State legislature
Official Connecticut bill text, status, plain English summaries, and amendment notes pulled from the General Assembly's bill tracker.
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2026
This law allows land grant money to be used for habitat restoration or urban farming in specific areas, clarifies rules for conservation deals with older agreements, updates electric vehicle rebate priorities for low-income residents, sets a price limit on eligible vehicles until 2027, and creates grants for zero-emission school buses.
This law creates a legislative working group to study how the state can use modern technology and databases to track pesticide sales and usage.
This law creates a task force to study ways to make living costs lower for children, families, and young professionals in the state.
This law requires state health officials to study whether the Attorney General should be allowed to ask a court to appoint an outside manager for hospitals facing serious money or operation problems.
This law creates a working group to study how communities can turn polluted land into healthy spaces that help children, families, and neighborhoods.
This law creates an online portal for businesses to apply to test new technologies in state agencies that could lower costs.
This law removes the rule that required town clerks to send copies of resolutions or petitions asking for state laws to the Secretary of State.
This law updates state rules to ensure homeless children and youths can attend school, get transportation, access their records, and appeal residency-based denials.
This law raises cost limits for state projects that must follow the state plan of conservation and development, removes rules about priority funding areas, updates names for regional planning groups, and changes how future plans identify growth areas.
This law makes small corrections to state rules about how towns are classified, who can receive money for restructuring on their behalf, what that money can pay for, and the definition of a planning region.
This law names a military building in Putnam after former Governor John N. Dempsey.
This law updates rules for armed security in schools, creates a pilot mentorship program for new school leaders, limits local academic requirements for high school athletes, funds therapeutic arts programs, and allows temporary housing for one military academy.
This law creates a working group to study air pollution from crematories and recommend how the state should handle their permits.
This law requires state agencies to create new programs that pay customers for using small solar systems, including special rates for low-income families and residents of distressed areas, while also studying consumer protections.
This law requires state agencies and public universities to report details about their central advertising spending each year.
This law creates a one-day training program for police officers to improve retention and readiness, and allows stores to round cash prices up or down based on the final cents of the total.
This law changes how long election complaints can take before they must be dismissed, except for voting-related cases which no longer have a one-year limit.
This law updates rules about property tax breaks for specific renewable energy systems used in homes, farms, and businesses.
This law requires fire protection groups to register with their towns, mandates that every town create a local safety plan, and updates the duties of the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control regarding training standards.
This law requires the Labor Commissioner to create a single online location listing job training, career counseling, and other workforce development resources.
This law requires a training manual, sets rules against bad behavior and illegal marriages, changes how new justices are chosen when towns add positions, adds a waiting period for marriage licenses, and creates a working group.
This law updates rules for companies that sell bottled water to ensure their sources are safe, approved by health officials, and tested regularly.
This law requires a report on the safety of sterile plants and Japanese barberry, while creating rules for using certain recycled materials as fill in construction projects.
This law updates rules for organized retail theft, creates new crimes for selling stolen goods and gift card fraud as forms of larceny, changes how civil liability works for taking items without paying, and adjusts who can receive parentage information.
This law transfers a parcel of state land containing veterans monuments to the Town of Woodbury so it can be used as a commemorative memorial green.
This law transfers a small piece of state-owned land to the City of Torrington so it can create open space and move a trail.
This law changes an earlier rule by giving officials one more year, until June 30, 2027, to finish transferring a specific piece of state land in Hamden.
This law transfers a specific piece of state-owned land to the City of Shelton after the city pays $350,000 plus administrative fees.
This law changes a previous land transfer agreement so that the Town of Somers pays only administrative costs, must use the land for public safety, and includes corrected property details.
This law changes an earlier agreement to allow the Chesprocott Health District to use a specific state-owned land parcel in Cheshire for health services and emergency management, with new rules permitting nonprofits to use or buy part of it for temporary housing.
This law changes an earlier agreement to let the town of Cheshire sell three state-owned land parcels for specific uses and extends the deadline until July 1, 2031.
This law removes an old rule requiring a piece of state land given to Stratford to be used only for schools, allowing the town to use it specifically for parking or sell and lease it for that purpose.
