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Voted to pass SB 7. It would protect access to health care in Connecticut if federal rules weaken. Hospital emergency rooms would have to treat a patient whose life or health is at serious risk, including care for complications of pregnancy that is legal in the state. Hospitals could not transfer such a patient for non-medical reasons. It would also keep fluoride in large public water systems and set up state funds for public health emergencies. The Connecticut Senate passed it 25-10. The House later passed a changed version and the Senate never took it up again, so it did not become law.

May 22, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass House Bill 5004, which sets new state targets for cutting greenhouse gases, the gases that cause climate change. It also sets new targets for state agencies, including a goal of using only electricity that gives off no carbon. The law creates a Connecticut Clean Economy Council to advise on climate and clean energy policy. The council must also plan how to move workers out of fossil fuel jobs and into clean energy work. The law adds heat pumps to the projects that qualify for school building grants. The state's energy department must write a plan for making heat pumps affordable in homes, and report that plan to lawmakers. A heat pump heats and cools a building with electricity instead of burning fuel. The state must also post a model policy that towns can choose to use when buying in environmentally sustainable ways. And the law widens what existing open-space land grants can pay for, including turning open space into urban farms. It passed the Connecticut State Senate 26-10 and became law.

June 4, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 9, which requires insurers who sell home or renters policies to tell customers that flood insurance is available. Mortgage lenders must tell applicants about flood damage risk and flood insurance. It adds flood questions to the form a seller fills out about a home's condition. New single-family homes inside a town's coastal boundary now need a coastal site plan review, which checks how building near the shore affects the coast, because towns may no longer exempt them from it. Starting in October 2027, town plans for evacuation and for reducing disaster damage must address threats from rising sea levels. Towns must also report data on their bridges and culverts, the pipes that carry water under roads. The law also restricts a class of rat poisons called second-generation anticoagulants, and a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids. It passed the Connecticut State Senate 28-8 and became law.

May 15, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass SB 8. It would let workers who are off the job because of a strike claim unemployment benefits, once that strike has run for fourteen days. It would apply to strikes that begin on or after December 14, 2026. Connecticut law now bars benefits for the whole of a strike. The Connecticut Senate passed it 24-11. The Governor vetoed it, so it did not become law.

May 28, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 1221, which expands Connecticut's state-run retirement savings program. The program gives private-sector workers a retirement account when their employer does not offer one. Starting July 1, 2026, it also covers home care aides. They must be paid through a state-funded program, such as the Connecticut Home Care Program for Elders. Workers who join on or after July 1, 2025 get a new default savings rate. It is tied to a federal rule on minimum savings rates in private plans. The law also changes how the state enforces the rules against employers. Those rules cover employers who fail to sign workers up, or who send the money in late. Some lower-income savers get a matching payment from the federal government. The program's usual accounts cannot accept it, so the comptroller must offer an account that can. It passed the Connecticut State Senate 25-11 and became law.

May 1, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted to pass SB 8. It would let workers who are off the job because of a strike claim unemployment benefits, once that strike has run for fourteen days. It would apply to strikes that begin on or after December 14, 2026. Connecticut law now bars benefits for the whole of a strike. The Connecticut Senate passed it 24-11. The Governor vetoed it, so it did not become law.

May 28, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted to pass SB 1371. It would require a school board to show just cause before firing a teacher. A tenured teacher facing dismissal would get a hearing before a neutral hearing officer, whose decision would bind both sides, instead of a hearing before the school board. A board could no longer overturn its own decision not to renew a new teacher only when it was arbitrary. The Connecticut Senate passed it 27-8. The House did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

May 20, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted to pass SB 1222. It would extend workers' compensation to state and town public works employees while they travel between home and work in certain cases. Those cases are when they are on call for emergencies, when they are ordered in while other staff are excused, and after two or more days in a row of mandatory overtime. The Connecticut Senate passed it 24-12. The House did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

May 14, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted to pass SB 1488. It would let the state Comptroller withhold payment from a contractor or subcontractor when the Labor Commissioner has issued a stop work order for a prevailing wage violation. The Connecticut Senate passed it 27-8. The House did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

May 14, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted to pass SB 1427. It would open Connecticut's paid family and medical leave program to school workers who do not hold a teaching license, including staff at private schools. The Connecticut Senate passed it 24-11. The House later passed a changed version and the Senate never took it up again, so it did not become law.

May 8, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted to pass House Bill 7066, which requires every public school to name an administrator to handle contacts with federal immigration officers. School boards must add steps for those contacts to their school security and safety plans. School staff cannot be punished for following those steps. The same law limits state and town purchases and use of drones built by what it calls covered foreign entities. That includes governments such as China or Russia, people and companies tied to them, and entities on federal restriction lists. It also limits flying drones near sites the law treats as critical infrastructure. With some exceptions, it bars arming an aircraft or drone with a deadly weapon or certain other dangerous devices. The law lets college athletes be paid through endorsement deals and through agreements that share sports revenue with them. The governor later struck out the law's three spending sections. It passed the Connecticut State Senate 25-9 and became law.

