Patrick Biggins

Voted to pass SB 7 as amended by the House. 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 House passed it 92-55. The Senate never took up the House's changes, so it did not become law.

May 29, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass HB 7087. It would set the rules for community solar, where people subscribe to a shared solar array and get credit on their power bill for the electricity it makes. The state utility regulator would run the program. The Connecticut House passed it 103-42. The Senate did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

June 3, 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 House of Representatives 115-33 and became law.

May 28, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass HB 7158. It would let a health care provider send a minor patient's safety plan to the child's school through a secure messaging system. That could happen only with written consent from a parent, or from the patient if sixteen or older. Only school staff the district names, such as a nurse, counselor, social worker or psychologist, could open it. The Connecticut House passed it 105-42. The Senate did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

May 15, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass HB 7248. It would let the Commissioner of Public Health put rules on cross connections between water supplies into effect while formal regulations are still being written. It would also let a local health authority share the results of a private well water test with the state environmental agency. The Connecticut House passed it 101-46. The Senate did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

May 14, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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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 House of Representatives 98-47 and became law.

May 1, 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 House passed it 87-59. The Governor vetoed it, so it did not become law.

May 30, 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 House of Representatives 102-38 and became law.

May 28, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted to pass SB 1427. It would open Connecticut's paid family and medical leave insurance program to certain school employees. The version the House passed also lets a school board or town that already gives more generous paid leave require staff to take sick leave in the blocks set by their union contract. The Connecticut House passed it 102-46. The Senate did not vote on it again, so it did not become law.

June 2, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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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 House passed it 87-59. The Governor vetoed it, so it did not become law.

May 30, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted to pass HB 6844. It would bar towns and cities from cutting a retired worker's pension because the retiree gets permanent partial disability benefits under workers' compensation. Temporary disability benefits paid after a work injury would count as wages when a town figures a worker's pension, up to the worker's pay before the injury. Union contracts in effect before July 1, 2025 would not change. The state Comptroller would also study moving police and firefighters into a defined pension plan. The Connecticut House passed it 100-46. The Senate did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

May 22, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted to pass HB 6907. It would limit the production quotas that large warehouse distribution centers set for workers. Starting July 1, 2026, an employer would have to give each worker a written description of any quota and what happens if they miss it. No quota could cut into meal periods or bathroom use, and break time would not count against a quota. The Connecticut House passed it 97-48. The Senate did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

May 7, 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 House of Representatives 94-49 and became law.

February 24, 2025Supports Immigration

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 1328, which bars private parties from owning, running or managing state prisons, community correctional centers and community reintegration centers. Only the Department of Correction commissioner and department staff may hold and supervise the people kept in them. Facilities owned or run by the federal government are not covered. Neither are community programs that offer housing, transportation, jobs and counseling. It passed the Connecticut House of Representatives 109-37 and became law.

May 28, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 1367, which bars bail bond agents from seizing someone at a hospital, a school or a house of worship. These agents track down people who were released on bail and did not come back to court. The ban covers the buildings, grounds and campus of these places. They are any state-run or state-licensed health care facility, the office of a licensed health care provider, any school or college, and any house of worship. When someone skips court, the bond agent owes the bail money. A judge can now cancel that penalty if the person is at one of those health care places. The judge also releases the agent and the insurance company. Before, a judge could generally only do that if the person was locked up in another state, with proof of it. Prosecutors also had to decline to bring the person back. It passed the Connecticut House of Representatives 93-55 and became law.

May 22, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass HB 7065. It would take possession of small amounts of psilocybin, the drug in psychedelic mushrooms, out of the criminal penalties Connecticut applies to hallucinogens. The Connecticut House passed it 74-65. The Senate did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

May 19, 2025Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass HB 8002. It requires every town to adopt a housing growth plan and lets towns create priority housing development zones with looser zoning rules. It also creates a first-time homebuyer savings account with a state tax break and sets up a Council on Housing Development. The Connecticut House passed it 90-56 in the November 2025 special session. The Senate passed it unchanged, and the Governor signed it as Public Act 25-1.

November 12, 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 House of Representatives 84-65 and became law.

