Representative Taborsak's first year as a legislator was 2007.  New representatives are not normally expected to initiate major legislation.  However, Representative Taborsak has already made a substantial contribution.

From the transcript of the Connecticut House of Representatives - May 24, 2007

"Substitute for House Bill Number 7204, AN ACT CONCERNING THE ENFORCEABILITY OF AUTOMATIC CONTRACT RENEWAL PROVISIONS

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REP. TABORSAK: (109th)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Through you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to thank Ranking Member Len Greene and also Representative Stone for their hard work on this Bill.

It is true, and I agree with all their comments, that we did our best to work with the business community and I think we came out with a Bill that is fair for everyone.

What I would like to add just to the comments that we've already heard is that one of the things that this Bill does accomplish is providing some consumer protection-like legislation to benefit small businesses.

Quite often our courts, since they are guided by to a great extent the Statutes that come out of this Legislature, view small businesses as being on the same level as their larger counterparts, large corporations, when in reality I think we find that many small businesses are just an extension of the individuals that run them.

I'm talking about our small mom-and-pop type businesses that make up a great part of our economy here in Connecticut.

So I believe that this Bill, one of the things that it does add that is of benefit to this small business community is that it extends these protections, these disclosure protections to small businesses.

And I think that that's a nice accomplishment that we can all be glad about and I urge the passage of this Amendment and this Bill. Thank you."

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Substitute for House Bill Number 5729, AN ACT CONCERNING THE SALE, LEASE OR TRANSFER OF MUNICIPAL PROPERTYFrom the transcript of the Connecticut House of Representatives - May 2, 2007

"Substitute for House Bill Number 5729, AN ACT CONCERNING THE SALE, LEASE OR TRANSFER OF MUNICIPAL PROPERTY, Favorable Report of the Committee on Appropriations.

SPEAKER AMANN:

Representative Taborsak.

REP. TABORSAK: (109th)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move for acceptance of the Joint Committee's Favorable Report and passage of the Bill.

SPEAKER AMANN:

The question before us is acceptance of the Joint Committee's Favorable Report and passage of the Bill. Will you remark, Sir?

REP. TABORSAK: (109th)

Yes. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, what this Bill requires, it requires certain guarantees that are not currently provided to Connecticut citizens. And those guarantees are the guarantees of notice and hearing in any municipality land sale transaction.

Under current law these guarantees do not exist and I urge passage of this very important Bill. And it's quite clear in the Bill that what we're doing here is we're requiring towns and municipalities to provide both notice and hearing.

Notice would be provided by both publication and by the posting of a sign conspicuously on the real property that is the subject of the public hearing.

And then the second component, of course, being the public hearing component so that our Connecticut citizens can have a chance to have their voices heard in these important transactions. And therefore I urge passage of this Bill.

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REP. TABORSAK: (109th)

Through you, Mr. Speaker. The intent of this legislation can be boiled down to the providing of two specific guarantees to all Connecticut residents and that those are the guarantees that they will have the right to notice and hearing of any municipality land sale.

This land, as I may have mentioned before, and I think I can speak for the Planning and Development Committee, public-owned land is special land.

It really should require the public input and notice and that's really what we're trying to do here is to turn what is otherwise un-guaranteed desires or wishes of most people who are concerned about open space, parkland, playgrounds and just the use of municipality-owned land in general to provide them with really the right to be heard and to be aware of these transactions."

After a long debate during which Representative Taborsak defended the bill, the following was the vote:

"House Bill Number 5729.

Total Number Voting 148

Necessary for Passage 75

Those voting Yea 114

Those voting Nay 34

Those absent and not voting 3"