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ConnecticutHB 052222026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
AN ACT CONCERNING CONSUMER PROTECTION, CANNABIS, DATA PRIVACY, FIRE INSPECTIONS, CRIMINAL MISCHIEF AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Sponsored By: General Law Committee
Signed by Governor
Summary
To implement the Department of Consumer Protection's recommendations regarding (1) the Board of Accountancy, (2) professional engineers and land surveyors, (3) real estate brokers and real estate salespersons, (4) plumbing and piping work, (5) businesses engaged in providing certain skilled trade work or services, (6) interior designers, (7) adulterated or misbranded foods, beverages and ingredients, (8) donation bins, (9) funeral service contracts, (10) apartment listing services, and (11) various minor, technical and conforming changes to statutes concerning consumer protection.
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Certified contractors required for mold cleanup
Beginning October 1, 2026, mold-removal contractors must attest to qualifying certification before receiving a contractor registration certificate. Accepted certifications come from IICRC, NORMI, or another state-approved organization listed on the consumer protection department's website. Contractors must follow ANSI/IICRC S520, Fourth Edition, or a state-approved update. The department must post notice of approved updates on its website.
Clearer ticket prices and cancellation refunds
Beginning January 1, 2027, ticket ads and listings must show the full price and service charges in dollars when first offered. Charges cannot be shown more prominently than the total, and disclosures cannot mislead buyers. Platforms mainly used for resales must identify resale tickets and explain that prices may differ from the event presenter's price. Sellers must explain refund rights before purchase and refund canceled live events within 30 days, including service charges. A reasonable paper-ticket delivery charge based on the buyer's chosen method may be added with advance disclosure and excluded from refunds.
Limits on prices using personal data
Beginning February 1, 2027, Connecticut retail sellers and third-party delivery services cannot set personalized prices using personal data. Exceptions include specified customer discounts, publicly disclosed uniform promotions or enrolled loyalty programs, justified cost or timing differences, and error or outage fixes. A separate rule requires covered businesses publishing certain data-based online prices to visibly state that personal data increased the price. They must also disclose consumers' state-law rights. That notice rule excludes bona fide market prices and specified insurance and credit activities.
Safer baby food and public tests
Beginning January 1, 2028, baby food for children under two cannot be made, sold, or distributed in Connecticut above applicable FDA limits for arsenic, cadmium, lead, or mercury. Water and infant formula are excluded. Manufacturers must test representative samples from each production aggregate at least monthly using a qualified laboratory and keep results for 36 months. Websites must list detected metals, amounts, product identifiers, and FDA health guidance until 30 days after the product's shelf life ends. Packages tested for metals covered by federal standards must carry a clear testing notice and scannable code linking to results and guidance.
Stronger warranties for used car buyers
Beginning October 1, 2026, used cars less than 10 years old must carry a full parts-and-labor warranty, regardless of price. The car must stay mechanically sound for 60 days or 3,000 miles, whichever comes first. Dealers cannot limit coverage to labor or the drive train. Accident damage and consumer misuse are not covered.
Contractors must repay repair fund debts
Contractors and covered business owners generally cannot get or renew home improvement certificates until guaranty fund debts and interest are paid. Interest runs at the statutory rate from the fund's payment until referral to the Department of Administrative Services. The commissioner may allow certification under a payment plan. That plan must require immediate suspension of all certificates for missed payments.
New vape dealers face business limits
For vape dealer registrations first issued on or after January 1, 2027, covered products cannot exceed 50% of yearly gross sales or 25% of sales-floor space. Covered products include cigarettes, drug paraphernalia, nicotine, tobacco, electronic nicotine delivery systems, and vapor products. Applicants must certify these limits, and the state must deny renewal if either was exceeded during the prior registration period. For initial applications submitted from January 1, 2027, the state cannot issue registrations once a town has one per 2,500 residents. Population comes from the latest completed decennial census.
Towns gain control over juice bars
Beginning October 1, 2026, towns can adopt ordinances setting juice-bar hours or banning juice bars. Local police leaders or their designees can reject or stop scheduled events when police cannot safely monitor them or enforce applicable law. They can also act when an event threatens public safety. The Department of Consumer Protection can investigate juice-bar rule violations and impose available liquor-control penalties.
Vape sellers face fines and seizures
Beginning January 1, 2027, unlawful vape sales, offers, or marketing can bring fines up to $5,000 for each product. Dealer-registration violations also count as unfair trade practices. Police can immediately seize products a registrant markets in violation of the registration law; courts can order destruction at the registrant's expense. The seizure process also covers controlled substances or cannabis marketed in violation of specified state laws. Registered vape dealers must post state-prescribed signs on every outside entry door stating that cannabis cannot be sold there.
