Bills & Legislation

AN ACT PROHIBITING PRIVATE EQUITY OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS AND THE CONTROLLING OF OR INTERFERENCE WITH THE PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT AND CLINICAL DECISIONS OF CERTAIN HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AND REQUIRING AN EVALUATION OF THE APPOINTMENT OF A RECEIVER TO MANAGE HOSPITALS IN FINANCIAL DISTRESS.

To prohibit private equity ownership and control of certain health care institutions and the controlling of or interference with the professional judgment and clinical decisions of certain health care providers.

Public Health Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING DISCLOSURES, PAYMENTS AND REVENUE TRANSFERS BY THE CONNECTICUT LOTTERY CORPORATION.

To (1) require the Connecticut Lottery Corporation to (A) transfer online lottery and online sports wagering revenue to the Early Childhood Care and Education Fund, and (B) obtain permission from a lottery, sports wagering or fantasy contest winner before publishing or disclosing the winner's name, address or photograph, and (2) provide that no lottery sales agent's commission shall average less than five and one-half per cent of such agent's lottery sales.

General Law Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING EDUCATOR CERTIFICATION.

To provide candidates for educator certification alternative methods for satisfying the minimum content knowledge requirements.

Education Committee

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE CONCERNING THE REGULATION ADOPTION PROCESS.

To establish a task force to make recommendations concerning the role of the standing legislative regulation review committee in the regulation adoption process.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE OFFICE OF POLICY AND MANAGEMENT CONCERNING DATA GOVERNANCE.

To redefine "executive branch agency" and delete a requirement for an annual report concerning high value data.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A PERSONAL INCOME TAX DEDUCTION FOR A PORTION OF THE RENT PAID BY CERTAIN TAXPAYERS FOR A PRIMARY RESIDENCE IN THE STATE.

To establish a personal income tax deduction for a portion of the rent paid for a primary residence in the state by taxpayers who meet certain income thresholds.

Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee

AN ACT MAKING A TECHNICAL CHANGE TO STATUTES CONCERNING STATE CONTRACTING.

To make technical revisions to provisions concerning state contracting.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO MAKE REFERENCES TO INDIVIDUALS GENDER-NEUTRAL.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE INDEXING OF PERSONAL INCOME TAX THRESHOLDS AND PERSONAL EXEMPTION AMOUNTS, THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CHILD TAX CREDIT AND THE DEDUCTION AND WITHHOLDING OF PERSONAL INCOME TAX FROM CERTAIN PAYMENTS AND DISTRIBUTIONS.

To (1) require personal income tax thresholds and personal exemption amounts to be indexed for inflation, (2) establish a child tax credit against the personal income tax, and (3) specify the rate an individual may request to be withheld from certain payments and distributions and redefine "lump sum payment" for purposes of such withholding.

Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN TAX APPEALS, THE DISAGGREGATION OF CERTAIN TAX SOURCING INFORMATION, THE AMORTIZABLE BOND PREMIUM SUBTRACTION FOR PURPOSES OF THE PERSONAL INCOME TAX AND THE APPLICATION OF VALUATION ALLOWANCE FOR CERTAIN COMBINED GROUP REPORTING.

To (1) establish requirements for filing certain tax protests, (2) require the Commissioner of Revenue Services to provide certain disaggregated tax sourcing information; (3) eliminate the requirement that the amortizable bond premium subtraction for purposes of calculating Connecticut adjustable gross income be attributable to a trade or business of the taxpayer, and (4) revise certain dates with respect to the application of the valuation allowance under section 12-218h of the general statutes.

Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee

AN ACT LIMITING APPEALS UNDER THE CONNECTICUT ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT.

To limit who can take an appeal under CEPA for certain residential building permits.

Environment Committee

AN ACT DESIGNATING THE STATE AMPHIBIAN AND THE CITY OF NEW BRITAIN AS THE HOT DOG CAPITAL.

