Connecticut HB 5251: AN ACT PROHIBITING THE SALE, TRADE OR DISTRIBUTION OF SHARK FINS IN THE STATE.

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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 5251
February Session, 2026

AN ACT CONCERNING REPORTING ON IMPLEMENTATION OF
CERTAIN CONSULTANT REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) As used in this section: 1
(1) "Consultant" means any person who (A) (i) is a professional who 2
is registered or licensed to practice such profession in accordance with 3
the applicable provisions of the general statutes, or (ii) is a planner or an 4
environmental, management or financial specialist, and (B) provides 5
consultant services to a state agency pursuant to a contract with such 6
state agency, including, but not limited to, any architect, professional 7
engineer, accountant, planner or environmental, management or 8
financial specialist; 9
(2) "Consultant services" includes administrative, planning, analysis, 10
statistical or research services rendered by any consultant, as well as 11
incidental services that members of such consultant's profession and 12
those in their employ are authorized to perform, for purposes of 13
recommending a state agency course of action; 14
(3) "Firm" means any individual, partnership, corporation, joint 15
venture, association or other legal entity authorized by law to offer 16
consultant services; and 17
(4) "State agency" means any office, department, board, council, 18

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commission, institution, constituent unit of the state system of higher 19
education, technical education and career school or other agency in the 20
executive branch of state government. 21
(b) Any state agency that contracts with a firm to provide consultant 22
services at a cost of one hundred thousand dollars or more for purposes 23
of producing a study or other report with recommendations for future 24
actions for the state agency to undertake that is required to be 25
transmitted to a joint standing committee of the General Assembly 26
pursuant to the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes shall, 27
not later than one year after receipt of the results of such study or a final 28
report from such firm, also submit a report, in accordance with the 29
provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing 30
committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters 31
relating to government oversight, (1) summarizing the findings of the 32
entity's report, (2) indicating whether any recommendations have been 33
implemented by the agency, and (3) indicating whether the state agency 34
intends to implement any such recommendations in the future and, if 35
applicable, by what date. 36
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:

Section 1 from passage New section

Statement of Legislative Commissioners:
Subsecs. (a)(1) and (2) were reworded to avoid duplication and for
clarity, and in Subsec. (b), "joint standing" was added before
"committee" for accuracy and Subdiv. designators (1) to (3) were added
for clarity.

GOS Joint Favorable Subst. -LCO