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Biennial borrowing plan draws strong bipartisan support.

Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he will soon sign into law legislation that takes a step forward in reducing electric bills, delivering Connecticut consumers nearly $400 million in annual savings, as well as laying the groundwork for longer term reductions in public benefits charges and cuts in supply, delivery, and transmission fees.

The two-year, $55.8 billion budget that passed out of the Connecticut House of Representatives on a mostly party-line vote late Monday night remains within the state budget cap despite increasing spending by $2.63 billion over the next two fiscal years.

Lawmakers expected to adopt new biennial plan before the 2025 legislative session closes Wednesday.

The Connecticut House of Representatives on Friday debated and approved Senate Bill 8, An Act Concerning Protections For Workers and Enhancements to Workers’ Rights, a labor bill that would allow workers engaged in labor disputes to access unemployment benefits.

The bill passed in the Connecticut House of Representatives with no opposition on April 28 and the Senate on May 29 and will now move to be signed by Governor Lamont.

Lamont challenges lawmakers to tap $1.1 billion that universities stashed away.

Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is releasing $30 million in state grants to 46 small towns in Connecticut that will be used to complete a wide variety of infrastructure improvements, such as road safety reconstruction projects, emergency management upgrades, sidewalk and pedestrian safety enhancements, educational and recreational facility upgrades, and other kinds of capital improvement projects.

The state legislature is eyeing a fiscal tactic not seen in half a century to deal with state budget uncertainty. House Speaker Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, said Wednesday morning that a one-year budget was “very much in play” and looking “more and more likely.”

One GOP lawmaker got a rare unanimous vote against his amendment after trying a unique political tactic.

Leaders hope to offer $150 per child, up to $450 per household.

Medicaid, social services, special ed increases will be modest.

The Connecticut Mirror’s 2025 legislation tracker is a tool to help you, our readers, track certain bills as they work their way through the legislative process.

The purpose of this notice is to provide those taxpayers who have yet to receive their income tax refunds for taxable year 2024 with a timeline as to when those refunds will be processed.

Lamont declares first spending cap emergency since 2007.

Workers’ compensation legislation intended to spare employers crippling increases in insurance premiums passed the General Assembly on Monday, a step towards rapidly resolving a crisis ignited two months ago by a Connecticut Supreme Court decision that reinterpreted a line in a sweeping reforms law passed in 1993.

CT still faces a landmark debate over budget controls in the next few years.

Connecticut’s legislature has taken another step toward building a regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, even as Congress considers federal legislation that could override any state-level efforts for the next decade.

The boards of directors of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) have approved expansion of accountancy’s model legislation to include an additional path to CPA licensure. The optional path maintains public protection while providing added flexibility and options for CPA candidates.

A bill increasing resources for special education in Connecticut advanced out of the Judiciary Committee Tuesday, despite objections from Republican lawmakers over associated costs.