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Slain travel blogger Gabby Petito's parents have vocally supported the bipartisan Help Find the Missing Act, which President Biden signed into law this week.

Blumenthal wants to see momentum on a bipartisan bill he is leading to protect children on social media platforms.

The Help Find the Missing Act, also known as “Billy’s Law”, is awaiting a signature from the president. Evictions in Connecticut have returned to pre-pandemic levels after a recent spike. Nassau County corrections officers say the jail is dangerously understaffed, and Governor Kathy Hochul says she has no intention to raise taxes.

It is federal legislation that has been decades in the making: “Billy’s Law” has passed both the House and Senate. Billy Smolinski, a 31-year-old...

Connecticut lawmakers are hoping to cram bills in before the end of the year to increase their chances of becoming law. When the new session of Congress begins on Jan. 3, Democrats will slightly expand their majority in the Senate but will lose control of the House to a narrow GOP majority.

The bill was named after Billy Smolinski, a Connecticut resident who went missing in 2004. Smolinski’s family joined the parents of Gabby Petito, a Long Island native whose body was found earlier this year in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming on the heels of a national manhunt, during announcement.

“One Minutes” (15 per side) House Amendment to the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1437 – Further Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2023 (Rep. DeLauro –

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A decades-old missing person case in Connecticut is prompting proposed federal legislation. Billy Smolinski disappeared from Waterbury nearly two decades ago,...

Families with missing children are urging US lawmakers to pass the bipartisan bill "Billys Law," or the Help Find the Missing Act.