Connecticut’s Three Branches: Three Jobs – One Government – Recent Legislation
Some Recent Legislation related to student proposals:
The following list should not be considered exhaustive. For other legislation, visit:
http://search.cga.state.ct.us/
“Make it a crime to kill animals on purpose.”
1993 sHB 5178 - “AN ACT CONCERNING KILLING A POLICE ANIMAL” (This bill makes it a crime
to intentionally kill an animal while it is working under a peace officer's supervision. Violation is
punishable by imprisonment for up to five years, a fine of up to $5,000, or both.)
2000 sHB 5673 - “AN ACT CONCERNING DOMESTIC ANIMALS, LICENSURE FOR THE CONTROL
OF NUISANCE WILDLIFE AND ANIMALS IN AGRICULTURAL EVENTS.” (requires regional animal
control officers to have a valid Nuisance Wildlife Control license.)
2001 sHB 5832 “AN ACT CONCERNING DAMAGES FOR THE UNLAWFUL KILLING OR INJURING
OF COMPANION ANIMALS.” (This bill makes those who intentionally or recklessly kill or injure a
companion animal, except as authorized by law, liable to the animal's owner for economic
damages and non-economic damages up to the jurisdictional level established for small claims
court (currently $ 3,500). Under the bill, non-economic damages include, but are not limited to,
mental and emotional suffering and loss of the reasonably expected society, companionship,
affection, and services of the companion animal. Connecticut common law does not currently
allow the recovery of non-economic damages for intentionally or recklessly killing or injuring an
animal.)
“Speed limits on the highways should be higher than 55 MPH.”
1995 sHB 5130 “AN ACT INCREASING THE SPEED LIMIT ON LIMITED ACCESS HIGHWAYS”
(allows the State Traffic Commission to set a speed limit of more than 55 MPH on highways that
are eligible under federal law.)
1997 sHB 5262 “AN ACT INCREASING THE SPEED LIMIT ON CERTAIN HIGHWAYS” (allows the
State Traffic Commission to increase the posted speed limit to 60 miles per hour (mph) on five
specific sections of state limited access highway and on any other limited access highway that is
suitable for a 60 mph limit after considering relevant factors, including design, area population,
and traffic flow.)
“Violent movies and TV shows should be banned.”
-proposals for restricting access to R-rated movies.
“Swearing in public should not be allowed.”
-none found.
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“Train and hire more teachers for our school.”
2000 HB 5272 “AN ACT CONCERNING A TASK FORCE ON MINORITY TEACHER RECRUITMENT.”
(no analysis or information available for this special act.)
2000 sHB 5320 “AN ACT CONCERNING A TASK FORCE ON THE TEACHER SHORTAGE.” (no
analysis or information available for this special act.)
2000 sSB 75 “AN ACT ESTABLISHING A PILOT PROGRAM OF HOME PURCHASING ASSISTANCE
FOR TEACHERS.” (This bill requires the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority (CHFA) to
implement a pilot program to help public school teachers in certain districts buy homes where
they work.)
2000 sSB 204 “AN ACT CONCERNING THE TEACHER SHORTAGE” (This bill provides grants and
other incentives to address the shortage of teachers in certain subjects and in certain districts.)
2003 sHB 6427 “AN ACT CONCERNING PROGRAMS TO ADDRESS THE TEACHER SHORTAGE”
(requires the State Board of Education (SBE) to issue the highest level state teaching certificate
to experienced, national-board-certified teachers from out-of-state without further testing or
coursework unless the person does not qualify for a Connecticut certificate because of fraud,
misrepresentation, criminal conviction, or similar cause; allows the education commissioner to
give a teacher more time to successfully complete the required beginning educator support and
training (BEST) program; requires the Department of Higher Education (DHE), the State
Department of Education (SDE), regional community-technical colleges (CTCs), and four-year
colleges and universities to design a so-called "2+2" program to allow CTC students interested
in teaching to be jointly accepted into a CTC and a teacher preparation program at a four-year
institution.)
“Guns should be outlawed.”
1990 sHB 5758 “AN ACT CONCERNING COMPLIANCE OF RETAIL GUN SALES
ESTABLISHMENTS WITH ZONING REQUIREMENTS” (This bill requires anyone who applies for a
retail handgun sale permit to submit documents showing that he meets local zoning
requirements.”
