Wednesday, February 3, 1993
February 3, 1993] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE
JOURNAL OF THE SENATE [Wednesday,
The Senate was called to order at 2:00 p.m., the President in
the Chair.
The Prayer was offered by the Chaplain, Rev. James J. Nock of
Newington, Connecticut.
The following is the prayer.
Almighty Father, we ask your blessing on our circle this
afternoon, as we begin the serious work of budgets and program.
We know that this year will be a difficult year for us, with
choices and decisions, that will affect the very fiber of our
State. Therefore, give us the strength, the insight and the
wisdom, to do the right thing, and to build the foundation for a
peaceful and prosperous future, that is worthy of the people of
Connecticut.
And we ask this of you, who live and reign forever and ever.
Amen.
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PLEDGE
Senator Scarpetti of the 22nd led the Senate in the Pledge of
Allegiance.
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INTRODUCTION OF BILLS
SENATE AND HOUSE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS
On motion of Senator DiBella of the 1st, the first reading of
the following bills and resolutions was waived, the list of bills
and resolutions as prepared by the Clerks was accepted, and the
bills and resolutions referred to the committees as indicated
thereon in concurrence:
GENERAL LAW
S.B. No. 576 (COMM) GENERAL LAW. 'AN ACT CONCERNING FEES
APPLICABLE TO STREET VENDORS', to increase the registration fee
and penalties relative to street vending.
LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
S.B. No. 665 (COMM) LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. 'AN ACT
LIMITING THE CHARGING OF PREVIOUS EMPLOYERS' EXPERIENCE ACCOUNTS',
to prohibit charging the experience accounts of previous employers
when a former employee leaves subsequent employment voluntarily or
is terminated for just cause.
S.B. No. 671 (COMM) LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. 'AN ACT
EXTENDING FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE TO CERTAIN MUNICIPAL
EMPLOYEES', to extend the family and medical leave provisions of
chapter 557 to municipal employees employed in departments with
twenty-five or more employees.
ENERGY AND PUBLIC UTILITIES
S.B. No. 816 (RAISED) ENERGY AND PUBLIC UTILITIES. 'AN ACT
REQUIRING THE INSTALLATION OF REDUCED-PRESSURE-PRINCIPLE BACKFLOW
PREVENTERS', to require customers of a public water system to
install reduced-pressure-principle backflow preventers on lines
which supply an irrigation or lawn sprinkler system in order to
prevent contamination of water supplies.
GENERAL LAW
H.B. No. 5078 (COMM) 'AN ACT REDUCING THE AMOUNTS CHARGED FOR
LICENSES FOR PROFESSIONALS AND SEMI-RETIRED PROFESSIONALS', to
provide reduced licensing fees for retired and semi-retired
professionals who earn less than five thousand dollars per year
from practicing their profession.
LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
H.B. No. 5085 (COMM) 'AN ACT REDUCING EXPENDITURES FOR
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION', to reduce unemployment compensation
expenditures incurred by employers and to reduce the cost of doing
business in the state by ceasing to charge benefits to employers
who paid one thousand eight hundred dollars or less to a claimant
in his base period, establishing a one week waiting period for
unemployment compensation, disqualifying individuals who are
terminated either for drug or alcohol abuse or for two or more
acts of wilful misconduct which occur within two years of each
other and by permitting employers to submit written testimony for,
or testify by telephone during, an unemployment compensation
hearing.
BANKS
H.B. No. 5148 (COMM) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE ACCEPTANCE BY
STATE CHARTERED FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS OF IDENTITY CARDS ISSUED BY
THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES', to provide that no state
chartered financial institution may refuse to accept any identity
card issued by the department of motor vehicles for purposes of
identification.
JUDICIARY
H.B. No. 5373 (COMM) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE STATUTE OF
LIMITATIONS ON ACTIONS TO RECOVER DAMAGES FOR INJURY CAUSED BY
DIETHYLSTILBESTROL', to extend the statute of limitations on
actions to recover damages for injury caused by DES.
H.B. No. 5645 (COMM) 'AN ACT CONCERNING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM', to
enhance the constitutional right of freedom of religion and
reiterate the compelling interest test for free exercise of
religion claims under the state constitution.
GENERAL LAW
H.B. No. 5821 (COMM) 'AN ACT ALLOWING THE SALE OF MULTIPLE
PACKAGES OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR IN PACKAGE STORES', to allow package
stores to sell multiple packages of alcoholic liquor.
JUDICIARY
H.B. No. 6008 (COMM) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE TIME LIMITATION
FOR THE ENTRY OF JUDGMENTS IN CIVIL ACTIONS', to prevent the
unnecessary retrial of civil cases.
BANKS
H.B. No. 6068 (COMM) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE CALCULATION OF THE
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT IN A MORTGAGE NOTE', to clarify that permitted
loan fees are calculated on the gross amount of the loan the
borrower agrees to repay and includes prepaid finance charges
which are financed.
GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
H.B. No. 6866 (RAISED) 'AN ACT ALLOWING THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
OF THE DIVISION OF SPECIAL REVENUE TO NEGOTIATE THE LEASING OF
PREMISES FOR OFF-TRACK BETTING FACILITIES', to allow the executive
director of the division of special revenue to represent the
department of special revenue in negotiating leases of premises to
be used as off-track betting facilities.
H.B. No. 6867 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING CHANGES IN PARTY
ENROLMENT', to shorten, from six months to three months, the
period during which a registered voter who changes his party
enrolment is not entitled to vote in a caucus or primary of his
new party.
H.B. No. 6868 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING ENFORCEMENT OF
REGULATIONS FOR PARKING AREAS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE
COMMISSONER OF PUBLIC WORKS', to expand the scope and enforcement
of parking area regulations and increase the penalty for
violations of such regulations.
H.B. No. 6869 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE POWERS AND
DUTIES OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER WITH RESPECT TO UNEMPLOYMENT
COMPENSATION CLAIMS OF STATE EMPLOYEES', to clarify the authority
of the state comptroller with respect to unemployment compensation
claims.
H.B. No. 6870 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE REVIEW AND
APPROVAL OF ANNUITY CONTRACTS', to require the comptroller to
review and approve annuity contracts prior to their being sold.
H.B. No. 6871 (RAISED) 'AN ACT REDUCING THE VOLUME OF PAPER
DOCUMENTS THAT THE OFFICE OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER MUST RETAIN',
to reduce the volume of paper documents that the office of the
state comptroller must retain.
INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE
H.B. No. 6872 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING STEAM BOILER FEE
COLLECTIONS', to establish a system of fee collection at the point
of service delivery for inspections performed by insurance company
representatives.
H.B. No. 6873 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE POWERS OF THE
STATE PURCHASING BOARD', to allow the state insurance purchasing
board to have authority to negotiate a commission or fee structure
to compensate the agents of record and to allow the board to have
authority to retain and compensate consulting firms.
H.B. No. 6874 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING FINANCIAL INSURANCE
REGULATION STANDARDS', to amend the insurance statutes to conform
with the minimum standards for financial solvency regulation as
adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
H.B. No. 6875 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING INSURER NOTICE TO
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER OF INTENT TO DISCONTINUE WRITING
INSURANCE', to provide notice to the insurance commissioner
whenever an insurer intends to discontinue writing insurance in
this state.
LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
H.B. No. 6876 (RAISED) 'AN ACT MODIFYING ELIGIBILITY FOR
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION', to modify eligibility for unemployment
benefits by establishing a shared work unemployment compensation
program, prohibiting temporary, seasonal employees and employees
receiving separation payments from collecting benefits, and
permitting the collection of benefits by persons who leave a job
to relocate with a spouse who has been transferred.
GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
H.B. No. 6877 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING APPROVAL OF REFUND
PAYMENTS', to expedite the processing of refund payments and
decrease the administrative workload of the offices of the state
comptroller and the attorney general.
H.B. No. 6878 (RAISED) 'AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE COMMISSIONER OF
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES TO PURCHASE AND LEASE ELECTRONIC DATA
PROCESSING AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT', to authorize the
commissioner of administrative services to contract for and lease
electronic data processing and telecommunications equipment
required by any state agency.
BANKS
H.B. No. 6880 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING CHECK CASHING
SERVICES', to clarify that the commissioner of banking has
authority to examine check cashing services applicants, licensees,
and persons required to be licensed under chapter 662d. To limit
check cashers to cashing no more than two thousand five hundred
dollars in checks for any individual in one day, and to prohibit
the cashing of items not made out to individuals.
H.B. No. 6881 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING FIRST MORTGAGE
LENDERS AND BROKERS', to provide a civil penalty for acting as a
first mortgage broker or lender without a license.
H.B. No. 6882 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE AUTHORITY OF
FOREIGN BANKING CORPORATIONS TO BRING CERTAIN ACTIONS IN THE
COURTS OF THE STATE', to eliminate the April 15, 1993 sunset
provision.
H.B. No. 6883 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING BANK ACQUISITIONS',
to amend the statutes to require the finding that the parent
corporation, if it is a banking institution, also have a record of
compliance with community reinvestment and consumer protection
laws; to specify that "security convertible into a voting
security" shall not include stock purchase warrants; in the case
of acquisitions by an individual of under twenty-five per cent of
stock, to substitute an alternative requirement in lieu of the
plan to meet community needs; and to delete the exception for the
issuance of securities by a bank or association.
H.B. No. 6884 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE SALE OF FIXED
AND VARIABLE ANNUITIES BY STATE BANK AND TRUST COMPANIES, SAVINGS
AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS, SAVINGS BANKS, FEDERAL SAVINGS BANKS AND
NATIONAL BANKS LOCATED IN THIS STATE', to permit the sale of fixed
and variable annuities by state bank and trust companies, state
savings and loan associations, savings banks and federal savings
banks, federal savings and loan associations and national banks
located in this state.
H.B. No. 6885 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING RESIDENTIAL SECURITY
DEPOSITS', to give the commissioner the authority to investigate
and resolve issue involving complaints against landlords who
require security deposits in excess of the statutory limits; to
encourage banks to provide escrow accounts for the protection of
security deposits.
H.B. No. 6886 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING RESTRICTIONS ON THE
COMMISSIONER OF BANKING AND EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
BANKING', to clarify that the commissioner of banking and
employees of the department of banking may not: (1) Have
relationships with any federally-chartered banking institution,
and (2) be indebted to state-chartered depository institutions, as
well as mortgage lenders and small loan licensees provided, this
prohibition shall not extend to indebtedness to such persons or
entities resulting from the sale of the debt by the original
lender.
H.B. No. 6887 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE INCORPORATION OF
AETNA FIDUCIARY SERVICES, INC', to incorporate Aetna Fiduciary
Services, Inc. as a corporation exercising fiduciary powers under
Chapter 652 of the general statutes.
