Connecticut Senator Herron Gaston [D]

Filter View [Reset All]
Syndicate content
StanceStateBillStatusSummary/TitleLast Actionsort icon
CTSB00007PassTo promote a more equitable and transparent energy market that works in the best interest of Connecticut's consumers of energy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-29
Signed by the Governor
CTHB05003PassTo make revisions to how public education is funded in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-29
Signed by the Governor
CTHB06877PassTo allow a single police officer to apply for an application for a risk protection order if such order does not include a search and seizure warrant, and add temporary commitments under physicians' emergency certifications to any registry of admissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-29
Signed by the Governor
CTSB00001PassTo provide equal and comprehensive access to education and academic opportunities for all children in Connecticut.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-28
Signed by the Governor
CTSB00009PassTo equalize access to physical, mental and behavioral health care in the state and to strengthen the state's response to the fentanyl and opioid epidemic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-28
Signed by the Governor
CTSB00497PassTo eliminate the property tax on motor vehicles and replace resulting lost municipal revenue through the imposition of a tax on insurers on total direct net premiums from certain insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-28
Signed by the Governor
CTSB00977PassTo expand medical assistance for treatment of obesity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-28
Signed by the Governor
CTSB00969PassTo permit a registered sex offender to respond to an address verification request by facsimile or electronic mail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-28
Signed by the Governor
CTSB00228PassTo protect employees' health by ensuring employees have access to health care coverage after losing coverage due to a labor dispute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-28
Signed by the Governor
CTSB00989PassTo (1) require air conditioning in each room at a nursing home, (2) require notification of the State Ombudsman when a nursing home plans to involuntarily transfer or discharge a patient, (3) establish a grant program for transportation of nonambulat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-28
Signed by the Governor
CTHB06875PassTo ensure that a person being discharged from a correctional facility has the ability to obtain a state identification card or a motor vehicle operator's license at the time of discharge from such facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-28
Signed by the Governor
CTSB00005PassTo provide greater protections for and enhanced responses to individuals involved in domestic and intimate partner violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-27
Signed by the Governor
CTHB05001PassTo (1) evaluate and implement best practices for expanding employment and transportation opportunities for persons with an intellectual or developmental disability, (2) ameliorate waiting lists for Medicaid waiver program services for such persons, (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-27
Signed by the Governor
CTSB01162PassTo require law enforcement units to hold community roundtables and establish a pilot program to fund community policing programs in certain municipalities, to reduce gun violence and improve relationships between law enforcement units and the communi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-27
Signed by the Governor
CTHB06888PassTo implement various juvenile justice policy changes, including (1) expansion of the community-based diversion system, (2) expansion of the use of automatic prearrest diversion of children, (3) expansion of the membership of the Juvenile Justice Poli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-27
Signed by the Governor
CTSB00002PassTo improve access to mental, physical and emotional health services for children and provide a continuum of care in the delivery of such services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-26
Signed by the Governor
CTSB00003PassTo (1) Establish standards concerning the provision of access to, and sharing of, consumer health data; (2) prohibit geofencing of certain health data; (3) establish additional requirements concerning minors' personal data and social media platform a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-26
Signed by the Governor
CTHB06354PassTo establish a green jobs corps program to outline a talent development strategy, help communities respond to climate change and reduce carbon emissions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-26
Signed by the Governor
CTSB00971PassTo make revisions to statutes concerning gaming, including (1) establishing a live game employee license and revising certain licensing requirements, (2) requiring a person using a credit or debit card to fund an online gaming account to only use a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-26
Signed by the Governor
CTSB00972PassTo require police officer training on strategies including crisis intervention, and to develop recommendations on how police officers and social workers may collaborate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-26
Signed by the Governor
CTSB00968PassTo require an applicant for renewal of a security officer license to submit to a state and national criminal history records check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-26
Signed by the Governor
CTSB01022PassTo require police officers to inform drivers of the reason for a traffic stop and encourage additional police officer training on de-escalation, use of force, customer service, diversity and bias.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-26
Signed by the Governor
CTSB01118PassTo establish the Domestic Violence Criminal Justice Response and Enhancement Advisory Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-26
Signed by the Governor
CTHB06569PassTo require that a person be not less than eighteen years of age to be eligible to marry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-23
Signed by the Governor
CTHB06667PassTo implement the Governor's budget recommendations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-14