1993 sHB 6782 “AN ACT PROHIBITING GUNS IN BARS” (This bill prohibits anyone from
carrying a firearm in an establishment that holds a permit to sell alcoholic beverages for onpremises consumption.)
1997 sSB 1257 “AN ACT CONCERNING GUNS AND CHILDREN” (This bill requires the owner of
a pistol or revolver (handgun) to report its theft to law enforcement authorities within
72 hours after discovery.)
“Drinking and driving laws need to be stricter.”
1990 sSB 332 “AN ACT CONCERNING SUBSTANCE ABUSE EDUCATION AND THE
REPORTING OF VIOLATIONS OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG LAWS THAT
OCCUR ON SCHOOL PROPERTY” (This bill increases the requirements for substance abuse
education; sets up reporting procedures regarding the use or sale of alcohol or drugs on school
property; and requires school boards' procedures for dealing with students' drug or alcohol
involvement to include, by July 1, 1991, a process for working with agencies to which such
students may be referred.)
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1990 sSB 478 “AN ACT IMPOSING A PENALTY ON PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF
TWENTY-ONE WHO OPERATE MOTOR VEHICLES WITH A BLOOD
ALCOHOL RATIO EXCEEDING FOUR-HUNDREDTHS OF ONE PERCENT
OR WHO PURCHASE OR ATTEMPT TO PURCHASE LIQUOR” (This bill reduces, for people under
age 21, the blood alcohol content (BAC) that makes a person guilty of driving while
intoxicated from .10% to .04%.)
1995 sSB 1105 “AN ACT DISQUALIFYING PERSONS WHO FAIL DRUG OR ALCOHOL
TESTS AUTHORIZED BY STATE OR FEDERAL LAW FROM RECEIPT
OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BENEFITS” (This bill denies unemployment
compensation
benefits for life to anyone who is suspended or fired from his job because he was
disqualified from performing his duties for failing a drug or alcohol test required by state or
federal law.)
1998 HB 5699 “AN ACT CONCERNING THE ILLEGAL SALE OR POSSESSION OF
DRUGS, ALCOHOL AND CIGARETTES NEAR YOUTH OR TEEN CENTERS” (This bill imposes
a mandatory minimum prison sentence on anyone convicted of manufacturing,
distributing, selling, prescribing, offering, transporting, possessing with intent to sell, or
simply possessing illegal drugs at or near a youth or teen center. It also increases the
maximum penalty for (1) delivering or giving liquor or (2) selling, giving, or delivering
tobacco to a minor at or near an elementary or secondary school, licensed day care center, or
youth or teen center.
1999 sSB 1115 “An Act Concerning Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol” (This bill: (1) lowers
the blood-alcohol content (BAC) under the criminal driving under the influence law and the
administrative license suspension law from .10% to .08%; (2) creates a different set of criminal
and license suspension penalties for drunk driving convictions when a person's BAC is .16% or
above that are more stringent in most respects, but less in some others than current penalties;
(3) makes the pretrial alcohol education program unavailable to anyone charged with drunk
driving with a BAC of .16% or more; and (4) requires someone whose license or nonresident
operating privilege is suspended for any violation of driving with a BAC of .16% or more,
including a first violation, to satisfactorily complete a treatment program approved by the motor
vehicles commissioner before reinstatement of the license or privilege. The bill retains the
current law's requirements for treatment program participation for suspensions following second
or subsequent drunk driving and implied consent (refusing a BAC test) violations.)
2000 sSB 374 “AN ACT INCREASING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS INVOLVING UNDERAGE
DRINKING AND MAKING OTHER CHANGES TO THE LIQUOR CONTROL ACT.” (This bill makes
several changes in the laws concerning liquor and minors. It (1) increases the criminal penalty
in the Liquor Control Act for which no other penalty is specified from a maximum fine of $1,000,
up to one year in prison, or both, to a maximum fine of $2,000, up to two years in prison, or
both; (2) authorizes the Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) to require a liquor permittee
or permittee's employee, at their own expense, to attend an agency-approved liquor server
training course as a penalty for serving liquor to a minor, intoxicated person, or known habitual
drunkard; and (3) adds community service to the penalty for a minor who purchases, attempts
to purchase, or makes a false statement to purchase alcohol. A minor who does this is now
subject to a fine of between $200 and $500 and a driver's license suspension of 150 days.)
