| SB00395 | Intro
Sine Die | To establish an advisory council to make recommendations concerning the certification of doulas and a deadline for the Commissioner of Public Health to establish a certification process for doulas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To Joint Human Services Committee |
| SB00421 | Intro
Sine Die | To require fishermen to use nonoffset circle hooks under certain methods when fishing for striped bass and blue fish.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To Joint Environment Committee |
| SB00254 | Intro
Sine Die | To allow certain alcoholic liquor permittees to use self-pour automated systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00305 | Intro
Sine Die | To (1) allow the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority to (A) finance the capital projects of out-of-state health care institutions, and (B) make loans and transfer funds to its subsidiaries, and (2) allow the Connecticut Higher Edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00252 | Intro
Sine Die | To require telemarketers to inform consumers they may request their telephone numbers to be placed on the do not call list.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00138 | Intro
Sine Die | To promote competition in the prescription drug market by allowing developers of generic drugs and biosimilar products to obtain reference samples.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00187 | Intro
Sine Die | To require the Department of Housing to conduct a study of methods to increase options for apprentices and other newly hired employees to reside in the municipality where they are employed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00125 | Intro
Sine Die | To make minor and technical changes to streamline the Department of Consumer Protection's licensing and enforcement statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00411 | Intro
Sine Die | To compensate commercial fishermen for lost revenues associated with the effects of certain offshore wind energy projects and require disclosure of the contract and associated documents for such project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To Joint Environment Committee |
| SB00220 | Intro
Sine Die | To exclude all veterans' pension benefits from income when determining eligibility for public assistance programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00019 | Intro
Sine Die | To (1) establish a Council on Sexual Misconduct Climate Survey to create a sexual misconduct climate survey for use by institutions of higher education in the state, and (2) protect students who report being a victim or witness of sexual assault, sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00188 | Intro
Sine Die | To establish a pilot program to provide rental assistance certificates to assist families who have children with persistent asthma to move to healthier environments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00182 | Intro
Sine Die | To protect consumers by effectively regulating new home construction contractors and home improvement contractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00137 | Intro
Sine Die | To expand the data privacy breach notification statute to protect consumers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00304 | Intro
Sine Die | To allow the Commissioner of Transportation to contract with institutions of higher education to provide transportation services to students at such institutions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00201 | Intro
Sine Die | To establish a task force to study health insurance and health care inequity in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00205 | Intro
Sine Die | To prohibit insurance companies that issue travel insurance policies in this state from excluding coverage because the insured or the insured's spouse, child, dependent relative who resides in the insured's household or traveling companion commits su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00208 | Intro
Sine Die | To: (1) Restrict the manner in which certain insurers may use, and obtain the results of, genetic testing; and (2) provide that certain uses of genetic testing shall constitute a violation of the Connecticut Unfair Insurance Practices Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00343 | Intro
Sine Die | To: (1) Require each financial planner doing business in this state to disclose to a consumer in this state, upon request, whether or not such financial planner has a fiduciary duty to such consumer for each recommendation that such financial planner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00323 | Intro
Sine Die | To: (1) Expand the definition of "surprise bill" to include emergency health care services and nonemergency health care services; and (2) prohibit health carriers from charging out-of-network cost sharing for certain health care services provided by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00328 | Intro
Sine Die | To: (1) Require the Office of Health Strategy to establish and implement health care cost growth benchmarks in this state; (2) require the Commissioner of Consumer Protection to submit a request to the federal Secretary of Health and Human Services t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00171 | Intro
Sine Die | To make technical revisions to the education and early childhood statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00327 | Intro
Sine Die | To require health insurance coverage for elective fertility preservation treatments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00333 | Intro
Sine Die | To require certain health insurers, preferred provider networks and other entities to include certain provisions in contracts with health care providers regarding reimbursement for certain covered health benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00348 | Intro
Sine Die | To establish a task force to study the state workforce and retiring employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00350 | Intro
