Legislative News

The Democratic dominated state Senate, over Republican opposition, on Wednesday approved legislation containing eight separate pieces in an omnibus bill ranging from a lowering of commercial vehicle taxes in some of Connecticut's higher-taxed communities, to prohibiting state employees from subcontracting school construction projects, and expediting

Sunday alcohol sales, allowed in Connecticut since 2012, benefited neither supermarkets nor package stores, UConn researchers found, feeding the ongoing debate over grocery store wine sales. "Using nationwide data from…

Despite the bipartisan praise lavished on Connecticut’s budget constraints, officials never have fully embraced them, spending hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years outside…

Gov. Ned Lamont stayed well within Connecticut’s fiscal guardrails Wednesday, recommending a $26.1 billion budget that erases $500 million in bonded debt and invests in…

Connecticut employers should be aware of key new federal and state employment laws that will be effective in 2024, and some other significant developments that are likely to occur.

We summarize these new laws and developments below.

Connecticut’s minimum wage will rise to $15.69 in January under the first annual adjustment required by a 2019 law tying the wage to the employment…

A day after passing a budget with overwhelming bipartisan support, the Connecticut legislature concluded its 2023 session Wednesday with the steady passage of bills in the House and a day-long filibuster by Republicans in the Senate.

Despite record-setting reserves and growing crises in higher education, social services and state agency staffing, the legislature’s Appropriations Committee is expected to recommend lean spending for the next two fiscal years.

Beginning Jan. 1 2023, Connecticut will impose a new per-mile truck tax on Class 8 through Class 13 motor vehicles.

Before Connecticut can begin phasing in its new, expanded bottle-deposit return program on Jan. 1, lawmakers made minor revisions to the decades-old “Bottle Bill” law during an abbreviated one-day session on Monday.