2002 sSB 570 “AN ACT CONCERNING UNDERAGE DRINKING” (Current law makes it illegal for
anyone under age 21 to possess alcohol on any street or highway or in a public place or place
open to the public, including any club open to the public. Violators are subject to a mandatory
fine of $ 200 to $ 500, and the motor vehicle commissioner must suspend their operator's
license for 150 days. This bill expands this prohibition by making it illegal for minors to possess
alcohol anywhere. It authorizes the court to sentence violators to up to 180 days of community
service in addition to, or instead of, the fine. It also authorizes the court to suspend the
violator's operator's license or non-resident operating privilege for up to 180 days, order him to
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attend an alcohol education program, or require him to receive mental health or substance
abuse counseling. Since the bill does not eliminate or refer to the motor vehicle commissioner's
current duty to suspend the operator's license for 150 days, both suspensions appear to apply to
the same offense.)
“Stricter penalties for air and water pollution are needed, especially in Long Island Sound.”
1990 sHB 5223 “AN ACT CONCERNING WATER POLLUTION FINES” (This bill doubles the fines
for violating various environmental laws, principally those dealing with water and solid waste.
It also dedicates 50% of any revenue collected for violation of these laws to the Long Island
Sound clean-up account of the Clean Water Fund.)
1990 sHB 5846 “AN ACT CONCERNING WATER POLLUTION CONTROL” (This bill requires a court,
in assessing civil penalties against a violator of state water pollution control laws, to consider
whether the violator is a persistent one.)
1990 sSB 111 “AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE
LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM REVIEW AND INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE CONCERNING PENALTIES
FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH ORDERS TO ABATE AIR POLLUTION” (This bill requires the
environmental protection commissioner to request the attorney general to sue any person failing
to comply within six months with any air pollution order.)
1991 sSB 839 “AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION TO ADOPT REGULATIONS CONCERNING OPERATING
PERMITS FOR SOURCES OF AIR POLLUTION UNDER THE FEDERAL
CLEAN AIR ACT” (This bill authorizes the commissioner of environmental protection to
refuse to issue an air discharge permit if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency objects to
its issuance in a timely manner in accordance with the federal Clean Air Act. The bill also
restates the commissioner's authority to require a permit for construction, installation,
enlargement, or establishment of any air pollution source regulated under federal law.)
1994 sHB 5122 “AN ACT CONCERNING WATER POLLUTION CONTROL AND HARBOR
MANAGEMENT” (This bill requires the person responsible for the vehicle, vessel, or other source
that causes an oil spill or hazardous waste discharge to report the accident to the
environmental protection commissioner rather than the state police.)
“Smoking in public places should be banned.”
1991 sHB 6369 “AN ACT CONCERNING SMOKING IN THE WORKPLACE” (This bill extends to
smaller workplaces the law requiring all employers, including the state and municipalities, to
establish nonsmoking work areas for employees who ask for them. The law already applies to
enclosed facilities and parts of facilities where at least 50 people work. This bill makes the law
apply as well to facilities where between 20 and 49 people work.)
1993 sHB 5275 “AN ACT PROHIBITING SMOKING IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS” (This bill broadens the
restrictions on smoking in government buildings, health care facilities, and school buildings. It
prohibits smoking in any room in a government building, except public college dormitory
rooms and state correctional facilities unless otherwise designated. Current law prohibits
smoking in any room of a building leased or owned by the state or any of its political
subdivisions while a government meeting is in progress in that room. Smoking is also
prohibited in any room of a government building which is open to the general public and is
used primarily as a reception or waiting room.)
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2001 sHB 5250 “AN ACT CONCERNING SMOKING IN DORMITORIES OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
OF HIGHER EDUCATION.” (This bill prohibits smoking in public college and university dormitory
rooms. It does so by removing an exemption for dormitory rooms from the ban on smoking in
any building or portion of a building owned or leased and operated by the state. The bill thereby
restricts student smoking in dormitories to designated areas of the facility only.)
2001 SB 91 “AN ACT REDUCING THE HAZARDS OF SECONDHAND SMOKE IN PUBLIC PLACES.”
(This bill (1) expands state prohibitions on smoking in restaurants and (2) prohibits smoking in
any area within 25 feet of the outside of a public entrance to any public building, educational
institution, child care facility, or place where food is served or sold to the public.
Current law prohibits smoking in any public area of a restaurant seating at least 75 people,
unless a sign is posted allowing smoking in a designated area. But such a restaurant may
prohibit smoking in the entire restaurant and in rooms used for private social functions.