Cannabis equity transfers face tighter safeguards
Beginning October 1, 2026, the Social Equity Council must approve equity joint ventures' ownership and control before licensing. It must reject specified ventures sharing qualifying individual owners, except owners acting as licensed backers. Contracts entered or renewed from that date cannot end a qualifying owner's control and at least 50% ownership before five years after final licensing. Later changes require 90 days' written notice; owners can request review at least 60 days before the change, with results due 15 days before. Acquirers must pay an $8,000 nonrefundable fee and outstanding revolving-program loans; coercion or noncompliance can bring fines up to $10 million or license action. Separate prior-approval rules cover provisional licensing and continue after final licensing for three years for social equity applicants and seven years for equity joint ventures.
Animal companions can stay during care
Beginning January 1, 2027, consumers may stay in veterinary treatment areas with animals receiving care. This exception applies when the provider judges that moving the consumer to a separate area risks harming the animal.
Businesses must disclose facial recognition use
Beginning October 1, 2026, covered businesses using on-site facial recognition for specified security, fraud, or law-enforcement purposes face safeguards. They can match images only against a database they maintain exclusively. Entrance signs must alert consumers and provide a clear link or QR code to the facial-recognition policy. Signs are not required at entrances to employee-only areas. These requirements do not apply to consumers who consent to facial recognition during a commercial transaction.
Cannabis buyers get dosage and warnings
Beginning October 1, 2026, nonmedical edible cannabis and beverage servings are limited to 5 milligrams of THC, with a testing variance of plus or minus 10%. When servings cannot practically be marked or separated, the limit generally applies to the whole unit sold. Medical products, concentrates, and defined other cannabis plant material are excluded from these limits. That plant-material category excludes flower, hemp, growing plants and seeds, and uprooted clones or cuttings. Concentrates and other covered plant material above 30% total THC must warn of high potency and a possible increased risk of psychosis.
Easier access to data deletion requests
Effective October 1, 2026, deletion-program rules require free requests and updates in English, Spanish, and qualifying languages. Other languages qualify when spoken at home by at least 1% of Connecticut residents in the latest decennial census and represented among a broker's consumers. Residents can prove residency without providing a driver's license number. The state must establish the mechanism by July 1, 2028; verification begins August 15, and broker processing begins October 1. From October 1, 2028, brokers generally cannot keep, use, or share later-acquired data about participating consumers after deletion, subject to legal, safety, contractual, security, research, and operational exceptions.
Narrower emergency and research data exceptions
Beginning October 1, 2026, the emergency data-use exception requires an immediate step to protect someone's life or physical safety. It applies only when the processing clearly cannot rest on another legal basis. Qualifying public-interest scientific or statistical research must meet oversight and privacy safeguards. Research assessments must consider whether people can be identified again from the data.
Paid AI subscriptions require written acceptance
Beginning October 1, 2026, covered generative AI providers must give written terms and get written acceptance before subscriptions, renewals, or payments. The rule covers providers doing business in Connecticut that produce publicly accessible personal-use systems with more than one million monthly users. Initial notices must explain material terms, including usage limits and the provider's power to reduce functionality. Renewal notices must explain new or changed limits and that power. Only the Connecticut Attorney General can enforce violations as unfair or deceptive trade practices; consumers have no private right to sue under this rule.
Streaming protections cover more Connecticut visitors
Beginning October 1, 2026, applicable streaming video rules define a consumer as anyone physically present in Connecticut. Coverage is no longer limited to people receiving or considering streaming services.
Stronger warranty rights for used-car buyers
Beginning October 1, 2026, dealers cannot remove or limit implied warranties on used vehicles less than 10 years old. This protection applies regardless of the vehicle's price. Dealers can sell a used vehicle “as is” only when it is at least 10 years old. Age is counted from January 1 of the vehicle's model year.
Ticket prices stay fixed during checkout
Beginning January 1, 2027, a ticket's displayed price cannot rise from its first offer until purchase or transaction timeout. Dynamic pricing remains allowed outside that period. Sellers may add a reasonable paper-ticket delivery fee based on the delivery method, disclosed before purchase.
Tighter rules for ticket resale websites
Beginning January 1, 2027, resellers must possess tickets or have a written venue contract explicitly authorizing them to obtain tickets. A limited exception covers individual season-ticket holders who do not regularly sell tickets, possess them, and disclose event and location details. Artistic-performance subscription tickets cannot be resold until issued to the first buyer or assigned to a specific performance, date, and location. Ticket website domains and subdomains cannot use a venue's, event's, or scheduled performer's name, or a substantially similar name. The name rule exempts those parties, authorized agents, and uses with the relevant party's express written consent.
