Bills & Legislation

AN ACT REQUIRING BOTTLE REDEMPTION CENTERS TO ACCEPT BOTTLES AND CANS FROM MICROBREWERIES.

To require bottle redemption centers to accept cans and bottles from microbreweries.

Carol HallRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING CARBON CAP AND TRADE.

To repeal carbon cap and trade authorization.

John E. PiscopoRepublican

AN ACT AUTHORIZING CERTAIN MUNICIPAL FINES FOR DISCARDING TIRES IN WATERWAYS.

To prevent the degrading of waterways, protect fish and promote human health.

Patricia A. DillonDemocrat

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A PERSONAL INCOME TAX CREDIT FOR HOMEOWNERS WHO CONVERT THEIR LAWN INTO A WILDFLOWER MEADOW.

To provide a tax credit for wildflower meadow cultivation.

Tom O'DeaRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING SENIOR CITIZENS AND DISABLED VETERANS AND THE PASSPORT TO THE PARKS PROGRAM.

To provide relief to groups like senior citizens and disabled veterans, that are often on fixed incomes, from certain fees.

Kevin BrownDemocrat

AN ACT PROHIBITING THE USE OF STEEL-JAW LEGHOLD TRAPS ON BODIES OF WATER.

To prohibit the use of steel-jaw leghold traps on bodies of water.

Devin R. CarneyRepublican

AN ACT EXEMPTING SENIOR CITIZENS FROM THE PASSPORT TO THE PARKS MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION FEE.

To provide recreational opportunities to senior citizens without the financial barrier of such fee.

Bobby G. GibsonDemocrat

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A PROPERTY TAX ABATEMENT FOR CERTAIN LANDLORDS.

To establish a municipal option to abate property taxes for landlords that maintain affordable rental units for a specified period of time.

Jill BarryDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING THE DESIGNATION OF CORE FOREST BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

To prevent privately held forestland from being designated as core forest without the owner's consent.

Kurt VailRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING REPEAL OF CERTAIN GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION GOALS.

To repeal certain greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.

Doug DubitskyRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE MANUFACTURING INNOVATION FUND.

To supply funding to be deposited into the Manufacturing Innovation Fund to support manufacturing apprenticeships in the state.

Lezlye ZupkusRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE TIME FOR PASSAGE OF THE STATE BUDGET.

To prevent legislators and constitutional officers from being paid unless a state budget is passed on time.

Bill BuckbeeRepublican

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS FOR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS TO PROMOTE AWARENESS OF MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH RESOURCES.

To appropriate funds to the Department of Veterans Affairs for purposes of advertising campaigns to promote awareness of mental and behavioral health resources available to veterans.

Chris StewartRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING FUNDING FOR THE OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING DIVISION WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER PROTECTION.

To fund additional in-the-field license inspector positions in the Occupational and Professional Licensing Division of the Department of Consumer Protection.

Tim AckertRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING FUNDING TO COMPENSATE MUNICIPALITIES FOR COSTS INCURRED BECAUSE OF EARLY VOTING.

To help our towns cover the costs of early voting.

Dave W. YaccarinoRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING CONTINUED FUNDING SUPPORT FOR THE GOVERNOR'S FOOT GUARDS AND HORSE GUARDS.

To preserve the Governor's Foot Guards and Horse Guards and the property where the Governor's Horse Guards' headquarters is located in the town of Avon.

Amy Morrin BelloDemocrat

AN ACT PROHIBITING THE FUNDING OF THE OFFICE OF EQUITY AND OPPORTUNITY.

To prohibit the Office of Equity and Opportunity from receiving any state funds to support the office or its functions.

Doug DubitskyRepublican

AN ACT ALLOWING INDIVIDUALS WITH GRADUATE DEGREES TO TEACH IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

To allow an individual with a graduate degree to teach a subject relevant to such degree in a public school.

Christie M. CarpinoRepublican

AN ACT ESTABLISHING EVENING TRADE AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS AT TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND CAREER SCHOOLS.

To establish training programs for adults in trades and vocations that are in high demand in the state.

Christie M. CarpinoRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING TERMINATION HEARINGS FOR TENURED TEACHERS.

To require three-member panels for termination hearings for teachers who have attained tenure.

Irene M. HainesRepublican

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE TO STUDY TEACHER COMPENSATION.

To establish a task force to study teacher compensation.

Irene M. HainesRepublican

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.

Doug DubitskyRepublican

AN ACT PROHIBITING THE PROMOTION OF RACIAL AND SEXUAL SUPREMACY IN SCHOOLS IN CONNECTICUT.

To ensure that all students are treated fairly and equally in Connecticut's schools.

Doug DubitskyRepublican

AN ACT PROHIBITING STUDENT ATHLETES WHO WERE BORN AS MALES FROM PARTICIPATING IN WOMEN'S INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC EVENTS.

To eliminate unfair competition in women's interscholastic sporting competition.

Doug DubitskyRepublican

AN ACT CREATING EDUCATION SAVINGS ACCOUNTS.

To create education savings accounts.

Doug DubitskyRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE PARTICIPATION OF HOME-SCHOOLED STUDENTS IN EXTRACURRICULAR AND ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES OFFERED BY SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

To allow home-schooled children to participate in school extracurricular activities and interscholastic and intramural athletics.

