Bills & Legislation

AN ACT CONCERNING THE MAINTENANCE OF RECORDS COLLECTED BY LICENSE PLATE READERS.

To protect personal privacy by prohibiting the state, a political subdivision of the state or a contractor that receives state funds from maintaining certain records concerning motor vehicles.

Mark W. AndersonRepublican

AN ACT ALLOWING CATALYTIC CONVERTERS TO BE RECEIVED FROM MUNICIPAL TRANSFER STATIONS.

To enable municipal transfer stations to sell catalytic converters that have been deposited with such transfer stations.

Mark W. AndersonRepublican

AN ACT REQUIRING THE PROVISION OF WRITTEN INFORMATION BY PHARMACISTS CONCERNING THE EFFECTS OF MIFEPRISTONE WHEN DISPENSING TO A PATIENT.

To protect reproductive rights in cases where a woman decides to continue with a pregnancy.

Mark W. AndersonRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING INPATIENT DISCHARGE PLANS FOR MINORS.

To require each inpatient health care service provider to create a minor patient discharge plan as soon as such minor patient shows improvement but not later than one week before discharging such patient.

Patrick BigginsDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING THE CAUSE OF DEATH FOR PERSONS WHO SELF-ADMINISTER MEDICATION PRESCRIBED TO BRING ABOUT DEATH.

To provide notice to the next of kin that a member of the family passed away due to assisted suicide.

Mark W. AndersonRepublican

AN ACT ADJUSTING THE ANNUAL INCREASE TO THE MINIMUM WAGE.

To adjust the annual increase to the minimum wage according to the percentage change in the employment cost index or not more than ten cents per hour, whichever is lower.

Vincent J. CandeloraRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING HAZARD PENSIONS FOR CERTAIN JUDICIAL EMPLOYEES.

To add investigators in the Division of Public Defender Services and support service investigators in Support Enforcement Services to the definition of "hazardous duty member" for the purposes of the State Employees Retirement Act.

Geraldo C. ReyesDemocrat

AN ACT LIMITING THE AMOUNT OF RETIREMENT INCOME FOR MEMBERS OF THE STATE EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

To limit retirement income for members of the state employees retirement system to one hundred thousand dollars per year.

Kurt VailRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE SALES AND USE TAXES IMPOSED ON MEALS SOLD BY AN EATING ESTABLISHMENT, CATERER OR GROCERY STORE.

To eliminate the additional one per cent sales and use taxes imposed on meals sold by an eating establishment, caterer or grocery store.

Patrick BigginsDemocrat

AN ACT FULLY FUNDING THE EXCESS COST GRANT.

To ensure full funding of the special education excess cost grants for all towns.

Mark DeCaprioRepublican

AN ACT RAISING THE PENALTY FOR PROMOTION OR ORGANIZATION OF A STREET TAKEOVER.

To enhance penalties for individuals who organize or actively promote a street takeover.

Vincent J. CandeloraRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF THE CONNECTICUT JUVENILE TRAINING SCHOOL.

To reimagine and reopen the Connecticut Juvenile Training School for the purpose of providing better educational resources for high-risk pretrial offenders and their parents.

Vincent J. CandeloraRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING REVOCATION OF BOND FOR CERTAIN VIOLENT OFFENDERS.

To allow courts to hold without bail individuals who are a danger to the community.

Vincent J. CandeloraRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING CONSENT SEARCHES AND POLICE PURSUITS.

To allow police pursuits and consent searches.

Vincent J. CandeloraRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING ENTICEMENT OF A JUVENILE TO COMMIT A CRIMINAL ACT.

To increase the penalty for an adult who entices a juvenile to commit a criminal act.

Vincent J. CandeloraRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING MURDER COMMITTED IN THE COURSE OF A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INCIDENT AND THE ISSUANCE OF CRIMINAL PROTECTIVE ORDERS AGAINST CONVICTED PERPETRATORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

To classify a murder committed in the course of a domestic violence incident as a murder with special circumstances and to require issuance of a criminal protective order as part of the sentence for a domestic violence conviction.

Vincent J. CandeloraRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE CONSUMPTION OF CANNABIS IN A MOTOR VEHICLE.

To treat the use of cannabis in a motor vehicle in the same manner as the use of alcohol in a motor vehicle is treated.

Vincent J. CandeloraRepublican

AN ACT REPEALING THE TRUST ACT.

To repeal the Trust Act.

Mark W. AndersonRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION AS A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY.

To provide that any person who fraudulently misrepresents that such person is a person with a disability for the purpose of receiving accommodations regarding service dogs afforded by the Americans with Disabilities Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

William HeffernanDemocrat

AN ACT REINSTATING THE DEATH PENALTY.

To reinstate the death penalty.

Kurt VailRepublican

AN ACT ADOPTING THE CASTLE DOCTRINE.

To fully adopt the Castle Doctrine.

Kurt VailRepublican

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A NEW CRIME OF MURDER FOR THE SUPPLY OF ILLEGAL DRUGS TO A VICTIM OF AN OVERDOSE.

To establish a new crime of murder for those responsible for supplying illegal drugs to a victim of an overdose.

Kurt VailRepublican

AN ACT REQUIRING HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR THE PERIL OF COLLAPSE.

To require homeowners insurance policies to provide coverage for the peril of collapse.

Kurt VailRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING GASOLINE PRICE TRANSPARENCY.

To require gasoline retailers to disclose to consumers a breakdown of the various components comprising the retail price of gasoline.

Kurt VailRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ADOPTION OF ATLANTIC STANDARD TIME.