Help finding professionals after home disasters
Beginning October 1, 2026, the Department of Consumer Protection must post website information to help homeowners find professionals. The information serves homeowners seeking help after catastrophic fire or water damage. This duty depends on available funding and does not provide payments to homeowners.
Home improvement protections cover mold removal
Beginning October 1, 2026, residential mold work costing more than $200 counts as home improvement under state law. This covers work agreed to, proposed, or offered at private homes and residential rental properties. Covered work includes removing, cleaning, sanitizing, demolishing, or otherwise treating mold or mold-contaminated material. State home-improvement protections apply to this work.
Startup help for social equity growers
Beginning October 1, 2026, the Social Equity Council must develop a startup assistance program once it receives specified producer funds. The program helps social equity applicants open no more than two small cannabis-growing businesses, called micro-cultivators, in total. Cannabis producers must mentor participants. The council and Department of Consumer Protection choose participants without a lottery or request for proposals. The law does not set an assistance amount.
More cannabis enforcement meetings open publicly
Beginning October 1, 2026, the state cannabis, hemp, and controlled-substances enforcement board loses its blanket meeting and records secrecy. Only quarterly meeting portions discussing identified enforcement needs and opportunities concerning illegal cannabis and controlled-substance sales may be closed. Records tied to those closed portions remain exempt from disclosure.
Public service tampering faces criminal penalties
Beginning October 1, 2026, criminal mischief covers specified damage or tampering intended to disrupt listed public services. Covered property includes utilities, public transportation, power, communications, emergency dispatch, fire alarms, fire suppression, and hydrants. An actual interruption is a class D felony; creating a risk is a class A misdemeanor. The rule excludes people with reasonable grounds to believe they have a right to act.
Medical cannabis sales get closer tracking
Beginning October 1, 2026, cannabis testing labs join dispensaries and hybrid retailers in required prescription-monitoring uploads. Covered patient and caregiver sales, including qualifying out-of-state buyers, must be recorded in real time or immediately afterward. Uploads are due within one hour unless that timing is not reasonably feasible. Detailed pre-sale package labels also extend to qualifying out-of-state patients and caregivers. Patients and caregivers have no personal reporting duty.
Radiation treatment added for contaminated cannabis
Beginning October 1, 2026, required cannabis cleanup practices must include ionizing radiation treatment for flower or other plant material. This applies when laboratory testing shows the material failed because of microbial contamination. Treatment involves one or more exposures to ionizing radiation.
State pilots independent AI safety checks
Beginning October 1, 2027, the Department of Consumer Protection must run an independent AI verification pilot within available funding. The pilot ends March 31, 2031, and can approve no more than five verification organizations. Approved groups must set verification and audit standards, report and share data with the department, and require public transparency from participants. They must reassess models after major changes. The department can suspend a verification organization when necessary.
Fire inspections pilot targets residential risks
Beginning July 1, 2026, the State Fire Marshal must establish a two-year, risk-based inspection pilot within available funding. It covers residential buildings designed for more than two families. At least three municipalities must participate: two with at least 100,000 residents and one with 35,000 to fewer than 100,000. Participants must use standard scoring and data systems, maintain required inspection schedules, and review inspection revenue and staffing. The pilot terminates January 1, 2029.
State funds lodging registration and oversight
Beginning July 1, 2026, up to $250,000 moves from the Attorney General's fiscal year 2027 Personal Services budget. The money goes to the Department of Consumer Protection. It pays for registering hotel, motel, inn, and similar lodging operators and checking their compliance.
Deletion duties narrow for service providers
Effective October 1, 2026, amendments keep specified deletion-request duties on registered data brokers. Brokers must review requests and updates for exclusions and act on consumer data they hold. The amended provisions remove separate requirements to include brokers' data service providers in those actions. This narrows the stated duties for data held by those providers.
Cannabis businesses face lab credit limits
Beginning October 1, 2026, cannabis establishments cannot borrow money or receive credit from cannabis testing laboratories for longer than 30 days. The restriction covers both direct and indirect financing.
Contractors must repay home improvement claims
Current and former home improvement certificate holders owe the Home Improvement Guaranty Fund when the commissioner orders a qualifying payment. This applies to payments based on a decision, judgment, order, or restitution decree. The contractor or business owes the debt, not the homeowner who receives the payment.