To designate the state amphibian, the city of New Britain as the hot dog capital and the town of Enfield as the gateway to Connecticut.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING STATE-WIDE RECOGNITION OF MINOR PARTIES FOR PURPOSES OF NOMINATING PETITIONS.

To provide that, when a political party attains minor party status for a state-wide office at an election, any candidate throughout the state at a subsequent election may apply to appear via nominating petition for any office under such minor party.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT PROHIBITING LOBBYIST CONTRIBUTIONS DURING A LEGISLATIVE SESSION TO LEGISLATORS OR STATE OFFICERS RUNNING FOR MUNICIPAL OFFICE.

To prohibit lobbyist contributions during a legislative session to legislators or state officers running for municipal office.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING CERTAIN CARETAKER AUTHORIZATION FOR THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION.

To authorize the appointment of property caretakers for certain facilities under the control of the Agricultural Experiment Station.

Environment Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING STATE AGENCY CONTRACTS FOR THE LICENSING OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS.

To prohibit state agency contracts for the licensing of software applications from limiting a state agency's ability to install the software on the state agency's chosen hardware.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING PAYMENT OF FUNDS TO STATE OFFICERS' AGENCIES.

To prohibit the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management from restricting or impairing the state constitutional officers' ability to recruit or employ personnel for their respective agencies.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT MAKING MINOR AND TECHNICAL REVISIONS TO AN ABSENTEE VOTING STATUTE.

To make minor and technical revisions to an absentee voting statute.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE OFFICE OF HEALTH STRATEGY'S RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE CERTIFICATE OF NEED PROGRAM.

To make various revisions to the certificate of need program.

Public Health Committee

AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES' RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REVISIONS TO PROVISIONS CONCERNING STATE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES SELECTION PANELS AND ELIMINATION OF CERTAIN REPORTING PROVISIONS.

To increase the threshold for requiring approval of projects by the State Properties Review Board from one hundred thousand dollars to three hundred thousand dollars, increase the thresholds for state construction services selection panel projects, require online rather than newspaper advertising for state real estate space needs, remove required notification to the Department of Administrative Services for certain Probate Court proceeding notices and eliminate quarterly reporting on two projects.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING A TECHNICAL CHANGE TO A PROVISION CONCERNING GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND THE PROVISION OF REPRODUCTIVE AND GENDER-AFFIRMING HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO PATIENTS REGARDLESS OF LOCATION.

To make a technical change to a statute concerning government administration and to provide protections to health care providers who provide reproductive and gender-affirming health care services to patients, regardless of whether the patients are physically located in this state at the time the services are provided.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING ACCESSIBILITY TO ABSENTEE BALLOTS FOR ELECTORS IN STATE CUSTODY.

To allow for eligible electors incarcerated in Department of Correction facilities to apply for absentee ballots.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE AND PURCHASE OF GAS-POWERED HAND-HELD OR BACKPACK LEAF BLOWERS BY STATE AGENCIES.

To eventually prohibit the use of hand-held or backpack gas-powered leaf blowers in the state.

Environment Committee

AN ACT SUBJECTING STATE AGENCIES TO THE SAME DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY LAWS AS THE PRIVATE SECTOR.

To require the state government to abide by the same data protection and privacy laws and standards that are required of private sector businesses.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE STATE CONSTITUTION MODIFYING THE LEGISLATIVE TERM OF OFFICE.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE BURNING OF MEDICAL WASTE.

To prohibit the burning of medical waste by facilities that do not meet EPA standards for the burning of such waste.

Environment Committee

AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

To implement the recommendations of the Department of Education.

Education Committee

RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF SHAWN P. COYNE OF EAST HAMPTON TO BE A MEMBER OF THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND CAREER SYSTEM BOARD.

Julio A. ConcepcionDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING PROHIBITED CHARTER AMENDMENTS.

To repeal a statute concerning prohibited charter amendments.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING SEWAGE DISPOSAL REQUIREMENTS AND THEIR IMPACT ON HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT.