Beginning October 1, 2002, this bill prohibits smoking in restaurants or other establishments
serving food to the public, regardless of size, except in a physically separate smoking area that
is fully ventilated to prevent secondhand smoke from entering the nonsmoking area.
Current law also prohibits smoking in any (1) building or portion of it owned or leased and
operated by the state or any political subdivision, except in a smoking area; (2) area of a health
care institution other than a smoking area, as long as it is not the facility's only waiting room;
(3) area of a retail food store open to the public; (4) a public school building while school is in
session or student activities are taking place; and (5) passenger elevator.)
2001 sSB 1025 “AN ACT PROHIBITING SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES.” (This bill extends state
prohibitions on smoking to (1) any area open to the public and (2) dormitory rooms in public
higher education institutions.)
2002 HB 5292 “AN ACT CONCERNING SMOKING IN RESTAURANTS” (This bill prohibits smoking
in any public area of a restaurant. Current law allows smoking in restaurants (1) with seating
capacities of fewer than 75 people and (2) in larger restaurants, if they post signs in areas
where smoking is permitted and at the entrance indicating that a nonsmoking area is available.
A restaurant that fails to post these signs commits an infraction. Existing law, which the bill does
not change, exempts restaurants from its lettering requirements for signs in buildings where
smoking is prohibited.)
2003 SB 578 “AN ACT CONCERNING LOCAL REGULATION OF SMOKING IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS”
(This bill allows municipalities, by ordinance, to place greater restrictions on smoking in
buildings open to the public than state law does. And it repeals the state law's preemption of
local smoking ordinances that were in effect on or after October 1, 1993.)
2003 sSB 908 “AN ACT CONCERNING SECONDHAND SMOKE IN WORK PLACES.” (This bill
generally tightens restrictions on smoking in workplaces and public buildings. It bans smoking in
workplaces where more than 10 people work; restaurants, cafés, and taverns; state and
municipal buildings; and health care institutions, except in designated smoking rooms. And it
extends the current ban on smoking in public areas of retail food stores to the entire store.
Smoking rooms, under the bill, must be completely separated from nonsmoking areas by floorto-ceiling walls and a door and ventilated in way that prevents smoke from entering nonsmoking
areas. Food and beverages may not be served or distributed in them.
The bill reverses the current scheme of regulating smoking in workplaces and restaurants, which
generally permits smoking in these places except in designated nonsmoking areas. Current law
requires employers who employ 20 or more workers in a facility to set aside nonsmoking areas if
their employees ask for one. It permits smoking in restaurants that seat fewer than 75 people
and allows larger restaurants to designate smoking areas under certain conditions. It also
restricts smoking in designated areas of government buildings and health care institutions to
designated rooms, but these need not be completely separate and ventilated.)
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“Pass stricter laws for drug dealing, selling and using.”
1990 sHB 5901 “AN ACT CONCERNING SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT, DRUG
ENFORCEMENT AND SPECIAL ALTERNATIVE INCARCERATION PROGRAMS” (This bill
amends the special alternative incarceration program ("boot camp incarceration") by
limiting eligibility to certain substance abuse offenders, extending the required time of
stay, and giving the Department of Correction additional responsibilities concerning
placement of inmates. The bill transfers authority, and related funding, for substance abuse
programs for low income pregnant women and women with children from the Department of
Children and Youth Services (DCYS) to the Connecticut Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission
(CADAC).)
1990 sHB 6026 “AN ACT CONCERNING FORFEITURE OF PROPERTY IN DRUG CASES” (Under
current law, (1) money and property used or intended for use in buying, making, delivering, or
distributing illegal drugs and (2) money and property derived from illegal drug sales are
subject to state forfeiture. This bill makes several changes to the drug forfeiture law by
clarifying property subject to forfeiture, limiting property exemptions, modifying the forfeiture
hearing, and authorizing the appointment of a receiver to possess, control, and dispose of
property seized and subsequently forfeited.)
1990 sHB 6030 “AN ACT CONCERNING DRUG PENALTIES” (This bill changes mandatory
penalties for a non-drug-dependent person who manufactures, sells, distributes, prescribes,
administers, or transports with intent to sell an ounce or more of heroin, methadone, or
cocaine; one-half gram or more of crack; or five milligrams or more of LSD. The new
penalties are 10 to 25 years in prison, up to $200,000 in fines, or both for a first offense and
15 to 30 years in prison, up to $300,000 in fines, or both for each
subsequent offense.)
