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ConnecticutHB 070662025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
AN ACT CONCERNING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SCHOOL PERSONNEL AND IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES, THE PURCHASE AND OPERATION OF CERTAIN DRONES, GRANTS TO CERTAIN NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, AND STUDENT ATHLETE COMPENSATION THROUGH ENDORSEMENT CONTRACTS AND REVENUE SHARING AGREEMENTS.
Sponsored By: Matthew Ritter (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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Analyzed Economic Effects
8 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 5 costs, 1 mixed.
College athletes gain paid deal options
Since March 3, 2025, Connecticut college athletes can make endorsement or revenue-sharing deals directly with their school or its partners. Schools must allow these deals through written policies, and athletes must follow those policies. Coverage includes people who have agreed both to attend the college and to join its sports program. Colleges and their partners can help current or prospective athletes find and negotiate paid opportunities. Athletes can also earn outside endorsement or job income and hire an attorney or licensed sports agent. School policies require disclosure of endorsement, job, and representation agreements and bar conflicts with school contracts, team duties, or academics. Sports associations and conferences cannot penalize athletes, schools, school partners, or staff for activities this law permits. No payment is guaranteed, and the law does not require schools to treat athletes as employees or scholarships as compensation.
College athletes gain pay records privacy
Since March 3, 2025, Connecticut public colleges’ records of athletes’ covered compensation are exempt from public-records disclosure. This covers endorsement, employment, and revenue-sharing income under the law. A college can disclose these records with the athlete’s written consent for each disclosure.
Schools set safeguards for immigration contacts
Covered Connecticut schools must name an administrator for federal immigration contacts by April 1, 2025. School safety plans must include immigration-contact rules for the 2024–25 school year, following state guidance dated January 28, 2025. These rules cover checking officers’ identities, requesting and reviewing judicial warrants, consulting school lawyers, and directing access requests to the administrator. Plans must address access to school buildings, records, and information while meeting legal duties. Schools must review plans annually and submit them to the state emergency services department. Staff cannot be punished for following the protocols or taking the actions protected by the law.
Aircraft operators face new weapons ban
Beginning October 1, 2025, people cannot equip aircraft or drones with weapons, dangerous instruments, firearms, ammunition, explosives, or incendiary devices. U.S. and Connecticut armed-forces members performing official duties are exempt. Police, firefighters, and emergency management directors have a narrow exception for motorized breaching tools during rescue or emergency services. Violations are class A misdemeanors.
Drone pilots face critical site limits
Beginning October 1, 2025, drone flights need owner or administrator approval below 250 feet over covered critical sites or within 100 horizontal feet. Approval is also required for flights inside limited-access highway tunnels and for drone surveillance or information gathering about covered sites. Covered sites include utilities, hospitals, public safety buildings, government offices, and specified transportation facilities; most must meet enclosure or warning-sign requirements. Necessary FAA-authorized commercial flights have a limited flight exemption, and specified official government, emergency, military, and utility duties are exempt. Violations are class A misdemeanors.
Government buyers face foreign drone bans
Connecticut’s emergency services department cannot buy covered foreign-made small drones beginning October 1, 2025, or operate them beginning October 1, 2027. Broader purchase bans begin October 1, 2026; broader operating bans begin October 1, 2028. These cover state agencies, municipalities, their contractors, and purchases or operations supported by state or federal funds. Covered drones weigh under 55 pounds and come from listed foreign entities, including specified Chinese- or Russian-linked entities. Contracts signed before each applicable ban date remain protected. Limited waivers run from October 1, 2027, for the emergency services department, and October 1, 2028, for other authorized officials, through December 31, 2034. Waivers cover urgent circumstances, countering another drone, or criminal investigations; certified written reasons and supporting facts are required within seven days after use. The department retains waiver statements, which are subject to public-records requests and available to state legislators on request.
Parent committee members face records limits
Beginning July 1, 2025, parent and guardian members of school safety committees face limits on access to committee information. They cannot access information when doing so would violate the federal student-record privacy law, FERPA. This restriction does not block access to other committee information.
Colleges cannot use state athlete funding
Since March 3, 2025, Connecticut colleges cannot use state funds appropriated to them to pay athletes through endorsement or revenue-sharing agreements. The restriction does not ban payments from other sources.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Matthew Ritter
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 2/24/2025
Senate Roll Call Vote 38
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Senate vote • 2/24/2025
Senate Roll Call Vote 37
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House vote • 2/24/2025
House Roll Call Vote 26 HOUSE AMD B
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Senate vote • 2/24/2025
Senate Roll Call Vote 36
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House vote • 2/24/2025
House Roll Call Vote 27 EMERGENCY CERTIFICATION
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House vote • 2/24/2025
House Roll Call Vote 25 HOUSE AMD A
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Actions Timeline
Public Act 25-1
3/12/2025legislatureLine Item Vetoed by the Governor, Section(s): 9, 10, 11
3/3/2025legislatureSigned by Governor in Original
3/3/2025legislatureRules Suspended, Transmitted to the Governor
2/25/2025legislatureIn Concurrence
2/25/2025legislatureSenate Passed
2/25/2025SenateSenate Reconsidered
2/25/2025SenateSenate Passed
2/25/2025SenateSenate Rejected Senate Amendment Schedule B 5485
2/25/2025SenateSenate Rejected Senate Amendment Schedule A 5493
2/25/2025SenateRules Suspended, Transmitted to the Senate
2/24/2025SenateHouse Passed
2/24/2025HouseHouse Rejected House Amendment Schedule B 5432
2/24/2025HouseHouse Rejected House Amendment Schedule A 5424
2/24/2025HouseEmergency Certification
2/23/2025legislature
Bill Text
Public Act No. 25-1
2/24/2025
New Bill
2/23/2025
Bill Analysis for HB-7066
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 5424 (No Fiscal Impact)
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 5432 (No Fiscal Impact)
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 5459 (No Fiscal Impact)
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 5478 (No Fiscal Impact)
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 5483 (See Fiscal Note Details)
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 5485 (See Fiscal Note Details)
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 5493 (No Fiscal Impact)
Fiscal Note for HB-7066
House Roll Call Vote 25 HOUSE AMD A
House Roll Call Vote 26 HOUSE AMD B
House Roll Call Vote 27 EMERGENCY CERTIFICATION
House Schedule A LCO# 5424 (R)
House Schedule B LCO# 5432 (R)
Senate LCO Amendment #5459 (R)
Senate LCO Amendment #5478 (R)
Senate LCO Amendment #5483 (R)
Senate Roll Call Vote 36
Senate Roll Call Vote 37
Senate Roll Call Vote 38
Senate Schedule A LCO# 5493 (R)
Senate Schedule B LCO# 5485 (R)
Summary for Public Act No. 25-1
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