2003 Regular and Special Sessions/Bill Tracking Report

OLR Research Report

Office of Legislative Research

2003-R-0937

December 15, 2003

2003 REGULAR AND SPECIAL SESSIONS BILL TRACKING REPORT

This report lists the bills considered during the General Assembly’s 2003 regular session whose provisions were enacted under another bill number. The provisions of many bills that die in committee or on the calendar in fact become law after (1) the original committee incorporates them in another bill that receives a favorable report, (2) a member offers the concept as an amendment that is adopted and incorporated in another bill, or (3) they are incorporated in an emergency certified bill in a special session. This report includes bills that may have changed in the final enactment from the language of the original committee bill or file, but represent the legislature’s final action on the matter taken in the regular or special sessions. The report includes acts passed by the legislature but vetoed by the governor.

During the 2003 regular and special sessions, the content or concept of 113 bills started as separate legislation but were later incorporated in other bills that passed. Table 1 lists the bills that died in bill number order and shows the public act that included the original bill’s provision. Table 2 lists the bills by the committee to which they were first referred.

Table 1: Bill Tracking by Original Bill Number

*Originated As Bill #*	*Enacted As PA #*	*Title or Brief Explanation of Concept*
15	03-6, JSS §§ 160-161	Combines Board of Pardons and Board of Parole in the Department of Correction
	03-223	Campaign finance reports on joint fund-raising events and distribution of proceeds
90	03-223	Applies campaign finance laws to candidates for delegates to convention for US senator and representative in Congress
91	03-241	Deletes certain requirements for nominating petition circulators
101	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
155	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
274	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
335	03-128	Allows someone, including e-mail service providers, to sue for damages when someone violates the law against Spam
402	03-272	“Whistleblower” protection for health care workers; requires a health care facility that discriminates or retaliates to reimburse for lost wages, benefits, legal costs
409	03-3, JSS § 91	Assisted living pilot for Department of Mental Retardation (DMR) waiting list clients
411	03-240	Alternative licensure for certain radiographers and acupuncturists
435	03-265	Childhood Cancer Awareness License Plate
500	03-241	Requires disclosure of municipal contracts held by campaign contributors to candidates for office of chief elected officer of a municipality
593	03-265	Wildlife Conservation License Plate
705	03-265	Requires attachment of appraiser’s damage report to certain salvage title documents of totaled vehicles
731	03-3, JSS §§ 11, 92	Requires all nursing homes to install fire sprinklers
755	03-3, JSS §§ 31-32	Extends the Municipal Employees Health Insurance Program (MEHIP) to personal care assistants
812	03-264	Modifies the circumstances under which towns can participate in the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) program barring people from registering or re-registering their vehicles if it has unpaid parking tickets issue by that town
818	03-115	Requires orange triangle warning sign on rear of any vehicle used for landscaping purposes with a caged trailer
849	03-6, JSS § 77	For Urban Remediation Tax Credits Program, requires tax credit applicants to pay for all costs Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) commissioner incurs to assess the remediation project’s feasibility and estimate the tax revenue it will generate
867	03-3, JSS §§ 13-17	Alternative incarceration for people with psychological disabilities (Connecticut Valley Hospital restoration beds)
868	03-242	Expands DNA data bank and establishes oversight panel
876	03-115	Modifies compliance requirements for 53-foot semitrailers
892	03-2, Sept. 8 SS	2003 school construction project authorizations
893 § 2	03-6, JSS § 15	School readiness staff qualifications – implementation delay
902	03-267	Criminalizes abuse of elderly, blind, disabled, and mentally retarded
904	03-97	Authorizes police officers exonerated of criminal charges to file suit to enforce their employer’s obligation to indemnify them for their losses
923	03-265	Allows municipality to waive hearing requirement for location approval of dealer or repairer business under certain circumstances
927	03-171	Increases length of safe driving practices course required for 16- and 17-year-olds
930	03-265	Motor vehicle provisions: Salvage title certificate, eliminates extra DMV personal information fee, changes who may take vehicles or parts with mutilated or altered vehicle id numbers, expands definition of passenger motor vehicle, municipal waiver of dealer and repairer hearings, new cancer awareness and wildlife conservation plates, and flashing light study
932	03-265	Clarifies who may get personal information from DMV license and registration files for an investigation in anticipation of litigation