1990 sSB 332 “AN ACT CONCERNING SUBSTANCE ABUSE EDUCATION” (This bill increases the
requirements for substance abuse education and requires school boards' procedures for
dealing with students' drug or alcohol involvement to include, by July 1, 1991, a process for
working with agencies to which such students may be referred.)
1990 SB 463 “AN ACT CONCERNING CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF FIREARMS
DURING ILLEGAL DRUG ACTIVITIES” (This bill requires imposition of mandatory,
nonsuspendable, five or three year minimum prison terms for people convicted of certain drug
crimes if during commission of the crime they use or threaten the use of, are armed with,
display, or represent that they have a firearm, including a handgun, machine gun,
shotgun, or rifle.)
1990 SB 464 “AN ACT CONCERNING MULTIPLE DRUG OFFENSES” (This bill imposes a
mandatory penalty of five years imprisonment on any person who commits three drugrelated offenses within a 90-day period and is subsequently convicted. The new penalty must
be imposed in addition to and consecutive with any term of imprisonment imposed for
the conviction of a third drug-related offense. The applicable drug-related offenses are
manufacturing, distributing, selling, prescribing, dispensing, possessing with intent to sell or
dispense, offering, giving, or administering an illegal drug to another person.)
1991 sHB 7211 “AN ACT CONCERNING EMPLOYMENT DRUG TESTING” (With some exceptions,
an employer cannot order an employee to take a urinalysis drug test unless he has a
reasonable suspicion that the employee is influenced by alcohol or drugs and that they
adversely affect his job performance.)
1992 HB 5556 “AN ACT CONCERNING THE PENALTY FOR THE ILLEGAL SALE OF
DRUGS IN OR NEAR PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECTS” (This bill imposes a three-year mandatory
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minimum term of imprisonment on a non-drug-dependent person who manufacturers,
distributes, sells, prescribes, offers, administers, or transports with intent to sell illegal
drugs in, on, or within 1,000
feet of a public housing project. A person who transports or possesses illegal drugs
within these
parameters has the requisite intent needed for imposition of the mandatory penalty.)
1993 HB 6615 “AN ACT CONCERNING THE PURCHASE OR CARRYING OF FIREARMS
BY PERSONS CONVICTED OF THE ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF DRUGS” (This bill makes
conviction on two or more occasions of illegal possession of drugs grounds for banning the
sale of firearms and for denying or revoking permits to carry pistols and revolvers. The
law already prohibits a seller from completing a firearm sale if he is notified that the
buyer was convicted of a felony.)
1995 sSB 1105 “AN ACT DISQUALIFYING PERSONS WHO FAIL DRUG OR ALCOHOL
TESTS AUTHORIZED BY STATE OR FEDERAL LAW FROM RECEIPT
OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BENEFITS” (This bill denies unemployment
compensation
benefits for life to anyone who is suspended or fired from his job because he was
disqualified from
performing his duties for failing a drug or alcohol test required by state or federal law if (1)
the test is conducted according to those laws and (2) he refuses to participate in a treatment
program.)
1998 HB 5699 “AN ACT CONCERNING THE ILLEGAL SALE OR POSSESSION OF
DRUGS, ALCOHOL AND CIGARETTES NEAR YOUTH OR TEEN CENTERS” (This bill imposes
a mandatory minimum prison sentence on anyone convicted of manufacturing,
distributing, selling, prescribing, offering, transporting, possessing with intent to sell, or
simply possessing illegal drugs at or near a youth or teen center. It also increases the
maximum penalty for (1) delivering or giving liquor or (2) selling, giving, or delivering
tobacco to a minor at or near an elementary or secondary school, licensed day care center, or
youth or teen center.
1998 sHB 5737 “AN ACT CONCERNING DRUG DEALER LIABILITY” (This bill makes most
people who sell, distribute, dispense, give,
or
administer dependency-producing
drugs in violation of the law (drug dealers) liable for damages.)
2000 sHB 5706 “AN ACT CONCERNING DRUG TESTS FOR NEW DRIVERS” (This bill requires
state learner's permit applicants to get a drug and alcohol free certificate (DAFC) before the
Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) can issue the permit. It also requires certain drivers'
license applicants to get the certificate but does not prohibit DMV from issuing a license if they
do not.)
“Lower the state sales tax.”
