Proposed Bill No. 50, introduced in the General Assembly by SEN. FLEXER and REP. JOHNSON, aims to amend section 2-33a of the general statutes to exclude expenditures for statutory grants to distressed municipalities from the state's spending cap. This bill seeks to revert to the policy that was in place from 1991 to 2017, where aid to distressed municipalities was not counted towards the spending cap.

The purpose of the bill is to restructure the spending cap to allow for more financial aid to be provided to municipalities that are considered distressed without that aid counting against the state's spending limits. The bill does not contain specific language insertions or deletions from the current law, but rather indicates a general intent to amend the law to exclude certain expenditures from the spending cap calculation.