Sine Die | To codify prevailing wage contract rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00231 | Intro
Sine Die | To extend workers' compensation benefits for certain mental or emotional impairments to emergency medical services personnel, Department of Correction employees and dispatchers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable Substitute |
| SB00347 | Intro
Sine Die | To establish state medical loss ratios for individual health insurance policies and group health insurance policies for small employers that will become effective if the federal medical loss ratios for such policies are repealed or rendered ineffecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00200 | Intro
Sine Die | To authorize the Insurance Commissioner to adopt regulations establishing continuing education requirements for public adjusters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00319 | Intro
Sine Die | To require the Insurance Commissioner to study reimbursement parity for podiatrists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable Substitute |
| SB00338 | Intro
Sine Die | To adopt the Insurance Department's recommendations regarding credit for reinsurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00340 | Intro
Sine Die | To restrict (1) the amount that a hospital or collection agent may recover from an uninsured or underinsured patient for the unpaid cost of health care, and (2) the manner in which a hospital or collection agent may secure or recover payment for such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00342 | Intro
Sine Die | To require the Insurance Commissioner to promote the development of, and employment opportunities in, the insurance industry in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00339 | Intro
Sine Die | To: (1) Amend certain captive insurance company definitions; (2) provide tax amnesty to an insured that establishes a branch captive insurance company in, or transfers domicile of its alien captive insurance company or foreign captive insurance compa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00329 | Intro
Sine Die | To: (1) Require the Insurance Commissioner to develop and disseminate a minimum set of affordable benefit options for individual and group long-term care policies; (2) provide that no insurance company, fraternal benefit society, hospital service cor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00207 | Intro
Sine Die | To (1) restrict how frequently the Insurance Commissioner may examine a surety bail bond agent's books and records, (2) automatically cancel a surety bail bond agent's license if the agent does not pay an annual examination fee, (3) reschedule an ann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00326 | Intro
Sine Die | To require health insurance coverage for medically necessary coronary calcium scan tests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00174 | Intro
Sine Die | To require the Department of Education to study education issues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00335 | Intro
Sine Die | To: (1) Redefine "clinical peer" for the purposes of adverse determination and utilization reviews; and (2) require health carriers to provide certain clinical peers with the authority to reverse initial adverse determinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00369 | Intro
Sine Die | To allow children, stepchildren and other dependent children to retain dental and vision insurance coverage under their parents' insurance policies until they attain the age of twenty-six or obtain substitute coverage through an employer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00173 | Intro
Sine Die | To require the Department of Education to develop a framework for evaluating the effectiveness of school district programs and policies that are intended to address disparities in academic achievement among racial and socio-economic lines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00088 | Intro
Sine Die | To require restaurants to include certain beverages on children's menus and in children's meals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable Substitute |
| SB00352 | Intro
Sine Die | To prohibit municipal or special taxing district pension systems from diminishing or eliminating certain retiree's rights and benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00334 | Intro
Sine Die | To require the Insurance Commissioner to study methods of enhancing data privacy for business associates and covered entities under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00321 | Intro
Sine Die | To require that health carriers bear the burden of proving that certain health care services under adverse determination or utilization review are not medically necessary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00341 | Intro
Sine Die | To: (1) Require health care professionals to notify covered persons and their authorized representatives of their right to submit additional information for consideration as part of a utilization review; and (2) provide covered persons, authorized re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00210 | Intro
Sine Die | To (1) specify the manner in which certain insurers must cancel certain homeowners insurance policies, (2) require the Insurance Commissioner to disapprove certain credit life insurance and credit accident and health insurance forms if the loss ratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00225 | Intro
Sine Die | To ensure per diem compensation equity for State Board of Mediation and Arbitration arbitrators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00199 | Intro
Sine Die | To require health insurance coverage for specialized formulas for individuals twelve years of age and older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00351 | Intro
Sine Die | To make minor and technical changes to the Workers' Compensation Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