995	03-3, JSS §§ 31-32	Extends MEHIP to personal care assistants
1004	03-6, JSS §§ 33-39	Allows certain towns to redevelop their state-owned moderate-income rental housing projects
1037 § 6	03-1, JSS § 86	Insurance premium tax credit limit
1037 § 7	03-1, JSS § 89	Restores eligibility for R&D corporation tax credits for capital base companies
1037 § 8	03-1, JSS § 94	Succession tax phase-out delay
1037 § 9	03-1, JSS §§ 66, 68	Repeals sales tax on hospital patient care services
1037 § 9	03-1, JSS §§ 95-96	Freezes sales & use tax on computer and data processing services at 1%
1037 § 12	03-1, JSS § 99	Delays phase-out of tax on gifts under $ 1 million
1037 §§14-15	03-1, JSS §§ 101, 114, 115	Changes in scheduled income tax reductions for single filers
1037 § 16	03-1, JSS § 101	Reduces maximum property tax credit against personal income tax
1037 §§ 18-19	03-1, JSS §§ 87-88	Corporation tax surcharge for 2004
1037 § 25	03-1, JSS § 46-47	Transfers tobacco settlement payments to General Fund
1037 §§ 26-27, 29-30	03-1, JSS §§ 85, 107-112, 114	Eliminates tourism account; changes tourism funding provisions
1037 § 28	03-1, JSS § 118	Revenue transfers to Conservation Fund
1037 § 33	03-1, JSS § 117	Increases certain DMV fees
1037 § 35	03-6, JSS § 59	Reduces municipal reimbursement grants for veterans’ property tax exemption
1037 § 42	03-6, JSS §§ 41-42	Suspends mandatory property tax exemption for the disabled and state reimbursements to municipalities for lost revenue
1037 § 44	03-6, JSS § 53	Restricts type of manufacturing machinery and equipment eligible for property tax exemption
1037 § 45	03-6, JSS §§ 183- 184	Allows proportional reductions in grants to municipalities for certain lost property tax revenues if appropriations not enough to distribute full amount
1055	03-158	Allows physician assistants to join with physician to form a professional service corporation
1091	03-271	Unlawful delivery of cigarettes bought out-of-state or over the Internet
1138	03-1, JSS § 105	Requires remote (out-of-state) sellers who are state vendors to collect use tax on sales to Connecticut customers
1160 § 2	03-1, JSS § 101	Reduces maximum property tax credit against personal income tax
1160 §§ 3,5	03-1, JSS §§ 95-96	Freezes sales & use tax on computer and data processing services at 1%
1160 §§ 6-8	03-1, JSS §§ 87-88	Corporation tax surcharge for 2004
1160 § 9	03-1, JSS § 86	Insurance premium tax credit limit
1160 § 10	03-1, JSS § 94	Succession tax phase-out delay
1160 §§ 11-13	03-1, JSS § 59	Changes estate tax relationship to federal estate tax
1160 §§ 14-15	03-1, JSS §§ 92-93	Gross earnings tax on satellite t. v. service
1160 § 16	03-1, JSS § 99	Delays phase-out of tax on gifts under $ 1 million
1160 § 17	03-1, JSS § 46-47	Transfers tobacco settlement payments to General Fund
1160 § 18	03-1, JSS § 142	Eliminates sales-tax-free week
1162	03-6, JSS §§ 22-25	ECS grants
5010	03-167	Requires the owners in private-sector construction contracts to set-up escrow accounts for any retainage they may hold
5093	03-3, JSS § 61	Potentially increases personal needs allowance for the State Supplement program if needed to meet federal maintenance of effort standards
5149	03-192	Requires the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) commissioner to issue private land deer permits for use on farms that are limited liability corporations
5159	03-241	Campaign finance procedures concerning debit card payment
5160	03-241	Extends the prohibition on using public funds featuring a candidate to cover ads in movie theaters, billboards, and bus posters
5161	03-223	Creates grace period for candidates to file candidate committee registration forms
5162	03-241	Permits extension of political committees formed for a referendum
5163	03-241	Campaign expenditures by candidates for governor and lieutenant governor
5164	03-241	Gives State Elections Enforcement Commission (SEEC) authority to suspend activities of party or political committees that intentionally violate campaign finance laws
5166	03-223	Eliminates a January campaign finance report for candidates running in a November election
5167	03-241	Prohibits municipal department heads from soliciting campaign contributions for candidates, political committees (PACs), or political parties
5168	03-223	Clarifies filing exemption for campaign finance reports by candidates who receive or spend no funds
5179	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
5186	03-174	Makes teachers with durational shortage area permits members of teacher collective bargaining units
5272	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
5510	03-130	Alimony and child support: pre-judgment and post-judgment remedies
5701	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
5706	03-115	Requires notification of area legislators of excess Department of Transportation (DOT) property to be offered for sale
5714	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
5725	03-257	Pilot probate court Youth in Crisis (YIC) program in Middletown. Police protocols and mandated responses to YIC reports; modifying court-ordered driving restriction on YICs.