H.B. No. 6888 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE CONNECTICUT
UNIFORM SECURITIES ACT', to prohibit public and private offerings
(with the exception of private offerings to accredited investors)
of securities issued by blank check companies and to prohibit the
secondary trading of securities of such companies not listed on a
national exchange; to extend the period during which the
commissioner may institute a stop order proceeding against an
effective registration statement.
H.B. No. 6889 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE CONFIDENTIALITY
OF BANK EXAMINATION REPORTS', to clarify that bank examination
reports and information contained in or related to examination
reports are confidential except as should be disclosed in the
performance of official duties.
H.B. No. 6890 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING ARMORED CAR
SERVICES', to remove the banking industry from the armored car
services business.
H.B. No. 6891 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING HOME MORTGAGE
DISCLOSURE', to amend the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act in
anticipation of the termination of Connecticut's exemption from
the federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.
H.B. No. 6892 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING CONSUMER COLLECTION
AGENCIES', to bring the collection of delinquent municipal
personal property taxes by consumer collection agencies within the
purview of sections 42-127 to 42-133a of the general statutes and
to permit municipalities to assess delinquent taxpayers with the
full cost of a consumer collection agency's services.
H.B. No. 6893 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE SALE OF SAVINGS
BANK LIFE INSURANCE BY STATE BANK AND TRUST COMPANIES', to permit
the sale of savings bank life insurance by state bank and trust
companies to the same extent as authorized for state savings
banks.
H.B. No. 6894 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE SALE OF ASSETS
OF BANKS AND CREDIT UNIONS', to provide that the commissioner's
approval under section 36-30 of the general statutes be required
only when an institution sells all or a significant part of its
assets and business; to require stockholder vote only in
connection with the sale of all or substantially all of the assets
and business; to clarify that state chartered or federally
chartered credit unions located in Connecticut may purchase the
assets and business of a state chartered or federally chartered
credit union located in this state and to provide statutory
authority independent of section 36-30 of the general statutes for
the sale of branches.
H.B. No. 6895 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE PAYMENT OF
INTEREST ON MORTGAGE ESCROW ACCOUNTS', to amend the procedure for
calculating the payment of interest on mortgage escrow accounts.
H.B. No. 6896 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING ENFORCEMENT POWERS
OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BANKING', to expand the enforcement powers
of the commissioner of banking to include administrative removal
of bank officers and directors who are not of good character and
administratively and judicially imposed civil monetary penalties
and restitution; to specifically authorize the commissioner to
bring an action in court to enforce compliance with laws,
regulations, rules, orders or written agreements; to give the
commissioner the authority to make public cease and desist orders
issued against banking institutions and credit unions; to extend
the commissioner's cease and desist powers over unlicensed
entities who violate the consumer credit laws; and to preserve the
commissioner's administrative remedy over licensed sales finance
companies by limiting a licensee's ability to surrender its
license when a proceeding is pending.
H.B. No. 6897 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE TIME PERIOD FOR
PERFECTING A PURCHASE MONEY SECURITY INTEREST', to extend the
period for perfection of a purchase money security interest from
ten days to twenty days and bring the Connecticut Uniform
Commercial Code into conformity with other states.
ENVIRONMENT
H.B. No. 6898 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING SAFETY DEVICES AND
EQUIPMENT FOR VESSELS AND MOTORBOAT NOISE', to update procedures
for noise level testing and enforcement, allow for safer
techniques for noise measurement and to clarify the definition of
personal watercraft.
H.B. No. 6899 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE CIVIL PENALTIES
OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION', to make the
process in the department of environmental protection for
assessing administrative civil penalties more efficient and to
increase the penalties for certain violations; to make violators
of radiation control laws liable for costs and expenses in abating
such violations; and to make the penalty for failure to obtain a
license to operate a marine terminal consistent with the other
water pollution control laws.
H.B. No. 6900 (RAISED) 'AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CREATION OF A
CONNECTICUT ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER', to establish an
environmental entrepreneurial center to promote and develop
environmental companies, products and services.
H.B. No. 6901 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING SIMPLIFICATION OF
ENVIRONMENTAL GENERAL PERMITTING ISSUANCE', to reduce costs to the
department of environmental protection of issuing certain general
permits and clarify authority of the department regarding
suspension of such permits.
H.B. No. 6902 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF
DISABLED PERSONS ABLE TO RECEIVE FREE HUNTING AND FISHING
LICENSES', to expand the definition of disabled persons eligible
to receive free hunting and fishing licenses.
H.B. No. 6903 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING COMMERCIAL AND SPORT
FISHING IN MARINE WATERS', to make state fisheries law consistent
with the federal law by extending jurisdiction to taking of all
species landed in the state; to specify that violations of fishing
reporting requirements be an infraction; to add to the list of
fishing methods to be managed in state waters; to help prevent
circumvention of creel limits; and to improve interstate fishing
license reciprocity.
BANKS
H.B. No. 6904 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE INTERNATIONAL
FINANCE CORPORATION', to allow for the investment by banks and
insurance companies in the International Finance Corporation.
H.B. No. 6905 (RAISED) 'AN ACT CONCERNING BANKING POWERS', to
provide state bank and trust companies, state savings and loan
associations and state savings banks with parity or powers
available to national banking associations and federal savings
banks located in this state.
GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
H.J. No. 67 (COMM) 'RESOLUTION PROPOSING A CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT CONCERNING ABSENTEE VOTING.'
LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
H.J. No. 68 (COMM) 'RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING CONGRESS AND THE
PRESIDENT TO FURTHER EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.'
H.J. No. 69 (COMM) 'RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING CONGRESS TO AMEND
THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT TO GIVE STATES
AUTHORITY OVER HEALTH INSURANCE BENEFITS FOR INJURED WORKERS.'
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BUSINESS ON THE CALENDAR
FAVORABLE REPORTS OF THE JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE
JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
The following favorable reports were taken from the table,
read the third time, the reports of the committees accepted and
the resolutions adopted.
JUDICIARY. H.J. No. 45 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
THE HONORABLE ELLEN ASH PETERS OF WEST HARTFORD, TO BE CHIEF
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:16 p.m.:
On the roll call vote House Joint Resolution No. 45 was
adopted in concurrence with the House.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
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JUDICIARY. H.J. No. 46 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
THE HONORABLE THOMAS P. MIANO OF HARTFORD, TO BE A JUDGE OF THE
SUPERIOR COURT.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:19 p.m.:
On the roll call vote House Joint Resolution No. 46 was
adopted in concurrence with the House.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
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JUDICIARY. H.J. No. 48 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
THE HONORABLE RICHARD T. O'CONNELL OF OLD SAYBROOK, TO BE A JUDGE
OF THE SUPERIOR COURT.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:21 p.m.:
On the roll call vote House Joint Resolution No. 48 was
adopted in concurrence with the House.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
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JUDICIARY. H.J. No. 49 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
THE HONORABLE ROBERT P. BURNS OF BRANFORD, TO BE A JUDGE OF THE
SUPERIOR COURT.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:23 p.m.:
On the roll call vote House Joint Resolution No. 49 was
adopted in concurrence with the House.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
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JUDICIARY. H.J. No. 50 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
THE HONORABLE JOSEPH F. DANNEHY OF WILLIMANTIC, TO BE A STATE
REFEREE.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:25 p.m.:
On the roll call vote House Joint Resolution No. 50 was
adopted in concurrence with the House.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
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JUDICIARY. H.J. No. 52 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
THE HONORABLE JOHN J. DALY OF HARTFORD, TO BE A JUDGE OF THE
APPELLATE COURT AND A JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:27 p.m.:
On the roll call vote House Joint Resolution No. 52 was
adopted in concurrence with the House.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
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JUDICIARY. S.J. No. 34 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
THE HONORABLE L. PAUL SULLIVAN, ESQUIRE, OF WEST HARTFORD, TO BE A
JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:29 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Joint Resolution No. 34 was
adopted.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
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BUSINESS ON THE CALENDAR
FAVORABLE REPORTS OF THE JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE
JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
RULES SUSPENDED
IMMEDIATE TRANSMITTAL TO THE HOUSE
The following favorable reports were taken from the table,
read the third time, the reports of the committees accepted and
the resolutions adopted.
JUDICIARY. S.J. No. 35 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
SUSAN B. HANDY, ESQUIRE, OF PAWCATUCK, TO BE A JUDGE OF THE
SUPERIOR COURT.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
Remarking on the resolution was Senator Larson of the 3rd.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:32 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Joint Resolution No. 35 was
adopted.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
N 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
On motion of Senator DiBella of the 1st the rules were
suspended for immediate transmittal of the resolution to the
House.
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JUDICIARY. S.J. No. 36 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
KEVIN P. MCMAHON, ESQUIRE, OF WEST HARTFORD, TO BE A JUDGE OF THE
SUPERIOR COURT.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:34 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Joint Resolution No. 36 was
adopted.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
On motion of Senator DiBella of the 1st the rules were
suspended for immediate transmittal of the resolution to the
House.
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JUDICIARY. S.J. No. 37 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
ROBERT J. DEVLIN, JR., ESQUIRE, OF GUILFORD, TO BE A JUDGE OF THE
SUPERIOR COURT.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:37 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Joint Resolution No. 37 was
adopted.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
On motion of Senator DiBella of the 1st the rules were
suspended for immediate transmittal of the resolution to the
House.
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JUDICIARY. S.J. No. 40 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
THE HONORABLE FLEMMING L. NORCOTT, JR., OF NEW HAVEN, TO BE AN
ASSOCIATE JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT AND A JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR
COURT.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
Remarking on the resolution was Senator Harp of the 10th.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:46 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Joint Resolution No. 40 was
adopted.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
On motion of Senator DiBella of the 1st the rules were
suspended for immediate transmittal of the resolution to the
House.
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JUDICIARY. S.J. No. 42 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
DOUGLAS S. LAVINE, ESQUIRE, OF FARMINGTON, TO BE A JUDGE OF THE
SUPERIOR COURT.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
Remarking on the resolution was Senator Harp of the 10th.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:50 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Joint Resolution No. 42 was
adopted.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
On motion of Senator DiBella of the 1st the rules were
suspended for immediate transmittal of the resolution to the
House.
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JUDICIARY. S.J. No. 43 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
THE HONORABLE JOETTE KATZ OF FAIRFIELD, TO BE AN ASSOCIATE JUDGE
OF THE CONNECTICUT SUPREME COURT AND A JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR
COURT.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:53 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Joint Resolution No. 43 was
adopted.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
On motion of Senator DiBella of the 1st the rules were
suspended for immediate transmittal of the resolution to the
House.
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BUSINESS ON THE CALENDAR
FAVORABLE REPORTS OF THE JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE
JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
The following favorable reports were taken from the table,
read the third time, the reports of the committees accepted and
the resolutions adopted.
