CSFA Legislative Update – 6-14-2021
All,
All bills listed completely in GREEN passed both chambers. They are not official until assigned a Public Act number and are signed by the Governor.
Bills still in RED died either in committee or on their respective calendar. I left them on the list for now to show all that were being tracked and did not pass.
The regular session ended at midnight on this past Wednesday. I have not had a chance to closely review each passed bill to see if there are any surprises hidden inside. I would expect to have that done by next week and will refine the list by then.
Please note H.B. #6689 (Budget Bill) and H.B. #6690 (Bonding Bill). Both bills passed the last day of the session. All Fire Service items under the control of CSFA in the budget bill were flat funded from the previous biennium. However, the Approps committee inserted $70K per year for both years of the biennial budget to fund firefighter training for distressed communities (H.B. #5666).
In the Bonding Bill, we were able to work with the Bonding Sub-Committee to insert $5 Million in the second year of the biennial toward the Regional Fire School Capital Improvement Program.
If anyone has any questions about any issues that you “heard” about, you can contact me by email and I will try to get you an answer.
Ted Schroll Jr., Legislative Representative
Connecticut State Firefighters Association
Email thschroll@snet.net
