Committee Meetings & Public Hearings
9:30 a.m. – Aging Committee Meeting
Bills for Review:
- AAC Cost of Living Adjustments to Long-Term Care Facility Residents’ Personal Needs Allowance
- AA Increasing Financial Assistance for Grandparents and Other Nonparent Relatives Raising Certain Children
- AA Allowing Assisted Living Aides to Administer Medication to Assisted Living Residents
- AA Allowing Dental Hygienists to Provide Dental Hygiene Services in Private Residences
9:30 a.m. – Insurance & Real Estate Committee Meeting
Bills for Review:
- AAC Health Benefit Consortiums and the Connecticut Option
- AAC Health Care Costs, Transparency and Providing Consumer Protections
10 a.m. – Appropriations Committee State Agency Budget Presentations – Elementary and Secondary Education Agencies
10 a.m. – Children Committee Meeting
Vote to Draft
- AAC Supports for Children and Families
Concepts to Raise
- AA Establishing a Working Group to Study Energy Drink Consumption by Children
- AA Requiring Children Under the Age of Twelve to Wear Personal Floatation Devices on Certain Docks and Piers
10 a.m. – Government Oversight Committee Meeting
10 a.m. – Labor and Public Employees Committee Meeting
Concepts to be Raised:
- AAC Labor Law Violations
- AAC Workplace Notice and Reasonable Accommodations for Menopause-Related Conditions
- AAC Health Insurance for Retired Paraprofessionals
- AAC Minimum Fair Wage for Cannabis Employees
11 a.m. – Executive and Legislative Nominations Committee Public Hearing followed by a Committee Meeting
11 a.m. – Housing Committee Public Hearing
Bills for Review:
- HB 5160 An Act Appropriating Funds to Assist Homeless Persons
11 a.m. Human Services Committee Meeting
- AA Requiring Nursing Homes to Spend 80 Percent of Revenue Direct on Patient Care
- AA Compensating Spouses for State-Funded Home Care
- AAC a State-Funded Caregiver Program to Assist Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- AA Expanding Medicaid Eligibility for Older Adults with Disabilities
11:30 a.m. – Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee Meeting
- AA Expanding the Debt-Free Community College Program to Include Workforce Development and Continuing Education Programs
- AA Allowing Children of Veterans to Use such Veteran’s Unused Tuition Wavers and Requiring State Funding for Tuition Programs
- AA Requiring On-Campus Programs Concerning Problems Gambling at Public Institutions of Higher Education
12 p.m. – Children Committee Public Hearing
- SB 156 AA Establishing a Task Force to Study the Voluntary Surrender of Infants
- SB 157 AAC Municipal Camp Safety
12:30 p.m. – Commerce Committee Meeting
- SB 132 AA Establishing the Connecticut-Germany Trade Commission
- HB 5146 AAC Brownfield Remediation
12:30 p.m. – Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee Public Hearing
Bills for Review:
- SB 8 AA Supporting Graduate Students in the State
2 p.m. – Public Safety and Security Committee Meeting
Concepts to be Raised:
- AAC Surrendering Firearms Voluntarily
- AAC Armed Security Officers
- AAC Reflective Gear on Bike Riders
3 p.m. – Appropriations Committee Public Hearing on the Governor’s Proposed FY 27 Budget Adjustments for Elementary and Secondary Education Agencies
3 p.m. – Veterans’ and Military Affairs Committee Meeting
Concepts to Raise
- AA Providing Housing for Certain Impoverished Veterans
- AA Providing Emergency Response Funding for the Military Department
