The legislature’s proposed Act Concerning Health Care Cost Growth is an important step to address the growing cost of healthcare delivered in Connecticut while improving healthcare quality.
Connecticut should lead on primary health care cost reform
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Connecticut must strengthen its law to fight government fraud
False claims about Connecticut’s False Claims Act should not be allowed to derail legislation to fully protect Connecticut’s citizens and their tax dollars.
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Period products should be available statewide
While Connecticut has been a strong supporter of reproductive care access, unnecessary barriers to menstrual products still exist.
Posted inGovernment
Unions win final passage of ‘captive audience’ ban
One of organized labor’s two legislative priorities in 2022 — a ban on “captive audience” meetings that unions say are used to thwart organizing — won final passage late Friday night.
Posted inHealth, Politics
CT Senate passes abortion rights bill after debate over race and history
A Connecticut Senate debate over an abortion bill exploded into a denunciation of the influence of racism in the abortion rights movement.
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The dangerous disconnect between CT legislators and small businesses
The annual sessions of the Connecticut General Assembly always generate anxiety—and at times frustration— for small business people like me.
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The predictable corruption of the Connecticut budget process
It happens this way in Connecticut every time: Party leaders deliberately drop a huge bill, hundreds upon hundreds of pages long, on the desks of legislative members without anywhere enough time to understand what they are voting on.
Posted inPolitics
On climate change, a political shift in Connecticut
With final passage of a “Connecticut Clean Air Act,” the House put a bow on a productive session for addressing climate change.
Posted inGovernment
Senate approves bill to shield contracting watchdog from budget cuts
A second proposal, to allow the board to investigate all quasi-public entities created by the legislature, was stripped from the bill.
Posted inEducation
UConn student fees to increase beginning July 1
The fee increases total about $600 for students on the Storrs campus. Some are mandatory, and some are for housing and dining.
Posted inJustice
Solitary confinement bill heads to Gov. Lamont’s desk
This is the second year in a row lawmakers have passed a bill to limit the use of solitary confinement in prison and jails.
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CT’s mental health crisis among K-12 students must be addressed
As our state slowly emerges from a pandemic that forever changed our society, the stress of COVID 19 has resulted in an unprecedented spike in mental health conditions among K-12 children.
Posted inMoney
House balks at proposal to privatize delinquent tax collection
Legislators want more information next year from Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration on its plan to sell CT tax debt.
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Go all the way Governor Lamont: Sign the PROTECT Act
To make certain that isolated confinement is not abused in any correctional facility in Connecticut, he must sign SB 459 into law before this legislative session ends.
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Support education equity in Connecticut
New legislation introduced this year could provide a long-sought solution to struggling Connecticut school districts.