Senate Minority Leader Kevin Kelly said an estimate from the Office of Fiscal Analysis vindicates the GOP’s calls for bigger tax cuts.
2022 Legislative Session
Catch up on all of The Connecticut Mirror’s coverage of the 2022 legislative session.
Posted inPolitics
General Assembly approves raises for lawmakers, statewide officers
Lawmakers’ base pay would go from $28,000 to $40,000, and salaries of most statewide officers would match the pay of Superior Court judges.
Posted inGovernment
CT lawmakers set to pass reforms to troubled school construction program
The reforms come as a federal investigation of the program under its former director, Kosta Diamantis, is underway.
Posted inPolitics
Budget bill closes loophole that let hospitals end services without state OK
Long-term hospital suspensions aren’t currently regulated under state law. The state budget bill could change that.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
With trash plant closing, CT rethinks waste policy
With the Hartford trash-to-energy plant closing, the state is moving to reduce the waste stream with new technologies.
Posted inMoney
House adopts one of the largest tax cuts in CT history
The budget positions Connecticut to make an unprecedented $3.5 billion supplemental payment against its massive pension debt.
Posted inPolitics
CT legislators package unclaimed property reform into budget bill
The state treasurer had hoped to return smaller sums to individuals even if they didn’t file a claim, but the new bill would complicate that.
Posted inJustice
Heeding patient concerns, Whiting Forensic Hospital bill gets final passage
The bill is based on recommendations made by a task force formed in the wake of the physical and mental abuse of a patient in 2017.
Posted inMoney
Money keeps pouring into CT’s coffers; This year’s surplus now $4.8 billion
CT legislators awoke to good news Monday as they prepared to debate a new budget: an extra $856 million in tax receipts.
Posted inMoney
Businesses, essential workers come up short in final CT budget deal
The state budget, which could be adopted Monday, includes no major bailouts for businesses or essential private workers hurt by the pandemic.
Posted inPolitics
Raises for CT legislators? Leaders testing support
Connecticut’s first legislative pay raise in more than 20 years is getting serious consideration for a vote as the session winds down.
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 inPolitics
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.
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.