Bills & Legislation

AN ACT CONCERNING THE PERCENTAGE OF COURSES TAUGHT BY PART-TIME FACULTY AT THE CONNECTICUT STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE.

To require a phased-in reduction of the percentage of courses taught by part-time faculty at the Connecticut State Community College.

Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING SCHOOL AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

To require public and school libraries to develop a (1) collection development and maintenance policy, (2) library program and display policy, and (3) library material review and reconsideration policy.

Committee on Children

AN ACT REQUIRING INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE STATE TO DISCLOSE CERTAIN INFORMATION TO VICTIMS IN TITLE IX PROCEEDINGS.

To require institutions of higher education to disclose the final results of a Title IX disciplinary proceeding to the alleged victim who reports sexual assault, stalking or intimate partner violence, whether such victim is a student or employee of such institution or not.

Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee

AN ACT REQUIRING MORTGAGEES TO PROVIDE MORTGAGORS WITH PERIODIC STATEMENTS.

To provide that a mortgagee shall, upon the request of a mortgagor, provide the mortgagor with a periodic statement.

Banking Committee

AN ACT ESTABLISHING AN ELDER JUSTICE UNIT AND ELDER ABUSE TASK FORCE TO TARGET CRIMES AGAINST ELDERLY PERSONS.

To protect senior citizens from financial fraud schemes.

Aging Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING SUBSTANCE-FREE HOUSING AT PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

To provide a designated substance-free housing option at public institutions of higher education for students who abstain from drugs and alcohol.

Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING A STUDY RELATING TO HOMEOWNERSHIP LOAN PROGRAMS IN THE STATE.

To require the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority to conduct a study and submit a report relating to the status of homeownership loan programs in the state.

Banking Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING A LANDLORD'S ABILITY TO ENTER A DWELLING UNIT.

To prohibit a tenant from refusing to allow a landlord to enter such tenant's dwelling unit for six or more consecutive days.

Housing Committee

AN ACT REQUIRING REPORTS CONCERNING THE TERMINATION OF CERTAIN FUNDS AND ACCOUNTS.

To require certain disclosures regarding the termination of funds and accounts that are established pursuant to a public or special act, administered by the state, a state agency or a department, institution, bureau, board, commission, authority or official of the state, and intended for a charitable purpose.

Banking Committee

AN ACT REQUIRING THE CONNECTICUT HOUSING FINANCE AUTHORITY TO UPDATE THE CONNECTICUT OPPORTUNITY MAP.

To require the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority to update the Connecticut Opportunity Map.

Housing Committee

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE TO STUDY MUNICIPAL PENALTIES FOR LANDLORDS FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY VIOLATIONS.

To establish a task force to study municipal penalties for landlords for health and safety violations and determine other mechanisms to resolve such violations that encourage appropriate repairs and ensure tenants have habitable housing.

Housing Committee

AN ACT REQUIRING A MUNICIPALITY TO INCLUDE CERTAIN INFORMATION IN ITS AFFORDABLE HOUSING PLAN.

To require a municipality to include certain information in its affordable housing plan.

Housing Committee

AN ACT ESTABLISHING PROTECTIONS FOR VETERANS FROM BENEFITS CLAIM SHARKS.

To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.

REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9

AN ACT ESTABLISHING PRIORITY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ZONES.

To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.

REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9

AN ACT INCREASING HOUSING DEVELOPMENT WITHIN ONE-HALF MILE OF PUBLIC TRANSIT STATIONS.

To require municipal zoning regulations to authorize a greater density of housing development within one-half mile of a public transit station.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT MAKING CERTAIN TERMS IN ELECTRONIC BOOK AND DIGITAL AUDIOBOOK LICENSE AGREEMENTS OR CONTRACTS UNENFORCEABLE.

To prohibit libraries in the state from entering into contracts or license agreements with publishers of electronic books and digital audiobooks that contain certain restrictions.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ORGANIZED MILITIA AND THE GOVERNOR'S GUARDS.

To enable the Governor's Guards to transition from the organized militia to a private military force.

Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE SOURCE OF THE FRUIT USED BY FARM WINERY PERMITTEES TO MANUFACTURE WINE.

To reduce the minimum average crop requirement for farm winery permittees to twenty per cent.

General Law Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING BREASTFEEDING IN THE WORKPLACE.

To align state and federal law regarding break periods for the purpose of breastfeeding during the work day.

Labor and Public Employees Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT BY BANKS AND CREDIT UNIONS.

To (1) define "minority", "minority-owned business" and "women-owned business" for the purposes of banking and credit union statutes concerning community reinvestment, (2) add various references to minority or women-owned businesses to banking and credit union statutes concerning community reinvestment, (3) require mortgage lenders to file certain reports and records, (4) require inspections of mortgage lenders, and (5) require examinations of certain mortgage lenders to assess such lenders' compliance with fair lending laws.

