September 26, 2007 |
2007-R-0576 | |
2007 REGULAR AND JUNE SPECIAL SESSION BILL TRACKING REPORT | ||
| ||
By: Kristin Sullivan, Associate Analyst Ryan F. O'Neil, Research Assistant | ||
This report lists the bills considered during the General Assembly's 2007 regular session and June Special Session (JSS) 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 or (2) a member offers the concept as an amendment that is adopted and incorporated in another bill. This report includes bills that may have changed in the final enactment from the language of the original committee bill or file, but that represent the legislature's final action on the matter taken during one of the sessions referenced above.
During the 2007 regular session and June Special Session, the content or concept of 222 bills started as separate legislation but was later incorporated in other bills that passed. Table 1 lists the original bills in numeric order and shows the public act that included their provisions. 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 Public Act # |
Brief Explanation of Concept |
Requires Medicaid to cover foreign language interpreters | ||
Requires the Department of Social Services (DSS) to seek Medicaid waiver to get Medicaid coverage for the State-Administered General Assistance (SAGA) medical assistance program | ||
Raises income limit for HUSKY A caretaker relatives and pregnant women | ||
Requires DSS to establish a centralized unit to process all HUSKY applications | ||
Requires DSS to develop ways to increase HUSKY outreach | ||
07-185 §§ 15-17 and |
Extends group and individual insurance coverage to children from age 23 to 26 | |
Requires the Healthcare Advocate's Office to create and maintain a website for consumer health care information | ||
Requires employers that deduct health insurance premiums from employee pay to permit employees to pay with pre-tax dollars | ||
Creates panel to evaluate alternatives for providing quality, affordable, and sustainable health care for all state residents | ||
Requires separate entrances for new school-based health centers located in a school building | ||
§ Increases HUSKY A adult caretaker coverage income limit § Requires Medicaid providers to get rate increases § Enhances HUSKY outreach § Requires DSS to seek a waiver to make the SAGA medical assistance program a Medicaid-funded program § Requires Medicaid coverage for foreign language interpreters | ||
07-185, as amended by 07-2, JSS § 9 |
Increases HUSKY A income limit for pregnant women | |
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to register with the Insurance Department | ||
67, 70 §§ 8 and 9, 817, 6055, and 6652 § 27 |
Increases to 26 the age up to which children are eligible for coverage under their parent's health insurance policy | |
Allows the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to withhold from public disclosure the residential addresses of certain public officials and employees, including probation officers | ||
Decreases to 60 the age older drivers who complete an accident prevention course are eligible for an automobile insurance premium discount | ||
Authorizes the issuance of bonds to fund the Teachers' Retirement System | ||
Requires the Department of Revenue Services (DRS) commissioner, in consultation with the Office of Policy and Management (OPM) secretary, to study the estate tax | ||
Prohibits insurers from canceling health coverage based on a person's insurance application without the insurance commissioner's approval | ||
Imposes same passenger restrictions on 16- and 17-year-olds holding learners' permits as apply during the first six months of licensure | ||
Requires the Office of Legislative Research to study a state earned income tax credit | ||
Increases fine and driving disqualification for the driver of a commercial motor vehicle who causes another's death through negligent operation of the commercial motor vehicle | ||
Requires certain consumer reporting agencies to (1) inform consumers when they provide reports for employment purposes that include certain “matters of public record” such as arrest and conviction records; (2) verify any criminal matters of public record with the Judicial Department to ensure that information reported is complete and up-to-date; and (3) maintain procedures designed to ensure that any criminal matter of public record reported is complete and up-to-date | ||
Permits managed care organizations to issue health care provider lists in writing or online at an enrollee's option and limits their required terminated provider notification to certain enrollees | ||
Requires the Department of Transportation (DOT) to erect a sign in Oakdale designating the location of “The Dinosaur Place at Nature's Art” | ||
Eliminates the 250-person limit on the number of participants in a state-funded pilot program that allows seniors who qualify for the Connecticut Home Care Program for Elders to hire their own personal care assistants directly | ||
Establishes a process by which residential property sellers may notify buyers how to discover if hunting or shooting sports regularly take place in the area | ||
