HB 6159 Summary

• Makes technical corrections to Connecticut environmental statutes, including punctuation changes, grammatical fixes, and clarifications to statutory language across multiple sections

• Revises boating safety provisions to require peace officers to mail incident reports to the commissioner within three business days when a person refuses a sobriety test or shows elevated blood alcohol content

• Renumbers subsections in vessel discharge regulations from lettered (a)-(f) to numbered (1)-(6) format and clarifies definitions for docking facilities, marine sanitation devices, and no discharge zones

• Corrects references to the Commissioner of Revenue Services in beverage container deposit provisions and updates reporting and payment procedures for deposit initiators

• Adds exclusion for water cooler system bottles from reusable food or beverage container regulations (effective October 1, 2011) and modifies Agricultural Experiment Station Board meeting requirements by removing specific date and location mandates