Bills & Legislation

AN ACT CONCERNING THE CONSUMPTION OF ENERGY DRINKS BY CHILDREN.

To establish a working group to study the medical risks associated with the consumption of energy drinks by children and effects of a prohibition on the sale of energy drinks to children, and require signage related to the medical risks associated with the consumption of energy drinks by children.

Committee on Children

AN ACT CONCERNING EQUITABLE RELIEF AND ENFORCEMENT TOOLS AVAILABLE UNDER THE CONNECTICUT ANTITRUST ACT.

To expand upon the types of equitable relief and enforcement tools that may be utilized for violations of the Connecticut Antitrust Act.

Judiciary Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING DISTRIBUTION OF SURPLUS FUNDS FROM A CANDIDATE COMMITTEE THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE CITIZENS' ELECTION PROGRAM.

To allow candidate committees that participated in the Citizens' Election Program to distribute up to five thousand dollars of surplus funds to a local charity.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT REDEFINING "STATE CONTRACTOR", "PROSPECTIVE STATE CONTRACTOR" AND "SUBCONTRACTOR" FOR PURPOSES OF THE CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS.

To redefine "state contractor", "prospective state contractor" and "subcontractor" to exclude persons who simply pay licensing fees for purposes of the campaign finance laws.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING EMERGENCY NONPROFIT ASSISTANCE.

Matthew RitterDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING TRAINING FOR MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF INLAND WETLANDS AGENCIES.

To require the completion of an online training program by members and staff of inland wetlands agencies.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE MITIGATION OF EFFECTS ON WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES FROM FUTURE OFFSHORE WIND PROJECTS.

To require the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to adopt regulations regarding the mitigation of future offshore wind project proposals on wildlife and fisheries.

Environment Committee

AN ACT PRIORITIZING ALLOCATION OF RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM VOUCHERS TO INDIVIDUALS WHO INTEND TO USE SUCH VOUCHERS IN MUNICIPALITIES BELOW THE THRESHOLD FOR THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING APPEALS PROCEDURE EXEMPTION.

To prioritize allocation of rental assistance program vouchers to individuals who intend to use such vouchers in municipalities that have not met the ten per cent threshold for the affordable housing appeals procedure exemption.

Housing Committee

RESOLUTION REMANDING TO THE OFFICE OF THE CLAIMS COMMISSIONER THE CLAIM OF RICHARD LAPOINTE AGAINST THE STATE FOR WRONGFUL INCARCERATION.

Judiciary Committee

RESOLUTION REMANDING TO THE OFFICE OF THE CLAIMS COMMISSIONER THE CLAIM OF ANDRE DAWSON AGAINST THE STATE FOR WRONGFUL INCARCERATION.

Judiciary Committee

RESOLUTION REMANDING TO THE OFFICE OF THE CLAIMS COMMISSIONER THE CLAIM OF EDWIN GLASS AGAINST THE STATE FOR WRONGFUL INCARCERATION.

Judiciary Committee

RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF SONIA WORRELL-ASARE OF WINDSOR TO BE A MEMBER OF THE STATE ELECTIONS ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION.

Julio A. ConcepcionDemocrat

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE ADJUTANT GENERAL TO ESTABLISH AND REMOVE CERTAIN STATE MILITARY AWARDS.

To grant the Adjutant General authority over the establishment and removal of certain awards and ribbons for issuance to members of the armed forces of the state.

Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS TO THE MILITARY DEPARTMENT FOR THE JOINT ENLISTMENT ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM.

To appropriate moneys to the Military Department for the purpose of supporting the department's joint enlistment enhancement program.

Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING HOSPITAL-AFFILIATED PHYSICIANS.

To establish various employment protections for hospital-affiliated physicians.

Public Health Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE PUBLICATION OF LEGAL NOTICES BY MUNICIPALITIES.

To require municipalities to publish legal notice (1) for the period beginning July 1, 2026, and ending June 30, 2027, in a newspaper having sufficient circulation in such municipality, or, if no such newspaper exists, on the Internet web site of such municipality, and (2) on and after July 1, 2027, in a newspaper having sufficient circulation in such municipality, if such newspaper exists, and on the Internet web site of such municipality.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A WORKING GROUP TO DEVELOP A UNIFORM STATUTORY DEFINITION OF "AFFORDABLE HOUSING".