Prohibits certain disruptive activities at certain locations from 60 minutes before to 60 minutes after a funeral | ||
Makes it a class A misdemeanor to disturb the peace or impede the entrance or exit near a funeral, which includes a ceremony or memorial service connected to burying or cremating an individual | ||
Eliminates the $ 70 fee for registration of a vanpool vehicle | ||
Authorizes registration and operation of double deck motor buses | ||
Modifies designation of the “Master Police Officer Peter Lavery Memorial Highway” | ||
Authorizes DOT commissioner to make loans for the purpose of financing the acquisition of vanpool vehicles | ||
Designates the “Anthony Tercyak Memorial Bridge” | ||
Specifies that for voter registration purposes, individuals are “bona fide” residents if their dwelling unit is located within the boundaries of the town in which they apply for admission | ||
Requires state agencies, other than the General Assembly, to file their regular meetings agendas with the secretary of the state and local agencies to file their agendas with the town clerk or the clerk of a multi-town district or agency, whichever is applicable | ||
Increases payments to full-time local health departments and health districts | ||
Increases penalties for failing to grant the right of way to a pedestrian in a crosswalk | ||
Eliminates special license endorsement required for operating a camp vehicle | ||
Requires DOT to erect a sign on the Metro North overpass in Milford designating the location of the Milford Fine Arts Council | ||
Expands insurance coverage for out-of-network hospitalization associated with certain clinical trials | ||
Requires anyone whose firearm (except an antique firearm) is lost or stolen to file a police report | ||
Requires contracting with nongovernmental organizations to develop a coordinated response system to help victims of trafficking | ||
Establishes a Trafficking in Persons Council to (1) identify criteria for providing services to adult trafficking victims and their children and (2) consult with government and other organizations to develop recommendations to strengthen trafficking prevention efforts, protect and help victims, and prosecute traffickers | ||
Involves restoration of an historic swimming pool in Manchester | ||
Designates the “Association of the United States Army Memorial Bridge” | ||
Designates the “Officers' Club of Connecticut Memorial Bridge” | ||
Establishes a Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) grant program to retrofit school buses with specific diesel emissions reduction equipment | ||
Increases the maximum penalty, from $ 500 to $ 1,000, on employers or insurers that unduly delay, through fault or neglect, workers' compensation payments | ||
Increases fines for violating laws relating to the provision and use of parking spaces designated for handicapped people | ||
Enhances the ability of the Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) commissioner to enforce certain professional and occupational licensing, certification, and registration laws | ||
Makes several changes to the laws towns must follow when taking property to be developed and used for roads, parks, and schools (i. e. , public uses) or apartments, stores, and factories (i. e. , economic development) | ||
Makes a number of changes to eminent domain provisions including taking property by eminent domain under redevelopment plans, municipal development plans, and Manufacturing Assistance Act plans | ||
Authorizes incentives to towns that choose to zone land for developing mixed-income housing mainly where transit facilities, infrastructure, and complementary uses already exist and establishes a blue ribbon commission to study how housing development affects economic growth | ||
Requires local school board expulsion hearing notices to include information about (1) locally available, free or reduced rate legal services and (2) how a student may take advantage of the services for the expulsion hearing | ||
Increases per-student state grants to vo ag centers and revises vo ag center tuition limits to conform to increases in the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) foundation amount | ||
Establishes minimum requirements for form and content of drivers' licenses and non-driver photo identification cards and the conditions under which the DMV commissioner may renew them without personal appearance by their holders | ||
Expands foster caregivers' rights to comment in court proceedings affecting the child | ||
Requires the DOT commissioner to develop procedures and criteria for leasing naming rights of transit stations and transit-owned property to private corporations and organizations and submit them to the Transportation Committee by January 30, 2008 | ||
Revises standards and DMV procedures for issuing endorsements to drive motor vehicles carrying school children | ||
Establishes a separate procedure for investigating a discrimination complaint made against or by a state agency head, a board or commission member, or an affirmative action officer | ||