JUDICIARY. S.J. No. 38 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
THE HONORABLE PATTY JENKINS PITTMAN, ESQUIRE, OF HAMDEN, TO BE A
JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:39 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Joint Resolution No. 38 was
adopted.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
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JUDICIARY. S.J. No. 39 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
THE HONORABLE RICHARD M. RITTENBAND, ESQUIRE, OF SOUTH WINDSOR, TO
BE A JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
Remarking on the resolution was Senator Larson of the 3rd.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:42 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Joint Resolution No. 39 was
adopted.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
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JUDICIARY. S.J. No. 41 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
THE HONORABLE KEVIN E. BOOTH, ESQUIRE, OF NIANTIC, TO BE A JUDGE
OF THE SUPERIOR COURT.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:48 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Joint Resolution No. 41 was
adopted.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
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JUDICIARY. S.J. No. 44 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
THE HONORABLE NICOLA E. RUBINOW, ESQUIRE, OF WEST HARTFORD, TO BE
A JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:55 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Joint Resolution No. 44 was
adopted.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
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JUDICIARY. S.J. No. 45 RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF
THE HONORABLE BARRY R. SCHALLER OF MADISON, TO BE A JUDGE OF THE
APPELLATE COURT AND A JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT.
Senator Jepsen of the 27th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 2:57 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Joint Resolution No. 45 was
adopted.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
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BUSINESS ON THE CALENDAR
FAVORABLE REPORTS OF THE JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE
EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE NOMINATIONS
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
The following favorable reports were taken from the table,
read the third time, the reports of the committee accepted and the
resolutions adopted.
EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE NOMINATIONS. H.J. No. 39 RESOLUTION
CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF R. BARTLEY HALLORAN, ESQUIRE, OF WEST
HARTFORD, TO BE A MEMBER OF THE JUDICIAL REVIEW COUNCIL.
Senator Mustone of the 13th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 3:00 p.m.:
On the roll call vote the House Joint Resolution No. 39 was
adopted in concurrence with the House.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON Y 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
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EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE NOMINATIONS. H.J. No. 40 RESOLUTION
CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF BONITA D. GRUBBS OF NEW HAVEN, TO BE
A LAY MEMBER OF THE JUDICIAL REVIEW COUNCIL.
Senator Mustone of the 13th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption and requested that the vote be taken by roll call.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 3:03 p.m.:
On the roll call vote the House Joint Resolution No. 40 was
adopted in concurrence with the House.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON Y 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
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EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE NOMINATIONS. H.J. No. 41 RESOLUTION
CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF CHARLES RIORDAN, M.D., OF MADISON, TO
BE A MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY BOARD TO THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION
COMMISSION.
Senator Mustone of the 13th explained the resolution and moved
its adoption and requested that the vote be taken by roll call
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 3:06 p.m.:
On the roll call vote the House Joint Resolution No. 41 was
adopted in concurrence with the House.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON Y 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
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BUSINESS ON THE CALENDAR
FAVORABLE REPORT OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE
RESOLUTION
The following report was taken from the table, read the third
time, the report of the committee pursuant to Joint Rule 31
accepted and the motion to reject the resolution failed.
APPROPRIATIONS. S.R. No. 9 (File No. 2) RESOLUTION PROPOSING
APPROVAL OF AN ARBITRATION AWARD BETWEEN THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF COMMUNITY-TECHNICAL COLLEGES AND THE
FEDERATION OF TECHNICAL COLLEGE TEACHERS, LOCAL 1942, AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, AFL-CIO.
Senator Harper of the 6th moved to reject the resolution.
Remarking on the resolution were Senators Sullivan of the 5th,
Freedman of the 26th, Larson of the 3rd and Genuario of the 25th.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 3:31 p.m.:
On the roll call vote the motion to reject Senate Resolution
No. 9 failed. The required 2/3rds vote for rejection was not met.
The following is the roll call vote:
N 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA N 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
N 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER N 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON Y 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
N 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
N 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN N 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. N 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
N 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI N 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
N 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
N 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE N 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON N 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
N 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
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INTRODUCTION OF SENATE RESOLUTION
RESOLUTION ADOPTED
The following resolution was introduced, read and adopted.
S.R. No. 11 SEN. DIBELLA, 1st DIST. RESOLUTION RAISING A
COMMITTEE TO INFORM THE HOUSE THAT THE SENATE IS ORGANIZED AND
READY TO MEET IN JOINT CONVENTION.
Senator DiBella of the 1st explained the resolution and moved
its adoption.
On a voice vote the resolution was adopted.
The following is the resolution.
Resolved by the Senate:
That a committee of three senators be appointed to inform the
House that the Senate is ready to meet the House in Joint
Convention.
The President appointed Senators Mustone of the 13th, Sullivan
of the 5th and DeLuca of the 32nd.
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RECESS
On motion of Senator DiBella of the 1st, the Senate at 3:33
p.m. recessed.
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JOINT CONVENTION
The Honorable Senate, preceded by the Honorable Lieutenant
Governor and the Clerks of the Senate, entered the House of
Representatives and met the House in Joint Convention.
The President of the Senate called the Joint Convention to
order.
The prayer was offered by the Senate Chaplain, Reverend Joseph
A. Devine of Waterbury, Connecticut.
The following is the prayer.
Let us pray: Be with us, O Lord, as we gather, somewhat
apprehensively, in Joint Session to hear Governor Weicker's Budget
Message. Budgets are very difficult whether it is for an
individual, school, church and especially so for government where
there are so many variables and imponderables. May our
guesstimates be totally realistic so that decisions may be less
cloudy and uncertain. Confirm our Governor's sensitivity to the
needs of so many people. Inspire our legislators to look at budget
decisions in the light of the support and help they can give to
all our fellow citizens. We ask this through our Heavenly Father.
Amen.
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PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Senator Milner of the 2nd led the Joint Convention in the
Pledge of Allegiance.
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JOINT CONVENTION RESOLUTION
RESOLUTION ADOPTED
The following Joint Convention Resolution was introduced, read
and adopted.
J.C. No. 46 SEN. DIBELLA, 1st DIST.; REP. LUBY, 82nd DIST.
RESOLUTION RAISING A COMMITTEE TO INVITE THE GOVERNOR TO ATTEND
THE JOINT CONVENTION.
On a motion of Senator DiBella of the 1st, the resolution was
adopted by a voice vote.
The following is the resolution.
Resolved by this Assembly:
That a committee of two senators and two representatives be
appointed to inform his excellency, the Governor, that the Senate
and the House of Representatives are met in joint convention for
the purpose of receiving his message concerning the budget.
The President appointed Senator DiBella of the 1st, Senator
Eads of the 30th, Representative Luby of the 82nd and
Representative Krawiecki of the 78th.
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The Governor thereupon appeared in the Hall of the House and
delivered his budget address.
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JOINT CONVENTION RESOLUTION
RESOLUTION ADOPTED
The following Joint Convention Resolution was introduced, read
and adopted.
J.C. No. 47 SEN. DIBELLA, 1st DIST.; REP. LUBY, 82nd DIST.
RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE PRINTING OF THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE
CONCERNING THE BUDGET.
On a motion of Senator DiBella of the 1st, the resolution was
adopted by a voice vote.
The following is the resolution.
Resolved by this Assembly:
That the message of the governor be printed in the journals of
the senate and the house of representatives and that a sufficient
number of copies be printed for general distribution.
After the Governor delivered his message, Senator DiBella of
the 1st moved for dissolution of the Joint Convention.
The President thereupon dissolved the Joint Convention and the
Senate withdrew.
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REPORT OF THE JOINT CONVENTION
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate:
It is my duty to report to you the proceedings of the Joint
Convention.
Upon the invitation of the House, the Senate met the House in
convention for the purpose of receiving any communications which
the Governor might choose to make.
Her Honor, the Lieutenant Governor, presided over the
Convention.
Prayer was offered by the Senate Chaplin Reverend Joseph A.
Devine of Waterbury, Connecticut.
Senator DiBella of the 1st offered a resolution Raising a
Committee of two Senators and two Representatives to inform His
Excellency, the Governor, that the Senate and House of
Representatives were met in Joint Convention for the purpose of
receiving his message concerning the budget.
The resolution was adopted and Senators DiBella of the 1st,
Eads of the 30th, Representatives Luby of the 82nd and Krawiecki
of the 78th were appointed as such committee.
The committee soon reported that they had performed the duties
assigned to them and had been informed that the Governor would
soon come into the Convention.
The Governor thereupon appeared in the Hall of the House of
Representatives and addressed the joint convention.
His Excellency delivered his budget message to the convention
a copy of which he left in my hands for the use of the General
Assembly.
Presently all of the executive officers retired from the Hall
of the House of Representatives.
Senator DiBella of the 1st offered a resolution concerning the
printing of the Governors message.
The resolution was adopted.
Upon motion of Senator DiBella of the 1st it was voted that
the Convention be dissolved.
The President thereupon dissolved the Convention and the
Senate withdrew.
Respectfully Submitted,
JOHN B. LARSON
President Pro Tempore
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AFTER RECESS
The Senate reconvened at 5:31 p.m. the President in the Chair.
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FAVORABLE REPORT OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE
SENATE RESOLUTION
The following favorable report was received from the Senate
Committee indicated, read the second time and tabled for the
calendar.
EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE NOMINATIONS. S.R. No. 12 RESOLUTION
CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF WILLIAM D. MORABITO OF WILLINGTON, TO
BE A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF PAROLE.
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BUSINESS FROM THE HOUSE
EMERGENCY CERTIFICATION
HOUSE BILL PASSED
The following House Bill was introduced, read and passed.
(Emergency Certification signed by the President Pro Tempore of
the Senate and the Speaker of the House accompanied the bill in
accordance with Section 2-26 of the Connecticut General Statutes
and Rules 9 and 15 of the Joint Rules.)
H.B. No. 6906 REP. RITTER, 2nd DIST.; SEN. LARSON, 3rd DIST.;
REP. FIGUEROA, 3rd DIST.; REP. GRAZIANI, 57th DIST. AN ACT
CREATING CERTAIN DEDUCTIONS TO AND AMENDING THE RATE OF PERSONAL
INCOME TAX.(As amended by House Amendment Schedule "A").
Senator Maloney of the 24th explained the bill, as amended,
and moved it passage.
Senator Robertson of the 34th raised a Point of Order as to
whether the bill was properly before the Senate.
Remarking on the Point of Order was Senator DiBella of the
1st.
The Chair ruled the Point of Order not well taken.
Senator Maloney of the 24th moved passage of the bill, as
amended.
Remarking on the bill, as amended, was Senator Nickerson of
the 36th.
Senator Guglielmo of the 35th offered Senate Amendment
Schedule "A" (LCO 4327), moved its adoption and requested that
the vote be taken by roll call.
Remarking on the amendment was Senator Maloney of the 24th.
Remarking on the amendment was Senator Lovegrove of the 28th.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 6:15 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Amendment Schedule "A" was
rejected.