To establish a working group to develop a uniform statutory definition of "affordable housing".

Housing Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A HISPANIC AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR NONPROFIT GROWTH AND STABILIZATION FUND.

To improve services for Hispanic persons and communities of color.

Human Services Committee

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A WORKING GROUP TO STUDY AND DEVELOP BEST PRACTICES TO PROMOTE HOUSING GROWTH AND PROTECT THE STATE'S WATER SUPPLY.

To establish a working group to study and develop best practices to promote housing growth and protect the state's water supply.

Housing Committee

RESOLUTION HONORING THE MEMBERS OF THE 6888TH CENTRAL POSTAL DIRECTORY BATTALION.

Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING CERTAIN MUNICIPAL CONTRACTS FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES.

To require municipalities to utilize a qualifications-based selection process in awarding contracts for certain professional engineering services.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING TERRAMATION.

To authorize the use of terramation for the final disposition of human remains.

Environment Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO STATUTES RELATING TO MUNICIPAL TAX COLLECTION.

To (1) authorize water pollution control authorities to set alternative payment deadlines, (2) require disclosure of commercial or financial information in declarations of personal property to municipal officers upon request, (3) specify that a municipality may withhold and offset a tax refund against a taxpayer's delinquencies, (4) specify that pending assessment appeals shall not suspend a municipality's authority to file a lien continuance certificate, (5) increase from five dollars to twenty dollars the amount of a tax overpayment a municipality may retain, (6) increase from one hundred dollars to five hundred dollars the maximum amount of a tax bill that is billable in a single installment, (7) authorize tax collectors to give notice to pay taxes in any newspaper having general circulation in a municipality, (8) require municipalities to waive all or a portion of interest due on a delinquent tax payment upon the demonstration of the taxpayer that such payment was stolen, (9) require municipalities and district health departments to decline to issue certain licenses to businesses that are tax-delinquent, (10) specify that written demand for payment of certain municipal taxes and charges addressed to one person responsible for such payment shall serve as notice to all persons responsible for such payment, (11) specify that notice of a tax warrant on real estate sent to a deceased owner's estate or fiduciary shall be adequate notice to such decedent's heirs, devisees, representatives and other claimants, (12) specify that a tax sale may be adjourned to a time to be determined at a later date, (13) permit redemption of tax delinquent real property after receipt of notice of a tax warrant on such property, (14) specify that an applicant for payment of tax sale overages need not serve notice of such application on persons having an interest of record in the property if there are no such persons other than the applicant, (15) specify when a property that was the subject of a tax sale shall have a marketable and insurable title, (16) authorize municipalities to designate a place on any property tax bill for taxpayers to donate any amount to a local scholarship fund, (17) make the recording of lien continuance certificates by municipal tax collectors mandatory rather than optional, (18) specify that any municipality may enact an ordinance specifying the manner by which certificates continuing tax liens are incorporated into land records, (19) specify that notice of a tax lien shall not be effective if filed more than two years from the date such taxes were due, rather than two years from the date of assessment, (20) specify that the sale of an abandoned mobile home shall extinguish previous ownership and lien rights, except municipal tax liens, and (21) make minor and technical changes to statutes relating to municipal tax collection.

Planning and Development Committee

RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING CHIEF HAROLD TANTAQUIDGEON.

Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee

AN ACT PROHIBITING THE USE OF EMINENT DOMAIN FOR CERTAIN COMMERCIAL PURPOSES.

To prohibit municipalities from exercising the use of eminent domain for any purpose that produces income for a private, commercial entity.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING MEDICAL DEVICE REPRESENTATIVES.

To require medical device representatives to undergo credentialing by hospitals.

Public Health Committee

AN ACT DESIGNATING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER AS VETERANS' MONTH.

To designate the month of November as Veterans' Month in recognition of veterans' service and sacrifice.

Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A WORKING GROUP TO STUDY THE CREATION OF UNIFORM DEADLINES FOR THE FILING OF CERTAIN APPLICATIONS FOR PROPERTY TAX RELIEF.

To establish a working group to study the creation of uniform deadlines for the filing of certain applications for property tax relief.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE CONVERSION OF VACANT MOTELS TO MULTIFAMILY HOUSING.