5739	03-6, JSS § 19	Criminal history records checks for supplemental service providers under the No Child Left Behind Act
5817	03-223	Eliminates requirement to report name of chief executive official (CEO) of a business that purchases ad space in a political fund-raising event program
5819	03-204 (VETOED)	Election Day registration
5826	03-227	Establishes a pilot program for reforming the absentee voting process
5835	03-79	Establishes June 19 as Juneteenth Independence Day
5858	03-6, JSS §§ 210-239, 241	Consolidates state’s arts, film, historic, and tourism commissions and offices into the Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film and consolidates tourism districts
5909	03-6, JSS §§ 70-71	Siting approval for motor vehicle dealers, repairers, and recyclers
5917	03-264	Makes technical changes to the parking authority statutes that were needed to conform them to the authorization allowing Hartford to have its parking authority enforce parking violations
5977	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
5995	03-257	Requires police to notify parents of YIC whereabouts; require police to develop protocols for responding to YIC reports.
6095	03-139	Off-site storage of original documents by municipalities
6116	03-3, JSS § 81	Permits Department of Social Services (DSS) commissioner to allow mortgage refinancing fees to be included in room and board costs for rate calculations for private DMR group homes
6129	03-114	Restricts access to Class III gaming facilities for people under age 21
6144	03-130	Court fee waivers: actions to restore birth or former name after divorce
6208	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
6230	03-257	Pilot probate court program in Middletown for YIC
6254	03-6, JSS § 140	On-site wastewater management districts and alternative subsurface treatment systems
6324	03-258	Establishes John H. Martinez Fatherhood initiative
6351	03-157 (VETOED)	Maximization of federal funds
6359	03-240	Alternative licensure for certain hairdressers and cosmeticians
6371	03-204 (VETOED)	Election Day registration
6405	03-115	Technical changes to transportation laws recommended by Legislative Commissioners’ Office
6406	03-115	Authorizes variable message outdoor advertising signs and increase permit fees
6408	03-115	Bridge overhead clearance waiver for Pearl Street Bridge in Middletown
6410	03-115	Establishes fine for injuring, destroying, removing, or disturbing survey markers and monuments
6411	03-115	Repeals obsolete law regarding motor carrier regulatory hearings
6413	03-115	Increases fees for DOT permits for outdoor advertising signs (billboards)
6421	03-250	Exempts motor vehicle rental companies from liability for personal or property damage if certain conditions are met
6425	03-6, JSS §§ 20-21	Delays increase in state share of costs for high-cost special education placements
6438	03-6, JSS § 52	Adds financing of affordable housing to the list of activities that, by law, make certain businesses eligible to enter a contract for state financial assistance
6445	03-119	Disclosure of health benefit information to exclusive agent of subgroup within multi-group bargaining unit
6460	03-109	Interstate child support cases: notification of creditors authorized
6469	03-6, JSS §§ 2-8	Special education and homeless children education federal conformity provisions
6481	03-168	Gives students at schools in need of improvement preference for participation in Open Choice Program
6503	03-220	Indoor air quality in schools
6548 §§ 4-5	03-3, JSS §§ 4-5	Newborn screening account
6548 § 100	03-6, JSS § 69	UConn stadium operations and Stadium Facility Fund accounts and sub accounts
6548 § 102	03-6, JSS § 173	Reduces minimum frequency of studies of effect of legalized gambling
6548 §§ 103-104	03-6, JSS §§ 179-180	Changes in greyhound urine testing program
6548 § 105	03-3, JSS §§ 34-41	Reduces frequency of taxi inspections
6548 §§ 106, 111	03-1, JSS § 102 03-6, JSS § 58	DMV action on delinquent motor vehicle property tax payments
6548 §§ 107-108	03-3, JSS §§ 34-41	DMV vision screening requirement
6548 § 109	03-3, JSS §§ 34-41	Reduces frequency of service bus inspections
6548 §§ 110-113	03-3, JSS § 34-41	Eliminates requirement for presence of DMV inspector at auto races and associated fee
6548 § 114	03-6, JSS § 174	Delays requirement for minimum number of state troopers
