Connecticut

To require that grocery stores that offer self-checkout stations (1) have one manual checkout station operating for every two self-checkout stations operating, (2) have at least one employee for every two self-checkout stations monitoring such stations, and (3) do not operate more than eight self-checkout stations at any time.

To modify provisions concerning the Connecticut Siting Council, including by modifying its membership, establishing the Consumer Counsel as a party in proceedings and modifying submission and notification requirements for council applications.

To require a report by the executive director of the Court Support Services Division of the Judicial Branch on the expansion of community support services.

To authorize state grant commitments for school building projects and make revisions to the school building project statutes.

To implement the recommendations of the task force to support promise programs in the state.

To disregard certain income for older adults with disabilities when determining their eligibility for Medicaid.

To establish a personal income tax deduction for compensation received as a result of participation in military funeral honor guard details.

To clarify provisions concerning trespassing on school grounds or in school buildings.

To (1) permit the Office of the Claims Commissioner to hear and decide certain claims for money damages not in excess of fifteen thousand dollars, and (2) extend the time period for review of wrongful incarceration awards by the General Assembly.

To establish a Municipal Election Accountability Board to exercise oversight of municipalities in the administration of their elections, primaries and referenda.

To increase (1) the per diem rate for regular and alternative members of the State Board of Labor Relations, and (2) the compensation the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration members receive for their services.

To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.

To require the Department of Social Services and the Department of Developmental Services to submit reports describing current costs associated with programs serving children and families and anticipated costs associated with utilizing different eligibility criteria for participation in such programs.

To (1) authorize self-funded multiple employer welfare arrangements in this state, and (2) study the feasibility of establishing the Connecticut Option program and multiple employer welfare arrangements.

To require a study of unidentified aerial phenomena.

To provide state funding to support an initiative that provides diapers to needy families.

To require the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to conduct soil testing on a biennial basis at utility-scale solar arrays in the state.

To mitigate the loss of temporary family assistance benefits due to certain increases in household income.

To (1) make various revisions relating to the Fallen Hero Fund, firefighter cancer death benefits, survivor health insurance coverage and associated payments and reimbursements, and (2) establish a pilot program to reimburse firefighters who receive screening for cancers common to firefighters.

To require funding of tobacco control programs to prevent and reduce tobacco use at the amount recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

To afford political parties the flexibility to use ranked-choice voting in party caucuses, conventions and primaries, including presidential preference primaries.

To make revisions to (1) the foundation amount, the education cost sharing grant, the choice program grant and the charter school funding grant, (2) clarify the process for developing the rate schedule for private providers of special education services, and (3) provide spaces in early childhood programs under Early Start CT for families who become ineligible under the income standards for the Care 4 Kids program.

To strengthen criminal penalties for intentional damage to or tampering with critical infrastructure and public safety systems by expanding the offenses of criminal mischief in the first and second degrees to include conduct that causes damage, or creates a risk of interruption or impairment of services rendered to the public, including utility, transportation, communications, emergency response and other essential state and municipal systems.

To implement the Department of Social Services' quality metrics program for nursing homes.

To require the Commissioner of Public Health to establish an emergency medical services response time dashboard to collect and display emergency medical services response time data.