Connecticut

To establish a task force to study issues concerning grocery store beer permits.

To require that certain election-related filings be made in the superior court for the judicial district of Hartford or the superior court for the judicial district of Bridgeport.

To require employers to provide advanced notice to certain employees of such employee's work schedule and work schedule changes and create a cause of action for violations of advanced notice requirements.

To require fair rent commissions to notify parties to a hearing of their rights under the hearing and the scope of the commission's lawful authority.

To permit the award of housing unit equivalent points to set-aside developments containing deed restrictions lasting less than forty years.

To shorten the time period that health carriers may cancel, deny or demand the return of payment from health care providers and to require that health carriers establish an electronic appeal process.

To require the Insurance Commissioner to conduct a study concerning various revisions to the insurance statutes.

To authorize a public agency to charge a redaction fee for the disclosure of a record created by police body-worn equipment or dashboard cameras that contains portions not authorized to be disclosed under state or federal law.

To prevent the receipt of housing unit-equivalent points for certain units located in developments subject to the affordable housing appeals process for a period of more than six months.

To revise the housing statutes of the state.

To allow immediate removal of certain unauthorized persons from residential property.

To (1) require cannabis establishments to submit marijuana and cannabis samples to cannabis testing laboratories for purposes of testing conducted in accordance with laboratory testing standards established by the Commissioner of Consumer Protection, (2) provide that the commissioner shall not issue or renew an electronic nicotine delivery system certificate of dealer registration to an applicant if the commissioner finds that the applicant, or the owner, authorized owner or named designee of the applicant, has failed to satisfy various requirements or is the subject of an adverse administrative decision or delinquency assessment from the Department of Revenue Services, (3) specify who may deliver cannabis, (4) modify existing requirements concerning the availability of a pharmacist at a hybrid retailer establishment and apply such modified requirements to dispensary facilities, and (5) make various minor, technical and conforming changes to statutes concerning cannabis regulation.

To establish a task force to study issues relating to consumer protection and occupational licensing.

To study postsecondary education in the state.

To study workforce development in the state.

To prohibit local jurisdictions from (1) adopting or enforcing certain zoning provisions relating to lot size, dimensions, setback requirements, lot coverage and design or architectural elements for certain single–family homes; (2) proscribing certain housing types in certain zones; and (3) proscribing certain subdivisions of certain lot types.

To require hospitals to (1) treat patients presenting to the emergency department with symptoms of opioid use disorder with buprenorphine without requiring admission of the patient to the hospital, (2) discharge such patients from the emergency department with a supply of opioid antagonists, and (3) refer such patients to local substance use disorder treatment programs.

To require the Insurance Commissioner to conduct a study concerning health insurance issues in the state.