Bills & Legislation

AN ACT LIMITING THE ASSESSMENT OF 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.

Seth BronkoRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING A STATE-WIDE BUILDING CODE CONSISTING OF MORE STRINGENT ENERGY EFFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS.

To provide municipalities with an important tool to transform their building stock to meet climate goals, reduce air pollution and increase energy affordability.

Eleni Kavros DeGrawDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING MEDICAID COVERAGE FOR ALLERGY PREVENTION.

To invest in food allergy prevention to reduce the long-term health care costs to the state, families and the health care system for treatment of and recovery from food allergies.

Robin E. ComeyDemocrat

AN ACT REQUIRING CERTAIN MOBILE MANUFACTURED HOME PARK OWNERS TO SUBMIT QUARTERLY REPORTS CONCERNING FIRE HYDRANT CAPACITY.

To require certain mobile manufactured home park owners to submit quarterly reports to the Department of Consumer Protection disclosing the progress such owners have made in increasing the water capacity and flow of fire hydrants located on such owners' mobile manufactured home parks.

Henry J. GengaDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING FUNDING FOR SUSTAINABLE CT.

To provide funding to support and expand programming offered by the nonprofit organization, Sustainable CT.

Eleni Kavros DeGrawDemocrat

AN ACT RENAMING A BRIDGE IN THE TOWN OF BROOKFIELD IN HONOR OF LANCE CORPORAL JOHN T. SCHMIDT III.

To rename a bridge in the town of Brookfield in honor of Lance Corporal John T. Schmidt III.

Dominique JohnsonDemocrat

AN ACT INCREASING THE PENALTY FOR THE FAILURE TO DISPLAY MOTOR VEHICLE NUMBER PLATES AND STICKERS.

To ensure registered motor vehicles properly display number plates and stickers so that such motor vehicles are identifiable to law enforcement.

Martin FoncelloRepublican

AN ACT ELIMINATING THE FEE FOR CERTAIN VEHICLES EXEMPT FROM EMISSION INSPECTIONS.

To make registering a new motor vehicle more affordable.

Mark W. AndersonRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE EXPANSION OF THE CRISIS INITIATIVE PILOT PROGRAM THROUGHOUT THE STATE.

To ensure that police officers throughout the state have the proper training and resources when dealing with someone who is in distress.

Vincent J. CandeloraRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING FIREARM MAGAZINE LIMITS AND DECLARATIONS.

To afford persons the means to better exercise the constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms.

Mark W. AndersonRepublican

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