Data Privacy Unlocked, A Second Conversation with State Senator James Maroney of Connecticut
Congress has passed the budget reconciliation package known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (H.R.1) without the controversial moratorium on state and local artificial intelligence (AI) laws originally included in the House...more
On June 23, 2025, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont vetoed the state legislature’s latest attempt to provide unemployment compensation benefits to strikers. The vetoed bill, entitled “An Act Concerning Protection for Workers...more
As part of an ongoing effort to address the affordable housing shortage, the Connecticut General Assembly has passed Senate Bill No. 1444 which is designed to facilitate the conversion of certain buildings to residential use....more
Members of the health care community may recall that the 2025 legislative session of the Connecticut General Assembly started out with Governor Lamont signing into law an emergency certificate of need (CON) process for...more
Effective October 1, 2025, access to the Connecticut Family Medical Leave Act (“CT FMLA”) and Connecticut Paid Family Medical Leave Insurance (“CT Paid Leave”) will be expanded to include all non-certified school employees at...more
Keypoint: Last week, the Connecticut legislature passed an amendment to the state’s consumer data privacy law and bills advanced in Oregon, California, Texas, Nevada, Louisiana, and New York. Below is the twenty second weekly...more
On June 4, 2025, embedded in an omnibus bonding bill, the Connecticut General Assembly amended the Connecticut Paid Sick Leave Act as it applies to certain employees of municipalities and boards of education. While the...more
We have written about the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee’s final flurry of activity approving and advancing bills out of committee. ...more
With the Connecticut General Assembly in the home stretch of the 2025 legislative session, the following noteworthy property tax bills have been voted out of committee for consideration and possible action by both chambers of...more
Prior to its March 25, 2025 deadline, the Connecticut General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee likely finished up its work for this legislative session and approved a final flurry of bills that would generally...more
Senate Bill No. 1556 has been introduced proposing to create a new Connecticut Appeals Board for Property Valuation (the “Board”). If the bill is adopted, the Board would be constituted this year to hear appeals from the...more
Two bills that aim to advance the concept of a uniform capacity tax for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems and battery energy storage systems (BESS) were the subject of a public hearing before the Connecticut General Assembly’s...more
Two of the Connecticut General Assembly's most influential committees are holding public hearings this week on the following property tax bills of note...more
National and local news has been replete with stories discussing the challenges and benefits of converting underutilized commercial properties such as office buildings into needed housing. A recently introduced bill pending...more
A bill has been introduced before the Connecticut General Assembly that would eliminate property tax exemptions for real property acquired by an “independent institution of higher education” on or after October 1, 2024...more
As we head into the 2023-24 school year we will be supplementing our annual School Law legislative update with our take on some of the most important pieces of education-related legislation from this year’s session of the...more
We have written about the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee’s final flurry of activity approving and advancing bills out of committee. In addition to the bills that we have already summarized, here is a...more
Two bills pending before the Connecticut General Assembly seek to impose a new state-wide property tax on different classes of real property. Currently, property taxes are only imposed at the municipal level of government. ...more
On April 28, 2022, the Connecticut legislature took the final step to become very close to passing comprehensive consumer privacy legislation as the Connecticut House of Representatives voted 144-5 in favor of Senate Bill 6,...more
On April 28, 2022, the Connecticut House of Representatives joined the Connecticut Senate in passing the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA), which now heads to Governor Ned Lamont for signature. Governor Lamont is expected...more
In our last post, I summarized part of the General Assembly’s Education Committee’s final flurry of approved bills advancing bills out of committee. In addition to the bills that we have already summarized, here is a brief...more
Connecticut lawmakers recently introduced two bills that seek to ban non-competition agreements for physicians. If implemented, this would be the second time in five years that Connecticut has legislated in the area of...more