The Senate passed several bills, including one requiring DCF to conduct in-person visits and another to study hate speech and bullying on kids.
2024 Legislative Session
Posted inJustice
CT prisons need more staff, higher wages, correction officers say
Officers argued that the state has an insufficient amount of correction posts to manage the over 10,000 people incarcerated in CT facilities.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Is CT’s electric grid ready to handle more power?
Some say we aren’t ready to require electric power, because the grid can’t yet handle it. Others say policy signals drive development.
Posted inJustice
Shift in CT judicial nomination process highlighted by withdrawals
Advocates see recent judicial nominee withdrawals as a welcome change from what they call the “rubber stamping” of unscrutinized nominees.
Posted inJustice
CT justice bills to watch for in 2024 legislative session’s final month
The CT legislature is considering legislation surrounding drug sentencing, judicial selection, secondary traffic violations and more.
Posted inPolitics
CT may expand its paid sick leave law this year. Here’s what to know
CT legislators are considering expanding the state’s paid sick time law to require that all businesses offer at least 40 hours of paid sick leave each year.
Posted inHealth
Fix or nix? CT’s ‘certificate of need’ law under scrutiny
CT legislators are considering at least four bills that would make varying degrees of changes to the process.
Posted inMoney
Panel backs new CT budget with built-in shortfalls, few details
The CT Appropriations Committee would bolster higher education and social services but ignore pension and revenue problems in its budget plan.
Posted inMoney
Finance panel OKs bills to attack poverty, boost child care in CT
The CT legislature’s finance committee adopted measures to fight poverty and backed a 5-year $674 million capital building program for UConn.
Posted inMoney
With tax changes off the table, CT finance panel focuses on studies
The legislature’s tax writing committee now hopes to launch analyses of existing tax breaks and options to bolster CT’s competitiveness.
Posted inMoney
Leaders now say they can fix CT budget without adding big dollars
Budget transfers could still help CT’s core programs, but Gov. Lamont would have to bend ‘fiscal guardrails’ to make the Democrats’ plan work.
Posted inPolitics
GOP says Democratic election reforms are an April Fools’ joke
Republicans, in response to the Bridgeport absentee ballot scandal, want a mandatory prison sentence for election fraud and other reforms.
Posted inMoney
CT budget panel mulling whether to challenge Lamont’s guardrails
The Appropriations Committee will have to choose this week whether to take on Lamont or deny funding boost for higher ed and social services.
Posted inEducation
CT advocates ask lawmakers to fund approved charter schools
Advocates demanded funding for two charter schools that were approved by the state but lack the legislature’s sign-off on financial support.
Posted inEducation
With CT school suspensions and expulsions rising, bill aims to help
A CT bill would require that suspended students receive ‘trauma-informed’ services and limit some out-of-school suspensions to two days.