The following is the roll call vote:
N 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA N 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
N 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER N 20 MELODIE PETERS
N 3 JOHN B. LARSON Y 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
N 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
N 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN N 23 ALVIN W. PENN
N 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. N 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT N 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING N 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
N 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI N 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
N 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
N 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY N 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
N 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH N 30 M. ADELA EADS
N 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE N 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON N 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
N 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
N 18 CATHERINE W. COOK N 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
The following is Senate Amendment Schedule "A" (LCO 4327).
Strike out everything after the enacting clause and substitute
the following in lieu thereof:
"Section 1. Section 12-700 of the general statutes is repealed
and the following is substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) There is hereby imposed on the Connecticut taxable income
of each resident of this state a tax at the rate of four and
one-half per cent of such Connecticut taxable income for taxable
years commencing on or after January 1, 1992, AND PRIOR TO JANUARY
1, 1993. The provisions of this subsection shall apply to resident
trusts and estates and, wherever reference is made in this
subsection to residents of this state, such reference shall be
construed to include resident trusts and estates, provided any
reference to a resident's Connecticut adjusted gross income
derived from sources without this state or to a resident's
Connecticut adjusted gross income shall be construed, in the case
of a resident trust or estate, to mean the resident trust or
estate's Connecticut taxable income derived from sources without
this state and the resident trust or estate's Connecticut taxable
income, respectively.
(b) There is hereby imposed on the Connecticut taxable income
derived from or connected with sources within this state of each
nonresident a tax at the rate of four and one-half per cent of
such Connecticut taxable income for taxable years commencing on or
after January 1, 1992, AND PRIOR TO JANUARY 1, 1993. The tax shall
be the product of an amount equal to the tax computed as if such
nonresident were a resident and then multiplied by a fraction, the
numerator of which is the nonresident's Connecticut adjusted gross
income derived from or connected with sources within this state
and the denominator of which is the nonresident's Connecticut
adjusted gross income, provided, if the nonresident's Connecticut
adjusted gross income is less than such nonresident's Connecticut
adjusted gross income derived from or connected with sources
within this state, (1) such nonresident's Connecticut adjusted
gross income derived from or connected with sources within this
state, reduced by the amount of the exemption provided in section
12-702, shall be such nonresident's Connecticut taxable income
derived from or connected with sources within this state and (2)
such nonresident's Connecticut adjusted gross income derived from
or connected with sources within this state shall be such
nonresident's Connecticut adjusted gross income for the purposes
of determining the credit pursuant to section 12-703. The
provisions of this subsection shall also apply to nonresident
trusts and estates and, wherever reference is made in this
subsection to nonresidents of this state, such reference shall be
construed to include nonresident trusts and estates, provided any
reference to a nonresident's Connecticut adjusted gross income
derived from sources within this state or to a nonresident's
Connecticut adjusted gross income shall be construed, in the case
of a nonresident trust or estate, to mean the nonresident trust or
estate's Connecticut taxable income derived from sources within
this state and the nonresident trust or estate's Connecticut
taxable income, respectively.
(c) There is hereby imposed on the Connecticut taxable income
derived from or connected with sources within this state of each
part-year resident a tax at the rate of four and one-half per cent
of such Connecticut taxable income for taxable years commencing on
or after January 1, 1992, AND PRIOR TO JANUARY 1, 1993. The tax
shall be a product equal to the tax computed as if such part-year
resident were a resident and then multiplied by a fraction, the
numerator of which is the part-year resident's Connecticut
adjusted gross income derived from or connected with sources
within this state and the denominator of which is the part-year
resident's Connecticut adjusted gross income, provided, if the
part-year resident's Connecticut adjusted gross income is less
than such part-year resident's Connecticut adjusted gross income
derived from or connected with sources within this state, (1) such
part-year resident's Connecticut adjusted gross income derived
from or connected with sources within this state, reduced by the
amount of the exemption provided in section 12-702, shall be such
part-year resident's Connecticut taxable income derived from or
connected with sources within this state and (2) such part-year
resident's Connecticut adjusted gross income derived from or
connected with sources within this state shall be such part-year
resident's adjusted gross income for the purposes of determining
the credit pursuant to section 12-703. The provisions of this
subsection shall apply to part-year resident trusts and, wherever
reference is made in this subsection to part-year residents, such
reference shall be construed to include part-year resident trusts,
provided any reference to a part-year resident's Connecticut
adjusted gross income derived from sources within this state or a
part-year resident's Connecticut adjusted gross income shall be
construed, in the case of a part-year resident trust, to mean the
part-year resident trust's Connecticut taxable income derived from
sources within this state and the part-year resident trust's
Connecticut taxable income, respectively.
(d) The provisions of this chapter shall be applicable with
respect to any person, trust or estate. Whenever, in this chapter,
"any person" appears without "trust or estate", the reference to
any person shall be deemed to include any trust and any estate
unless, in the context of the particular provision, the reference
to any person could not be applicable in the case of a trust or in
the case of an estate.
Sec. 2. Section 12-33a of the general statutes is repealed and
the following is substituted in lieu thereof:
The court shall not waive statutory interest on any amount of
tax for which any person is liable pursuant to the provisions of
chapter 207, 208, 209, 210, 210a, 211, 212, 212a, 214, 214a, 216,
217, 218a, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 227 [,] OR 228b [or
229] and which is not paid within the time specified by law.
Sec. 3. Section 12-35b of the general statutes is repealed and
the following is substituted in lieu thereof:
For the purposes of sections 12-204, 12-212, 12-330i, 12-235,
12-268h, 12-309, 12-405d, 12-420, 12-441, 12-475, 12-488, 12-512,
12-555a, 12-594, 12-638j and 51-81b: [and 12-734:]
(a) "Bona fide purchaser" means a person who takes a
conveyance of real estate in good faith from the holder of legal
title, and pays valuable consideration, without actual, implied,
or constructive notice of any tax delinquency.
(b) "Qualified encumbrancer" means a person who places a
burden, charge or lien on real estate, in good faith, without
actual, implied, or constructive notice of any tax delinquency.
(c) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of revenue services
or his authorized agent.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from its passage and shall
be applicable to taxable years commencing on or after January 1,
1993."
Senator Smith of the 14th offered Senate Amendment Schedule
"B" (LCO 1356), moved its adoption and requested that the vote be
taken by roll call.
Remarking on the amendment was Senator Maloney of the 24th.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 6:26 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Amendment Schedule "B" was
rejected.
The following is the roll call vote:
N 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA N 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
N 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER N 20 MELODIE PETERS
N 3 JOHN B. LARSON Y 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
N 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
N 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN N 23 ALVIN W. PENN
N 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. N 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT N 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
N 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI N 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
N 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
N 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY N 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
N 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
N 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE N 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON N 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
N 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK N 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
The following is Senate Amendment Schedule "B" (LCO 1356).
Strike out everything after the enacting clause and substitute
the following in lieu thereof:
"Section 1. Section 12-700 of the general statutes is repealed
and the following is substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) There is hereby imposed on the Connecticut taxable income
of each resident of this state a tax [at] FOR TAXABLE YEARS
COMMENCING ON AND AFTER JANUARY 1, 1992, AND PRIOR TO JANUARY 1,
1997, AS FOLLOWS: AT the rate of four and one-half per cent of
such Connecticut taxable income for THE taxable years commencing
[on or after] January 1, 1992, AND JANUARY 1, 1993; AT THE RATE OF
THREE AND ONE-HALF PER CENT FOR THE TAXABLE YEAR COMMENCING
JANUARY 1, 1994; AT THE RATE OF TWO AND ONE-HALF PER CENT FOR THE
TAXABLE YEAR COMMENCING JANUARY 1, 1995; AND AT THE RATE OF ONE
AND ONE-HALF PER CENT FOR THE TAXABLE YEAR COMMENCING JANUARY 1,
1996. The provisions of this subsection shall apply to resident
trusts and estates and, wherever reference is made in this
subsection to residents of this state, such reference shall be
construed to include resident trusts and estates, provided any
reference to a resident's Connecticut adjusted gross income
derived from sources without this state or to a resident's
Connecticut adjusted gross income shall be construed, in the case
of a resident trust or estate, to mean the resident trust or
estate's Connecticut taxable income derived from sources without
this state and the resident trust or estate's Connecticut taxable
income, respectively.
(b) There is hereby imposed on the Connecticut taxable income
derived from or connected with sources within this state of each
nonresident a tax [at] FOR TAXABLE YEARS COMMENCING ON AND AFTER
JANUARY 1, 1992, AND PRIOR TO JANUARY 1, 1997, AS FOLLOWS: AT the
rate of four and one-half per cent of such Connecticut taxable
income for THE taxable years commencing [on or after] January 1,
1992, AND JANUARY 1, 1993; AT THE RATE OF THREE AND ONE-HALF PER
CENT FOR THE TAXABLE YEAR COMMENCING JANUARY 1, 1994; AT THE RATE
OF TWO AND ONE-HALF PER CENT FOR THE TAXABLE YEAR COMMENCING
JANUARY 1, 1995; AND AT THE RATE OF ONE AND ONE-HALF PER CENT FOR
THE TAXABLE YEAR COMMENCING JANUARY 1, 1996. The tax shall be the
product of an amount equal to the tax computed as if such
nonresident were a resident and then multiplied by a fraction, the
numerator of which is the nonresident's Connecticut adjusted gross
income derived from or connected with sources within this state
and the denominator of which is the nonresident's Connecticut
adjusted gross income, provided, if the nonresident's Connecticut
adjusted gross income is less than such nonresident's Connecticut
adjusted gross income derived from or connected with sources
within this state, (1) such nonresident's Connecticut adjusted
gross income derived from or connected with sources within this
state, reduced by the amount of the exemption provided in section
12-702, shall be such nonresident's Connecticut taxable income
derived from or connected with sources within this state and (2)
such nonresident's Connecticut adjusted gross income derived from
or connected with sources within this state shall be such
nonresident's Connecticut adjusted gross income for the purposes
of determining the credit pursuant to section 12-703. The
provisions of this subsection shall also apply to nonresident
trusts and estates and, wherever reference is made in this
subsection to nonresidents of this state, such reference shall be
construed to include nonresident trusts and estates, provided any
reference to a nonresident's Connecticut adjusted gross income
derived from sources within this state or to a nonresident's
Connecticut adjusted gross income shall be construed, in the case
of a nonresident trust or estate, to mean the nonresident trust or
estate's Connecticut taxable income derived from sources within
this state and the nonresident trust or estate's Connecticut
taxable income, respectively.
