The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Connecticut
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Legislative act notwithstanding Conn. Gen. Stat. sections 19a-131a and 28-9
- Issued
- 2021-05-17 May 17, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-07-01 (sections 1-2); section 3 from passage (read as 2021-07-01)
- End
- 2022-03-01 (outer limit of renewals) (read as 2022-03-01)
- In force
- July 1, 2021 to Mar. 1, 2022
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declaration
- Addressees
- the Governor
- the General Assembly and its leadership committee
- department heads, State agencies and municipalities
- Functions reached
- legislative predicate for every Q3 2021 order; the General Assembly approved the July 13 and Sept. 27, 2021 renewals by resolution
- Collection
- Connecticut CT
Operative words
the Governor is hereby authorized to renew: (1) The public health and civil preparedness emergencies declared in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and (2) any orders issued pursuant to the declarations and the renewal of such declarations that remain in effect as of July 20, 2021... any such renewal may cover the period of time from July 21, 2021, through March 1, 2022.... any such renewal issued by the Governor shall cease to be effective unless approved by a majority vote of each house of the General Assembly by resolution not later than three business days after the date of filing such renewal... an executive order issued under such authority... may be disapproved by a majority vote at a meeting of a joint legislative committee
Enforcement
Legislative approval of renewals (July 14 and Sept. 28, 2021) and disapproval power over orders
Notes
Every 13-series order and EO 14A recites that it remains in effect 'unless individual orders or extensions contained herein are disapproved pursuant to Special Act 21-5'; none was disapproved (as EO 14A's continuation of every 13-series order shows).