1996 sSB 602 “AN ACT ELIMINATING THE SALES TAX ON TRANSPORTATION
SERVICES” (This bill eliminates the sales tax on transportation services.)
1997 sHB 6109 “AN ACT CONCERNING THE EXEMPTION FROM THE SALES TAX FOR
LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING FACILITIES” (This bill exempts from the sales tax,
services to any low- and moderate-income housing project sponsored by a mutual
housing association (MHA) at a site that was conveyed to it by the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development before September 1, 1995.)
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2000 sHB 5581 “AN ACT EXEMPTING CERTAIN FUEL EFFICIENT PASSENGER CARS FROM THE
SALES TAX.” (This bill establishes a two-year sales and use tax exemption for passenger cars
estimated by the federal Environmental Protection Agency to get 50 miles per gallon or greater
during highway driving. The exemption expires June 30, 2002.)
2000 SB 560 “AN ACT CONCERNING THE SALES TAX RELATED TO THE MANUFACTURE OF
ELECTRICITY.” (This bill expands the sales tax exemption for goods used in the generation of
electricity.)
2001 sSB 1415 “AN ACT CONCERNING SALES TAX-FREE WEEKS AND THE PERSONAL INCOME
TAX CREDIT FOR PROPERTY TAXES PAID.” (The bill increases the maximum credit taxpayers can
take against their income taxes for property taxes they pay. For the 2001 taxable year, the bill
increases the maximum credit from $ 500 to $ 650. For the 2002 taxable year and thereafter, it
increases the maximum credit to $ 750. Under current law and the bill, the credit phases out for
taxpayers with higher incomes.
The bill also adds another week to the sales tax exemption period for clothing and footwear
costing less than $ 300, extending the sales-tax-free period from one to two weeks in August
and starting it a week earlier.)
Connecticut’s sales tax rate stood at 3.5% in 1968 and had been raised to 7.5% by 1981. It has
since been reduced to 6%.
“Create a state health care program for everyone.”
1991 sSB 93 “AN ACT CONCERNING HEALTH CARE FACILITIES FOR THE
UNINSURED AND UNDERINSURED” (This bill creates a committee to establish a program in
which health care professionals will serve the uninsured and underinsured one day a month
without compensation.)
1996 HB 5440 “AN ACT CONCERNING ACCESS TO EMERGENCY HEALTH CARE” (This bill requires
individual and group health insurance plans to cover emergency services provided to
policyholders and enrollees who have emergency medical conditions.)
1999 HB 5990 “An Act Concerning Access to Health Care” (This bill allows state residents over
age 50 to purchase state employee health insurance if they (1) lost their job due to downsizing
and (2) have exhausted their federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
health benefits.)
2004 sSB-418 “AN ACT CONCERNING UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE.” (Analysis of this Special Acts
was not available.)
Hundreds of other laws concerning health care in Connecticut can be found at:
http://search.cga.state.ct.us/ using search terms “health” and “care.”
“Create stricter penalties for crimes against children and senior citizens.”
-none found.
“Build a super-highway between Danielson and Hartford.”
1995 and 1996 Proposed bill: “AN ACT CONCERNING AUTHORIZATION OF SPECIAL TAX
OBLIGATION BONDS OF THE STATE FOR TRANSPORTATION PURPOSES FOR THE IMPROVEMENT
OF ROUTE 6, WEST OF COLUMBIA, TO THE BOLTON INTERSECTION OF INTERSTATE ROUTE
384.” (To obtain funds for the improvement of Route 6, west of Columbia, to the Bolton
intersection of Interstate Route 384, in order to make it a safer road to travel on.)
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“Build more affordable housing for people in Northeast Connecticut.”
1991 sHB 5517 “AN ACT CONCERNING PROMOTION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING” (This bill
requires towns to actively participate in the Connecticut Housing Partnership Program by
December 31, 1994 in order to receive state discretionary grants. Under the program, locally
formed public-private partnerships get priority for state housing and environmental protection
funds. The towns sponsoring the partnerships get extra town road aid when they complete their
first projects.)
2001 sHB 6231 “AN ACT CREATING A TAX EXEMPTION FOR LAND AND UNINHABITABLE
STRUCTURES BEING DEVELOPED BY NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.”
(This bill exempts certain types of nonprofit organizations from paying property taxes on vacant
land or uninhabitable structures while they are being developed for low- and moderate-income
housing.)
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