(c) There is hereby imposed on the Connecticut taxable income
derived from or connected with sources within this state of each
part-year resident a tax [at] FOR TAXABLE YEARS COMMENCING ON AND
AFTER JANUARY 1, 1992, AND PRIOR TO JANUARY 1, 1997, AS FOLLOWS:
AT the rate of four and one-half per cent of such Connecticut
taxable income for THE taxable years commencing [on or after]
January 1, 1992, AND JANUARY 1, 1993; AT THE RATE OF THREE AND
ONE-HALF PER CENT FOR THE TAXABLE YEAR COMMENCING JANUARY 1, 1994;
AT THE RATE OF TWO AND ONE-HALF PER CENT FOR THE TAXABLE YEAR
COMMENCING JANUARY 1, 1995; AND AT THE RATE OF ONE AND ONE-HALF
PER CENT FOR THE TAXABLE YEAR COMMENCING JANUARY 1, 1996. The tax
shall be a product equal to the tax computed as if such part-year
resident were a resident and then multiplied by a fraction, the
numerator of which is the part-year resident's Connecticut
adjusted gross income derived from or connected with sources
within this state and the denominator of which is the part-year
resident's Connecticut adjusted gross income, provided, if the
part-year resident's Connecticut adjusted gross income is less
than such part-year resident's Connecticut adjusted gross income
derived from or connected with sources within this state, (1) such
part-year resident's Connecticut adjusted gross income derived
from or connected with sources within this state, reduced by the
amount of the exemption provided in section 12-702, shall be such
part-year resident's Connecticut taxable income derived from or
connected with sources within this state and (2) such part-year
resident's Connecticut adjusted gross income derived from or
connected with sources within this state shall be such part-year
resident's adjusted gross income for the purposes of determining
the credit pursuant to section 12-703. The provisions of this
subsection shall apply to part-year resident trusts and, wherever
reference is made in this subsection to part-year residents, such
reference shall be construed to include part-year resident trusts,
provided any reference to a part-year resident's Connecticut
adjusted gross income derived from sources within this state or a
part-year resident's Connecticut adjusted gross income shall be
construed, in the case of a part-year resident trust, to mean the
part-year resident trust's Connecticut taxable income derived from
sources within this state and the part-year resident trust's
Connecticut taxable income, respectively.
(d) The provisions of this chapter shall be applicable with
respect to any person, trust or estate. Whenever, in this chapter,
"any person" appears without "trust or estate", the reference to
any person shall be deemed to include any trust and any estate
unless, in the context of the particular provision, the reference
to any person could not be applicable in the case of a trust or in
the case of an estate."
Senator Robertson of the 35th offered Senate Amendment
Schedule "C" (LCO 3067) and then withdrew it.
Senator Robertson of the 34th offered Senate Amendment
Schedule "D" (LCO 2915), moved its adoption and requested that the
vote be taken by roll call.
Remarking on the amendment was Senator Maloney of the 24th.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 6:38 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Amendment Schedule "D" was
rejected.
The following is the roll call vote:
N 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA N 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
N 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER N 20 MELODIE PETERS
N 3 JOHN B. LARSON Y 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
N 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
N 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN N 23 ALVIN W. PENN
N 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. N 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT N 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
N 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI N 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
N 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
N 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY N 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
N 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE N 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON N 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
N 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK N 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
The following is Senate Amendment Schedule "D" (LCO 2915).
In line 437, strike the word "and"
In line 449, before the period, insert the following: ", and
(xi) any unemployment compensation to the extent it is included in
adjusted gross income, as determined for federal income tax
purposes"
Senator Robertson of the 34th offered Senate Amendment
Schedule "E" (LCO 3066), moved its adoption and requested that the
vote be taken by roll call.
Remarking on the amendment was Senator Maloney of the 24th.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 6:42 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Amendment Schedule "E" was
rejected.
The following is the roll call vote:
N 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA N 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
N 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER N 20 MELODIE PETERS
N 3 JOHN B. LARSON Y 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
N 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
N 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN N 23 ALVIN W. PENN
N 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. N 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
N 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI N 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
N 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
N 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY N 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
N 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE N 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON N 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
N 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
The following is Senate Amendment Schedule "E" (LCO 3066).
After section 9 insert the following and renumber the
remaining sections accordingly:
"Sec. 10. (NEW) Any person, other than a trust or estate,
subject to the tax under chapter 229 of the general statutes, as
amended by this act, for any taxable year shall be entitled to a
credit in determining the amount of tax liability in an amount
equal to the cost paid for long-term care insurance."
Senator Robertson of the 34th offered Senate Amendment
Schedule "F" (LCO 2931), moved its adoption and requested that the
vote be taken by roll call.
Remarking on the amendment were Senators Upson of the 15th and
Maloney of the 24th.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 6:51 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Amendment Schedule "F" was
rejected.
The following is the roll call vote:
N 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA N 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
N 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER N 20 MELODIE PETERS
N 3 JOHN B. LARSON Y 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
N 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
N 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN N 23 ALVIN W. PENN
N 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. N 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
N 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI N 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
N 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
N 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY N 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
N 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE N 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON N 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
N 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
The following is Senate Amendment Schedule "F" (LCO 2931).
Strike section 5 in its entirety and insert the following in
lieu thereof:
"Sec. 5. (NEW) Any person subject to tax under chapter 229 of
the general statutes, as amended by this act, shall be entitled,
in addition to any exemption to which any such person is entitled
pursuant to section 12-702 of the general statutes, as amended by
section 3 of this act, to a deduction from Connecticut adjusted
gross income, for purposes of said chapter 229, for each
dependent, as defined in Section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code,
for which such person is entitled to take a deduction pursuant to
the Internal Revenue Code, of one thousand dollars and for any
medical expenses incurred by the taxpayer."
Senator Robertson of the 34th offered Senate Amendment
Schedule "G" (LCO 2932), moved its adoption and requested that the
vote be taken by roll call.
Remarking on the amendment was Senator Maloney of the 24th.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 6:56 p.m.:
On the roll call vote Senate Amendment Schedule "G" was
rejected.
The following is the roll call vote:
N 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA N 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
N 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER N 20 MELODIE PETERS
N 3 JOHN B. LARSON Y 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
N 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI Y 22 LEE SCARPETTI
N 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN N 23 ALVIN W. PENN
N 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. N 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT Y 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
Y 8 JAMES T. FLEMING Y 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
N 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI N 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
N 10 TONI N. HARP Y 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
N 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY N 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
Y 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH Y 30 M. ADELA EADS
N 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE N 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
Y 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. Y 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
Y 15 THOMAS F. UPSON N 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
N 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. Y 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
Y 18 CATHERINE W. COOK Y 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
The following is Senate Amendment Schedule "G" (LCO 2932).
Strike section 5 in its entirety and insert the following in
lieu thereof:
"Sec. 5. (NEW) Any person subject to tax under chapter 229 of
the general statutes, as amended by this act, shall be entitled,
in addition to any exemption to which any such person is entitled
pursuant to section 12-702 of the general statutes, as amended by
section 3 of this act, to a deduction from Connecticut adjusted
gross income, for purposes of said chapter 229, for each
dependent, as defined in Section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code,
for which such person is entitled to take a deduction pursuant to
the Internal Revenue Code, of one thousand dollars and for any
expenses incurred by the taxpayer for nursing home care."
Senator Maloney of the 24th moved passage of the bill, as
amended.
Remarking on the bill, as amended, were Senators Robertson of
the 34th, Sullivan of the 5th and DiBella of the 1st.
Also remarking on the bill, as amended, were Senator
Aniskovich of the 12th and Eads of the 30th.
The chair ordered the vote be taken by roll call.
The following is the result of the vote at 7:16 p.m.:
On the roll call vote House Bill No. 6906, as amended, by
House Amendment Schedule "A" was passed in concurrence with House.
The following is the roll call vote:
Y 1 WILLIAM A. DIBELLA Y 19 KENNETH L. PRZYBYSZ
Y 2 THIRMAN L. MILNER Y 20 MELODIE PETERS
Y 3 JOHN B. LARSON N 21 GEORGE L. GUNTHER
Y 4 MICHAEL P. MEOTTI N 22 LEE SCARPETTI
Y 5 KEVIN B. SULLIVAN Y 23 ALVIN W. PENN
Y 6 JOSEPH H. HARPER, JR. Y 24 JAMES H. MALONEY
A 7 VACANT SEAT N 25 ROBERT GENUARIO
N 8 JAMES T. FLEMING N 26 JUDITH G. FREEDMAN
Y 9 RICHARD J. BALDUCCI Y 27 GEORGE C. JEPSEN
Y 10 TONI N. HARP N 28 FRED H. LOVEGROVE, JR.
Y 11 MARTIN M. LOONEY Y 29 DONALD E. WILLIAMS, JR.
N 12 WILLIAM ANISKOVICH N 30 M. ADELA EADS
Y 13 AMELIA P. MUSTONE Y 31 THOMAS A. COLAPIETRO
N 14 WINTHROP SMITH, JR. N 32 LOUIS C. DELUCA
N 15 THOMAS F. UPSON Y 33 EILEEN M. DAILY
Y 16 STEPHEN R. SOMMA Y 34 PHILIP S. ROBERTSON
Y 17 JOSEPH J. CRISCO, JR. N 35 ANTHONY GUGLIELMO
N 18 CATHERINE W. COOK N 36 WILLIAM H. NICKERSON
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RECESS
On motion of Senator DiBella of the 1st, the Senate at 7:16
p.m. recessed.
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AFTER RECESS
The Senate reconvened at 8:02 p.m. Senator Balducci of the 9th
in the Chair.
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INTRODUCTION OF SENATE BILLS
JOINT RULE 9
On motion of Senator Fleming of the 8th, the following bills
were introduced, by request of the Governor read by the clerk and
referred to the appropriate committee.
APPROPRIATIONS
S.B. No. 827 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT ESTABLISHING AN ADMINISTRATIVE FEE FOR THE TEACHERS'
RETIREMENT FUND', to implement the governor's budget proposal.
S.B. No. 828 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING DISABILITY RETIREMENT UNDER THE STATE TEACHERS'
RETIREMENT SYSTEM', to implement the governor's budget proposal.
COMMERCE
S.B. No. 829 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING CERTAIN STATE GRANT PROGRAMS', to implement the
governor's budget proposal.
EDUCATION
S.B. No. 830 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE CONNECTICUT INDEPENDENT COLLEGE STUDENT
GRANT, THE TEACHER INCENTIVE LOAN PROGRAM AND THE ACADEMIC
SCHOLARSHIP LOAN PROGRAM', to implement the governor's budget
proposal.
S.B. No. 831 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING SCHOOL BREAKFASTS', to implement the governor's
budget proposal.
S.B. No. 832 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING QUALITY INTEGRATED EDUCATION', to implement the
governor's budget proposal.
S.B. No. 833 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING EDUCATION EQUALIZATION AID AND THE MINIMUM
EXPENDITURE REQUIREMENT', to implement the governor's budget
proposal.
S.B. No. 834 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING UNCAS-ON-THAMES HOSPITAL', to implement the
governor's budget proposal.
S.B. No. 835 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING CERTAIN EDUCATION GRANTS', to implement the
governor's budget proposal.
