Connecticut

To support the financial stability of residential care homes by ensuring adequate rates of state reimbursement.

To require cause for the eviction of certain tenants and residents of mobile manufactured home parks.

To amend statutes concerning the powers and duties of the Office of the Inspector General.

To permit survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking or trafficking in persons for whom violence or abuse suffered by such survivors was a contributing factor influencing such survivor to commit an offense to be eligible for a sentence reduction or relief.

To implement the recommendations of the Connecticut Airport Authority regarding the licensure and registration of airports and other air navigation facilities.

To (1) modify the membership of the Examining Board for Crane Operators, (2) establish that crane owners, crane operators and hoisting equipment operators may be required to produce such owners' and operators' licenses or registrations for verification, (3) establish a procedure regarding the issuance of stop work orders to such owners and operators, (4) modify and establish certain penalty provisions applicable to such owners and operators, and (5) establish the "investigations and inspections account".

To make various revisions to the statutes concerning dentistry.

To prohibit the use of nondisclosure agreements in certain instances in the workplace.

To update reporting requirements with respect to sober living homes operating in the state.

To study the criminal procedure laws of this state.

To require the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to establish and administer an annual program to provide free-of-charge swimming lessons to certain children.

To eliminate the examination requirement for persons seeking licensure as a master social worker.

To include all serious firearm offenses in the list of offenses eligible for transfer from the juvenile court to the adult court, require a motion to transfer a hearing on such motion for a case involving such offense to be within fifteen days of the child's arraignment and require reporting on transfer motions.

To (1) establish that loans made by eligible financial institutions participating in the "Homes for CT" loan program shall bear interest at a rate that does not exceed the prime rate published by The Wall Street Journal, and (2) revise provisions relating to loans and grants-in-aid that are made or issued by the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority under said loan program.

To give retailers until July 1, 2027, to participate in the tire stewardship program.

To allow the Commissioner of Public Health to (1) impose conditions on the issuance or renewal of any permit, approval, registration, certificate or license, and (2) resolve enforcement actions with an agreed settlement or consent order without need for a formal hearing.

To make a technical change to a statute concerning government administration and to exempt course syllabi at an institution of higher education from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

To expand the address confidentiality program to include applicants who are engaged in the provision, facilitation or promotion of reproductive health care services and gender-affirming health care services and have safety concerns, to expand such program to require persons as well as state agencies to use a program address and to create a process for the shielding of real property records of program participants.

To create phased-in requirements for the usage of apprentices on certain prevailing wage public works projects, and to subject contractors and subcontractors who do not comply to a civil penalty and temporary disqualification from public works contracts.

To require the Probate Court Administrator to establish and implement an annual training program for persons appointed as a conservator in a Probate Court proceeding.

To (1) amend the Freedom of Information Act to provide that public agencies may not disclose, from their personnel, medical or similar files, the residential addresses of certain public officials and employees, (2) permit candidate committees to expend campaign funds for personal security services, and (3) (A) establish a "legislative safety account" from which the Joint Committee on Legislative Management may expend moneys for purposes of state legislator and state legislative staff safety, and (B) provide for funding of such account.

To extend state law protections for health care providers and patients related to the provision of a legally protected health care activity.

To prohibit lobbyist contributions during a legislative session to candidates for municipal office and judge of probate, expanding on the current prohibitions as to candidates for state legislator and state-wide office.

To amend the Freedom of Information Act to (1) revise the prohibition against disclosing the residential address of certain persons contained in personnel, medical or similar files by deleting reference to the employing public agency and expanding the prohibition to other public agency employees for which residency is not a requirement for employment, and (2) exempt certain proprietary records held by a public institution of higher education pertaining to teaching or research from disclosure.

To require public agency employees to attend Freedom of Information Commission trainings on the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act.