To allow for the conversion of vacant motels into multifamily housing as of right.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING A STUDY OF PROHIBITING NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT RECEIVE STATE FUNDING FROM ENGAGING IN CERTAIN POLITICAL OR PARTISAN ACTIVITIES.

To establish a working group to study how to keep biased, partisan politics out of the nonprofit sector.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING WATER SUPPLIES AND THE WATER TREATMENT OPERATOR WORKFORCE.

To improve water supplies and add qualified and certified water treatment operators to address workforce shortages.

Environment Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING FOOD DESERTS AND THE SNAP PROGRAM.

To establish a Restaurant Meals Program under the U.S. Department of Agriculture and require reporting from the Attorney General to legislative committees of cognizance on grocery store price discrimination.

Human Services Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING ADVANCED SEPTIC SYSTEMS WITH NITROGEN-REMOVAL FEATURES.

To develop programs like those that exist in neighboring states for the installation and use of advanced septic systems that have nitrogen-removal features.

Environment Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING DISCRETIONARY TRANSFER FROM JUVENILE TO ADULT COURT.

To include serious firearm offenses in the list of offenses eligible for discretionary transfer of a juvenile to the regular criminal docket.

Judiciary Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ESTATE TAX FILING DEADLINE.

To extend the filing deadline for the estate tax from six months to nine months.

Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee

AN ACT PROHIBITING CERTAIN CONDUCT CONCERNING REVIEWS OF BUSINESSES, CONSUMER GOODS AND CONSUMER SERVICES.

To prohibit certain conduct concerning reviews of businesses, consumer goods and consumer services.

General Law Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING INTERCHANGE FEES ON ELECTRONIC PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS.

To prohibit payment card networks from including sales and use taxes in the amount on which interchange fees are imposed.

Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A WORKING GROUP TO STUDY THE APPRENTICESHIP RATIO RELIEF APPLICATION PROCESS.

To establish a working group to study and provide recommendations for the apprenticeship ratio relief application process.

Labor and Public Employees Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING SALES AND USE TAXES RELATED TO CERTAIN VEHICLES AND AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY JOINT VENTURES, THE DEDICATION OF A PORTION OF THE MEALS TAX REVENUE AND THE DUES TAX THRESHOLD.

To (1) increase the sales price threshold of motor vehicles subject to a higher sales and use taxes rate, (2) dedicate a portion of the revenue generated from the meals tax to the Tourism Fund, (3) extend a sales and use taxes exemption for certain joint ventures within the aircraft industry, (4) exempt from the sales and use taxes the sale of and the storage, use or other consumption in this state of ambulance-type motor vehicles and ambulances, and (5) increase the threshold for imposition of the dues tax.

Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING MEDICAID COST SAVINGS.

To require the Commissioner of Social Services to review potential cost savings from nurse delegation of medication administration in Medicaid-funded programs.

Human Services Committee

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE USE OF TERRAMATION.

To authorize the use of terramation as an alternative to cremation.

Environment Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ANNUAL REPORT OF HOUSING AUTHORITIES.

To require each housing authority to include certain additional information in its annual report and to post its annual report on its Internet web site.

Housing Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING CHILDREN'S HEALTH.

To require the Commissioner of Children and Families to conduct a study to determine whether policy and procedural changes within the Department of Children and Families may improve the health of children.

Committee on Children

AN ACT CONCERNING A STUDY OF REPURPOSING OR SELLING UNDERUTILIZED STATE-OWNED BUILDINGS.

To require the Commissioner of Administrative Services to conduct a study concerning the repurposing or selling of underutilized state-owned buildings and to submit a report concerning the findings of such study.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS.

To require the Commissioner of Children and Families to conduct a study to evaluate the efficacy of the programs administered by the Department of Children and Families.

Committee on Children

AN ACT CONCERNING CHILDREN'S SAFETY.

To require the Commissioner of Children and Families to conduct a study to determine whether policy and procedural changes within the Department of Children and Families may increase the safety of children.

Committee on Children

AN ACT CONCERNING CHILDREN'S WELFARE.

To require the Commissioner of Children and Families to conduct a study to determine whether policy and procedural changes within the Department of Children and Families may improve the welfare of children.

Committee on Children