S.B. No. 836 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE CENTRAL NAUGATUCK VALLEY REGION HIGHER
EDUCATION CENTER', to implement the governor's budget proposal.
S.B. No. 837 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING MAGNET SCHOOLS, INTERDISTRICT SCHOOLS AND AN
INTERDISTRICT STUDENT ATTENDANCE PROGRAM', to implement the
governor's budget proposal.
S.B. No. 838 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING PRIVATE OCCUPATIONAL SCHOOLS', to implement the
governor's budget proposal.
ENERGY AND PUBLIC UTILITIES
S.B. No. 839 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS OF THE CONNECTICUT
ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM', to implement the governor's budget
proposal.
FINANCE, REVENUE AND BONDING
S.B. No. 840 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT INCREASING CERTAIN BOND AUTHORIZATIONS FOR CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENTS', to implement the Governor's recommended capital
budget for fiscal years 1994 and 1995 as follows:
S.B. No. 841 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING A TAX ON WATER COMPANIES', to implement the
governor's budget proposal.
S.B. No. 842 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE MOTOR FUELS TAX', to implement the
governor's budget recommendations.
S.B. No. 843 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE TAX ON COMMUNITY ANTENNA TELEVISION
SYSTEMS', to implement the governor's budget recommendations.
S.B. No. 844 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE AUTHORIZATION OF BONDS OF THE STATE FOR
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AND OTHER PURPOSES', to implement the
Governor's recommended capital budget for fiscal years 1994 and
1995 as follows:
ENVIRONMENT
S.B. No. 845 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING CREATION OF AN ENVIRONMENT FUND', to implement
the governor's budget proposal.
FINANCE, REVENUE AND BONDING
S.B. No. 846 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING A PROCEDURE FOR TAX APPEALS', to implement the
governor's budget proposal.
S.B. No. 847 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE CONNECTICUT GIFT TAX', to implement the
governor's budget recommendations.
S.B. No. 848 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE CONNECTICUT APPEALS BOARD FOR PROPERTY
VALUATION', to implement the governor's budget proposal.
S.B. No. 849 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE TAX ON CIGARETTES', to implement the
governor's budget recommendations.
S.B. No. 850 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE ROLLOVER OF CORPORATION BUSINESS TAX
CREDITS', to implement the governor's budget proposal.
S.B. No. 851 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING TOWN-AID ROAD GRANTS AND ENTITLEMENTS FOR LOCAL
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS', to implement the governor's budget
recommendations.
S.B. No. 852 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING MUTUAL FUND COMPANIES', to implement the
governor's budget recommendations.
GENERAL LAW
S.B. No. 853 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING FEES FOR ELEVATOR CERTIFICATES', to implement
the governor's budget proposal.
S.B. No. 854 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING TAXES ON ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES', to implement the
governor's budget proposal.
HUMAN SERVICES
S.B. No. 855 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT', to implement the
governor's budget proposal.
GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
S.B. No. 856 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE EMPLOYEE SUGGESTION AWARDS PROGRAM', to
implement the governor's budget proposal.
JUDICIARY
S.B. No. 857 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE PRETRIAL ALCOHOL EDUCATION SYSTEM', to
implement the governor's budget proposal.
S.B. No. 858 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING ADOPTION RECORD FEES', to implement the
governor's budget proposal.
LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
S.B. No. 859 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE ELIMINATION OF WAGE INEQUITIES IN STATE
SERVICE', to implement the governor's budget proposal.
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
S.B. No. 860 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING REGIONAL COOPERATION', to implement the
governors's budget proposal.
PUBLIC HEALTH
S.B. No. 861 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM', to implement the
governor's budget proposal.
S.B. No. 862 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE WITNESS FEE OF THE CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER',
to implement the Governor's budget proposal.
S.B. No. 863 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING AMENDMENT OF VITAL RECORDS FEE', to implement
the governor's budget proposal.
S.B. No. 864 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE COMMISSION ON HOSPITALS AND HEALTH CARE',
to implement the governor's budget proposal.
PUBLIC SAFETY
S.B. No. 865 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE CONSTRUCTION OR ALTERATION OF NONTHRESHOLD
STATE BUILDINGS OR STRUCTURES', to implement the governor's budget
proposal.
S.B. No. 866 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT INCREASING THE FEES FOR ISSUANCE AND RENEWAL OF PISTOL
PERMITS', to implement the governor's budget proposal.
S.B. No. 867 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING RELIEF PAYMENTS BY THE COMPTROLLER ON BEHALF OF
THE CONNECTICUT STATE POLICE ASSOCIATION AND THE CONNECTICUT STATE
FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION', to implement the governor's budget
proposal.
S.B. No. 868 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT INCREASING MUNICIPAL PAYMENT FOR RESIDENT STATE
POLICEMEN', to implement the governor's budget proposal.
TRANSPORTATION
S.B. No. 869 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE AUTHORIZATION OF SPECIAL TAX OBLIGATION
BONDS OF THE STATE FOR CERTAIN TRANSPORTATION PURPOSES', to
implement the Governor's recommended capital budget for
transportation purposes for fiscal years 1994 and 1995 as follows:
S.B. No. 870 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING THE METRO NORTH NEW HAVEN RAIL COMMUTER
COUNCIL', to implement the Governor's budget proposal.
S.B. No. 871 REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9.
'AN ACT CONCERNING AIRCRAFT REGISTRATION IN LIEU OF PERSONAL
PROPERTY TAX', to implement the governor's budget proposal.
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ADJOURNMENT
On motion of Senator Fleming of the 8th, the Senate at 8:05
p.m. adjourned subject to the call of the chair.
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BUSINESS FROM THE HOUSE
CHANGES OF REFERENCE
HOUSE BILLS
The following reports on House Bills, recommending a change of
reference were received from the committees indicated, the reports
of the committees accepted, and the bills referred as recommended:
ENERGY AND PUBLIC UTILITIES. Proposed H.B. No. 5351 AN ACT
CONCERNING CORDLESS TELEPHONES.
The bill was then referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
ENVIRONMENT. Proposed H.B. No. 6385 AN ACT CONCERNING AN
AUTHORIZATION OF BONDS OF THE STATE FOR THE WESTSIDE SEWER
INTERCEPTOR PROJECT IN DANBURY.
The bill was then referred to the Committee on Finance,
Revenue and Bonding.
PUBLIC HEALTH. Proposed H.B. No. 5793 AN ACT CONCERNING THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF A UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE HOSPITALS
OPERATED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH.
The bill was then referred to the Committee on Education.
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BUDGET ADDRESS
GOVERNOR LOWELL P. WEICKER, JR.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, STATE CAPITOL
February 3, 1993
Thank you much. Lt. Governor Groark, Mr. President, Mr.
Speaker, members of the General Assembly and people of the State
of Connecticut. The sound and fury of political beliefs make for
good theatre. But government, however, is the result of precisely
arrayed numbers on paper. But, by virtue of integrity and
priority, give voice to the aspirations of a people. Far from
being a dry academic exercise, a budget speaks eloquently and
hopefully elegantly as to what all of us deem important in our
lives.
For two years, certain circumstances did not permit us to
reach beyond history in our budget deliberations. The dispiriting
task of paying for past excesses permitted for little vision. The
lessons of living within our means and eschewing free lunches had
to be learned. But, that task is now behind us. These budgets for
'93-'94 and '94-'95, thanks to your wisdom, the first biennial
budget presented to the State of Connecticut. These budgets lead
toward the new century with changed priorities and state of the
art knowledge, all the while remembering lessons of fiscal
prudence only recently reacquired.
It could be said of the past that the life of Connecticut was
budgetarily exalted in terms of adults, government and suburbs.
This budget belongs to children, all children, to private sector
jobs and urban rebuilding. The fact that these budgets are honest
and not dragged down by past profligacy is a footnote of these
times--not the centerpiece of the document.
I met with a young group of students from Greens Farms earlier
today. They asked whether this was the number one problem in the
State of Connecticut--the budget, and believe me, it was a relief
to be able to respond no. Certainly, as much of a responsibility
to describe what our number one problem is, that being the economy
and jobs, what a relief to say no. Nothing more clearly shows, or
rather nothing shows more clearly, than the lack of deficits
during the past two years how far we've come and how unlimited the
opportunities ahead.
This budget contains no increases in the income tax--no
increase in the sales tax rate or base and no increase in
corporate taxes.
Now, let me explain the importance of this for the future.
The people of Connecticut paid an enormous price in dollars to
rectify past political shenanigans. They then confounded accepted
political wisdom and reelected those who played straight with
them on the deficit issue. In light of their laudatory behavior,
to respond with any increase now in income, corporate or sales
taxes would forever foreclose honest recognition for future
problems by their constituents. On this issue of taxes rests the
fragile trust our people have in their government, today and in
the future.
This budget continues our efforts to downsize state
government, presenting a four year period in which the rate of
growth of government expenditures has been cut almost in half.
This budget represents a $544 million dollar spending cut from
current services in fiscal year '93-'94 and an additional $401
million dollar cut in fiscal '94-'95. The strength of this budget
is not in the dollars to be spent but in the priorities
established and the ideas commenced.
The number one tenet underlying our rebuilding efforts has
been that to do anything for its citizens, the government itself
must be economically strong. The misguided policy of the
1980's--that of burdening Connecticut businesses and individuals
with excessive taxes to pay for riotous spending in good
times--set us up to be slam-dunked by a recession. It happened and
we're not going to try that game plan again. To paraphrase the old
saying: "once, shame on you; twice, shame on us."
Now, if I might depart from my prepared remarks, I understand
we've been busy today! I'd like to sort of expound on that just a
bit if I might. First of all, I understand that you had a repeal
measure, for whatever reason, of the income tax. I gather this
keeps on coming up. I just want to warn all of you that one of
these days the dog's going to catch the car.
But, more importantly, I'd like to comment on this matter of
repair as it's been presented. And, with apologies to Dolly
Parton, and also for the quality of my voice, "here you come
again!" And, as the phrase concludes, "just when I've begun to get
myself together". Now, I as your Governor, will take second place
to no one, on advocacy for the income tax and indeed for the
progressivity of it. I believe in progressive taxation and that
those who are better off should pay for the government. And
indeed, do you want to know what my greatest worry is? After
twenty years in public service--and I think I've created a lot of
wonderful things in the Senate and here--on my tombstone is going
to be the damned inscription, "Here's the Father of the Income
Tax". So I want to lay the basis as to where my philosophy lies.
It is with progressivity, but I want to tell you what's going on
with this repair bill.
This was everyone's worst nightmare--that we would put into
place a new revenue source, having run the well dry on sales taxes
and all the rest of the taxes that we had to go ahead with, that
we'd put into place a new revenue source. And, yes indeed, within
a year and a half of putting it in there, here we go! Again! And,
it couldn't come at a worse time as I seek to bring business into
the State of Connecticut--to have our businesses expand. What kind
of a message do you think it sends to the outside world, when
believe me, I understand the headline writers better than anyone
else. There, in the newspaper tomorrow will be, "Connecticut
Income Tax goes from Four and a half to Six Per Cent." They won't
tell you who. It'll just be, there goes the rate.
