Danbury State Representative David Arconti has been tapped to serve in a new leadership capacity.  He began serving his third legislative term last week and has been named Deputy Majority Leader.  He will also serve on the General Law, Public Safety, Environment and the Energy & Technology committees.  Arconti says he is eager to get to work and looks forward to a productive legislative session.

He will be assigned to other committees in the role of screening the bills to make sure they're ready to go to the floor of the House.  Arconti says the bills are sometimes still works in progress so he will also have to continue negotiations on those pieces of legislation. 

He says he is looking forward to gaining more experience by working on bills outside of his four committee assignments.  Most legislators are assigned to three committees, but leadership asked if he could sit in on a fourth, and Arconti says he jumped at the opportunity.