Connecticut

To provide that an action to recover damages for personal injury to a person caused by fraud in the provision of fertility care and treatment may be brought not later than three years from the date the minor child affected by such fraud reaches the age of majority, or three years after the date on which the fraud is discovered, whichever is later.

To (1) permit health clubs and gyms to offer separate areas for exercise on the basis of sex, and (2) make statutory changes to commission processes involving requests for early legal intervention, the reopening of previously closed complaints and time parameters for pursuing a complaint in court.

To clarify that a municipality may place a lien upon a landlord's real property when the municipality has expended funds for relocation assistance to a tenant of such property.

To remove certain notice and opportunity to remediate provisions concerning repeat blight violations.

To (1) delete a provision regarding certain inspections not being deemed to constitute a precondition to renewal of a liquor permit, (2) modify certain requirements relating to fire safety and prevention inspections, (3) require certain nonresident owners, project-based housing providers or agents in charge to register certain information, and (4) establish various requirements relating to juice bars.

To: (1) Establish a process for the assignment of post-loss benefits under homeowners and commercial property insurance policies; (2) modify the required terms of home improvement contracts; (3) preclude home improvement contractors from engaging in certain conduct to induce owners to enter into home improvement contracts; (4) require home improvement contractors to notify the commissioner regarding changes in their business names, trade names and addresses; (5) require home improvement contractors to maintain additional types of insurance coverage; (6) expand the required content of the application for a certificate of registration as a home improvement contractor; (7) modify the grounds on which the Commissioner of Consumer Protection may (A) reprimand or place a home improvement contractor or salesperson on probation, or (B) revoke, suspend, or refuse to issue or renew a certificate of registration as a home improvement contractor or salesperson; and (8) require the Insurance Commissioner to create a consumer bill of rights.

To establish financial safeguards concerning private equity ownership of nursing homes and to prohibit nursing homes from requiring residents or prospective residents to sign arbitration agreements to resolve disputes.

To provide that, when a political party attains minor party status for a state-wide office at an election, any candidate throughout the state at a subsequent election may apply to appear via nominating petition for any office under such minor party.

To (1) provide that certain materials provided to the Attorney General following a breach of security involving electronic personal information shall be provided to the Attorney General in a form and manner prescribed by the Attorney General, (2) define "massive breach of security", (3) require a third-party forensic examination, analysis and report following a massive breach of security, and (4) impose an additional penalty for any person who fails to submit a third-party forensic report to the Attorney General following a massive breach of security.

To (1) require a regional council of governments to establish a fair rent commission if a mobile manufactured home park is located in any municipality that is a member of such council, (2) require a mobile manufactured home park owner to make available, on a disclosure statement, an enumeration of all considerations payable by a resident to the owner, including, but not limited to, all periodic fees, usage fees and penalty fees payable by the resident to the owner, (3) modify the amount of relocation expenses paid to mobile manufactured home park residents, (4) modify the process by which, and terms upon which, an association of resident owners may exercise its right to purchase a mobile manufactured home park, (5) require the Department of Consumer Protection to promptly acknowledge receipt of a complaint submitted by a mobile manufactured home park resident, and (6) require a mobile manufactured home park owner to deliver a written notice of a proposed rent increase to a resident at least ninety days before the start of a new rental agreement.

To (1) require candidates for presidential electors, as part of their candidacy filings or registrations, to execute pledges to vote for the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates associated with such filings or registrations, and (2) modify the process by which meetings of presidential electors are conducted in order to ensure votes are cast consistent with such pledges.

To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.

To repeal and reduce education mandates.

To provide for certain implementation and public availability of the requirements of the sewage right-to-know act.

To expand the permissible uses for town aid road grant funds by municipalities.

To make various changes to statutes concerning historic district commissions and historic preservation.

To increase the threshold dollar amount for an individual to become guilty of a felony for receiving unemployment benefits by fraudulent means.

To establish the Office of Government Oversight to investigate fraud and waste in government.

To waive certain fees for criminal history records checks in the case of a person seeking a pardon.

To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.

To align step therapy requirements with manufacturer guidelines for prescription drugs covered under the Medicaid program.

To prescribe (1) minimal in-person visitation thresholds for persons who are incarcerated, and (2) the process for the transfer of funds held in trust by the Department of Correction to persons who were formerly incarcerated.