Bills & Legislation

AN ACT CONCERNING STATE CONTRACTING FOR STATE EMPLOYEE HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE AND OTHER RELATED SERVICES.

To require additional notices to the Comptroller, the legislative leaders and Health Care Cost Containment Committee concerning the potential termination of participating provider agreements in the employee health insurance plan and to prohibit certain entities that terminate participating provider agreements from participating in future competitive selection processes for a period of time.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT PERMITTING PROXY DESIGNATION FOR MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND 2030 BOARD.

To permit members of the Community Investment Fund Board to designate proxies to act in their place when they cannot attend a meeting.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT REQUIRING A PLAN FOR THE TRANSLATION AND REVIEW OF FORMS AND APPLICATIONS REQUIRED TO ACCESS STATE AGENCY SERVICES OR BENEFITS BY LIMITED-ENGLISH PROFICIENT INDIVIDUALS.

To require (1) the Commissioner of Administrative Services to develop a plan for the translation and review of certain forms and applications into languages spoken by limited-English proficient individuals in the state, and (2) state agencies to adopt and implement such plan and appoint a language access coordinator.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT REQUIRING NOTIFICATION TO THE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS OF THE PROPOSED ADOPTION OF AGENCY REGULATIONS AND THE STATE BUILDING AND FIRE CODES.

To require state agencies to provide electronic notification to the legislative leaders when they begin the process of adopting regulations, the State Building Code, Fire Prevention Code and Fire Safety Code.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING REPORTING ON IMPLEMENTATION OF CERTAIN CONSULTANT REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS.

To require the reporting of state agency implementation of certain consultant reports.

Government Oversight Committee

AN ACT REQUIRING THE AUDITORS OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS AND OFFICE OF POLICY AND MANAGEMENT TO REVIEW THE COSTS OF PROVIDING CERTAIN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES.

To require the Auditors of Public Accounts and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management to review the costs of providing public versus private services to individuals with intellectual disabilities.

Government Oversight Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING VOTING PROCEDURES FOR AND STATE ELECTIONS ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION OVERSIGHT OF FIRE DISTRICTS.

To (1) require certain voting procedures for the transaction of business at meetings of fire districts, and (2) authorize State Elections Enforcement Commission jurisdiction over fire districts in matters relating to the conduct of such meetings, including such voting procedures.

Government Oversight Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE PROCESS AND TIMETABLE FOR THE REVIEW OF EXISTING REGULATIONS OF CONNECTICUT STATE AGENCIES.

To make modifications to the process for reviewing agency regulations to determine whether they are obsolete, inconsistent or ineffective and change the deadlines for such review.

Government Oversight Committee

AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE AUDITORS OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS CONCERNING OVERSIGHT OF STATE AGENCY GRANTS.

To implement the recommendations of the Auditors of Public Accounts requiring the developing of standard requirements for the award and subaward of state grant funds and subsequent monitoring of the use of such grant funds, training of state agency employees in such standards and annual reporting concerning such awards and subawards.

Government Oversight Committee

AN ACT PROHIBITING A LANDLORD FROM REQUIRING A SECURITY DEPOSIT IN EXCESS OF ONE MONTH'S RENT FROM ANY TENANT.

To prohibit landlords from requiring a security deposit in excess of one month's rent from any tenant.

Housing Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING TENANT ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES.

To require landlords to permit certain tenant organizational activities in residential property.

Housing Committee

AN ACT PROHIBITING A MUNICIPALITY FROM IMPOSING A PENALTY FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF CERTAIN ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING.

To prohibit municipalities from enacting or enforcing a prohibition on the performance of certain activities of daily living.

Housing Committee

AN ACT PERMITTING MUNICIPALITIES TO PROHIBIT RENT INCREASES IN THE EVENT OF MULTIPLE STATE BUILDING CODE VIOLATIONS.

To allow municipalities to prohibit rent increases on residential properties with multiple outstanding State Building Code violations.

Housing Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING CERTAIN ELECTRONIC NOTICE REQUIREMENTS FOR PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURERS, THE STATE INSURANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT BOARD'S RESERVE FUNDING, REVIEW OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE GLASS REPAIR NATIONAL MODEL, AND THE OFFICE OF HEALTH STRATEGY'S REPORTING REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO PRESCRIPTION DRUG FORMULARIES.

To: (1) Revise certain electronic notice requirements for property and casualty insurers; (2) allow the State Insurance and Risk Management Board to fund reserves using certain funds; (3) require the Insurance Commissioner to conduct a review of the motor vehicle glass repair national model; and (4) remove the Office of Health Strategy's study and reporting requirement related to prescription drug formularies.

