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ConnecticutHB 067712025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
AN ACT ESTABLISHING AN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND DEMENTIA TASK FORCE, REQUIRING HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR BIOMARKER TESTING AND CONCERNING TRANSFERS AND DISCHARGES IN RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES, TUITION WAIVERS FOR NURSING HOME RESIDENTS WHO TAKE COURSES AT REGIONAL COMMUNITY-TECHNICAL COLLEGES AND CLOSURES AND EVACUATIONS OF RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES AND NURSING HOMES.
Sponsored By: Aging Committee
Signed by Governor
Summary
To require health insurance coverage for biomarker testing.
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Faster nursing home transfers during closure reviews
Beginning October 1, 2025, receiving nursing homes must bypass their waiting-list order for qualifying transfers from very small homes. The source home must have five or fewer residents and a certificate-of-need request awaiting a final state decision. Exceptions apply for lack of a qualifying payment source, a Medicaid penalty period, or no need for nursing-home-level care. Some homes exempt from waiting-list rules need not admit people unable to pay, except during emergency closures.
Insured patients gain biomarker test coverage
Beginning January 1, 2026, covered individual and group policies delivered, renewed, amended, or continued in Connecticut must cover clinically useful biomarker testing. Testing must support diagnosis, treatment, care management, or ongoing monitoring; evidence can include FDA approval, Medicare coverage decisions, or recognized medical guidelines. Coverage must limit care disruptions, such as repeat biopsies, though plans can require an in-network lab. Insurers must post a clear process for coverage exceptions and challenges to denied reviews. When prior approval is required, insurers must notify patients, providers, and other requesters within seven days, or 72 hours for requests the provider deems urgent.
Stronger move protections for care home residents
Beginning October 1, 2025, Connecticut residential care homes can force a move only for listed reasons: unmet care needs, no further need for services, health or safety danger, nonpayment after proper notice, or closure. A forced move cannot present an imminent danger of death. Homes generally must give 30 days' written notice with reasons, destination, appeal rights, and help contacts; emergency procedures are an exception. They must send notices to the State Ombudsman's portal that day and update recipients when details change. Homes must help find another placement and prepare an individual discharge plan within seven days after notice. Residents or authorized representatives have 10 days to appeal a notice or updated destination; moves pause during that window and pending a final appeal decision. Hearings must occur within seven business days of a request, with decisions within 20 days after the record closes; emergencies have expedited procedures. Since June 3, 2025, placement help must consider closeness to family and known supports, without guaranteeing a location.
Tuition waivers for nursing home residents
Beginning June 3, 2025, Connecticut residents who have lived in a nursing home for at least 30 days qualify for college tuition waivers. The waiver covers courses at regional community-technical colleges. At the end of regular registration, enough other students must be enrolled for the course to run. Space must remain after those students are accommodated.
Broader background checks for care workers
Beginning October 1, 2025, covered Connecticut long-term care providers must require criminal-history and patient-abuse checks before job offers or service contracts. This applies even without direct resident access, and covers volunteers regularly doing work like direct-care staff. Checks review state and national criminal histories, the nurse aide registry, and other registries required by public health officials. A qualifying check from the past three years can count if it found no disqualifying offense. The state implements the program within available funding, with statutory provider exceptions and temporary pauses allowed during emergencies or major disruptions.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Aging Committee
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/5/2025
APP Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable)
Yes: 41 • No: 9
House vote • 4/1/2025
INS Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable)
Yes: 11 • No: 2
House vote • 3/4/2025
House Roll Call Vote 79 AS AMENDED
Yes: 147 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/4/2025
Senate Roll Call Vote 209
Yes: 36 • No: 0
House vote • 3/4/2025
AGE Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable Substitute)
Yes: 13 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Signed by the Governor
6/3/2025legislatureTransmitted by Secretary of the State to Governor
6/2/2025legislatureTransmitted to the Secretary of State
6/2/2025legislaturePublic Act 25-16
5/30/2025legislatureIn Concurrence
5/21/2025legislatureSenate Passed as Amended by House Amendment Schedule A
5/21/2025SenateSenate Adopted House Amendment Schedule A
5/21/2025SenateFile Number 903
5/12/2025legislatureSenate Calendar Number 454
5/12/2025SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
5/12/2025SenateHouse Passed as Amended by House Amendment Schedule A
5/8/2025HouseHouse Adopted House Amendment Schedule A 7979
5/8/2025HouseTabled for the Calendar, House
5/6/2025HouseNo New File by Committee on Appropriations
5/6/2025legislatureReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
5/6/2025legislatureFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
5/6/2025legislatureJoint Favorable
5/5/2025legislatureReferred by House to Committee on Appropriations
4/29/2025HouseTabled for the Calendar, House
4/1/2025HouseNo New File by Committee on Insurance and Real Estate
4/1/2025legislatureReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
4/1/2025legislatureFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
4/1/2025legislatureJoint Favorable
4/1/2025legislatureReferred by House to Committee on Insurance and Real Estate
3/25/2025HouseFile Number 107
3/18/2025legislature
Bill Text
Public Act No. 25-16
5/30/2025
File No. 903
5/12/2025
File No. 107
3/18/2025
AGE Joint Favorable Substitute
3/4/2025
APP Joint Favorable
3/4/2025
INS Joint Favorable
3/4/2025
Raised Bill
1/29/2025
AGE Joint Fav. Rpt
AGE Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable Substitute)
APP Joint Fav. Rpt
APP Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable)
Bill Analysis For File Copy 107
Bill Analysis For File Copy 903
Bill Analysis for HB-6771, as amended by House "A"
Fiscal Note For File Copy 107
Fiscal Note For File Copy 903
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 7979 (See Fiscal Note Details)
Fiscal Note for HB-6771, As Amended by House "A" (LCO 7979)
House Roll Call Vote 79 AS AMENDED
House Schedule A LCO# 7979 (J)
INS Joint Fav. Rpt
INS Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable)
Senate Roll Call Vote 209
Summary for Public Act No. 25-16
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