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ConnecticutHB 069782025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH'S RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING VARIOUS REVISIONS TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH STATUTES.
Sponsored By: Public Health Committee
Signed by Governor
Summary
To implement the Department of Public Health's recommendations regarding various revisions to the public health statutes.
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10 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 2 costs, 5 mixed.
Maternal death reviews improve state records
Beginning July 1, 2025, Connecticut's health department can use maternal death review information to improve vital statistics records. Review program information and committee findings remain confidential. Disclosure is limited to what is needed for authorized research or public health uses.
Certified health facilities can skip inspections
Beginning October 1, 2025, some health institutions can receive a waiver of the inspection and investigation required for license renewal. They must be certified Medicare or Medicaid providers when they apply. Nursing homes and nursing home facilities are excluded. The health commissioner or a designee decides whether to grant the waiver. A waiver counts as meeting the applicable institutional licensing requirements.
Public health council can accept donations
Effective on passage, Connecticut's Public Health Council can seek and accept grants, gifts, bequests, sponsorships, and donated services or property. Sources can include federal and interstate agencies and private donors. The council can make agreements to use or distribute these resources, following required procedures and attached conditions. The law provides no set funding amount.
Some professionals face two-year license renewals
Professionals holding licenses issued under Connecticut General Statutes section 20-278h must apply for renewal every two years. They must apply during the anniversary month of their first license. This provision does not specify a renewal fee.
Health facilities face broader disciplinary action
The health commissioner can take licensing or disciplinary action when covered institutions substantially fail to meet applicable requirements. A hearing is required first. Clinical laboratories, blood collection facilities, and plasma donation centers can face discipline for fraud, fee-splitting inducements, bribes, or legal violations. These facilities must receive notice and a hearing before discipline.
Volunteer doctors can use clinic insurance
Beginning October 1, 2025, unpaid physicians can meet their malpractice-insurance requirement through qualifying clinics' coverage. This applies only to primary or behavioral health care at state-licensed, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) clinics that charge patients nothing. For each combined 40 service hours or part thereof, required coverage includes an additional $500,000 per occurrence and $1.5 million aggregate for the clinic and employees. Total clinic coverage must reach at least $1 million per occurrence and $3 million annually. Physicians still must meet individual insurance requirements for direct patient care outside qualifying clinics.
Retired doctors get lower-fee license options
Beginning January 1, 2026, retired Connecticut physicians can renew licenses for the greater of $95 or 10% of the class I professional services fee. The renewed license must identify the physician as retired. Beginning October 1, 2025, eligible retired physicians whose licenses became void can apply for reinstatement at that same fee. The commissioner must set retirement definitions, reinstatement eligibility and application rules, and procedures for returning to active work. The commissioner can impose practice limits, including unpaid volunteer-only practice for physicians using retired status.
Water systems face checks and exceptions
Public drinking-water systems need state health approval before construction, expansion, or use; private and semipublic wells are exempt. Applications must show pollution sources, effects on nearby supplies, and ownership or control of the system and its sanitary protection area. Applicants lacking control of that area must document other measures protecting long-term water purity and supply. The department can approve replacement public wells that miss usual setback and sanitary-radius rules when needed to maintain safe, adequate supply. Past data must show adequate aquifer quality, and the department must find the replacement site better protected.
Hospitals face reporting and leadership rules
Beginning October 1, 2025, hospitals must notify Connecticut's health department within two hours of declaring certain ambulance diversions. The requirement applies when a hospital lacks the medical capability to receive incoming ambulances. Notices must follow the commissioner's instructions. Hospital chief medical officers must hold medical licenses, and chief nursing officers must hold nursing licenses, starting that same date.
Broader rules for small sewage systems
Beginning July 1, 2025, Connecticut must set minimum rules for alternative sewage systems handling up to 10,000 gallons daily, up from 5,000. It must also set minimum rules and permit steps for small community, household, and small commercial systems handling up to 10,000 gallons daily. The health commissioner can update alternative-system technical standards and must update standards for the other covered systems. Interim policies can apply until final regulations are adopted. The commissioner must publish notice of planned regulations within 20 days after starting interim policies.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Public Health Committee
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 3/5/2025
PH Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable)
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/5/2025
Senate Roll Call Vote 371
Yes: 36 • No: 0
House vote • 3/5/2025
House Roll Call Vote 275 AS AMENDED
Yes: 148 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Signed by the Governor
6/24/2025legislatureTransmitted by Secretary of the State to Governor
6/23/2025legislatureTransmitted to the Secretary of State
6/23/2025legislaturePublic Act 25-96
6/11/2025legislatureOn Consent Calendar / In Concurrence
6/3/2025legislatureSenate Passed as Amended by House Amendment Schedule A
6/3/2025SenateSenate Adopted House Amendment Schedule A
6/3/2025SenateRules Suspended
6/3/2025legislatureSenate Calendar Number 600
6/3/2025SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
6/3/2025SenateTransmitted Pursuant To Joint Rule 17
6/2/2025legislatureHouse Passed as Amended by House Amendment Schedule A
6/2/2025HouseHouse Adopted House Amendment Schedule A 9874
6/2/2025HouseFile Number 149
3/19/2025legislatureHouse Calendar Number 123
3/19/2025HouseFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
3/19/2025HouseReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
3/19/2025legislatureReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/18/25 5:00 PM
3/13/2025legislatureFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
3/5/2025legislatureJoint Favorable
3/5/2025legislaturePublic Hearing 02/26
2/21/2025legislatureReferred to Joint Committee on Public Health
2/14/2025legislature
Bill Text
Public Act No. 25-96
6/2/2025
File No. 149
3/19/2025
PH Joint Favorable
3/5/2025
Raised Bill
2/14/2025
Bill Analysis For File Copy 149
Bill Analysis for HB-6978, as amended by House "A"
Fiscal Note For File Copy 149
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 9418 (See Fiscal Note Details)
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 9581 (See Fiscal Note Details)
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 9874 (See Fiscal Note Details)
Fiscal Note for HB-6978, As Amended by House "A" (LCO 9874)
House LCO Amendment #9418 (D)
House LCO Amendment #9581 (D)
House Roll Call Vote 275 AS AMENDED
House Schedule A LCO# 9874 (D)
PH Joint Fav. Rpt
PH Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable)
Senate Roll Call Vote 371
Summary for Public Act No. 25-96
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