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Oversight committee advances several FOI, ethics and regulatory bills to floor on consent calendar; votes held open
Summary
The committee placed multiple bills — including measures on body‑worn camera FOIA fees, address privacy for domestic‑violence victims, Freedom of Information Commission recommendations, ethics conflicts, and agency rule review — on Consent Calendar 1 for JF to the floor; the clerk called a roll and kept official votes open until noon.
The Connecticut Government Oversight Committee added multiple bills to Consent Calendar 1 for “JF to the floor” consideration, including measures on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) disclosures, ethics reporting, and regulatory review. The clerk conducted a roll call for the consent calendar and the committee held recorded votes open until the Senate session at noon.
Bills placed on the consent calendar included:
- Senate Bill 973: Permits reduced fees for disclosure of police body‑worn camera and dashboard‑camera records under the Freedom of Information Act (straight JF to the floor). - House Bill 6883 (substitute LCO 5412): Limits the bill’s scope to protecting the residential addresses of victims of domestic violence and sexual assault from FOIA disclosure; language removing a broader address‑privacy provision was adopted in the substitute and only the victims’ protection remains in this item. - House Bill 6882: Implements recommendations of the Freedom of Information Commission to revise the FOIA (JF to the floor). - House Bill 6931: Addresses conflicts of interest tied to employers other than the state under the State Code of Ethics (JF to the floor). - House Bill 6073: Establishes a process and timeline for Connecticut state agencies to review existing regulations (JF to the floor). - Senate Bill 1296: Clarifies statement of financial interest requirements under the State Code of Ethics (straight JF to the floor).
Senator Wilcox and Senator Sampson offered and seconded motions to move several items onto the consent calendar during the meeting; members voiced support and the clerk asked that the listed bills be added. Senator Sampson noted that some items had been under discussion for several sessions and described the ethics and disclosure bills as efforts to close longstanding issues. “This is another item that’s been…kicking around the building for the last several years,” Sampson said in reference to an ethics bill.
The clerk called a roll call vote for Consent Calendar 1 (items numbered in the record as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7). Several committee members verbally recorded “yes” during the roll call (including Senator Wilcox, Representative Dathan, Senator Sampson, Representative Carney, and Representative Gawker in the transcript); committee leadership then reiterated that recorded votes would remain open until the Senate convenes at noon.
One bill on the agenda, Senate Bill 1209, was held for a future meeting rather than being added to the consent calendar.
Procedural notes: where substitute language was reported, the transcript identified substitute LCO 5412 for House Bill 6883, which narrows that bill to protections for domestic‑violence and sexual‑assault victims’ residential addresses. No final amendments or detailed statutory text were read; committee members generally supported placement on the consent calendar and deferred detailed floor debate to later stages.
Next steps: the clerk is responsible for recording any members’ changes before noon and for submitting the consent calendar items to the Senate floor according to the committee’s procedural timeline.