Specifies that the State Ethics Code does not prohibit anyone from donating real property for use by a state or quasi-public agency | ||
Caps various education grants to towns through FY 09 at levels appropriated in the budget and requires that, if appropriated amounts are not sufficient to fully fund the grants, amounts paid to towns must be proportionately reduced | ||
Requires each priority school district to receive a priority school district grant of at least $ 150 per student starting in FY 08 | ||
For FY 09, reduces each district's “need student” count for ECS grant purposes from 100% to 75% of each town's students attending interdistrict magnet schools full-time | ||
Changes various factors used in the formula for distributing ECS grants to towns, starting in FY 08, resulting in increased state aid for education to all towns; establishes a new ECS formula for fully funded grants and for phased-in grants for FYs 08 and 09 | ||
Establishes a 16-member commissioner to study the possibility of the state becoming a full member of the Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board | ||
Increases the cigarette tax by 49 cents, from $ 1. 51 to $ 2 per pack, starting July 1, 2007 | ||
Codifies current practice concerning state construction projects that require a contractor selection panel and limits, to a single project, the terms of panel members | ||
Establishes rotating construction services selection panels for contractors and consultants and alters the consultant selection process | ||
Requires newborn enrollment in HUSKY; addresses electronic health information | ||
Establishes Charter Oak Health Care Plan; requires school districts to determine insurance status of students and make HUSKY information available to families with uninsured children | ||
Lowers the maximum nursing home provider tax from 6% to 5. 5% of the home's net revenue and requires the DSS commissioner, when setting the amount of the tax every two years, to use a percentage rate as determined by OPM secretary in consultation with the commissioner | ||
Freezes State Supplement payment standard | ||
Makes various changes affecting Medicare Part D beneficiaries | ||
Changes the conditions under which an institutionalized person or someone in need of institutional care who applies for Medicaid can assign his or her right of support from the community spouse's assets to the DSS commissioner | ||
Requires DSS to seek federal waiver to establish premium assistance in HUSKY A program | ||
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for private residential facilities serving Department of Mental Retardation clients that are not licensed as ICF-MRs by no more than 2% over FY 07 and no more than another 2% over FY 08 for FY 09 | ||
Allows the DSS commissioner, when it is cost-effective, to provide or require a contractor to provide home health services or skilled nursing facility coverage for SAGA recipients who are being discharged from a chronic disease hospital | ||
Requires any increases in payments to state-funded child care centers to be based on requirement that they meet staffing requirements for school readiness classrooms | ||
Makes changes in third-party liability provisions in Medicaid law | ||
§ Prohibits any pharmacy from claiming payment from DSS under a DSS-administered medical assistance program or the Medicare Part D Supplemental Needs Fund for drugs prescribed to people who have other prescription drug insurance coverage unless the coverage has been exhausted and the person is otherwise eligible § Requires DSS to recoup from the submitting pharmacy any claims it submitted that DSS paid when other insurance coverage was available § Requires DSS to investigate a pharmacy that consistently submits ineligible payment claims and allows the department to take action against the pharmacy in accordance with state and federal law | ||
Increases the maximum number of people who can participate in the state's Money Follows the Person demonstration | ||
Authorizes the DMV commissioner to allow licensed motor vehicle dealers to maintain records, documents, and forms in electronic format subject to requirements he prescribes | ||
Extends the job creation tax credit enacted in 2006 to more companies and increases the size of the credit | ||
Requires the Connecticut Center of Advanced Technology to extend the services it provides through its Center for Supply Chain Integration to more businesses | ||
Raises the upper age limit for juvenile court from age 15 to age 17 | ||
Limits benefits for participants in the state-funded food stamps for legal immigrants program to 75% of the amount the individual would receive under the federal food stamp program | ||
Eliminates the remarriage penalty by requiring a municipality that provides survivor pension benefits for police and firefighters who die in the line of duty to continue to provide the benefits upon the remarriage of the surviving spouse | ||
Creates several programs to encour |