Bills & Legislation

AN ACT STUDYING COMPENSATION OF ELECTION WORKERS DURING THE EARLY VOTING PERIOD AND ON ELECTION DAY.

To study the compensation of registrars of voters and other local election workers during the early voting period and on the day of an election.

Rob SampsonRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE AUDITING OF SIGNED STATEMENTS OF ELECTORS PRIOR TO VOTING.

To require that statements signed by electors, in lieu of presenting certain identification at the polls, be audited for accuracy.

Rob SampsonRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE AUDITING OF SAME-DAY ELECTION REGISTRATIONS.

To require the audit of same-day election registrations and subsequent confirmation notices of such registrations.

Rob SampsonRepublican

AN ACT AUTHORIZING GROCERY STORE BEER PERMITTEES TO SELL HARD CIDER.

To authorize grocery store beer permittees to sell hard cider for off-premises consumption.

Christine CohenDemocrat

AN ACT INCREASING THE MINIMUM AVERAGE COMMISSION PAYABLE TO LOTTERY SALES AGENTS.

To increase the minimum average commission payable to lottery sales agents.

MD RahmanDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF A PARENTS' RIGHT TO RAISE THEIR CHILDREN CONSISTENT WITH THEIR CHILDREN'S BIOLOGICAL SEX AND THE PROMOTION OF FAIRNESS IN INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC COMPETITION.

To protect a parents' right to raise children consistent with their biological sex and promote fairness in interscholastic athletic competition.

Anne DauphinaisRepublican

AN ACT PROHIBITING MARRIAGE BETWEEN FIRST COUSINS.

To prohibit marriage between first cousins.

Devin R. CarneyRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ELDER JUSTICE DIVISION WITHIN THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF STATE'S ATTORNEY.

To establish an elder justice division within the Office of the Chief State's Attorney.

Mitch BolinskyRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ADOPTION OF THE UNIFORM REAL PROPERTY TRANSFER ON DEATH ACT.

To adopt the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act.

Mitch BolinskyRepublican

AN ACT REDUCING FILING FEES INCURRED BY CERTAIN BUSINESS ENTITIES FOR FILING ANNUAL REPORTS WITH THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE STATE.

To reduce the filing fee for annual reports filed by limited partnerships, limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships from eighty dollars to twenty dollars.

Mitch BolinskyRepublican

AN ACT REQUIRING MINIMUM WAGE COMPENSATION FOR ALL JURORS.

To require the state minimum wage be paid for jury service to ensure equity and fairness in the jury system.

Matt BlumenthalDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING THE MINIMUM AGE TO ARREST A CHILD.

To raise the minimum age to arrest a child to fourteen years of age.

Kadeem RobertsDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING UMBRELLA LIABILITY COVERAGE FOR PUBLIC OFFICIALS.

To provide that insurance carriers shall provide liability coverage, including general liability and automobile liability coverage, that is supplemental to an underlying liability policy for elected public officials.

Mitch BolinskyRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE.

To: (1) Prohibit any long-term care insurer from requesting a premium rate increase that exceeds the most recent calendar year average in the consumer price index for urban consumers, as published by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, which shall apply to renewed long-term care policies that were initially purchased by policyholders not less than fifteen years ago; (2) prohibit any long-term care insurer from requesting a premium rate increase of five per cent or more; and (3) require any long-term care insurer that files premium rate increase requests of twenty per cent or more for long-term care insurance policies to spread such increases over not less than five years.

Matt BlumenthalDemocrat

AN ACT REQUIRING HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY FOLLOWING MELANOMA SURGERY ON THE FACE.

To require that individual and group health insurance policies provide health insurance coverage for reconstructive surgery following melanoma surgery on the face, including surgical procedures necessary to correct disfigurement, restore normal symmetry and correct functional impairments resulting from such melanoma surgery.

Frank SmithDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING INDEXING MEDICAID PAYMENT RATES TO THE RATE OF INFLATION.

To keep Medicaid reimbursement rates consistent with the rise in costs and wages in Connecticut.

Mitch BolinskyRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING DIVERTING A PORTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE BENEFITS FOR DRUG COUNSELING FOR BENEFICIARIES CONVICTED OF COMMITTING A DRUG-RELATED FELONY.

To provide drug counseling to those who are convicted of committing a drug-related felony while receiving state-administered supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits.

Mitch BolinskyRepublican

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A SINGLE SKILLED-TRADE HIRING RATIO.

To establish a single skilled-trade hiring ratio of one apprentice to one licensee.

Gale L. MastrofrancescoRepublican

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A SINGLE HIRING RATIO FOR THE SKILLED TRADES.

To provide that the hiring ratio for the skilled trades shall be one apprentice to one licensee.

Tim AckertRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ELECTION OF STATE'S ATTORNEYS.

To provide for the election of a state's attorney in each of the judicial districts.

Kadeem RobertsDemocrat

AN ACT ELIMINATING THE HIGHWAY USE TAX.

To eliminate the highway use tax.

Mitch BolinskyRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING QUALIFIED RENEWABLE DIESEL PRODUCER GRANTS.

To provide grant funding for qualified renewable diesel producers.

Joseph P. GreskoDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING THE DISCHARGE OF CONTAMINATED WATER INTO THE CONNECTICUT RIVER BY MASSACHUSETTS-BASED ENTITIES.

To stop the state of Massachusetts from allowing the discharge of pollutants into the Connecticut River.

Devin R. CarneyRepublican

AN ACT LIMITING THE PASSPORT TO THE PARKS MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION FEE TO ONE VEHICLE PER HOUSEHOLD.

