Connecticut

To allow municipalities to prohibit rent increases on residential properties with multiple outstanding State Building Code violations.

To (1) specify a video or moving image that is visible to a driver while seated in the normal operating position constitutes distracted driving, and (2) make distracted driving in a highway work zone a reckless driving violation.

To establish additional legislative oversight of applications by the Department of Social Services for federal funding.

To increase Medicaid rates of reimbursement in accordance with a study.

To allow school districts to utilize hybrid school buses to meet certain fuel and emissions requirements.

To: (1) Establish a working group to study the need for and viability of creating a streamlined state court appeals process for any person aggrieved by a decision of a historic district commission, and (2) allow a commission to deny or return certain affordable housing applications.

To establish a grant program for certain nonprofit wildlife rehabilitation facilities in the state.

To implement recommendations by the Department of Motor Vehicles regarding (1) records relating to vessels, (2) the definition of "commissioner", (3) the replacement of a certificate of title, and (4) the proclamation of an Accessible Parking Awareness Day.

To require the Labor Commissioner to conduct a study of youth employment classification.

To establish a grant program to be administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the purpose of assisting municipalities and nonprofit veterans' organizations with certain veterans-related capital expenditure projects.

To add investigators in the Division of Public Defender Services, investigators in the Division of Criminal Justice and support service investigators in Support Enforcement Services to the definition of "hazardous duty member" for purposes of the State Employee Retirement Act.

To add witnessing a serious physical injury that does not result in the death or permanent disfigurement of such person as a qualifying event for an employee to be eligible for workers' compensation coverage for a post-traumatic stress injury.

To establish a working group to develop a plan for funding the state's conservation program for wildlife not usually harvested.

To amend statutory provisions and requirements concerning complex rehabilitation technology and wheelchair repair.

To limit the use of cell phones during the school day and to prohibit school districts from using social media as the only means of providing information to families.

To improve access to nonemergency medical transportation for Medicaid recipients by reducing regulatory burdens on providers and reviewing reimbursement rates to ensure they are high enough to maintain an adequate pool of drivers.

To provide reimbursement under the Medicaid program for home care providers who provide nonemergency medical transportation for home care clients who are Medicaid beneficiaries.

To implement the recommendations of the Auditors of Public Accounts requiring the developing of standard requirements for the award and subaward of state grant funds and subsequent monitoring of the use of such grant funds, training of state agency employees in such standards and annual reporting concerning such awards and subawards.

To clarify the standard of care for immunization in the state.