To require the state to adopt Atlantic Standard time upon the enactment of legislation in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York adopting said time and federal approval of such change.

Kurt VailRepublican

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A CAUSE OF ACTION FOR TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE WITH AN EXPECTED INHERITANCE.

To establish a civil cause of action for tortious interference with an expected inheritance.

Jonathan JacobsonDemocrat

AN ACT ALLOWING NONPROFITS TO PARTICIPATE IN ASSOCIATION HEALTH PLANS.

To allow nonprofits to participate in association health plans.

Raghib Allie-BrennanDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING COVERAGE FOR MEDICALLY NECESSARY TREATMENT IN THIS STATE.

To: (1) Require any health carrier to align coverage guidelines with the most recent evidence-based medical standards; (2) require transparency in health carriers' claim-review practices; (3) require coverage for medical treatments for life-saving care that are recommended by licensed health care provider specialists, unless medical evidence justifies denial of such coverage; (4) revise the process for review of adverse determinations to require (A) review of nonurgent care requests to be resolved within ten business days, and (B) review of urgent care requests to be resolved within forty-eight hours.

Raghib Allie-BrennanDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING CREDIT CARD SKIMMING.

To protect consumers from identity theft associated with credit card skimming.

Seth BronkoRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO THE PASSPORT TO THE PARKS PROGRAM.

To exempt senior citizens and veterans from the Passport to the Parks vehicle registration fee and to apply such vehicle registration fee to only one vehicle when a person registers more than one vehicle with the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles.

Doug DubitskyRepublican

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE USE OF FIREARMS FITTED WITH SOUND SUPPRESSORS BY HUNTERS.

To authorize the use of gun sound suppressors by hunters.

Doug DubitskyRepublican

AN ACT PROHIBITING THE REGULATION OF PESTICIDE USE BY MUNICIPALITIES.

To preempt municipalities from regulating the use of pesticides and leaving such regulation to the state and federal governments.

Doug DubitskyRepublican

AN ACT REQUIRING THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES TO HOLD A REUNIFICATION HEARING WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS OF THE RECOMMENDATION OF UNIFICATION BY A LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST.

To require the Department of Children and Families to hold a reunification hearing not later than fourteen days after a licensed psychologist recommends the reunification of a child in the temporary custody of the department with a parent or guardian.

Rob SampsonRepublican

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

To require that individual and group health insurance policies provide health insurance coverage for facial reconstructive surgery following treatment for skin cancer on the face, including, but not limited to, melanoma.

Alphonse PaolilloDemocrat

AN ACT PROHIBITING THE USE OF CREDIT HISTORY OR RACE IN UNDERWRITING AUTOMOBILE LIABILITY OR HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE.

To enact further protections for consumers to prohibit any automobile liability or homeowners insurance company from using credit history or race in underwriting or rating automobile liability or homeowners insurance policies.

Anthony L. NolanDemocrat

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE HUNTING OF ANIMALS BY FIREARM ON PRIVATE PROPERTY ON ALL DAYS OF THE WEEK DURING THE LEGAL HUNTING SEASON FOR SUCH ANIMAL.

To allow the hunting of all animals on private property on all days of the week, including Sundays, during the legal hunting season for such animal.

Doug DubitskyRepublican

AN ACT REQUIRING PCB TESTING IN CERTAIN SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES.

To require PCB testing in schools to promote cancer-free learning.

Saud AnwarDemocrat

AN ACT AUTHORIZING BONDS OF THE STATE FOR THE EXPANSION OF THE CAFETERIA AT LEDYARD MIDDLE SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF LEDYARD.

To provide funding to the town of Ledyard to expand the cafeteria at Ledyard Middle School to accommodate the students at meal times.

Catherine A. OstenDemocrat

AN ACT AUTHORIZING BONDS OF THE STATE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A POLICE STATION IN THE CITY OF NORWICH.

To provide sixty-seven per cent of the funding necessary for the construction of a police station in the city of Norwich.

Catherine A. OstenDemocrat

AN ACT PROHIBITING PROOF OF VACCINATION REQUIREMENTS OR INQUIRIES TO GAIN PUBLIC ACCESS TO COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS OR STATE OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT LANDS OR BUILDINGS.

To prohibit proof of vaccination requirements or inquiring into vaccine records to gain public access to commercial establishments or state or local government lands or buildings.

Rob SampsonRepublican

AN ACT PROHIBITING THE TRADE OF EXOTIC ANIMALS AND THEIR PARTS IN THE STATE.

To prohibit the trade of exotic animals and their parts in the state.

Kerry S. WoodDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING FUNDING FOR EASTCONN.

To increase funding to EASTCONN to provide more services to rural areas.

Heather S. SomersRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE NORWICH PUBLIC UTILITIES WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY PROJECT.

To require an increase in the reimbursement to Norwich Public Utilities for its Wastewater Treatment Facility project.

Catherine A. OstenDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION ON GENDER-SPECIFIC SPORTS TEAMS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE ATHLETICS.

To protect the health, safety and scholarship opportunities of female athletes.

Stephen G. HardingRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEATH BENEFIT FOR STATE EMPLOYEES.

To increase the state employee death benefit to keep up with inflation.

Paul CicarellaRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE WRITTEN EXAMINATION FOR BUILDING INSPECTOR LICENSURE.

To specify that the Department of Administrative Services shall administer the written examination for building inspectors every other month.

Jeff GordonRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING FUNDING FOR RIFLE TEAMS AT TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLS.

To provide continued appropriations for rifle teams at technical high schools.

Greg S. HowardRepublican