Banking Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING SCHOOLS.

To require the Department of Education to study schools.

Education Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING MILITARY FAMILIES AND EDUCATION POLICIES REGARDING ENROLLMENT FOR PURPOSES OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND PLACEMENT STABILITY.

To (1) ease transitions for students of military families who require special education services when enrolling in new schools due to servicemembers' relocation orders, and (2) allow students of military families to remain enrolled in schools when servicemembers are relocated away from such schools.

Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING A STUDY OF PROJECTED FINANCIAL IMPACTS OF CERTAIN MODIFICATIONS TO THE BASIC PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION FOR VETERANS AND CERTAIN OTHER MILITARY-RELATED INDIVIDUALS.

To (1) provide an increase in the exemption amount for property belonging to veterans and certain other military-related individuals, and (2) provide that any such veteran or other military-related individual with property in an amount equal to or greater than seven hundred fifty thousand dollars is ineligible for such exemption.

Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee

AN ACT EXEMPTING THE RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS OF EMPLOYEES OF THE OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.

To exempt the residential address of employees of the office of the Attorney General from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE WORKING GROUP TO STUDY STAFF SAFETY ISSUES AFFECTING HOME HEALTH CARE AND HOME HEALTH AIDE AGENCIES.

To implement the recommendations of the working group to study staff safety issues affecting home health care and home health aide agencies.

Public Health Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH'S RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING FOOD SAFETY AND ORAL HEALTH.

To (1) increase the average monthly fluoride content of water systems, and (2) require the Commissioner of Public Health to adopt and administer by reference the United States Food and Drug Administration's Food Code and any revision thereto issued on or before December 31, 2024.

Public Health Committee

AN ACT PROHIBITING THE OWNERSHIP, POSSESSION OR ACQUISITION OF INTERESTS IN REAL PROPERTY UPON OR ABUTTING MILITARY INSTALLATIONS OR AGRICULTURAL LANDS BY CERTAIN FOREIGN ENTITIES.

To prohibit the ownership, possession or acquisition of interests in real property upon or abutting military installations or agricultural lands by certain foreign entities.

Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH'S RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING DRINKING WATER.

To implement the recommendations of the Department of Public Health regarding drinking water, including (1) providing for biennial license renewal for bulk water haulers, (2) allowing the department to adopt policies and procedures while in the process of adopting regulations concerning subsurface sewage disposal systems with a ten thousand gallon capacity, and (3) revising certain application requirements relating to the construction, expansion or utilization of new water supply sources.

Public Health Committee

RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE TWENTY-SIXTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONNECTICUT-TAIWAN SISTER-STATE RELATIONSHIP.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING FUNDING TO MUNICIPALITIES FOR EARLY VOTING.

To require a study on the costs to municipalities of early voting.

Appropriations Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING A STUDY OF THE COSTS TO TRANSPORT CHILDREN TO SCHOOL.

To require the Commissioner of Education to report on the costs to transport children to school.

Appropriations Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE DETERMINATION OF FAIR MARKET VALUE OF RETAIL SALES FACILITIES FOR PURPOSES OF PROPERTY TAXATION.

To specify that a municipal assessor shall consider specific approaches when determining the fair market value of a retail sales facility for the purposes of property taxation.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT REDEFINING "STATE CONTRACTOR", "PROSPECTIVE STATE CONTRACTOR" AND "SUBCONTRACTOR" TO EXCLUDE STATUTORILY RECOGNIZED INDIAN TRIBES OF THIS STATE FOR PURPOSES OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS.

To redefine "state contractor", "prospective state contractor" and "subcontractor" to exclude statutorily recognized Indian tribes of this state for purposes of campaign finance laws.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT REQUIRING A STUDY OF INCENTIVES FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF RESIDENTIAL ELECTRIC RESISTANCE HEATING SYSTEMS.

To require the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection to conduct a study of incentives for the replacement of residential electric resistance heating systems.

Energy and Technology Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING PROTESTED CHANGES TO MUNICIPAL ZONING REGULATIONS.

To specify that (1) a protest against a proposed change to zoning regulations shall be signed by fifty per cent of the affected landowners, and (2) such proposed change shall be adopted by a majority vote of the members of the municipal zoning commission.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE RETURN OF HEALTH CARE PROVIDER PAYMENTS, ESTABLISHING A WORKING GROUP TO STUDY PHARMACIST COMPENSATION FOR ADMINISTERING CERTAIN SERVICES, REVISING THE DEFINITION OF CLINICAL PEER AND CONCERNING THE CONNECTICUT UNFAIR INSURANCE PRACTICES ACT.

