Connecticut § 2-18 - Form of bills amending statutes and resolutions amending Constitution; ballot designation of proposed constitutional amendments.

§ 2-18. Form of bills amending statutes and resolutions amending Constitution; ballot designation of proposed constitutional amendments.

Sec. 2-18. Form of bills amending statutes and resolutions amending Constitution; ballot designation of proposed constitutional amendments. Each bill for a public act amending any statute, each special act amending any special act and each resolution proposing an amendment to any provision of the Constitution shall set forth in full the act or constitutional provision, or the section or subsection thereof, to be amended. Matter to be omitted or repealed shall be surrounded by brackets and new matter shall be indicated by underscoring or, where an electric magnetic tape typewriter or other electronic equipment or device is used, by capitalization or underscoring of all words in the manuscript bill and by underscoring, capitalization or italics in its printed form. Each resolution proposing an amendment to any provision of the Constitution shall also include the designation of such proposed amendment to be used on the voting tabulator ballots and absentee ballots in the event such amendment is approved by the General Assembly. Such designation shall be a question, commencing with the words “shall the Constitution of the state be amended to” and ending with a statement of the intended objective addressed by the amendment. Nothing in this section shall preclude the General Assembly from adopting rules authorizing the introduction by members of bills, special acts or resolutions which set forth only a statement of purpose or of intent and do not set forth the statute or constitutional provision to be amended.

(1949 Rev., S. 34; 1957, P.A. 1, S. 9; February, 1965, P.A. 1, S. 1; 1967, P.A. 274; 1969, P.A. 156, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 175, S. 1; 610, S. 1; P.A. 83-335, S. 1; P.A. 11-20, S. 1.)

History: 1965 act authorized use of capitalization to indicate new material; 1967 act amended to include resolutions proposing constitutional amendments; 1969 act authorized assembly to adopt rules allowing bills or resolutions containing statement of purpose which do not fully set out statute or constitutional provision to be amended; 1971 acts amended section to include special acts, to permit use of any electronic equipment and to permit use of underscoring in manuscript bill and underscoring and capitalization in printed bill to indicate new material and provided that resolutions for constitutional amendments include designation to be used on voting ballots; P.A. 83-335 set forth the form in which proposed amendments to the constitution are designated on voting machine labels and absentee ballots; pursuant to P.A. 11-20, “machine” and “ballot labels” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “tabulator” and “ballots”, respectively, effective May 24, 2011.

Validating acts of 1929 not in conflict with former section. 112 C. 140. Cited. 165 C. 338; 199 C. 667; 215 C. 701.