Insurance and Real Estate Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ASSIGNMENT OF POST-LOSS HOMEOWNERS AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY INSURANCE BENEFITS, CONSUMER BILL OF RIGHTS AND REVISING DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS FOR HOME IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTORS AND SALESPERSONS.

To: (1) Establish a process for the assignment of post-loss benefits under homeowners and commercial property insurance policies; (2) modify the required terms of home improvement contracts; (3) preclude home improvement contractors from engaging in certain conduct to induce owners to enter into home improvement contracts; (4) require home improvement contractors to notify the commissioner regarding changes in their business names, trade names and addresses; (5) require home improvement contractors to maintain additional types of insurance coverage; (6) expand the required content of the application for a certificate of registration as a home improvement contractor; (7) modify the grounds on which the Commissioner of Consumer Protection may (A) reprimand or place a home improvement contractor or salesperson on probation, or (B) revoke, suspend, or refuse to issue or renew a certificate of registration as a home improvement contractor or salesperson; and (8) require the Insurance Commissioner to create a consumer bill of rights.

Insurance and Real Estate Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING SERVICE ANIMALS IN INSURANCE UNDERWRITING, THE APPOINTMENT OF AN ADVOCATE IN PROCEEDINGS CONCERNING THE WELFARE OR CUSTODY OF COMPANION ANIMALS, ASSAULT OF A DOMESTIC ANIMAL AND ESTABLISHING AN ANIMAL ABUSE TASK FORCE.

To: (1) Prohibit any homeowners insurance or tenants insurance policy from discriminating based on owning any dog that is a dog trained or being trained as a service animal to assist blind, deaf or mobility impaired persons or is a therapy animal, (2) allow the court to appoint an advocate in proceedings concerning the welfare or custody of companion animals, (3) expand assault in the third degree to include domestic animals, and (4) establish an animal abuse task force.

Insurance and Real Estate Committee

AN ACT ADOPTING THE UNIFORM REAL PROPERTY TRANSFER ON DEATH ACT.

To adopt the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act.

Judiciary Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING ELIGIBILITY FOR INCAPACITY BENEFITS UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT.

To preclude an employee from seeking incapacity benefits when the employee elects to retire from the workforce and experiences the incapacity after such retirement.

Judiciary Committee

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH TO RELEASE INFORMATION RELATING TO AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PARENTAGE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES.

To authorize the Department of Public Health to release information relating to an acknowledgment of parentage to the Department of Children and Families.

Committee on Children

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A WORKING GROUP TO STUDY ENERGY DRINK CONSUMPTION BY CHILDREN AND REQUIRING CERTAIN SIGNAGE AT THE POINT OF SALE OF SUCH DRINKS.

To establish a working group to study the consumption of energy drinks by children and require signage concerning risks associated with such consumption at the point of sale of such drinks.

Committee on Children

AN ACT EXTENDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION EXPENSES OF FOSTER YOUTH.

To require the Department of Children and Families to continue to provide financial aid for the postsecondary education expenses for foster youth until such youth reaches twenty-eight years of age.

Committee on Children

AN ACT REQUIRING THE OFFICE OF THE CHILD ADVOCATE TO HIRE CERTAIN ADDITIONAL EMPLOYEES.

To require the Office of the Child Advocate to hire one or more full-time employees to assist in the oversight of children in the care of the Department of Children and Families.

Committee on Children

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 REQUIRING CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF TWELVE TO WEAR PERSONAL FLOTATION DEVICES ON DOCKS, WHARFS AND PIERS.

To require children under the age of twelve to wear personal flotation devices while on any dock, wharf or pier.

Committee on Children

AN ACT CONCERNING STATE MARSHALS ELIGIBILITY FOR WORKERS' COMPENSATION WHILE PERFORMING DUTIES ON BEHALF OF THE STATE AND ELIGIBILITY FOR HEALTH INSURANCE WHILE OUT ON CERTAIN LEAVE.

To require the Workers' Compensation Commission to study the workers' compensation system in the state.

Labor and Public Employees 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 CONCERNING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND THE DEFINITION OF EMPLOYER UNDER THE STATE OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT.

To ensure volunteer fire departments and ambulance companies are considered under CONN-OSHA jurisdiction.

Labor and Public Employees Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE POSTING OF VETERANS' INFORMATION AND SERVICES FOR DISPLAY IN THE WORKPLACE.

To require the Labor Commissioner and the Chief Manufacturing Officer, in consultation with the Commissioner of Veterans Affairs, to post information on the Internet web sites of the Labor Department and the Office of Manufacturing available for download by employers to display in the workplace.

Labor and Public Employees Committee

AN ACT REQUIRING UNINSURED AND UNDERINSURED MOTORIST COVERAGE FOR DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION EMPLOYEES.