6548 §§ 115-122	03-6, JSS §§ 189-195	Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities legal counsel and referees
6548 §§ 156-158	03-6, JSS §§ 146-148	Merges Department of Agriculture & Department of Consumer Protection
6548 §§ 163-169	03-6, JSS §§ 210-239, 241	Merges Arts Commission; Historical Commission; Film, Video and Media Office; and Office of Tourism; establishes new commission and prescribe duties; changes in tourism districts
6548 §§ 214-215	03-6, JSS §§ 160-161	Puts Board of Pardons and Board of Parole into Department of Correction
6548 §§ 254-255	03-6, JSS §§ 200-01	Eliminates state health coverage for graduate assistants at UConn and CSU
6548 § 275	03-6, JSS §§ 20-21	Delays increase in state share of catastrophic special education grant for two years
6548 §§ 276-277	03-6, JSS §§ 22-25	ECS grants
6548 § 280	03-6, JSS § 14	Charter school grants
6548 §§ 281-284, 286	03-6, JSS §§ 9-13, 203	Proportional grant reductions in (1) school transportation grants, (2) adult education grants, (3) RESC operating and lease grants, and (4) grants for health services of student attending private, nonprofit schools
6548 §§ 297-299	03-6, JSS §§ 108-139	DEP fee increases
6548 § 309	03-6, JSS § 145	Underground Storage Tank Account
6548 §§ 310-312	03-3, JSS §§ 1-3	Payments to local health departments
6548 § 315	03-3, JSS §§ 7-9	Birth-to-Three Program
6548 § 316	03-3, JSS § 59	Gives the state a claim on estates of deceased ConnPACE recipients, makes annuity sums due to beneficiaries after a public assistance recipient dies subject to estate recovery
6548 § 317	03-3, JSS § 53	Allows DSS to modify state medical assistance fee schedule for durable medical equipment and other devices
6548 § 318	03-3, JSS § 63	Requires diversion of income from institutionalized spouse on Medicaid to community spouse to bring him or her up to federal minimum monthly needs allowance before community spouse can be allowed to keep excess assets
6548 § 321	03-3, JSS § 83	Limits classes of drugs on preferred drug list that DSS must develop for FY 2003-04
6548 § 322	03-3, JSS § 62	Makes a number of changes in Medicaid long-term care transfer of assets rules in anticipation of federal approval of Connecticut’s Medicaid waiver request
6548 § 323	03-3, JSS §§ 54	Reduces certain DSS grants to towns for special education from 60% to 50% of the federal portion of Medicaid claims the state processes for Medicaid-eligible special education students
6548 § 325	03-3, JSS §§ 55-57	Increase in HUSKY B cost sharing
6548 § 328	03-3, JSS § 60	Temporary Family Assistance payments freeze continued
6548 §§ 330-331	03-3, JSS §§ 56-57	Eliminates presumptive eligibility for HUSKY A children.
6548 § 333	03-3, JSS § 52	Reduces pharmacies’ per-prescription dispensing fee for state medical assistance programs
6548 § 335	03-3, JSS § 58	Imposes ConnPACE asset test
6548 § 348	03-3, JSS §§ 42 & 97	Eliminates state reimbursement for Norwich GA program
6562	03-6, JSS §§ 156-157	Prison overcrowding, sending inmates out-of-state
6579	03-3, JSS §§ 11, 92	Requires all nursing homes to install fire sprinklers
6592	03-6, JSS §§ 83-103	Implements requirements of the federal “Help America Vote Act”
6616	03-204 (VETOED)	Designates registrars of voters (RV) as administrator of elections and modifies their duties
6620	03-6, JSS § 101	Adds to the form voters must sign when they appear at a polling place without identification
6628	03-269	Allows applicants who miss filing deadlines for certain state-mandated property tax exemptions to apply to municipality rather than General Assembly for a deadline waiver
6629	03-1, JSS § 89	Restores eligibility for R&D corporation tax credits for capital base companies
6641	03-4, JSS § 10	Requires future OPM State Plan of Conservation and Development revisions to take into account economic and community development needs, commerce patterns and links between affordable housing objectives, land use objectives, and transportation systems
6654	03-6, JSS § 104	Adds water company facility information to the security exemption in the Freedom of Information Act
6663	03-168	AAC Teacher Certification
6666	03-1, JSS §§ 66, 68	Repeals sales tax on hospital patient care services
6669	03-1, JSS § 105	Requires remote (out-of-state) sellers who are state vendors to collect use tax on sales to Connecticut customers
6671	03-4, JSS	Transportation Strategy Board recommendations
