Public Acts Take Effect January 1st

Many laws take effect on January 1 each year. See Connecticut Public Acts Effective 1/1/08 for this year’s list. Passed by the Connecticut General Assembly during the 2007 session, the Acts include PA 07-168, banning pesticide use on school grounds; PA 07-116, appointing conservators and setting their powers; and PA 07-163, creating a new crime of firearm trafficking and requiring stolen or lost firearms to be reported within 72 hours of discovery.

Acts Effective 10/1/07

Many new laws take effect on October 1 each year. See Acts Effective 10/1/07 for this year’s list. Passed by the Connecticut General Assembly during the 2007 session, the Acts include PA 07-168, banning pesticide use on school grounds; PA 07-116, appointing conservators and setting their powers; and PA 07-163, creating a new crime of firearm trafficking and requiring stolen or lost firearms to be reported within 72 hours of discovery.

Connecticut Public and Special Acts Effective 7/1/07

The list of new laws that became effective as of July 1, 2007 is now available on the Connecticut State Library website at http://www.cslib.org/07actsJul.htm The list includes the title of the act with a link to the actual law, and its House or Senate bill number.

Subject Index to 2006 Public & Special Acts Now Available

The Subject Index to 2006 Connecticut Public & Special Acts is now available at http://www.cslib.org/indexing/psindex06/. The index covers 196 Public Acts & 10 Special Acts. It is organized alphabetically by the main subjects of the acts.

Resource on Connecticut’s Constitutional Amendments

The CSL Law & Legislative Reference Unit have put together a comprehensive resource on Connecticut’s constitutional amendments. It’s available at:  http://www.cslib.org/constitutionalAmends/index.htm