February 25, 2025Supports Immigration

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Voted to pass HB 5002. It would rewrite parts of Connecticut's housing and zoning law. Towns would have to allow middle housing, meaning small multi-unit buildings, as of right on land already zoned for business use. Housing authorities would have to publish a yearly inventory of their units and vacancies. It also carried new supports for homeless people. The Connecticut Senate passed it 20-15. The Governor vetoed it, so it did not become law.

May 31, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 1187, which limits when a sewer authority can take a person's home over unpaid sewer bills. When a sewer bill goes unpaid, a town or regional authority can put a legal claim, called a lien, on the property. It can then force a sale of the home to collect. It can also sell that claim to a private buyer, who can force the sale. The new law protects homes the owner lives in. For those homes, the authority can act only if the unpaid amount is more than $3,000. It can also act once three years have passed since the lien was filed and it remains unpaid. The limit does not apply when the sewer claim is handled together with unpaid property taxes or other town claims. It passed the Connecticut State Senate 23-11 and became law.

May 7, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 1312, which changes several unemployment and workplace rules. Employers now have 40 days instead of 60 to protest a quarterly statement from the state. The protest covers benefits the state says were paid out by mistake or by fraud. The advocate who helps unemployed workers becomes a permanent state job. It used to be a job the labor commissioner could end at any time. Doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners get a new duty. They must tell the Labor Department within 48 hours if they think a patient's illness came from their job. The Shared Work program lets a company cut hours instead of laying people off. Employers used to avoid being charged for those benefits when statewide unemployment was high. Now they are charged. It passed the Connecticut State Senate 25-11 and became law.

May 28, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 1358, which requires state agencies to raise the rates they pay each year on their ongoing contracts with nonprofit human services providers. Starting July 1 2027, the yearly raise matches the past year's rise in the Northeast consumer price index, a measure of inflation. An agency may not cut the rate when that measure falls. The state must also raise Medicaid rates for these providers by the same amount, unless federal Medicaid rules do not allow it. The rule covers providers who serve people with physical, intellectual or developmental disabilities, and providers of behavioral health services. It passed the Connecticut State Senate 28-8 and became law.

May 28, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to pass SB 6. It would expand state supports for children from birth to age five and for young people who are out of school and out of work. It would set new reporting duties on the Early Childhood Care and Education Fund and a regular report on disconnected youth. The Connecticut Senate passed it 22-12. The House did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

May 13, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to pass SB 1427. It would open Connecticut's paid family and medical leave program to school workers who do not hold a teaching license, including staff at private schools. The Connecticut Senate passed it 24-11. The House later passed a changed version and the Senate never took it up again, so it did not become law.

May 8, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to pass House Bill 7042, which lets people sue gun makers, distributors and sellers that fail to set up and enforce reasonable controls over how their products are sold and marketed. Those controls are steps the law requires, such as ones designed to prevent sales to people who are banned from having guns. A person harmed by a violation can sue, and so can a town or the state. The law also bars those businesses from purposely and knowingly advertising in ways that promote illegal sales or use, or an unreasonable public safety risk. Separately, it changes how far back the state looks at certain Connecticut misdemeanor convictions that block someone from getting a handgun permit. That window drops from 20 years to eight years. The law adds some out-of-state misdemeanors to the list of convictions that block a permit. It also says the crime of illegally firing a gun does not cover firing one in lawful self-defense, or to lawfully defend someone else. It passed the Connecticut State Senate 25-11 and became law.

May 30, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted to pass SB 1356. It would widen Connecticut's consumer data privacy law. More companies would be covered and fewer would be exempt. It would add duties for social media platforms, data brokers and connected vehicle services, including rules aimed at cyberbullying on social media. The Connecticut Senate passed it 26-9. The House did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

May 14, 2025Supports Data Privacy

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Voted to pass House Bill 6913, which bars nursing homes and assisted living communities, and their staff, from discriminating against the people who live there. The banned grounds include race, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, and national origin. Each facility must post a notice saying it does not discriminate. Staff who work directly with residents must take training on caring for people from different backgrounds. Facilities must also respect residents' physical privacy during care. If a facility breaks these rules, the state health commissioner can use the same penalties the law already allows when a facility breaks licensing rules. Those include suspending or taking away its license. It passed the Connecticut State Senate 26-10 and became law.

May 22, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass SB 1481. It would require a provider paid by Medicaid to agree in writing not to discriminate against people whose rights state law protects, as a condition of being paid. The Connecticut Senate passed it 24-11. The House did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

May 20, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass SB 1488. It would let the state Comptroller withhold payment from a contractor or subcontractor when the Labor Commissioner has issued a stop work order for a prevailing wage violation. The Connecticut Senate passed it 27-8. The House did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

May 14, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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