6687	03-6, JSS §§ 156-157	Prison overcrowding, sending inmates out-of-state
6689	03-211	Medical care for students and administration of medication in schools
6690	03-6, JSS § 14	Increase per-student charter school grants
6692	03-6, JSS §§ 156-157	Prison overcrowding, sending inmates out-of-state
6700	03-242	Preservation of DNA evidence, post-conviction DNA testing, advisory committee to review wrongful convictions

Table 2: Bill Tracking by Committee


*Originated As Bill #*	*Enacted As PA #*	*Title or Brief Explanation of Concept*
Aging
731	03-3, JSS §§ 11, 92	Requires all nursing homes to install fire sprinklers
995	03-3, JSS §§ 31-32	Allows the state comptroller to provide members of a personal care assistants association with health insurance through MEHIP
Appropriations
6548 §§ 4-5	03-3, JSS §§ 4-5	Newborn screening account
6548 § 100	03-6, JSS § 69	UConn stadium operations and Stadium Facility Fund accounts and sub accounts
6548 § 102	03-6, JSS § 173	Reduces minimum frequency of studies of effect of legalized gambling
6548 §§ 103-104	03-6, JSS §§ 179-180	Changes in greyhound urine testing program
6548 § 105	03-3, JSS §§ 34-41	Reduces frequency of taxi inspections
6548 §§ 106, 111	03-1, JSS § 102; 03-6, JSS § 58	DMV action on delinquent motor vehicle property tax payments
6548 §§ 107-108	03-3, JSS §§ 34-41	DMV vision screening requirement
6548 § 109	03-3, JSS §§ 34-41	Reduces frequency of service bus inspections
6548 §§ 110-113	03-3, JSS §§ 34-41	Eliminates requirement for presence of DMV inspector at auto races and associated fee
6548 § 114	03-6, JSS § 174	Delays requirement for minimum number of state troopers
6548 §§ 115-122	03-6, JSS §§ 189-195	Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities legal counsel and referees
6548 §§ 156-158	03-6, JSS §§ 146-148	Merges Department of Agriculture & Department of Consumer Protection
6548 §§ 163-169	03-6, JSS §§ 210-239, 241	Merges Arts Commission; Historical Commission; Film, Video and Media Office; and Office of Tourism; establishes new commission and prescribe duties; changes in tourism districts
6548 § 214-215	03-6, JSS §§ 160-161	Puts Board of Pardons and Board of Parole into Department of Correction
6548 § 254-255	03-6, JSS §§ 200-201	Eliminates state health coverage for graduate assistants at UConn and CSU
6548 § 275	03-6, JSS §§ 20-21	Delays increase in state share of catastrophic special education grant for two years
6548 §§ 276-277	03-6, JSS §§ 22-25	ECS grants
6548 § 280	03-6, JSS § 14	Charter school grants
6548 §§ 281-284, 286	03-6, JSS §§ 9-13, 203	Proportional grant reductions in (1) school transportation grants, (2) adult education grants, (3) RESC operating and lease grants, and (4) grants for health services of student attending private, nonprofit schools
6548 §§ 297-299	03-6, JSS §§ 108-139	DEP fee increases
6548 § 309	03-6, JSS § 145	Underground Storage Tank Account
6548 §§ 310-312	03-3, JSS §§ 1-3	Payments to local health departments
6548 § 315	03-3, JSS §§ 7-9	Birth-to-Three Program
6548 § 316	03-3, JSS § 59	Gives the state a claim on estates of deceased ConnPACE recipients, makes annuity sums due to beneficiaries after a public assistance recipient dies subject to estate recovery
6548 § 317	03-3, JSS § 53	Allows DSS to modify state medical assistance fee schedule for durable medical equipment and other devices
6548 § 318	03-3, JSS § 63	Requires diversion of income from institutionalized spouse on Medicaid to community spouse to bring him or her up to federal minimum monthly needs allowance before community spouse can be allowed to keep excess assets
6548 § 321	03-3, JSS § 83	Limits classes of drugs on preferred drug list that DSS must develop for FY 2003-04
6548 § 322	03-3, JSS § 62	Makes a number of changes in Medicaid long-term care transfer of assets rules in anticipation of federal approval of Connecticut’s Medicaid waiver request
6548 § 323	03-3, JSS §§ 54	Reduces certain DSS grants to towns for special education from 60% to 50% of the federal portion of Medicaid claims the state processes for Medicaid-eligible special education students
6548 § 325	03-3, JSS §§ 55-57	Increase in HUSKY B cost sharing
6548 § 328	03-3, JSS § 60	Temporary Family Assistance payments freeze continued
6548 §§ 330-331	03-3, JSS §§ 56-57	Eliminates presumptive eligibility for HUSKY A children.