To: (1) Prohibit health carriers from retroactively denying or recouping payment of health insurance claims paid to health care providers for mental health and substance use disorder benefits after two years from the date of service and when such health carrier fails to provide notice to such health care provider; (2) require that the Insurance Commissioner study insurance coverage requirements for health care services provided through telehealth to evaluate methods to ensure that residents of this state who are out of state for the purpose of attending an institution of higher learning receive such coverage for such services; (3) require that the Insurance Commissioner study dental provider reimbursement rate practices in this state as compared to other states to assess flexibility in reimbursement rate negotiations; (4) require that individual and group health insurance policies provide coverage for medical foods for individuals diagnosed with phenylketonuria; (5) require that individual and group health insurance policies (A) provide coverage for motorized wheelchairs and repairs to and replacement batteries for motorized wheelchairs, and (B) establish centralized locations for the collection of used motorized wheelchairs; (6) prohibit health carriers from recovering through health insurance premiums such health carriers' costs associated with lobbying or legislative action in this state; (7) require the Insurance Commissioner to study certain compensation practices for health care services provided by pharmacists licensed in this state; and (8) revise the definition of "clinical peer" with respect to utilization review of health care services and treatment.

Insurance and Real Estate Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE MANNER IN WHICH PERSONS ENGAGED IN MAKING HOME IMPROVEMENTS MAKE CERTAIN DISCLOSURES.

To provide that persons engaged in making home improvements may satisfy certain disclosure requirements by disclosing an Internet web site address.

General Law Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING A CONTRACTOR'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR UNPAID WAGES ON A CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT.

To make a contractor liable for unpaid wages owed to an employee of a subcontractor at any tier who performs work on any portion of a construction contract.

Labor and Public Employees Committee

AN ACT REQUIRING A STUDY OF ELECTRIC UTILITIES.

To require the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection to conduct a study concerning the operations, reliability, rates and regulatory oversight of electric utilities in the state.

Energy and Technology Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING MANUFACTURING.

To require the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development to study the needs of manufacturers in the state.

Commerce Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING TICKETS, VETERAN OR MILITARY BENEFIT SERVICES, THE STATE CODE OF ETHICS, UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD, THE SOLICITATION OF CHARITABLE FUNDS ACT AND REAL ESTATE LISTING PROVIDERS.

To (1) prohibit certain conduct, and require certain disclosures, concerning ticket sales and resales, (2) regulate veteran or military benefit services, (3) amend the Code of Ethics for Public Officials to authorize the Office of the Attorney General to retain certain persons as expert witnesses, (4) amend the Solicitation of Charitable Funds Act by (A) redefining various terms, (B) eliminating a fund-raising counsel contract filing requirement, (C) requiring that charitable organizations retain and disclose copies of fund-raising counsel contracts, (D) increasing the fund-raising counsel bond, (E) modifying a reporting deadline for paid solicitors, (F) prohibiting certain persons from engaging in certain nonfinancial conduct, and (G) eliminating a prohibition concerning paid solicitation costs, (5) require persons that advertise or resell entertainment event tickets to make certain disclosures, (6) modify when certain disclosures regarding tickets shall be made, and (7) repeal a provision concerning umbilical cord blood collection programs.

General Law Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

To require the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development to study economic development issues in the state.

Commerce Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE TRANSPARENCY OF MULTILINGUAL LEARNER DATA.

To require data concerning multilingual learners and bilingual education programs to be shared in the state-wide public school information system.

Education Committee

AN ACT REQUIRING THE STUDY OF ENERGY SOURCES.

To require the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection to conduct a study to determine whether policy and procedural changes within the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection may increase the effectiveness of energy sources utilized by the state.

Energy and Technology Committee

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE USE OF DRONES TO ANALYZE, TREAT AND APPLY FERTILIZERS AND PESTICIDES TO CROPS.

To allow the use of precision drone technology by Federal Aviation Administration licensed pilots and licensed commercial and private pesticide applicators to analyze, treat and apply fertilizers and pesticides on crops in order to reduce the environmental impact compared to existing methods.

Environment Committee

AN ACT REQUIRING THE INCLUSION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION IN THE STANDARDIZED METHOD OF RECORDING TRAFFIC STOP INFORMATION.

To include in the standardized method of recording traffic stop information whether police officers making traffic stops were alerted to the alleged traffic violation or other violation by automated means.

Public Safety and Security Committee

AN ACT PERMITTING A CERTAIN COUNCIL TO SERVE AS A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMISSION ON FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL.

To (1) establish a State Wildfire Commission, and (2) permit a council tasked with identifying rural fire issues to serve as a subcommittee of the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control.

Public Safety and Security Committee