June 4, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 1444, which lets towns approve turning commercial buildings into housing through a fast review. That review skips the public hearing and the special zoning approvals such a project would normally need. The town still checks that the site plan follows its zoning rules, and that public health and safety will not be substantially hurt. The owner must certify that the building sat empty, or was less than 50% full on average, for the year before applying. The zoning commission must decide within 65 days. Industrial buildings such as warehouses and factories are not covered. It passed the Connecticut House of Representatives 105-43 and became law.

June 3, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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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 House passed it 84-67. The Governor vetoed it, so it did not become law.

May 27, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to pass HB 7035. It would bar any Connecticut town from banning multifamily housing or duplexes outright. The Connecticut House passed it 94-54. The Senate did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

May 20, 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 House of Representatives 96-42 and became law.

June 3, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to pass SB 1427. It would open Connecticut's paid family and medical leave insurance program to certain school employees. The version the House passed also lets a school board or town that already gives more generous paid leave require staff to take sick leave in the blocks set by their union contract. The Connecticut House passed it 102-46. The Senate did not vote on it again, so it did not become law.

June 2, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to pass HB 7210. It would require state contracts with halfway houses run for the Department of Correction to follow each resident's own discharge plan. A closing facility could not discharge a resident unless the person is moved to an equivalent facility. If none is available, it would have to stay open until each resident leaves under their plan. The Connecticut House passed it 100-46. The Senate did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

May 20, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 1, which creates a permanent fund for early childhood education. It orders Access Health CT to study the need for help with health insurance for child care workers. Access Health CT must then set up a program for the 2027 budget year. The law adds money for special education. It creates a grant districts compete for to run their own special education programs, and a grant program for behavioral health support. It creates an education ombudsperson's office, an official who helps families with complaints. The state education department must produce a guide for families on special education. The state must also write a model contract for special education transportation. The law also orders a study of whether minority students are placed in special education more often than they should be. It passed the Connecticut House of Representatives 101-45 and became law.

May 31, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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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 House of Representatives 100-46 and became law.

April 30, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 1542, which bars a police officer from putting handcuffs on a child the officer knows is under 14. The ban runs from the child's first contact with the officer until a court has decided the child broke the law. Handcuffs are still allowed when they are needed for public safety. They are also allowed when the child uses or threatens physical force against the officer, or when a court orders restraints under its existing policy. It passed the Connecticut House of Representatives 99-49 and became law.

June 3, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass HB 6477. It would require the Governor's office to write a plan, by January 2026, for reviewing and translating the state forms and applications a person needs to get state services or benefits, for people whose English is limited. The Connecticut House passed it 100-46. The Senate did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

May 14, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass HB 5269. It would tighten the rules on online gambling. A person could hold only one account on each platform, and paying with a credit card would be barred outright rather than merely capped. The Connecticut House passed it 100-46. The Senate did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

June 4, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 3, which requires businesses to advertise a price that already includes every fee a customer must pay. Taxes and government fees can still be added on top. Landlords must likewise include recurring fees in the rent they advertise. The law creates a right to repair. Certain makers of electronics and appliances must make repair manuals, parts and tools available on fair and reasonable terms. It also widens the law against price gouging. The law defines that as charging a price during a declared emergency that is unconscionably excessive, or far beyond what is reasonable. Companies must send a yearly reminder about subscriptions that renew on their own, and must let customers cancel easily. It passed the Connecticut House of Representatives 112-34 and became law.

May 29, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 1234, which bars libraries that get public money from signing or renewing e-book and digital audiobook deals that prevent, limit or restrict the everyday lending and operating tasks the law lists. The ban does not start right away. It begins 60 days after the secretary of the state decides that one or more other states with at least seven million people combined have passed a substantially similar law. It passed the Connecticut House of Representatives 106-38 and became law.

May 15, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass HB 6907. It would limit the production quotas that large warehouse distribution centers set for workers. Starting July 1, 2026, an employer would have to give each worker a written description of any quota and what happens if they miss it. No quota could cut into meal periods or bathroom use, and break time would not count against a quota. The Connecticut House passed it 97-48. The Senate did not vote on it, so it did not become law.

May 7, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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