Doug DubitskyRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE FULL FUNDING OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEUTRAL STATE PANEL FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION.

To require the state to pay the full cost of special education and to establish a neutral state panel to decide special education placements.

Doug DubitskyRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO THE EXCESS COST THRESHOLD FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION.

To modify the excess cost threshold for special education costs in order to reduce the financial hardship on small school districts with low student enrollment.

Doug DubitskyRepublican

AN ACT INCREASING THE NOTICE PERIOD TO WITHDRAW FROM A COOPERATIVE ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN BOARDS OF EDUCATION.

To require three years', rather than one year, notice for a board of education to withdraw from an agreement for cooperative arrangements with any other board of education.

Doug DubitskyRepublican

AN ACT ESTABLISHING PROFICIENCY EXAMINATIONS AND A PUBLIC SCHOOL VOUCHER PROGRAM.

To (1) require administration of a grade-level proficiency examination as a condition to elevating a student to the next grade level or allowing a student to graduate, and (2) allow the parent or guardian of a student who attends a school in which less than sixty per cent of students pass such grade-level proficiency examinations to obtain a voucher to enroll such child in a public school within the same or adjoining school district.

Doug DubitskyRepublican

AN ACT PROHIBITING COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION PREPARATION COMPANIES FROM DISCLOSING OR SELLING STUDENT INFORMATION.

To protect the privacy of students taking college entrance exams.

Tim AckertRepublican

AN ACT REQUIRING PUBLIC SCHOOLS BE EQUIPPED WITH CLASSROOM DOORS THAT LOCK FROM THE INSIDE.

To require all public school classrooms to be equipped with doors that are able to be locked from inside the classroom.

Carol HallRepublican

AN ACT PROHIBITING THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH FROM MAKING RESCISSIONS TO A TOWN'S EDUCATION COST-SHARING GRANT DURING THE FISCAL YEAR.

To prohibit the Governor from making rescissions to towns' education cost-sharing grants during a fiscal year.

Carol HallRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE DECLAWING OF CATS.

To prohibit the declawing of cats.

Nicole Klarides-DitriaRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING THE FULL FUNDING OF THE SPECIAL EDUCATION EXCESS COST GRANT.

To fully fund the special education excess cost grant.

Carol HallRepublican

AN ACT PROVIDING FUNDING FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF CERTAIN TRAILS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

To fund the maintenance of certain trails by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Rick LopesDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING PROTESTED CHANGES TO MUNICIPAL ZONING REGULATIONS.

To specify that if a protest against a proposed change to zoning regulations or boundaries is filed, it shall be signed by the owners of fifty per cent or more of the area of the lots included in such proposed change or the lots within five hundred feet of the subject property and such proposed change shall not be adopted except by a majority vote of the members of the municipal zoning commission.

Jason RojasDemocrat

AN ACT REQUIRING A REPORT CONCERNING HEALTH CARE PLANS, RETIREMENT PLANS AND OTHER BENEFITS PROVIDED BY NONSTATE PUBLIC EMPLOYERS.

To require the Comptroller to analyze reports concerning health care and retirement plans and other benefits provided by nonstate public employers, and submit a report containing such analysis to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to planning and development.

Jason RojasDemocrat

AN ACT REQUIRING AS OF RIGHT ACCESSORY COMMERCIAL UNITS.

To require municipalities to designate areas in which accessory commercial units shall be allowed as of right.

Jason RojasDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING AUTOMATIC REFERRAL TO THE MUNICIPAL FINANCE ADVISORY COMMISSION.

To require that any economically distressed municipality with a population less than twenty-five thousand that meets the criteria for referral to the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission be automatically referred to the commission.

Kara RochelleDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING THE MINIMUM WAGE RATE FOR PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN YEARS.

To reduce the minimum wage rate for persons under the age of eighteen years and eliminate the ninety-day limitation of such minimum wage rate.

Steve WeirRepublican

AN ACT REQUIRING FULL-TIME STATE EMPLOYEES TO RETURN TO IN-OFFICE OR ONSITE WORK AT LEAST FIVE DAYS PER WEEK.

To require state employees to return to in-office or onsite work.

Tom O'DeaRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING ELIGIBILITY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

To update the basis for an individual to qualify for unemployment benefits and exemptions for agricultural employers from participation in the unemployment compensation system.

Doug DubitskyRepublican

AN ACT CONCERNING WAGES OF EMPLOYEES OF CANNABIS RETAILERS.

To ensure that the subminimum wage statute is not applied to employees of cannabis retailers.

Jason RojasDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING PROBABLE CAUSE FOR DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE IF A PASSENGER IS OBSERVED USING CANNABIS.

To allow police to establish probable cause for driving under the influence if a passenger of a motor vehicle is observed using cannabis.

Tom O'DeaRepublican

AN ACT ENHANCING INTERVENTIONAL SERVICE IN THE CASE OF REPEAT JUVENILE OFFENDERS.

To ensure accountability and early intervention in cases of repeat juvenile offenders.

Arnold JensenRepublican

AN ACT INCREASING PENALTIES FOR SWATTING.

To increase swatting penalties.

Christie M. CarpinoRepublican