Connecticut § 3-85 - Engrossed bills.
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§ 3-85. Engrossed bills.
Sec. 3-85. Engrossed bills. After the adjournment of each General Assembly, the Secretary shall cause all the engrossed bills which have become laws to be bound, together with any engrossed amendments to the Constitution proposed by the General Assembly at such session and continued to the next assembly, in suitable volumes, and shall also record such bills by the title and number in the public records of the state; and such volumes shall be the official record of the acts passed by the General Assembly at such session and of the amendments to the Constitution proposed at such session by said General Assembly.
(1949 Rev., S. 171; 1967, P.A. 254, S. 2; P.A. 07-194, S. 14.)
History: 1967 act substituted general assembly for house of representatives; P.A. 07-194 changed “one volume” to “suitable volumes” and “volume” to “volumes”, effective July 5, 2007.
See Sec. 2-62 re legislative commissioners' authority to make use of bound volumes of engrossed acts.
Records of Secretary as evidence of existence of law. 77 C. 264; 79 C. 147.
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