6548 § 333	03-3, JSS § 52	Reduces pharmacies’ per-prescription dispensing fee for state medical assistance programs
6548 § 335	03-3, JSS § 58	Imposes ConnPACE asset test
6548 § 348	03-3, JSS §§ 42, 97	Eliminates state reimbursement for Norwich GA program
Banks
6421	03-250	Exempts motor vehicle rental companies from liability for personal or property damage if certain conditions are met
Children
5725	03-257	Pilot probate court Youth in Crisis (YIC) program in Middletown. Police protocols and mandated responses to YIC reports; modifying court-ordered driving restriction on YICs.
5995	03-257	Requires police to notify parents of YIC whereabouts; require police to develop protocols for responding to YIC reports.
6230	03-257	Pilot probate court program in Middletown for YIC
6324	03-258	Establishes John H. Martinez Fatherhood initiative
Commerce
849	03-6, JSS § 77	Requires tax credit applicants to pay for all costs DECD commissioner incurs to assess the remediation project’s feasibility and estimate the tax revenue it will generate
5858	03-6, JSS § 210-239, 241	Consolidates state’s arts, film, historic, and tourism commissions and offices into the Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film and consolidates tourism districts
Education
892	03-2, Sept. 8 SS	2003 school construction project authorizations
893 § 2	03-6, JSS § 15	School readiness staff qualifications – implementation delay
1162	03-6, JSS §§ 22-5	ECS grants
5186	03-174	Makes teachers with durational shortage area permits members of teacher collective bargaining units
5739	03-6, JSS § 19	Criminal history records checks for supplemental service providers under the No Child Left behind Act
6425	03-6, JSS §§ 20-1	Delays increase in state share of costs for high-cost special education placements
6469	03-6, JSS §§ 2-8	Special education and homeless children education federal conformity provisions
6481	03-168	Students at schools in need of improvement have preference for participation in Open Choice Program
6503	03-220	Indoor air quality in schools
6663	03-168	AAC Teacher Certification
6689	03-211	Medical care for students
6690	03-6, JSS § 14	Increase per-student charter school grants
Environment
5149	03-192	Requires DEP commission to issue private land dear permits for use on farms that are limited liability corporations
6254	03-6, JSS § 140	On-site wastewater management districts and alternative subsurface treatment systems
Finance, Revenue and Bonding
1037 § 6	03-1, JSS § 86	Insurance premium tax credit limit
1037 § 7	03-1, JSS § 89	Restores eligibility for R&D corporation tax credits for capital base companies
1037 § 8	03-1, JSS § 94	Succession tax phase-out delay
1037 § 9	03-1, JSS §§ 95-96	Freezes sales & use tax on computer and data processing services at 1%
1037 § 9	03-1, JSS §§ 66, 68	Repeals sales tax on hospital patient care services
1037 § 12	03-1, JSS § 99	Delays phase-out of tax on gifts under $ 1 million
1037 §§ 14-15	03-1, JSS §§ 101, 114-115	Changes in scheduled income tax reductions for single filers
1037 § 16	03-1, JSS § 101	Reduces maximum property tax credit against personal income tax
1037 §§ 18-19	03-1, JSS §§ 87-88	Corporation tax surcharge for 2004
1037 § 25	03-1, JSS § 46-47	Transfers tobacco settlement payments to General Fund
1037 §§ 26-27, 29-30	03-1, JSS §§ 85, 107-112, 114	Eliminates tourism account; change tourism funding provisions
1037 § 28	03-1, JSS § 118	Revenue transfers to Conservation Fund
1037 § 33	03-1, JSS § 117	Increases certain Department of Motor Vehicle fees
1037 § 35	03-6, JSS § 59	Reduces municipal reimbursement grants for veterans’ property tax exemption
1037 § 42	03-6, JSS §§ 41-42	Suspends mandatory property tax exemption for the disabled and state reimbursements to municipalities for lost revenue
1037 § 44	03-6, JSS § 53	Restricts type of manufacturing machinery and equipment eligible for property tax exemption
1037 § 45	03-6, JSS §§ 183-184	Allows proportional reductions in grants to municipalities for certain lost property tax revenues if appropriations not enough to distribute full amount
1138	03-1, JSS § 105	Requires remote (out-of-state) sellers who are state vendors to collect use tax on sales to Connecticut customers
1160 § 2	03-1, JSS § 101	Reduces maximum property tax credit against personal income tax
1160 §§ 3, 5	03-1, JSS §§ 95,96	Freezes sales & use tax on computer and data processing services at 1%
1160 §§ 6-8	03-1, JSS §§ 87-88	Corporation tax surcharge for 2004
1160 § 9	03-1, JSS § 86	Insurance premium tax credit limit
1160 § 10	03-1, JSS § 94	Succession tax phase-out delay
1160 §§ 11-13	03-1, JSS § 59	Estate tax relationship to federal estate tax
1160 §§ 14-15	03-1, JSS §§ 92-93	Gross earnings tax on satellite t. v. service