The income tax was important to this state, number one because
of its progressivity and number two, because it provided a stable
engine of revenue, of consistency. That's what business is
interested in--consistency and stability. Here we have a proposal
which initially was a big revenue raiser and then people scrambled
around to go and change it, which does little for the middle class
of Connecticut and which blows stability and consistency out the
window in terms of how our fiscal policy is viewed. Mark Twain
said it very well when he said "one of the brightest gems in the
New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it." I don't
want there to be any dazzling uncertainty as to the tax structure
of our State.
I want to be progressive, but I want it to be stable and sure,
so that as we're viewed by forty-nine other states and the world,
this is where they want to come. This indeed is once again the
land of steady habits. I would certainly hope it is understood by
all those who will pass on this issue that, no I did not want to
raise taxes in any manner, shape or form on anybody-- that I want
success, corporate and individual, in the State especially now as
we need jobs. We need purchasing. We need philanthropy. I want it
clearly understood that the State of Connecticut is not returning
to the past. That we are not going to change our tax policies to
accommodate philosophy in politics, but rather those policies are
there to run a state in a well planned way and one, that once
again, wants to become the industrial giant that it has always
been - its place in history.
I have no desire for a confrontation on this issue with any
individual or party in this Hall. But, my job as the Chief
Executive of this State, is to keep a steady hand on that tiller
and to do the best I can, with you, to assure that everybody who
wants to work in the State of Connecticut has a job. So, let's
reason on this matter together and I'm sure all will turn out well
in the end.
Now, our state's job prospects coming into the 1990's were a
mess.
- The highest corporate rate tax in the nation.
- The highest state sales tax.
- Among the highest loan defaults.
- No credit relief.
- No promotion of Connecticut as a place to do business.
- A government and legislature often downright hostile
to business.
- And looming overall, a state verging on bankruptcy.
This administration and the legislature took the field and set
four economic priorities:
- Get the state out of the hole and in shape to
help...while reducing the tax burden on employers
so they can invest in jobs.
- Provide relief from the credit crunch.
- Market Connecticut as a great place to do business.
- Make government user friendly.
Two years later, our budget is balanced, corporate taxes
rolled back 20 percent, the sales tax down 25 percent, and the
sales tax base for business has been reduced.
We have a $1 billion Connecticut Works Jobs Fund targeted at
credit relief.
Our New Connecticut marketing campaign has already brought 600
businesses to our doorstep.
Our environmental permit backlog is down by 50 percent and
businesses are finding that Connecticut is not here to hassle, but
for the first time, "here to help."
Just take a look at the figures. 342 companies financed,
30,000 jobs secured through $785 million in new credit and capital
driven by our programs.
That's progress and we've held a steady course. This budget
continues and expands those efforts. I am proposing an increase of
$45 million in direct cash lending authority to the Connecticut
Works Jobs Fund to increase its wallop. With hundreds of millions
of already available credit, and the active participation of 35
banks and 4 preferred lenders, the Jobs Fund will plow this state
right through the credit crunch.
To address an acute need in one of Connecticut's key strategic
industries, we propose redirecting $10 million of currently
underutilized loan funds into an Aerospace Subcontractor Fund to
keep our subcontractors economically viable through the current
downturn in the aerospace industry, and it should position
Connecticut, with its base of healthy subcontractors, to reap the
rewards when the industry rebounds.
Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, right here is the best possible
example of how we have to help ourselves. At the root of the
problems of that industry is the misuse of Chapter 11 -- airlines
going in and out of bankruptcy -- offering ridiculous fares --
undermining the fare structure of an industry. That's Washington's
job. Regulation has produced low cost air fares for New York and
Los Angeles and the highest fares in the country right out of here
from Bradley Field. The time has come to take a look at that and
whether or not we shouldn't re-regulate to establish service and a
fair structure of fares for all people of the Country.
But, we can help ourselves, and you know as well as I do that
it isn't just a question of Pratt and Whitney -- United
Technologies. There are hundreds of subcontractors in little towns
all over this State and they don't have the cash reserves of a
UTC, and you ought to know that your State is going to stand right
by them until we get through this mess and we're going to keep
them alive.
To further spur our recovery and enhance our future, I will be
proposing legislation to set up the Connecticut Future Works Fund.
This fund will match the $1 billion capacity of the Jobs Fund by
leveraging private capital and credit. It will do so by
redirecting funds from our underutilized Commercial Mortgage
Insurance Program. Its purposes is to increase support to our
small businesses, which are the greatest job generators in our
state; to increase equity capital investment in Connecticut
companies which is vital for expansion, and to spur research and
product development which will provide the base for our future
growth.
I am also proposing a Technology Development Corporation to
raise capital to buy, sell, or license products of Connecticut
researchers; a Higher Education Enhancement Program to tie the
state's economic development programs into our State's college and
university research base, and a joint Department of Economic
Development/Connecticut Development Authority initiative to
provide vigorous export financing and foreign trade support
services to Connecticut business.That's where the market is, it's
the world, and we've got to position ourselves to get into it and
to sell.
Our vision of the Connecticut economy 20 years down the road
is of a state known world-wide for its technology and the quality
of its products. And that's nothing new for our state, that's
history. Each of these innovative programs helps strategically
position us for the future.
We are also proposing reform of our Worker's Compensation
System to enable our businesses to compete with other states whose
costs are lower while still maintaining fair benefits for our
workers. And we will restore fiscal stability to our underfunded
unemployment compensation system, which will save Connecticut
employers millions in interest charges over the next eight years.
I want to also say here that these two go together. I hear all
these businessmen stomping around the place on worker's comp and
all the labor people around here on unemployment comp. Listen,
we're going to work this together. Everybody's coming to the table
to get this problem resolved, because it is problem.
Let me conclude the jobs initiative where it should begin --
with our workforce.
We talk of technology and exports, defense diversification.
All are important for today. But in the year 2000 one fact will
bless or doom our well-made plans: the availability of an
educated, skilled workforce.
Between 1980 and 1988, 43 percent of all new workers in
Connecticut were members of minority groups -- a percentage that's
only going to increase by leaps and bounds in the future. The
majority of these workers will come from our inner cities where
today, in our schools, they are victims of racial isolation.
This is the "jobs" issue long-term and, like nothing else,
rectifying it is in our economic self-interest. Ending racial
isolation by learning, then working together, is the linchpin of
Connecticut's future prosperity.
Always, our obligation is to look ahead and whether job
creation, health care, a clean environment, the cities, or
education, this budget is about what we can do now to better
position our tomorrows.
Consider the health care crisis. Today the high costs of
health care eat into corporate profits and family budgets alike.
Money that could be used for reinvestment in jobs or for savings
for a home or for a college education, is no longer available.
Last year, Connecticut spent $11.7 billion on health care. That's
$3,667 a person, yet many of our citizens do not even have access
to basic health care or are seriously under-insured. Children are
particularly hard hit, representing a quarter of those who lack
insurance.
The federal government is planning to address this issue. I
was down in Washington this past weekend and I congratulate
President Clinton for putting it at the head of the agenda. That
the federal government is planning to address this issue is no
reason for us to delay our response to lowering costs and
expanding access.
I want to make a special plea to the General Assembly since we
already are far down the track in terms of doing what's right.
Everybody talks about health care, but it isn't one issue it's
two. It's care and its's health and its's time we divided these
two. One is for now, the costs of care today, our generation,
older, etc. The other is the issue for the future as far as really
cutting down the cost - to do the things we're doing in
Connecticut with the younger generations so they don't have the
costs that we know lie ahead.
This budget contains a major redirection of funds for
children's health programs. To play upon the title - yes, Kids
count. And this budget says so in dollars.
Our children's health initiative includes state-subsidized
health insurance for poor children throughout Connecticut from
birth through age five who are not eligible for Medicaid; expanded
services to children already on Medicaid; continued expansion of
our community health center network and funding for 12 new
school-based health centers. We are also increasing money for
childhood immunizations, school breakfasts, and childhood lead
poisoning prevention and abatement efforts. The Birth-to-Three
program, which prepares disabled infants and toddlers for fuller
lives, will be fully implemented.
All told, our children's initiative represents $56.7 million
in redirected funding invested over two years -- money that will
give a generation of our citizens a healthy beginning for a
fraction of the costs of neglect.
The lessons of prevention aren't exclusive to children. For
our senior citizens, I am proposing a $19 million dollar expansion
of our home health care and assisted living services. This will
enable more of our senior citizens to remain independent and in
the dignity of their homes, rather than be confined to nursing
homes at far greater costs to themselves and the state. We will be
able to serve 2,400 seniors in their homes this coming year and
3,600 the following.
Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, you know this is the way we should
be going. Indeed, every other segment of our population that has
had some special need has been mainstreamed into the community.
We're tearing down the institutions. Mansfield's gone. It's become
a matter of history. Why is it then that all the policies of the
Federal Government have been forcing us to put Mom and Pop into a
nursing home rather than keeping them at home? I would hope the
federal policy would change, but I'm not waiting for that. Our
fathers and mothers are going to be at home if it's at all
possible here in the State of Connecticut.
We're restructuring our system of hospital regulation to
eliminate guaranteed price increases, and we're working with the
private sector to develop a universal electronic billing and
claims system for all health care transactions in Connecticut -- a
move that will save vast sums in the administrative costs that
some estimate make up 27 cents of every health care dollar spent
in Connecticut.
Now, I'm getting to something that I see there's been a little
bit of controversy on. I'm sort of proud of what it is we put
together. Because when all of you, Republicans and Democrats and
one Independent were running around there on the election scene
back in 1990, everybody was taking the pledge - one percent for
the environment. Except for one candidate. I didn't agree to that.
I didn't know what the budget was going to be all about. It wasn't
a question of not liking the environment, I didn't know if we
could afford to do what needed to be done.
Well, I think we've all seen the last two budgets and we've
seen how the environment is getting hit. This is a small state and
it's one of the great aspects of our quality of life. So, in this
budget I'm going to redeem that pledge for all of us. There is, in
this budget, one percent of the budget for the environment. The
quality of our air, water, and open spaces is critical to our
economy and quality of life, yet our Department of Environmental
Protection has been severely underfunded for years due to the
state's fiscal crises. For two years, I have come before the
bodies of this government, House and Senate, to ask that the
environmental monies collected in deposits be put back into the
environment as the law intended. The estimate being some $15 to
$20 million in escheats. For two years that request has been
denied. Yes, that caused us to look at the entire picture, and all
of a sudden we also came to the realization that the laws have
changed. But the recycling laws, now mandatory in every community
in the State of Connecticut, gave us the opportunity to go to
Bottle Bill II, and to continue the progress that Connecticut has
made.
