not later than August 31, 2011, the General Assembly shall call itself into special session and may enact legislation that adjusts expenditures for the biennium ending June 30, 2013, by an amount equal to the amount of reductions proposed in any such provision or may reject such plan or any provision of such plan. No provision of such plan shall take effect without a majority vote by both houses of the General Assembly. "