1160 § 16	03-1, JSS § 99	Delays phase-out of tax on gifts under $ 1 million
1160 § 17	03-1, JSS § 46-47	Transfers tobacco settlement payments to General Fund
1160 § 18	03-1, JSS § 142	Eliminates sales tax free week
6628	03-269	Allows applicants who miss filing deadlines for certain state-mandated property tax exemptions to apply to municipality rather than General Assembly for a deadline waiver
6629	03-1, JSS § 89	Restores eligibility for R&D corporation tax credits for capital base companies
6666	03-1, JSS §§ 66, 68	Repeals sales tax on hospital patient care services
6669	03-1, JSS § 105	Requires remote (out-of-state) sellers who are state vendors to collect use tax on sales to Connecticut customers
General Law
335	03-128	Allows someone, including e-mail service providers, to sue for damages when someone violates the law against Spam
1091	03-271	Unlawful delivery of cigarettes
5010	03-167	Requires the owners in private-sector construction contracts to set-up escrow accounts for any retainage they may hold
Government Administration and Elections
89	03-223	Campaign finance reports on joint fund-raising events and distribution of proceeds
90	03-223	Application of campaign finance laws to candidates for delegates to convention for US senator and representative in Congress
91	03-241	Deletes certain requirements for nominating petition circulators
500	03-241	Requires disclosure of municipal contracts held by campaign contributors to candidates for office of chief elected officer of a municipality
5159	03-241	Campaign finance procedures concerning debit card payment
5160	03-241	Extends the prohibition on using public funds featuring a candidate to cover ads in movie theaters, billboards, and bus posters
5161	03-223	Creates grace period for candidates to file candidate committee registration forms
5162	03-241	Permits extension of political committees formed for a referendum
5163	03-241	Campaign expenditures by candidates for governors and lieutenant governor
5164	03-241	Gives SEEC authority to suspend activities of party or political committees that intentionally violate campaign finance laws
5166	03-223	Eliminates a January campaign finance report for candidates running in a November election
5167	03-241	Prohibits municipal department heads from soliciting campaign contributions for candidates, PACs, or political parties
5168	03-223	Clarifies filing exemption for candidates who receive or spend no funds from filing campaign finance reports
5817	03-223	Eliminates requirement to report name of CEO of a business that purchases ad space in a political fund-raising event program
5819	03-204 (VETOED)	Election Day registration
5826	03-227	Establishes a pilot program for reforming the absentee voting process
5835	03-79	Establishes June 19 as Juneteenth Independence Day
6095	03-139	Off-site storage of original documents by municipalities
6351	03-157 (VETOED)	Maximization of federal funds
6371	03-204 (VETOED)	Election Day registration
6592	03-6, JSS §§ 83-103	Implements requirements of the federal “Help America Vote Act”
6616	03-204 (VETOED)	Designates RVs as administrator of elections and modifies their duties
6620	03-6, JSS § 101	Adds to the form voters must sign when they appear at a polling place without identification
6654	03-6, JSS § 104	Adds water company facility information to the security exemption in the Freedom of Information Act
Housing
1004	03-6, JSS §§ 33-39	Allows certain towns to redevelop their state-owned moderate-income rental housing projects
6438	03-6, JSS § 52	Adds financing of affordable housing to the list of activities that, by law, make certain businesses eligible to enter a contract for state financial assistance
Human Services
5093	03-3, JSS §61	Potentially increases personal needs allowance for the State Supplement program if needed to meet federal maintenance of effort standards
6116	03-3, JSS §81	Permits DSS commissioner to allow mortgage refinancing fees to be included in room and board costs for rate calculations for private DMR group homes
Insurance
6445	03-119	Disclosure of health benefit information to exclusive agent of subgroup within multi-group bargaining unit
Judiciary
15	03-6, JSS §§ 160-161	Combines Board of Pardons and Board of Parole in the Department of Correction
867	03-3, JSS §§ 13-17	Alternative incarceration for people with psychological disabilities (Connecticut Valley Hospital restoration beds)
868	03-242	Expands DNA data bank and establishes oversight panel
902	03-267	Criminalizes abuse of elderly, blind, disabled, and mentally retarded
904	03-97	Authorizes police officers exonerated of criminal charges to file suit to enforce their employer’s obligation to indemnify them for their losses.
