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Connecticut has enacted significant amendments to the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA), expanding its scope and introducing new compliance obligations for businesses that collect, use, share, or sell personal information. Now, many businesses, including employers that may not think of themselves as “data companies,” could have new compliance obligations.

With Connecticut’s automatic renewal law in effect as of July 1, consumers have new rights regarding automatically renewing subscriptions or memberships. These amendments to Connecticut’s existing “click to cancel” statute require covered businesses to provide annual renewal reminders, expand consumers’ cancelation options, and promptly honor cancelation requests, Attorney General William Tong said Thursday at a media briefing in Hartford.

‘We’re always going to have that human oversight,’ Gov. Ned Lamont pledged.

Study panel aims to wrap work by late September.

Beginning this month, new commercial solar facilities will be subject to a uniform tax of $10,000 per megawatt per year.

Hartford officials are seeking to delay the city’s next property revaluation by one year, in a move Mayor Arunan Arulampalam has said would help protect homeowners from a larger share of the tax burden as residential property values rise while commercial office values continue to decline.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal said he was “shocked and deeply saddened” by the death if U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, who died suddenly over the weekend at age 71.

What is believed to be the country’s first statewide citizens assembly got underway Saturday as more than 100 randomly selected state residents gathered in New Haven to learn about the state’s property tax system. Participants in the Connecticut Citizens Assembly on Property Taxes will attend 12 daylong sessions this summer and will be tasked with proposing changes to the system.

Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is directing the Office of the Treasurer to deposit $411.7 million in state surplus funding into the Connecticut Early Childhood Education Endowment , bringing the endowment’s total value to more than $700 million.

More than 80 new Connecticut laws will take effect in whole or in part on July 1, 2026.

This Policy Statement addresses the exemption from the sales and use tax for “nonelectronic school supplies” under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 12-412(128). This Policy Statement (A) identifies a list of qualifying “nonelectronic school supplies”, and (B) sets forth criteria concerning when a purchase is made for business purposes.

Relief for renters and families bogs down despite huge surpluses.

Six months after President Donald Trump warned states not to regulate artificial intelligence, they are increasingly doing just that.

Twelve of Connecticut’s 36 state senators were present for all of the 410 votes in the Senate during the 2026 legislative session, thus ending up with perfect voting records this year.

Analysts predict deficits unless officials find a balance

Nearly 100,000 state residents will be receiving letters in the mail starting this week informing them that some or all of their medical debt has been erased under a partnership between the state and the national nonprofit organization Undue Medical Debt.

Another 19 bills have received Gov. Ned Lamont’s signature, according to the bill notification list on Lamont’s official website.

Just days before the end of the legislative session, Sen. Rob Sampson, R-Wolcott, presented his fifth amendment after as many hours of debate to a piece of labor legislation. The amendment failed, but Sampson spoke for two hours and 48 minutes that day.

Senate Bill 1, the 2027 budget adjustment bill, became law Tuesday as Gov. Ned Lamont signed it as Public Act 26-68. The bill passed the General Assembly earlier this month with bipartisan support in both legislative houses, clearing the Senate 30-6 and the House of Representatives 127-21.

Attorney General William Tong joined a federal lawsuit on Tuesday against the U.S. Department of Education over new limits to student loan borrowing.