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Read. Follow. Verify.Connecticut requires OPM to assist towns with online budget publishing
Last action · March 24, 2026: File Number 154
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What This Bill Proposed
The state must establish a program by October 1, 2026, to provide municipalities with technical and financial assistance for publishing budgets and financial data online.
Towns may receive state financial and technical support to upgrade their online budget transparency, starting October 1, 2026, depending on available state funding.
- The Office of Policy and Management is the state agency in Connecticut that handles executive branch financial management, policy development, and municipal planning services. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
municipalities
Towns become eligible to apply for state technical and financial assistance to publish their budgets and financial records online.
Office of Policy and Management
The agency must establish an assistance program, create application procedures, set best-practice guidelines, and optionally adopt regulations.
Key Facts
- The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management must establish a municipal budget publishing assistance program within available appropriations.
- The program must provide municipalities with technical and financial assistance for publishing budgets and financial information on their websites.
- The secretary must adopt guidelines for best practices concerning the publication of municipal budgets and information.
- The secretary must establish an application procedure and criteria for municipality participation in the program.
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- The secretary may adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 of the general statutes to implement the program.
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This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · on the Senate floor.
Procedural history
9 actions- Mar 24, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFile Number 154
- Mar 24, 2026SenateSenate Calendar Number 107
- Mar 24, 2026SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
- Mar 24, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Mar 18, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/23/26 5:00 PM
- Mar 9, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
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- Mar 6, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable
- Feb 20, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyPublic Hearing 02/27
- Feb 19, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyCommitteeReferred to Joint Committee on Planning and Development
Version history
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Sources
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 40)
- Controversy5Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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