Health clubs owe interest on claims
Health clubs must repay state guaranty fund payments made on ordered claims against them, plus 10% annual interest. Interest runs from the state's payment until unpaid debt is referred to the Department of Administrative Services for collection. A club cannot get a new or renewed license until it pays in full. Repayments go back into the guaranty fund.
Hemp drink makers face ingredient limits
Beginning October 1, 2026, manufacturers making infused beverages for Connecticut sales can obtain and use only specified hemp inputs. Those inputs are hemp oil or an intermediate hemp derivative. The restriction applies to drinks intended for sale or offered for sale in the state.
Juice bars face smaller patron limits
Beginning October 1, 2026, juice-bar areas within liquor-permitted premises can hold patrons equal to no more than 10% of the building's approved occupant load. The Fire Marshal sets that building load under the Fire Safety Code.
Liquor applicants must describe live entertainment
Beginning July 1, 2026, applications for on-site alcohol service or consumption must include detailed descriptions of planned live entertainment. Clubs and businesses permitted before October 1, 1993, are exempt if their type of entertainment has not changed.
Liquor venues must post entertainment changes
Beginning July 1, 2026, liquor permit applicants changing their type of live entertainment must follow required public-posting rules. This applies during renewal or a separate request for department approval. Requests outside renewal must use a form requiring approval from the municipal zoning official.
Tighter ownership checks for vape dealers
Beginning January 1, 2027, vape dealer applicants must disclose people with direct or indirect financial interests. Nationally listed public companies are exempt; an individual's family-group exemption falls from 10% to 5%, counting spouses, parents, and children. Denial grounds include material falsehoods, unpaid state taxes, disqualifying background results, repeated violations, delinquency assessments, and other adverse government findings. Applicants must certify that covered products offered from January 1, 2027, comply with state and federal law. After revocation, the former registrant, owners, and financial-interest holders cannot apply or hold an interest in another applicant for one year.
Vape dealers face new recordkeeping duties
Beginning January 1, 2027, registered vape dealers must keep financial records showing the relevant products’ share of sales revenue. Records must cover the current tax year and three prior tax years. Dealers first registered on or after that date must also keep floor plans and records showing space devoted to those products. Dealers must provide requested records to the Department of Consumer Protection within three days.
Towns can restrict juice-bar alcohol sales
Beginning October 1, 2026, towns may adopt ordinances banning alcohol sales at permitted locations while a juice bar operates there. The restriction applies only in towns that adopt an ordinance and only while the juice bar is operating.
Cannabis equity grants need council approval
Beginning October 1, 2026, the Social Equity Council must approve specified cannabis equity grants' amounts, recipients, and purposes. This covers grants from the social equity and innovation account or the Cannabis Social Equity and Innovation Fund. Contracts with grant makers must also require council approval of subgrants' amounts, recipients, and purposes. The law does not set grant amounts or guarantee household awards.
More hemp falls under cannabis rules
Beginning October 1, 2026, hemp-derived minor cannabinoids count as cannabis when they meet the statutory definition, including controlled-substance requirements. These include cannabinol, cannabigerol, and cannabichromene. Effective on passage, third-party hemp purchases received by producers, cultivators, micro-cultivators, and food, beverage, or product manufacturers are also treated as cannabis. Those businesses must follow cannabis rules, track separate batches, and keep records, even when the hemp is not intended for cannabis manufacturing.
Cannabis businesses face tighter ownership oversight
The Social Equity Council must issue binding interim cannabis ownership and control rules by October 1, 2026. It must post them and submit them for publication at least 15 days before they take effect. The rules end when final regulations are adopted. They also end October 1, 2027, if regulations have not been submitted for legislative review. Violations may be referred to the Department of Consumer Protection for fines up to $10 million or license action. Council-approved cannabis businesses must file signed statements by January 15 each year, starting in 2027. Statements must report whether ownership, control, or financing materially changed during the prior calendar year and describe any changes. Beginning October 1, 2026, businesses must retain ownership and control compliance records for at least five years.
Cannabis businesses must maintain equity plans
Beginning October 1, 2026, the Social Equity Council must decide on social equity plans within 30 days of submission. These plans accompany cannabis businesses’ final license applications. Applicants may revise and resubmit denied plans without penalty for the earlier denial. Licensed businesses must keep plans active and report each March 1 on the prior calendar year’s local impact. Reports cover the disproportionately impacted area where the business operates, and the council may request plan changes after review.
Data broker safeguards with coverage exceptions
Beginning October 1, 2026, registered data brokers may keep data covered by verified deletion requests only as needed for deletion-system compliance. They cannot use data kept for that purpose for anything else. The consumer protection commissioner can impose covered data-broker penalties up to $200 per day, per consumer, for each violation after notice and a hearing. The data broker law excludes driver-record data handled in compliance with federal driver privacy law. It also excludes HIPAA-covered entities, business associates, and protected health information.
