Top legislative leaders announced they expect to wrap voting on a major new package of raises and bonuses for state employees by week’s end.
2022 Legislative Session
Catch up on all of The Connecticut Mirror’s coverage of the 2022 legislative session.
Posted inMoney
Budget panel endorses raises, bonuses for CT state workers
The Appropriations Committee endorsed raises and bonuses that would boost compensation for most state employees by 7% this year.
Posted inEconomic Development
CT ‘Fair Work Week’ bill aims to provide stability for hourly workers
The bill would require employers to compensate hourly workers for scheduled shifts that get canceled with less than a week’s notice.
Posted inMoney
Budget panel braces for intense hearing on CT employee raises and bonuses
The Appropriations Committee hearing will address an issue that has polarized the General Assembly, labor and taxpayer advocacy groups.
Posted inMoney
Report: State workers’ raises would cost almost $1.9 billion over four years
The package, which would force CT to draw almost $300 million from its reserves, is expected to come under fire from Republican lawmakers.
Posted inHealth
CT physicians call for Medicaid expansion for undocumented children
Expanding access to health care, particularly for children, has been a priority for majority Democrats in the legislature.
Posted inPolitics
CT Senate endorses jobless benefits for strikers, likely a symbolic act
Connecticut’s Senate embraced the concept of providing unemployment benefits to strikers, passing a bill likely to die in the House.
Posted inPolitics
Several COVID-19 policies extended through June in emergency bill
The content of the bill was less controversial than its arrival as an emergency-certified bill without a public hearing or committee review.
Posted inJustice
ACLU voices support for key criminal justice reforms
The ACLU is supporting bills this year that would end solitary confinement and prohibit the use of deceptive interrogation tactics in CT.
Posted inGovernment
CT looks to strengthen data privacy protections
A law would establish stronger protections for consumer data — an issue made more urgent as the pandemic drove much of life and work online.
Posted inHealth
Bill to help terminally ill end their lives won’t advance this session
Four Republicans and one Democratic senator voted against a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to access life-ending medication.
Posted inMoney
Lamont urges lawmakers not to overreach on tax cuts
Gov. Ned Lamont advised lawmakers to “follow the rules of the road” by sticking with budgetary safety net they established in 2017.
Posted inEducation
Paraeducators to get much-needed training under bill now headed to House
The bill would require local school districts to develop at least 18 hours of professional development for paraeducators.
Posted inHealth
Hopes dim for aid in dying bill to pass this session
The bill made it out of the Public Health Committee but Senate Democrats are sending it to another committee before calling it for a vote.
Posted inMoney
Committee passes $24.2 billion budget to push CT past pandemic
The plan makes unprecedented new investments in child care while fully funding the state’s contracting watchdog agency for the first time.