Transmitted to the Secretary of State
CTHB05004PassTo (1) establish early voting beginning in 2023 for certain elections and beginning in 2024 for certain primaries, special elections and referenda, (2) establish the number of days and hours of, and implement procedures for the conduct of, such early...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-07
Signed by the Governor
CTSB00973PassTo allow access to juvenile delinquency records to evaluate a proposed transfer of a firearm to a person under the age of twenty-one pursuant to federal law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-07
Signed by the Governor
CTSB01165PassTo require financial literacy instruction in high school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-07
Signed by the Governor
CTSB01196PassTo require (1) notification to a crime victim when the person who committed the crime involving the victim is transferred to a lower level correctional facility, and (2) a correctional officer to document such officer's probable cause belief that a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-07
Signed by the Governor
CTSB01117PassTo (1) include victims of sexual assault and trafficking as protected persons under the state's employment discrimination provisions, (2) revise the definition of stalking as relates to an application for a civil protection order, (3) prohibit a hote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-07
Signed by the Governor
CTSB00957Intro
25%
To establish an Office of Oversight of Health Care in Correctional Institutions within the Department of Public Health to ensure oversight of the delivery of health care services to inmates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-02
Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
CTHB06397Engross
50%
To create policies and accountability for reaching the state's carbon-reduction goals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-06-02
Senate Calendar Number 597
CTSB00008Engross
50%
To (1) extend the debt-free community college program to returning students, (2) increase the amount of minimum grants under the debt-free community college program, (3) reallocate ARPA funds under the Roberta B. Willis Scholarship program to the Con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-05-26
House Calendar Number 597
CTSB00961Engross
50%
To require the use of project labor agreements when certain solar and energy efficiency projects are required of school districts and to require certain measures by the Department of Public Health concerning air quality and drinking water in school s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-05-26
House Calendar Number 603
CTSB01226Engross
50%
To afford mechanisms for the challenge of certain election administration laws, practices or procedures that may impair the electoral rights of certain protected classes of individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-05-26
House Calendar Number 613
CTSB00006Engross
50%
To: (1) Establish a utilization review exemption standard for certain participating providers; (2) require that each health carrier process utilization review requests more efficiently; (3) require that each health carrier develop an electronic prior...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-05-19
House Calendar Number 546
CTSB01013Engross
50%
To require the Commissioner of Housing to conduct a study concerning funding for common interest ownership community reserves.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-05-18
House Calendar Number 539
CTHB06841Intro
25%
To enhance recruitment and retention of firefighters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-05-16
File Number 783
CTSB00004Intro
25%
To promote fair and equitable housing opportunities in every community in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-05-09
Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
CTSB00938Intro
25%
To allow striking employees to collect unemployment benefits after a period of two consecutive weeks striking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-05-09
Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
CTSB00010Intro
25%
To promote transparency in health care and prescription drug costs, expand access to affordable prescription drugs, integrate community health workers and social workers into delivery of health care and home and community-based services, expand the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-05-08
File Number 735
CTSB00978Intro
25%
To require the Commissioner of Social Services to (1) amend a federal Medicaid waiver program to expand health care coverage to persons whose earnings do not exceed two hundred per cent of the federal poverty level, and (2) develop a second tier of s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-05-04
File Number 698
CTHB06663Intro
25%
To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-05-04
File Number 711
CTHB06616Intro
25%
To expand medical assistance to otherwise eligible persons regardless of immigration status.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-05-03
File Number 687
CTHB05033Intro
25%
To increase prison wages and benefits so that incarcerated individuals can fund their potential reentry into the community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-05-02
Tabled for the Calendar, House
CTHB06863Intro
25%
To enhance recruitment and retention of police officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-04-25
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTHB06889Intro
25%
To: (1) Require a case of a child accused of certain offenses to be adjudicated in the court in the geographical area in which the offense is alleged to have occurred, (2) require mandatory fingerprinting of a child arrested for certain offenses, (3)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-04-25
To Joint Appropriations Committee
CTHB06666Intro
25%
To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-04-20
Tabled for the Calendar, House
CTSB00985Intro
25%
To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-04-11
File Number 496
CTHB06273Intro
25%
To decrease the gender wage gap by requiring employers to disclose salary ranges on public and internal job postings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-04-11
File Number 482
Syndicate content
feedback