To secure the necessary revenues to protect our environment, I
am proposing the creation of a Connecticut Environment Fund which
will enable us to reach our long sought after goal of one percent
of the state budget being reserved for the protection and
enhancement of our environment.
Over a decade ago, Connecticut was one of the nation's
trendsetters with passage of its bottle deposit law. It has been
an effective law in reducing litter, and more importantly in
establishing an environmental ethic that helped Connecticut give
birth to one of the most comprehensive recycling programs in
America. Indeed, the success of our new mandatory recycling
program has made deposit recycling duplicative and an unnecessary
burden. With comprehensive recycling programs in place in all
municipalities, the redemption system is no longer needed.
I am proposing to replace the five-cent deposit with an
equivalent levy dedicated to supporting the state's environmental
programs, including the state parks, the city parks and the
open-space acquisition. Our mandatory recycling program will
handle bottles and cans, as well as an expansion to include
plastic containers. The Environment Fund will also provide $2.2
million annually to towns for anti-litter programs and recycling
initiatives.
Remember this, Ladies and Gentlemen, the environment, is not
just a matter of bottles, it's the acquisition of open space. It's
the cleaning up of Long Island Sound. It's the cleaning of our
air. And we've not been doing the job that is owed to our children
in this regard. This will give us the money to achieve success.
By providing a long-needed stable source of funding for our
environmental programs, the Connecticut Environment Fund will
enhance the quality of life in this most densely populated of all
states of the Union.
As our environment is essential to everyone's quality of life,
so are our cities. Once a thriving and central force in our
community, cities today are rapidly losing their business base,
while having to bear a disproportionate burden of human problems.
While our state is among the nation's wealthiest, our three
largest cities are among the nation's poorest.
Those who say the cities are not their responsibility -- those
who would be content to build a high wall around each of them,
while turning their eyes to Connecticut's green hills -- fail to
understand the impact that cities have on all of our lives. A
thriving city means jobs, social and cultural vitality, and
revenue to keep taxes down. A city devoid of hope means
unemployment, dependency, substance abuse, crime, poverty -- a
rising bill of social and financial despair that is paid for in
every household in the state. The bill comes due in terms of
higher taxes to pay the costs of yet more prisons - the biggest
item in the budget, as far as any increase in personnel, are those
prisons. It also comes due for the life-long care of more
drug-addicted, low-birth-weight and AIDS-infected babies - as
Mario Cuomo cited in our discussion with the President the other
day, million dollar babies. That's the cost that we pay.
Acknowledge it or not, we are all connected in this State --
three million people in this together -- and we have to learn to
help each other. And today, economics is as powerful an argument
for action as is doing what is moral.
Last summer I sent Lieutenant Governor Eunice Groark to the
cities to talk with leaders, public and private, to find out what
the State could do to help them turn their cities around.
Eunice reported back that while each city had a unique set of
strengths and problems, a consensus emerged from all of the cities
that any successful plan had to merge economic development and job
creation with the development of human capital. From those
meetings come numerous initiatives that we have incorporated into
this budget.
To secure the safety of our city streets, in neighborhoods and
in business districts, we are proposing the creation of a state
police unit that, at local request, will work with city police in
targeted sweeps of high-crime neighborhoods. Also recommended are
the funding of 80 additional local police officers to be allocated
to our largest cities and grants to establish police substations
in distressed neighborhoods.
Now, I know the next item is going to be controversial, but
that doesn't seem to be a problem in this administration. And I
want to say that I speak as a gun owner, as a sportsman, but most
importantly, as a human being. I like you, like everybody in this
Hall, am absolutely appalled at the slaughter taking place in our
cities. Accordingly, I will be proposing legislation to allow any
municipality to prohibit, by ordinance, possession of any weapon
in public within that municipality. No particular genius of the
idea. During this last election, I saw that one of our towns, I
think it was Wilton, sat there and had a local referendum as to
whether or not there should be whisky in the restaurants. Well, if
we can all decide whether we want whisky in the restaurants, we
can sure as hell decide whether we want guns on our streets, and
that's what this is about. The time has come to stop tying the
hands of our cities in their very real life-and-death battle
against violence. If the countryside wants to shoot it up, so be
it. If the cities wants to get the guns off the streets, so be
that.
Safe streets are just the first step to urban job creation.
We're proposing to expand our newly created Urbank, which targets
loans to small business development in urban areas. Urbank will
now become a state-sponsored, stand-alone bank. And for the first
time, advice and counsel will sit right next to lenders in the
storefront. By using state dollars to leverage funds, more than
$875 million will be available to revitalize urban neighborhoods
and create decent jobs for neighborhood citizens.
We are also proposing an additional $10 million for the
clean-up of industrial contamination at key urban locations to
make these sites available to potential employers. This is an item
that admittedly will probably grow and should, and if we want
companies to move into our cities then we as a State have to take
part of the responsibility for the clean-up. Otherwise we won't
get them.
I said I would bring the best minds from all walks of life to
our administration. Their efforts are reflected in the plethora of
innovative programs that fill this budget. But nowhere is this
more apparent than in our proposal for overhauling welfare as
developed by our Commissioner of Income Maintenance, Audrey Rowe.
It's time we stopped penalizing people who try to work while
keeping their family together. Under our proposal, people will be
allowed to keep a greater portion of their earnings, thereby
rewarding those who are able to find work. The limit on assets and
the value of an automobile will be raised to allow people to pay
for clothing for work, insurance, and a reliable vehicle, all of
which are important to finding and holding a job. We will remove
the requirement that one parent be absent from the home for
children to receive support -- a requirement that has worked
against maintaining intact families. These proposals, some of
which require federal approval, represent a national model for
welfare reform.
There has been a great deal of hoopla about the need for
gambling casinos to come and save our state and cities from
economic ruin, and I want to say something right now. I think
debate has been civil and I think the debate has been instructive.
But now it's decision time. It has been my position that casinos
are neither a healthy nor a stabilizing influence on any economy.
Recently I concluded an agreement with the sovereign nation of the
Mashantucket Pequot Indians. Under the terms of the agreement,
Connecticut will receive $30 million dollars between now and the
end of this current fiscal year, and $100 million or 25 percent of
the gross - whichever is greater in each succeeding fiscal year -
on the condition that slot machines are not permitted in our
sovereign state. The money, in toto, will be distributed to our
cities and towns as property tax relief through the PILOT program.
That means, for example, that next year $5.9 million will go to
Bridgeport, $17.7 million will go to Hartford, and $13.5 million
to New Haven. Every town in the state will benefit. Manchester
will receive $1.2 million, Ansonia will receive $194,534, and
Union will receive $39,563 and no less than $5,000 for any town in
the State of Connecticut.
I remind those opposed to this agreement that it remains the
prerogative of the legislature to pass legislation permitting
gambling casinos to come into our state. Should they be
successful, the $100 million annual payments from the Mashantucket
Pequot Nation to the State of Connecticut will, of course, cease.
I've made my choice. The legislature is free to make its own.
Additionally, the legislature is free to allocate the monies
received in any appropriate way it deems fit.
I noticed somebody commented, "what do you mean $5,000?" Well,
you should know under your PILOT program - this is not my program,
this is your program, a good program - there are two towns that
would get $100, $200 or $300. So that's the reason for the floor
in those particular instances. But this is not the matter - this
disposition of money - that I have any particular genius at. If
you have a better idea, let's do it.
In my State of the State Address, I called for the end of the
racial and economic isolation in our school system, which if it is
allowed to continue, will destroy our ability as a state to
compete economically. And today, I repeat both the importance of
providing all of our children with a quality, integrated education
and the warning that if we fail to act the courts may do it for us
in a manner more costly and with less flexibility. I realize the
pressures that sit on each one of us for even talking about the
issue. Yet, let's make it clear - I will make it clear to the
State of Connecticut - that this budget includes funding to begin
a process. That's all we're discussing. Not a plan, not something
final in law, but a process to get the best ideas among all of our
citizens as to what it is that we should do. All I am saying here
today is, pass the process before some court orders busing. Allow
local communities to decide this matter. It is that simple. The
only certainty is that a decision will be made. All I am asking is
let it be our decision.
In the past money was the measurement by which the public
official was adjudged in terms of commitment to an idea or a
constituency. Needless to say it was always other people's money.
But as the government's brain dried up from infrequent use so did
the treasury from constant use. What didn't disappear were the
problems and, in the absence of solution, they grew and they are
growing.
In a time of slim resources, these times, the coinage of
public activism has to be the coinage of courage and smarts. That,
however, has always been the New Englander's stock in trade. I
hope those in this Hall and throughout share with me the
excitement of challenging a formidable new century. I hope you
share with me the disdain for continuing to spend time and
resources plagiarizing the past. We have our own history to write.
The recession -- still too evident in Connecticut today --
will not be overcome for us by our economic competitors or by our
insolvent federal government. There is no higher priority for the
monies of Connecticut than the creation of jobs for the people of
Connecticut -- jobs not at the State Capitol or within the
government, but in every workplace throughout our 169 towns and
cities.
But this time economic recovery has to encompass all who seek
work -- not just those who are recently out of a job -- but those
who never had a chance for a job. And any recovery effort is to be
directed as much to Connecticut small business as to its flagship
companies. Small business does not have the cash reserves to
weather a long downturn. The state does. Connecticut should
guarantee credit and capital to the prime job creators in our
society -- small business.
Where there are statutory impediments to doing business in
Connecticut, let's clear the minefields of regulation. The people
of Connecticut are less interested in special pleadings by the
institutions of the marketplace than they are in being employed
within the marketplace.
This Legislature and those that sat in seats before, made jobs
a priority long before the most recently announced layoffs of
Connecticut's corporate giants. That foresight has given our state
the most all-encompassing business incentives in the country. And
unlike the federal government, we have the money to fund those
incentives. If you will stay the course with a truly balanced
budget and low taxes -- Connecticut gets back to work. Anything
less and we are at the mercy of every economic ill wind -- whether
from the aerospace industry or the insurance industry.
Now, there's excitement in this budget -- the excitement of
change and the excitement of beginnings. But the real essence of
what is proposed can only find meaning in the humanity whose lives
will forever change because of what we do.
Urban initiatives, job creation, equality of opportunity --
those are all words.
Devoid of any meaning, but they become defined by a life. As I
travel around this most blessed of states, I see in the faces of
our children that innocence and trust, goodness and laughter which
is unique to the young and so absent in us. "Growing up" has
become so suddenly "grown up." And when disappointment has
overwhelmed success, then innocence becomes the wisdom of
violence, trust is hammered into cynicism, goodness looks foolish
and laughter is gone.
From the daring of the Constitution to the sacrifices of our
elders nobody wished that on any of that on us. And with your help
we're not about ready to create it for Connecticut.
My friends of the State Legislature, simply put, you're the
best. Write the budget so! A new century awaits. Thank you very
much.