Connecticut

To establish a working group to study statewide marketing and tourism in the state.

To implement the Department of Consumer Protection's recommendations regarding (1) the Board of Accountancy, (2) professional engineers and land surveyors, (3) real estate brokers and real estate salespersons, (4) plumbing and piping work, (5) businesses engaged in providing certain skilled trade work or services, (6) interior designers, (7) adulterated or misbranded foods, beverages and ingredients, (8) donation bins, (9) funeral service contracts, (10) apartment listing services, and (11) various minor, technical and conforming changes to statutes concerning consumer protection.

To make technical and other changes to statutes concerning human services.

To require the Comptroller to study the feasibility of establishing a program to provide stipends to members of the civil air patrol.

To study the need for, and authorize a pilot program to address, palliative and hospice care in Litchfield County.

To increase Medicaid reimbursement for ambulance services by amending the out-of-district mileage calculation for such services.

To require businesses, government agencies, organizations, medical providers, educational institutions and any entity with whom a decision-maker interacts to obtain goods and services to recognize a supported decision-making agreement.

To provide state medical assistance to cover room and board costs for patients receiving hospice care at a short-term hospice specialty hospital or a hospice facility.

To facilitate economic development in the greater Mystic area.

To require the Workers' Compensation Commission to study undue delay in workers' compensation claims filed by police officers and firefighters.

To require the Department of Economic and Community Development to develop a plan to establish an artificial intelligence small business program.

To implement the recommendations of the Office of Workforce Strategy.

To implement the Insurance Department's recommendations for revisions to the insurance statutes.

To study the need for extended producer responsibility programs for solar panels and vapes and to include aerosol paints under the paint stewardship program.

To clarify penalties for violating regulations concerning the taking of striped bass, prohibit the use of horseshoe crabs as bait, authorize the sale of certain lobsters from out-of-state by food service establishments and prohibit certain bait fishing in the Housatonic River and harvesting of striped bass.

To increase Medicaid rates of reimbursement for certain providers.

To codify the duties and responsibilities of the Independent Mortality Review Board and avoid duplication of such duties and responsibilities in the Fatality Review Board.

To ensure family members of suspected abuse or neglect victims have access to abuse and neglect investigation reports filed by the Department of Developmental Services unless such family members are suspected of such abuse or neglect and require the department to evaluate and report on the sufficiency of background checks of persons hired to provide services to clients served by the department and whether abuse and neglect investigations are conducted in a prompt and thorough manner.

To convey parcels of state land in the town of Derby to the Connecticut Municipal Development Authority.

To convey a parcel of state land in the city of Torrington for purposes of relocating a trail to the site of said parcel.

To convey a parcel of state land to the city of Shelton for three hundred fifty thousand dollars.

To implement the recommendations of the Department of Transportation concerning (1) infrastructure and service connections located in the state's right-of-way, (2) diesel-fueled transit buses, (3) electric vehicle parking at state agencies, (4) the Port Eastside Infrastructure Improvement District, (5) dynamic part-time lanes and control systems, (6) the restricted use of highways during extreme weather conditions, and (7) the memorial naming of a certain bridge.

To (1) require the Commissioner of Revenue Services to periodically disclose to the Commissioner of Consumer Protection the name and address of each operator of a hotel, lodging house or bed and breakfast establishment who has remitted the use tax, (2) impose penalties on operators of hotels, motels, inns or similar lodgings who fail to satisfy various recordkeeping, training, occupancy rate and notice requirements, and (3) grant additional enforcement powers to the Commissioner of Consumer Protection.

To require the Department of Banking to study and submit a report concerning banking issues in the state.

To (1) permit hospitals experiencing financial distress to enter into sale-leaseback agreements under certain circumstances, and (2) require hospitals to submit attestations that no private equity entity has a controlling interest in the hospital or interferes with the professional judgment or clinical decision-making of certain health care providers.