This law changes a previous agreement so that Connecticut gives about 5.3 acres of state land to the Town of Rocky Hill at no cost, with rules on how the town must use it.
This law requires the Commissioner of Transportation to transfer specific parcels of state land in Derby to the Connecticut Municipal Development Authority at fair market value.
This law requires nursing homes owned by investment groups to report ownership details annually, get a security bond if available and affordable, keep full control over operations, and promise that investors do not manage resident care.
This law creates the Early Childhood Cabinet, funds preschool programs through Connecticut Smart Start grants, requires youth camps to share contact details for emergency alerts, and sets rules about criminal records for family child care home staff.
This law updates rules for who can start charter schools, changes how transportation money is paid out, sets up regional school calendars, and creates a program to assign surrogate parents to foster children in Region 3.
This law updates rules for a state research program that provides therapy using MDMA or psilocybin to qualified patients.
This law requires the Department of Education to create reading support guidance for students in grades four through nine who are not proficient, establishes scholarships for aspiring educators from underrepresented groups identified as teacher shortage areas, creates a working group to develop American Sign Language curriculum standards, and allows unspent scholarship funds to expand health benefit subsidies for paraeducators at charter schools.
This law requires approval for certain large payments to state employees leaving their jobs and sets new rules for how foundations connected to state agencies must operate, report finances, and handle audits.
This law creates a working group to study how people can become code officials, allows the State Fire Marshal to issue official written answers about fire safety rules, requires yearly reports on burn injuries from fireworks or explosives, mandates that polling places meet accessibility standards, and updates height requirements for parking spaces in public garages.
This law gives money to towns to fix neglected veterans' graves and creates a way for people to report burial sites that are not being cared for.
This law creates a working group to study whether the state should stop charging specific fees to certain waste facilities for up to five years.
This law requires a study on helping domestic violence victims find care for their pets, updates rules to let officials stop animal diseases that can spread to people, and forms a group to look at funding for the pet population control program.
This law stops landlords from charging tenants extra fees or bills for heat and utilities unless the apartment has its own meter.
This law updates who sits on the Governor's Workforce Council to match federal rules and adds new members representing businesses, workers, schools, and community groups.
This law requires towns with digital maps to share them by September 1, 2027, sets new deadlines for reporting property values needed for state grants, and creates a seven-member committee to set training rules for tax assessors.
This law creates a working group to study safety issues for tow truck drivers and evaluate rules about their vehicle lights.
This law requires that hourly pay for adjunct fire instructors at the Connecticut Fire Academy increases by the same percentage as general wage and cost-of-living adjustments in state employee agreements.
This law creates a grant program for towns and police departments to buy detailed, compatible maps of schools for emergency responders.
This law allows prison officials to send women inmates to nearby licensed hospitals for breast cancer care if those facilities are closer than The University of Connecticut Health Center.
This law requires the Governor to wait at least seven days before ordering a special election if a U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative, state legislator, or probate judge dies while in office.
This law updates how probate courts handle cases involving children, changes rules for appealing court decisions with different time limits based on the case type, makes certain family records private, and clarifies who can ask the court to restore gun rights.
This law allows the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles to issue permits so vehicles carrying organs can use certain colored or flashing lights.
This law requires state and local government agencies to provide services in settings where people with disabilities can interact with others who do not have disabilities.
This law allows municipal employees who earned less than $10,000 in the previous year to serve on their town's board of finance.
This law changes when school funding amounts are posted online, requires state agencies to identify certain types of land for tax classification purposes, bans zoning rules that treat licensed child care homes differently from regular houses, creates a new regional performance incentive program, and removes an old equipment purchase program.
This law stops people from getting refunds on bottles bought outside the state and lowers fees for large recycling centers that do not use barcode scanners.
This law requires the Secretary of Policy and Management to set rules for paying private nonprofit groups within 45 days after they submit a correct bill or finish their work, if federal law allows it.
This law updates rules for funeral service escrow accounts, adds anti-discrimination language requirements to university contracts, sets compensation limits for guardians and conservators of state-aided or veteran estates, and changes court notice procedures for involuntary representation cases.