To provide savings to the registrants of vehicles by limiting the assessment of the Passport to the Parks Fee to one vehicle per household.

Mitch BolinskyRepublican

AN ACT AUTHORIZING LOCAL BUTCHER SHOPS TO PROCESS FARMER-OWNED USDA AND INSPECTED MEAT PRODUCTS.

To alleviate livestock processing backlogs in the state.

Mitch BolinskyRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE REGULATION AND CONTROL OF THE BLACK BEAR POPULATION IN THE STATE.

To establish a bear management framework intended to ensure a healthy bear population, minimize conflicts between bears and humans and allow for limited regulated hunting of black bear.

Karen Reddington-HughesRepublican

AN ACT PERMITTING SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO OPT OUT OF THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS.

To allow school districts to opt out of the Common Core State Standards and to choose an alternative standard for its curriculum.

Gale L. MastrofrancescoRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND OF THE PRESS FOR STUDENTS.

To protect student expression and student publications except when such expression or publications are obscene, libelous, slanderous or disrupt school activities.

Gale L. MastrofrancescoRepublican

AN ACT INCREASING THE AMOUNT A SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY REDUCE ITS MINIMUM BUDGET REQUIREMENT WHEN IT EXPERIENCES A DECLINE IN STUDENT ENROLLMENT.

To provide mandate relief by allowing school districts greater authority to reduce their education budgets when there is reduced student enrollment.

Gale L. MastrofrancescoRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING A WEB-BASED MENTAL HEALTH PLATFORM FOR STUDENTS.

To assist children and students in accessing mental health services.

Kadeem RobertsDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING SUPPORT FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION.

To provide adequate support for in-district special education placements and for state special education mandates and best practices.

Mitch BolinskyRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PILOT PROGRAM FOR AT-RISK YOUTH.

To establish a pilot program for at-risk youth in grades seven to nine, inclusive, to engage in hands-on, project-based learning programs that align academic content with practical applications, including vocational and community experience.

Kadeem RobertsDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING PARTIAL MORTGAGE PAYMENTS.

To provide that mortgage lenders and mortgage servicers shall accept and apply any partial mortgage payment made by a mortgagor.

David RutiglianoRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING FUNDING FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT MARCHING BAND UNIFORMS.

To provide funding for The University of Connecticut to purchase new uniforms for the first time in fifteen years for its marching band members.

Matt BlumenthalDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY EMPLOYEE AND VOLUNTEER BACKGROUND CHECKS.

To prevent elder abuse by requiring all prospective employees and volunteers of long-term care facilities to submit to background checks.

Mitch BolinskyRepublican

AN ACT LIMITING LOCAL PROPERTY TAX INCREASES ON SENIORS AND CERTAIN PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.

To reduce the incidences of local property tax increases harming elderly and disabled residents on fixed incomes.

Mitch BolinskyRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING PATIENT ACCESS TO MEDICAL RECORDS.

To ensure patients have affordable access to their own medical records.

Matt BlumenthalDemocrat

AN ACT REQUIRING THE LICENSURE OF DANCE/MOVEMENT THERAPISTS.

To require the licensure of dance/movement therapists in the state.

Mitch BolinskyRepublican

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR NEUROMODULATION TREATMENTS FOR VETERANS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT IN COLLABORATION WITH HARTFORD HEALTHCARE PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION.

To establish and provide funding for a Center of Excellence for Neuromodulation Treatments for Veterans at The University of Connecticut in Collaboration with Hartford HealthCare Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Henry J. GengaDemocrat

AN ACT PROHIBITING THE STATE FROM MANDATING A COVID-19 VACCINATION.

To prohibit the state, or any employee thereof, from mandating a COVID-19 vaccination.

Gale L. MastrofrancescoRepublican

AN ACT PROHIBITING EMPLOYERS AND PUBLIC OFFICIALS FROM REQUIRING PROOF OF A COVID-19 VACCINATION.

To prohibit employers and public officials from requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination.

Gale L. MastrofrancescoRepublican

AN ACT REQUIRING THE NOTIFICATION OF A PARENT OR GUARDIAN OF A MINOR PRIOR TO THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL OR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES TO THE MINOR.

To ensure that the best interests of a minor are protected when requiring medical or mental health treatment.

Gale L. MastrofrancescoRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE STATE ELECTIONS ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS.

To make several changes regarding the State Elections Enforcement Commission and campaign finance laws.

Rob SampsonRepublican

AN ACT REQUIRING EXPENDITURES FROM THE SPECIAL TRANSPORTATION FUND TO BE EXPENDED ONLY FOR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS AND PROJECTS.

To ensure the resources of the Special Transportation Fund are expended on transportation.

Rob SampsonRepublican

AN ACT REQUIRING THE NOTIFICATION OF A PARENT OR GUARDIAN OF A MINOR PRIOR TO THE TERMINATION OF A PREGNANCY BY THE MINOR.

To ensure that the best interests of a minor are protected when facing an unplanned pregnancy.

Gale L. MastrofrancescoRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO THE NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS AND THE CLIMATE CHANGE CURRICULUM TAUGHT TO STUDENTS.

To amend the portion of the Next Generation Science Standards as it relates to the climate change curriculum requirement.

John E. PiscopoRepublican

AN ACT ESTABLISHING PFAS-RELATED PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY TESTING STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS.

To create a maximum contaminant level for PFAS in public drinking water supplies.

Christine CohenDemocrat