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Reply (Shutterstock / DreamcatcherDiana) ESSEX, CT — State Senator Norm Needleman recently helped lead the passage of Senate Bill 999, "An Act Concerning A Just Transition To Climate-Protective Energy Production and Community Investment," which will strengthen green energy worker rights in Connecticut, benefitting not only the state's continued increased adoption of green and renewable energy but ensuring that industry's workers are compensated fairly. Needleman wrote in a recent Facebook post about the Bill, "As the Senate Chair of the Energy & Technology Committee, my colleagues and I clo...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On May 10, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law “An Act Concerning Telehealth” (the “ Act”). The Act extends, until June 30, 2023, many of the COVID-19 related telehealth expansions issued by Governor Lamont through executive orders. A press release from the Governor’s Office expressed the Act’s purpose to extend the duration of the expansion of telehealth services permitted by Executive Order 7G (for our previous analysis of Executive Order 7G, see here). Among other things, the Act: Expands the types...

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Reply As of Friday, the Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has signed 14 bills of the 2021 Regular Session. (Shutterstock) CONNECTICUT — As the 2021 Regular Session in Hartford winds down, a number of bills are hitting Gov. Ned Lamont's in search of his signature. The governor signed Senate Bill 263, "An Act Reestablishing Club and Nonprofit Club Permits," into law on Thursday. The new legislation was crafted to reduce permit fees for non-profit clubs that been raised by the overhaul of the state's liquor statutes in 2019. "I am glad that we were able to correct an inadvertent oversight that raise...

In addition to bills described in our last post, the General Assembly’s Education Committee approved and advanced out of committee the following funding-related and “omnibus” bills, including bills reaffirming the Committee’s affinity for “task forces” and “studies.”  Here is a summary of these bills (which now await action by the full General Assembly):   CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS H.B. No. 6617 (“ An Act Concerning Authorization Of State Grant Commitments For School Building Projects And Revisions To The School Building Projects Statutes”) would authorize state grant comm...