Only three new bills this week, but the listing is up to 33 pages.  All the bills that will be moving forward are coming out of committee.  The reason is because the committees are starting to close for any new bills.  In the last 7 days, 5 committees are closed.  And by the end of the day tomorrow there will be 2 more.  Once the committees close I will start deleting all the left overs.  If you see any bill that has not had at least a public hearing, it will likely not make it.  Although as I have mentioned in past years, sometimes individual initiatives that were part of larger bills will show up buried inside others.  

These are the bills that came out of committee last week: H.B. #5722, 6302, 6477, 6484, 6595, 6626, S.B. #1, 102, 660, 845, 846, 982, 983, & 1002.  These bills go to the Legislative Commissioners Office or LCO where the legal beagles write them into legalese language.  I believe that they have either 10 days or 14 days to be released and they go onto the calendar of their respective chamber, House or Senate.

There was one bill that came out of LCO this past week.  It is S.B. #837 and is in the Senate calendar as of 3/24.  

Public Hearings this week are Public Health (H.B. #6666 & S.B. #1083) on 3/29, and G.A.E. (No F.D. items on their agenda) also on 3/29.

Committee Meetings are Environment (H.B. #6386 & S.B. #926) on 3/29  and G.A.E. again w/o an agenda.  Also Environment and Planning & Development will be meeting on 3/31.  There was no agenda at this time.

AND, Friday is a State Holiday.  4 day week this week.

Again, it there are any questions you can email me.  If you are aware of any issues that I have not addressed, please let me know.     

Ted Schroll Jr., Legislative Representative
Connecticut State Firefighters Association
Email  thschroll@snet.net