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Connecticut State House of Representatives

Connecticut House of Representatives
Connecticut General Assembly
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type
Term limits
None
History
New session started
January 5, 2017
Leadership
Speaker of the House
Joe Aresimowicz (D)
Since January, 2017
Majority Leader
Matthew Ritter (D)
Since January 9, 2013
Minority Leader
Themis Klarides (R)
Since January 7, 2015
Structure
Seats 151
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Political groups

Majority

Minority

Length of term
2 years
Authority Article III, Section 1, Connecticut Constitution
Salary $28,000/year
Elections
Last election
November 8, 2016
(151 seats)
Next election
November 6, 2018
(151 seats)
Redistricting Legislative Control
Meeting place
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House of Representatives Chamber
Connecticut State Capitol
Hartford, Connecticut
Website
Connecticut House of Representatives

Majority

Minority

The Connecticut House of Representatives is the lower house in the Connecticut General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Connecticut. The house is composed of 151 members representing an equal number of districts, with each constituency containing nearly 22,600 residents. Representatives are elected to two-year terms with no term limits. The House convenes within the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford.

The House of Representatives has its basis in the earliest incarnation of the General Assembly, the "General Corte" established in 1636 whose membership was divided between six generally elected magistrates (the predecessor of the Connecticut Senate) and three-member "committees" representing each of the three towns of the Connecticut Colony (Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor). The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, adopted in 1639, replaced the committees with deputies; each town would elect three or four deputies for six-month terms. Although the magistrates and deputies sat together, they voted separately and in 1645 it was decreed that a measure had to have the approval of both groups in order to pass. The Charter of 1662 reduced the number of deputies per town to no more than two, and also changed the title of the legislature to the General Assembly. It was in 1698 that the General Assembly divided itself into its current bicameral form, with the twelve assistants (that replaced the magistrates) as the Council (which became the Senate in the 1818 constitution) and the deputies as the House of Representatives, which began electing the Speaker to preside over it. The terms of representatives were raised to two years in 1884.


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