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Health care reform in the 2021 legislative session: Here are the bills that passed and those that didn’t

Avatar photo by Jenna Carlesso June 10, 2021 @ 7:37 pmMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:58 am

Proposals on everything from cameras in nursing homes to government-sponsored insurance for small businesses and nonprofits were floated this session.

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Senate passes controversial zoning reform bill

Avatar photo by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas May 28, 2021 @ 10:28 amMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:59 am

The legislation, which nudges towns to loosen restrictive zoning policies, now heads to the governor’s desk.

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Equity issues dominate hearing on Lamont’s marijuana bill

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Kelan Lyons and Mark Pazniokas February 26, 2021 @ 4:39 pmJuly 5, 2022 @ 6:01 pm

The administration’s testimony took up the hearing’s first five hours. More than 130 people are signed up to speak.

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Bill overhauling Connecticut’s sexual harassment, assault laws advances

Avatar photo by Jenna Carlesso April 10, 2019 @ 7:31 pmMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:08 am

A similar effort to overhaul Connecticut’s sexual assault and harassment laws failed to clear the General Assembly last year.

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Family members plead for passage of aid-in-dying bill

Avatar photo by Jenna Carlesso March 18, 2019 @ 5:00 amMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:05 am

A public hearing on legislation that would give terminally ill patients access to medication to end their lives is expected to draw both supporters and opponents today.

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Blumenthal joins Dem fight against Trump net neutrality rollback

Avatar photo by Ana Radelat January 9, 2018 @ 2:30 pmMarch 4, 2022 @ 11:25 pm

Updated at 6:40 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Tuesday helped fellow Democrats promote a bill that would undo the Trump administration’s reversal of net neutrality rules. Blumenthal said that has awoken a “slumbering giant” of concerned millennials.

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Three news laws top his list of state legislation effective today

by Douglas McCrory January 1, 2017 @ 5:30 amMarch 4, 2022 @ 11:54 pm

Most of the legislation the General Assembly passed in 2016 has already taken effect, but there are a handful of laws that go into effect on Jan. 1, 2017. Here’s a look at some of the most important legislation that will ring in the New Year:

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Blumenthal, Himes sponsor new bill to combat human trafficking

Avatar photo by Ana Radelat April 20, 2016 @ 5:53 pmMarch 4, 2022 @ 10:51 pm

WASHINGTON – After Shandra Woworuntu lost her job as a manager of a bank in Indonesia, she responded to an employment ad she thought would offer her a new life in the United States . But instead of a job, she found herself ensnared by sex traffickers who sold her in New York and Connecticut for the next three years.

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