What is the possibility of anti
Gun/Hunting/Trapping bills being debated? If you read & believe Sen.
Jepsen's statement below, Very Little. We'll be there and prepared - just in
case.
HARTFORD Conn. (AP) - A bill that would have placed
tougher restrictions on drinking and driving in the state is unlikely to be
called in the special legislative session that begins next week, lawmakers
say.
The bill, which would lower the state blood-alcohol
content standard for drunken driving from 0.10 percent to 0.08 percent, was
lost in the shuffle as the regular session stumbled to an end June 6. It
passed the Senate but was not taken up in the House.
At the time, lawmakers said the bill was likely to be
revived during the special session that starts Monday to approve a two-year
state budget. But legislative leaders said this week that is increasingly
unlikely.
"We have a very strict rule ... about not
bringing in non-budget issues. And .08 is not required to implement the
budget," said Senate Majority Leader George Jepsen, D-Stamford.
Jepsen, who supported the drunken-driving bill, said it
was one of many dead bills that will not be revived in special session.
"It is not fair to let just one bill or two
bills or three bills in, and say no to everybody else," he said.
PASSED
Bill No. 7501 AN ACT CONCERNING THE STATE BUDGET FOR THE
BIENNIUM ENDING JUNE 30, 2003, AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS THEREFOR. Included:
Gun Law Enforcement Task Force 500,000 [No Change]
Stream Gaging 160,000
Conservation Officer Radios and Repeaters 250,000
Open Space - Water Company Land Acquisition 30,000,000 [KeldaProperty] +
Bonding.
Transfers to Conservation Fund (3,000,000) [Current, Motorboat
Fuel Tax] + $1 million additional for "Recreational Fishing" from
another fund.
HB 7507 AN ACT CONCERNING THE EXPENDITURES OF THE OFFICE
OF POLICY AND MANAGEMENT Sec. 70. (a) For the fiscal years ending June 30,
2002, and June 30, 2003, the sum of $125,000 appropriated to the Department of
Agriculture, in sections 1 and 11 of house bill 7501 of the current session, for
Connecticut Grown Product Promotion, shall be transferred to the Agricultural
Experiment Station, and be available for expenditure for Wildlife Fertility
Control [Deer immunocontraception Study].
NOT ADDRESSED:
$166,000 state 25% match for $ 600,000 CARA federal
funding.
Dues and Cabaret increased club exemption.
No amendments affecting hunting, fishing, trapping, firearm activities.