To require an evaluation of sewage disposal requirements and their impact on housing development, public health and the environment.

Public Health Committee

RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF RHONDA J. TOBIN OF SIMSBURY TO BE A MEMBER OF THE JUDICIAL REVIEW COUNCIL.

Julio A. ConcepcionDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING APPOINTMENTS TO MUNICIPAL HOUSING AUTHORITIES.

To permit the governing body of a municipality to make appointments to the municipal housing authority.

Planning and Development Committee

RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF SEBASTIAN LOMBARDI OF SIMSBURY TO BE REAPPOINTED A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CONNECTICUT AIRPORT AUTHORITY.

Julio A. ConcepcionDemocrat

RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF MARISSA PASLICK GILLETT OF SIMSBURY TO BE REAPPOINTED UTILITY COMMISSIONER OF THE PUBLIC UTILITIES REGULATORY AUTHORITY.

Julio A. ConcepcionDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ASSESSMENTS OF POLICE OFFICERS.

To allow each police officer to choose a psychiatrist, psychologist or clinical social worker for completion of such police officer's behavioral health assessment and expand the confidentiality requirements for such behavioral health assessment.

Insurance and Real Estate Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING SPECIAL EDUCATION.

To make a technical changes in the special education statutes.

Education Committee

RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF DAVID A. ARCONTI, JR. OF BROOKFIELD TO BE A UTILITY COMMISSIONER OF THE PUBLIC UTILITIES REGULATORY AUTHORITY.

Julio A. ConcepcionDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING REFERENDA ON REVISIONS TO MUNICIPAL CHARTERS AND HOME RULE ORDINANCES.

To establish certain minimum requirements for presenting charter or home rule ordinance amendment ballot questions to voters.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING CHANGES TO THE COMMISSIONER'S NETWORK OF SCHOOLS AND ALLIANCE DISTRICT PROGRAMS.

To phase out the commissioner's network of schools program and reduce the number of alliance districts to fifteen and rename them to opportunity districts.

Education Committee

AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ACCOUNTABILITY REVIEW BOARD AND REQUIRING A FORENSIC AUDIT OF THE BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.

To establish the School District Accountability Review Board to provide assistance to and fiscal oversight of school districts in need of interventions to ensure efficient operations and financial management.

Education Committee

AN ACT EXCLUDING APRIL 20, 2025, FROM THE PERIOD OF EARLY VOTING PRIOR TO THE DAY OF A SPECIAL ELECTION AND SUSPENDING THE MUNICIPAL REVENUE SHARING ACCOUNT SPENDING CAP.

Martin M. LooneyDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT BOARDING AND CROWDING.

To require an evaluation of the feasibility of establishing an expedited conservator process for emergency department patients to alleviate emergency department boarding and crowding.

Public Health Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING LIVE DIGITAL VIDEO SCHOOL BUS VIOLATION DETECTION MONITORING SYSTEMS.

To extend the sunset date applicable to the operation of live digital video school bus violation detection monitoring systems by municipalities and local or regional boards of education.

Public Safety and Security Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF ANIMALS SOLD AT PET STORES.

To enhance oversight of the sale of animals in pet shops.

Environment Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING STUDENT STATE-WIDE ASSESSMENTS.

To reduce the number of times students are required to take the mastery examination and to require boards of education to notify parents and guardians of their student's mastery examination scores.

Education Committee

AN ACT RESTRICTING THE EUTHANIZATION OF FERAL CATS, PROHIBITING CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT AS AN ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER AND STUDYING THE INVOLVEMENT OF OUTSIDE ORGANIZATIONS AT ANIMAL CONTROL FACILITIES.

To restrict the use of euthanasia on feral cat populations and require the involvement of feral cat organizations in the trapping of feral cats by animal control officers.

Environment Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE PUBLICATION OF MUNICIPAL LEGAL NOTICES.

To redefine "inclusionary zoning" to include the acquisition of property for affordable housing developments.

Planning and Development Committee