1055	03-158	Allows physician assistants to join with physicians to form a professional service corporation
5510	03-130	Alimony and child support: pre-judgment and post-judgment remedies
6129	03-114	Restricts access to Class III gaming facilities for people under age 21
6144	03-130	Court fee waivers: actions to restore birth or former name after divorce
6460	03-109	Interstate child support cases: notification of creditors authorized
6562	03-6, JSS §§ 156-157	Prison overcrowding, sending inmates out-of-state
6687	03-6, JSS §§ 156-157	Prison overcrowding, sending inmates out-of-state
6692	03-6, JSS §§ 156-157	Prison overcrowding, sending inmates out-of-state
6700	03-242	Preservation of DNA evidence, post-conviction DNA testing, advisory committee to review wrongful convictions
Labor
755	03-3, JSS §§ 31-32	Extending MEHIP to personal care assistants
Planning and Development
812	03-264	Modifies the circumstances under which towns can participate in the DMV program barring people from registering or re-registering their vehicles if it has unpaid parking tickets issue by that town
5909	03-6, JSS §§ 70-71	Siting approval for motor vehicle dealers, repairers, and recyclers
5917	03-264	Makes technical changes to the parking authority statutes that were needed to conform them to the authorization allowing Hartford to have its parking authority enforce parking violations
6641	03-4, JSS § 10	Requires future OPM State Plan of Conservation and Development revisions to take into account economic and community development needs, commerce patterns and links between affordable housing objectives, land use objectives, and transportation systems
Public Health
402	03-272	“Whistleblower” protection for health care workers; requires a health care facility that discriminates or retaliates to reimburse for lost wages, benefits, legal costs
409	03-3, JSS § 91	Assisted living pilot for Department of Mental Retardation waiting list clients
411	03-240	Alternative licensure for certain radiographers and acupuncturists
6359	03-240	Alternative licensure for certain hairdressers and cosmeticians
Public Safety
6579	03-3, JSS §§ 11, 92	Requires all nursing homes to install fire sprinklers
Transportation
101	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
155	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
274	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
435	03-265	Childhood Cancer Awareness License Plate
593	03-265	Wildlife Conservation License Plate
705	03-265	Requires attachment of appraiser’s damage report to certain salvage title documents of totaled vehicles
818	03-115	Requires orange triangle warning sign on rear of any vehicle used for landscaping purposes with a cage trailer
876	03-115	Modifies compliance requirements for 53-foot semitrailers
923	03-265	Allows municipality to waive hearing requirement for location approval of dealer or repairer business under certain circumstances
927	03-171	Increases length of safe driving practices course required for 16- and 17-year-olds.
930	03-265	Motor vehicle provisions: Salvage title certificate, eliminates extra DMV personal information fee, changes who may take vehicles or parts with mutilated or altered vehicle id numbers, expands definition of passenger motor vehicle, municipal waiver of dealer and repairer hearings, new cancer awareness and wildlife conservation plates, and flashing light study
932	03-265	Clarifies who may get personal information from DMV license and registration files for an investigation in anticipation of litigation
5179	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
5272	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
5701	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
5706	03-115	Requires notification of area legislators of excess DOT property to be offered for sale
5714	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
5977	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
6208	03-115	Commemorative road or bridge naming
6405	03-115	Technical changes to transportation laws recommended by Legislative Commissioners’ Office
6406	03-115	Authorizes variable message outdoor advertising signs and increase permit fees
6408	03-115	Bridge overhead clearance waiver for Pear Street Bridge in Middletown
6410	03-115	Establishes fine for injuring, destroying, removing, or disturbing survey markers and monuments
6411	03-115	Repeals obsolete law regarding motor carrier regulatory hearings
6413	03-115	Increases fees for DOT permits for outdoor advertising signs (billboards)
6671	03-4, JSS	Recommendations of the Transportation Strategy Board