Travis Simms Jr

Joined other Democrats in introducing a bill to extend HUSKY state health coverage to all income-eligible people regardless of immigration status. It died in committee.

January 13, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted no on a law letting the state health department set its own vaccine standards instead of relying only on federal ones. It also created free vaccines for uninsured adults. It passed the House 89-60.

April 21, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted no on a climate bill that required state and local plans to prepare for flooding, sea level rise and other climate effects. It passed the House 115-33.

May 28, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Introduced a bill to add sand piles to the facilities covered by the state's environmental justice law. It died in committee.

January 23, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted no on ending the religious exemption from school vaccine requirements. It passed the House 90-53 and became law.

April 20, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Introduced a bill to widen the state's environmental justice law so more polluting facilities need public input before locating in affected communities. It died in committee.

January 25, 2019Supports Environment and Public Health

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Introduced a bill to put a surcharge on high-value recreational boats and use the money to cut or end the car property tax. It died in committee.

February 10, 2026Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Joined 32 other Democrats in introducing a bill to raise the top state income tax rate from 6.99% to 7.99%. It got a public hearing but no vote.

February 10, 2026Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted yes on raising Connecticut's minimum wage in steps to $15 an hour. It passed the House 85-59 and became law.

May 9, 2019Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted yes on a bill making striking workers eligible for unemployment benefits after two weeks on strike. It passed the House 87-59, but the governor vetoed it.

May 30, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted yes on expanding paid sick leave to nearly all private employers by 2027. It passed the House 88-61 and became law.

April 24, 2024Supports Labor Rights

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Voted yes on requiring public employers to give unions employee contact information and access to new-hire orientations. It passed the House 90-54.

May 25, 2021Supports Labor Rights

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Voted yes on creating a state paid family and medical leave program. It passed the House 79-69 and became law.

May 31, 2019Supports Labor Rights

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Voted yes on raising Connecticut's minimum wage in steps to $15 an hour. It passed the House 85-59 and became law.

May 9, 2019Supports Labor Rights

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Voted yes on a law limiting federal immigration arrests at schools, hospitals and churches and letting residents sue federal agents who violate their constitutional rights. It passed the House 91-53.

May 1, 2026Supports Immigration

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Joined other Democrats in introducing a bill to extend HUSKY state health coverage to all income-eligible people regardless of immigration status. It died in committee.

January 13, 2023Supports Immigration

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Voted yes on expanding the Trust Act, which bars police and court staff from holding people for federal immigration agents without a judge's warrant. It passed the House 79-61.

May 30, 2019Supports Immigration

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Voted yes on raising legislators' pay from $28,000 to $40,000 a year and tying top state officials' pay to judges' salaries. It passed the House 95-53.

May 3, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted yes on a law that bars parents from pulling a child out of school to homeschool when an adult in the home is on the child abuse registry or under investigation. It passed the House 96-53.

April 23, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Introduced a bill to reduce wrong-way driving on highways. It died in committee; a separate wrong-way driving law passed later that session.

January 24, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted yes on the police accountability law passed in a July 2020 special session. It passed the House 86-58.

July 24, 2020Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted yes on a housing growth bill in a November 2025 special session. It passed the House 90-56 and became law.

November 12, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted yes on a housing bill that aimed to lower housing costs, add housing options and help homeless people. It passed the House 84-67. The governor later vetoed it.

May 27, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted yes on a housing bill that eased town approvals for housing, including turning vacant nursing homes into apartments. It passed the House 99-51.

May 3, 2024Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted yes on requiring towns of 25,000 or more people to create fair rent commissions to hear tenant complaints. It passed the House 85-62.

April 20, 2022Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted yes on a zoning reform law that let accessory apartments be built by right and capped parking rules for housing. It passed the House 84-59.

May 20, 2021Supports Housing Affordability

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Introduced a rent control bill to keep housing affordable. It got a public hearing but no vote.

January 27, 2021Supports Housing Affordability

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Introduced a bill to stop low-income residents from being pushed out by rising housing costs. It got a public hearing but no vote.

January 25, 2019Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted yes on creating a state paid family and medical leave program. It passed the House 79-69 and became law.

May 31, 2019Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted no on a gun law that made selling convertible pistols a felony and limited sales of unfinished gun frames to licensed dealers. It passed the House 86-64.

April 22, 2026Opposes Gun Control

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Voted yes on a bill letting people, towns and the state sue gun companies that fail to use reasonable controls on sales and marketing. It passed the House 100-46.

April 30, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted no on the 2023 gun violence law, which widened the assault weapons ban and set stricter release rules for serious gun offenders. It passed the House 96-51.

May 25, 2023Opposes Gun Control

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Voted yes on expanding risk protection orders so family members and medical professionals can ask a court to take guns from a person at risk. It passed the House 93-55.

May 12, 2021Supports Gun Control

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Voted yes on Ethan's Law, which made it a crime to store any gun unsafely, loaded or not, in a home with a child under 18. It passed the House 127-16.

May 7, 2019Supports Gun Control

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Voted yes on banning homemade guns without serial numbers and undetectable plastic guns. It passed the House 108-36.

May 7, 2019Supports Gun Control

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Voted no on a law protecting people who get or provide abortions in Connecticut from lawsuits and investigations by other states. It passed the House 87-60.

April 19, 2022Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Introduced a bill requiring people to show proof of citizenship before becoming a candidate for public office. It died in committee.

January 29, 2019Supports Election Integrity

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Joined 32 other Democrats in introducing a bill to raise the top state income tax rate from 6.99% to 7.99%. It got a public hearing but no vote.

February 10, 2026Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted yes on a law letting all voters vote by absentee ballot without giving a reason. It passed the House 101-49.

April 23, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted yes on setting up in-person early voting, with 14 days before general elections. It passed the House 107-35.

May 4, 2023Supports Civil Rights

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Voted no on a bill capping fees on paycheck advance products at $4 per advance and $30 per month. It passed the House 101-46.

June 4, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability

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Voted yes on a bill letting people, towns and the state sue gun companies that fail to use reasonable controls on sales and marketing. It passed the House 100-46.

April 30, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted yes on the two-year state budget, which passed the House 99-49. The budget set state spending and revenue for July 2025 through June 2027.

June 2, 2025

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Voted yes on a criminal justice bill that changed the state's limits on holding people for federal immigration agents. It covered more officials, allowed cooperation for 13 listed crimes, and let people sue towns that break the rules. It passed the House 96-51.

May 21, 2025

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Directed a $150,000 state youth-program grant in the 2023 budget to the Travis Simms Foundation, a nonprofit he founded. State records showed the foundation had been forfeited for not filing annual reports.

June 20, 2023

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Voted no on a law letting people kill a black bear that threatens people, pets or occupied buildings, and banning feeding of dangerous wild animals. It passed the House 115-32.

June 2, 2023

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Voted yes on a law that automatically erases many old misdemeanor and lower-level felony convictions after seven or ten years. It passed the House 91-56.

May 27, 2021

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Voted yes on the two-year state budget for July 2019 through June 2021. It passed the House 86-65.

June 3, 2019

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Introduced a bill barring police departments from requiring a lie detector test to be hired as an officer. It got a public hearing but no vote.

January 30, 2019

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As chair of the Norwalk Common Council's parks committee, sent a disputed Cranbury Park zip-line plan to the full council without a committee vote.

March 9, 2016

Source: nancyonnorwalk.com