Home repair claims expand with paperwork
Homeowners can seek Home Improvement Guaranty Fund payments based on binding arbitration decisions, as well as court rulings. Applications are due within two years after the final decision or the end of the appeal period. Owners must submit a sworn account of good-faith collection efforts and, when applicable, an officer's report showing assets and amounts recovered. These collection requirements do not apply to small claims rulings.
More wine shipping with delivery limits
Beginning July 1, 2026, permitted out-of-state wine retailers can ship directly to Connecticut consumers, up to five gallons per person every two months. Recipients must be at least 21, show valid identification, and sign for delivery. Retailers need a home-state retailer permit, Connecticut tax registration and payments, required records, and a permitted in-state transporter. Shipping is barred to addresses where local option prohibits alcohol sales. Out-of-state retailer and winery shipper applicants no longer need to post liquor-application notices.
Cannabis equity owners must keep control
For agreements entered from November 1, 2026, qualifying cannabis equity owners cannot give others operational control or material influence over decisions. Agreements also cannot reduce them to passive owners or weaken their final management authority. Owners can still hire advisers, receive support, and delegate work while keeping control and final decisions.
Electronic alcohol forms but stricter defenses
Beginning July 1, 2026, liquor permit holders may let customers complete and sign age statements electronically. Records must be alphabetically indexed, immediately accessible from the premises, and available to state inspectors. An age statement alone does not protect a seller from penalties for serving a minor. The seller must present it in court or before the consumer protection department and show convincing age evidence and reasonable conduct.
AI verification gets limited courtroom use
Beginning October 1, 2027, pilot-approved AI verification or good-standing evidence is admissible only in private injury or property-damage lawsuits. It must concern a harm or risk within the verification's state-approved scope. In state civil or administrative enforcement, it is inadmissible and creates no presumption, inference, or defense. These limits do not apply to willful, wanton, or reckless conduct, material misrepresentations, or failure to complete required corrective action.
Several Connecticut laws are repealed
The law repeals sections 11 and 16 of Public Act 26-64, and sections 1 and 33 of Public Act 26-15. It also repeals sections 55 and 79 of Public Act 26-8. Repeals also cover Connecticut General Statutes section 20-324g and sections 42-103b through 42-103m. The supplied provisions do not describe these sections, so their effects on households and businesses cannot be determined.
Cannabis strength limits and warnings change
Beginning October 1, 2026, the 35% dry-weight THC sales cap applies to cannabis flower rather than other plant material. The 70% cap for other products excludes concentrates, other cannabis plant material, and prefilled electronic-delivery cartridges. These caps do not cover medical sales between cannabis businesses or sales to qualifying in-state or out-of-state patients and caregivers. Other cannabis plant material above 30% THC by dry weight must be displayed physically and visually apart from other cannabis. Menus and ads must say “Warning - High THC,” and required health-risk signs also apply.
Streaming rules exclude ad-free video providers
Beginning October 1, 2026, the streaming-video definition covers providers delivering video programming or content directly to consumers using internet protocol. It excludes broadcast stations, cable operators, and other multichannel video distributors. Providers offering video without commercial ads are also excluded. This changes which providers fall under the applicable streaming-service requirements.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
General Law Committee
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
Christie M. Carpino
Republican • House
John A. Kissel
Republican • Senate
Tammy Nuccio
Republican • House
Tom O'Dea
Republican • House
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 4/17/2026
JUD Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable)
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/11/2026
Senate Roll Call Vote 299
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 3/11/2026
House Roll Call Vote 253 AS AMENDED
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 3/11/2026
GL Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable Substitute)
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Bill Text
Public Act No. 26-100
5/5/2026
File No. 183
3/26/2026
GL Joint Favorable Substitute
3/11/2026
JUD Joint Favorable
3/11/2026
Raised Bill
2/18/2026
Bill Analysis For File Copy 183
Bill Analysis for HB-5222, as amended by House "A"
Fiscal Note For File Copy 183
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 6092 (See Fiscal Note Details)
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 6124 (See Fiscal Note Details)
Fiscal Note for HB-5222, As Amended by House "A" (LCO 6124)
GL Joint Fav. Rpt
GL Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable Substitute)
House LCO Amendment #6092 (D)
House Roll Call Vote 253 AS AMENDED
House Schedule A LCO# 6124 (J)
JUD Joint Fav. Rpt
JUD Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable)
Senate Roll Call Vote 299
Summary for Public Act No. 26-100
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