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CONNECTICUT LEGISLATIVE GUIDE or Connecticut Legislative Guide.pdf
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Healthcare Bills
HB6600 An Act Concerning the Establishment of the Sustinet Plan Offers a voluntary option to current private health insurance policies aimed to control costs, give quality care cover everyone and allows choice of doctor
HB6582 An Act Establishing the CT Healthcare Partnership allows comptroller to allow nonstate public employers, municipal-related employers and small employers to join self-insured plans (pool to lower costs)
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Smart Growth Bills (see below). Support for a smart, sustainable future! Call Heidi Green for more details at 860 523 0003. H
HB6467 AN ACT CONCERNING SMART GROWTH AND PLANS OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT.
SB6589 An Act Concerning Land Use Appeals To require and develop an appeals docket in each judicial district for hearing of all land use and administrative appeals matters and assign such cases to experienced judges.
SB6097 An Act Concerning Brownfields Development Projects which prioritizes state funding for re-development of sites (brownfields) with infrastructure before development of undeveloped land
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Judicial Bills
HB6578 An Act Concerning the Penalty for a Capital Felony replaces the death penalty with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (eliminates death penalty)
SB349 An Act Concerning the Penalty for Possession of a Small Amount of Marijuana creates a more sensible state policy by making possession of less one ounce of marijuana an infraction
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Workplace Issues
HB6187 An Act Mandating Employers Provide Paid Sick Leave to Employees---requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide for sick days (accrual at rate of 1 hr per 40h worked up to a max of 6 days per year) for sickness, child’s sickness, etc
HB5249 An Act Concerning Timely Medical Treatment for Injured Workers--creates penalties for employers’ delay in necessary treatment for injured workers
SB365 An Act Concerning Captive Audience Meetings To prohibit employers from coercing employees into attending meetings sponsored by the employer concerning views on religious or political matters
HB6534 An Act Concerning Labor Union Authorization Card Checks To create a union card signing authorization process under the State Board of Labor Relations –unions formed by majority sign up report less coercion from management according to studies
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Lowering Utility Costs
HB6510 An Act Establishing a Public Power Authority -- establishes a CT Electric Authority to coordinate the state’s electricity needs and conservation efforts
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Comment by Cathy Jewett on April 4, 2009 at 10:14pm - Laurie - I'm at the Legislative Watch Group web site and clicked on the Join Legislative Watch Group link again. Hopefully that did it and I'll be added to the email distribution group.
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Comment by Melissa Patterson-Meador on March 15, 2009 at 11:33am
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Protect your consumer rights in CT with a simple phone call or an email.
On Monday, March 16th, the Coonecticut Government Administration and Elections Committee (GAE) will hold a hearing on SB 840 which, among other things, will eliminate the Office of Consumer Council (OCC). This cannot stand. This is the office that looks out for and stands up for the consumer on energy issues in CT. Without the office of consumer council, there will be an unfavorable balance of power on energy issues in this state. There will be plenty of people looking out for the Utilities and no one to look out for residential & small business energy users in CT.
First, Connectictu Citizens should be aware that the OCC is not funded by taxpayer dollars but, rather by ratepayer funds. This means that eliminating this office will not provide any general fund budget savings for the State.
Symbolically this tells us all something about who our current governor and her administration is really representing. Please consider either attending or sending in a statement to GAE Committee to voice your opposition to this bill and your support from keeping the Office of Consumer Council. You can also contact your State representative or senator.
Here's a link to the General Assembly Website for this bill.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=SB00840&which_year=2009
Here's a link to the vote smart website page for CT. It will help you identify your state representives and senators and provide contact information.
http://www.votesmart.org
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Comment by Laurie Santos on March 13, 2009 at 8:36pm -
Last week An Act Prohibiting Gender Discrimination for Individual Health Insurance Policies CT SB-822 died in the Insurance and R.E. Committeee. It would have prohibited insurance companies from charging women and men of the same age and health status two different rates. Women under age 40, according to the Natl Women's Law Center, pay between 6 and 48% more for individual insurance than men. Maternity care is not included in most policies of the poorly regulated individual insurance market. Currently 167,000 CT women are forced to buy their policies on this market.
So here are the Democrats that voted against the bill. As I said, it lost by ONE vote. Senator, Joan Hartley l-800 840-1420 (normally supportive of women's health insues)--She represents SD 15, Naugatuck, Prospect, Waterbury.
Also voting against the bill were Representatives (860-240-8585) Emil Altobell (House 82, Meriden); Kelvin Roldan (House 04, Hartford); Christopher Wright (House 77, Bristol)
and Linda Schofield from Simsbury (House 16) Linda, in my
view deserves a lot of criticism as she has consulted for the
insurance industry in the past and in my view has a conflict
of interest for being on the insurance and real estate committee.
Please join me in contacting these folks and letting them know that you are unhappy with their actions. If you choose
to write them, you can do so at the LOB (Legislative Office
Buiding, Hartford, CT 06106-1501)
Laurie S
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Comment by ValMcCall on March 11, 2009 at 12:56pm - Connecticut Stimulus is now up. Governor Rell has launched this site. It is up to us to monitor this site closely and ensure transparency on every level in our state. Click here. -- http://www.recovery.ct.gov/recovery/site/default.asp
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