To require the state to provide uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage to employees of the Department of Transportation.

Labor and Public Employees Committee

AN ACT ADDING WITNESSING A SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY AS A QUALIFYING EVENT FOR PURPOSES OF POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS INJURY WORKERS' COMPENSATION COVERAGE.

To add witnessing a serious physical injury that does not result in the death or permanent disfigurement of such person as a qualifying event for an employee to be eligible for workers' compensation coverage for a post-traumatic stress injury.

Labor and Public Employees Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING A NONCHARGE FOR EMPLOYEES PAID BENEFITS THROUGH THE SHARED WORK PROGRAM DURING PERIODS OF HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT.

To allow for a noncharge to an employer's experience account for employees who were paid benefits through the shared work program for claims filed in a week in which the state is in an extended benefit period or a high unemployment period.

Labor and Public Employees Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT.

To clarify certain publication requirements of actions or decisions of a planning commission.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT AUTHORIZING MUNICIPALITIES TO PROHIBIT THE SALE OF DOGS, CATS AND RABBITS IN PET SHOPS.

To authorize municipalities to prohibit the sale of certain animals in pet shops.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING PROPERTY TAX ABATEMENT FOR CERTAIN FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYERS.

To authorize municipalities to abate up to five hundred dollars per assessment year of property taxes for certain first-time homebuyers who obtain a loan from the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ASSESSMENT OF CERTAIN MOTOR VEHICLES.

To specify that older motor vehicles shall be assessed at a rate of ten per cent of the manufacturer's suggested retail price or five hundred dollars, whichever is less, except that in a municipality that has elected to adopt a modified depreciation schedule, such motor vehicles shall be assessed at a rate of fifteen per cent of the manufacturer's suggested retail price or five hundred dollars, whichever is less.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING A MUNICIPAL TAX ABATEMENT FOR SURVIVING DOMESTIC PARTNERS OF POLICE OFFICERS, FIREFIGHTERS AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS.

To extend a property tax abatement for surviving spouses of certain first responders who die in the performance of duty to the domestic partners of such first responders.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE PUBLICATION OF MUNICIPAL LEGAL NOTICES.

To require municipalities to publish legal notices on their Internet web sites.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING COASTAL SITE PLAN REVIEWS FOR CERTAIN SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURES.

To allow zoning commissions to exempt certain single-family residential structures from requirements concerning coastal site plan reviews and instead submit quarterly reports to the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection concerning the approval of such structures.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT EXEMPTING CERTAIN SALES TO MILITARY AND VETERANS-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS FROM THE SALES AND USE TAXES.

To exempt from the sales and use taxes the sale of and the storage, use or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property or services to certain military and veterans-related organizations described in Section 501(c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND A CONNECTICUT VETERANS CEMETERY.

To require the Department of Veterans Affairs to, not later than July 1, 2027, designate or acquire land as an appropriate final resting place for deceased Connecticut veterans.

Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING SERVICE IN THE MILITIA.

To (1) specify that all citizens and state residents intending to become United States citizens, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, are subject to state military duty, (2) provide for greater discretion in the appointment of the Governor's military staff, and (3) rename the state military training facility in Niantic as Camp Nett.

Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A PERSONAL INCOME TAX DEDUCTION FOR NATIONAL GUARD STATE ACTIVE DUTY PAY.

To establish a personal income tax deduction for pay received by National Guard members as a result of orders to active duty.

Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING QUALIFIED VETERANS' CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS AND THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS INTERNET WEB SITE.

To require the Commissioner of Veterans Affairs to annually solicit organizations for inclusion on the list of qualified veterans' charitable organizations published on the Internet web site of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A GRANT PROGRAM FOR CAPITAL EXPENDITURE PROJECTS TO PLACE OR MAINTAIN WAR OR VETERANS' MEMORIALS OR MONUMENTS.

To establish a grant program to be administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the purpose of assisting municipalities and nonprofit veterans' organizations with certain veterans-related capital expenditure projects.

Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee

AN ACT ALLOWING TRAINED ASSISTED LIVING AIDES TO ADMINISTER MEDICATION TO ASSISTED LIVING RESIDENTS.

To allow trained assisted living aides to administer medication to assisted living residents.

Aging Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENTS TO LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY RESIDENTS' PERSONAL NEEDS ALLOWANCE.

To provide cost-of-living adjustments to long-term care facility residents' personal needs allowance.

Aging Committee

AN ACT INCREASING FUNDING FOR CERTAIN TRANSITION SERVICES OFFERED TO STUDENTS.

To expand the availability of transition services for students under Project SEARCH.

Lucy DathanDemocrat