Connecticut State Scorecard

HB5004 Climate-change Mandate (passed 26 to 10 on 6/4/25). Mandates that state agencies reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, funds the renewable-energy industry, and requires a statewide net-zero carbon-emissions goal by 2050.

HB5002 Affordable-housing Mandate (passed 20 to 15 on 5/31/25). Mandates affordable housing units and support for homeless population. Additionally, it removes local control over zoning policy, and requires fair-rent commissions in towns with a population greater than 15,000.

SB8 Paid Union Strikes (passed 89 to 59 on 5/30/25). Amends Connecticut law to expand welfare entitlements, allowing workers participating in a labor strike to receive unemployment payments.

SB1 State-funded Pre-K (passed 31 to 4 on 5/30/25). Establishes the Early Childhood Education Endowment to fund early-childhood care and education programs using state budget surpluses.

HB7213 Contraceptives for Children (passed 31 to 5 on 5/27/25). Allows minors to consent to reproductive health services related to pregnancy and pregnancy prevention without parental consent or notification.

HB6913 Care-facility Mandate (passed 26 to 10 on 5/22/25). Prohibits long-term care facilities from discriminating against residents based on “gender identity or expression, sexual orientation,” and “human immunodeficiency virus status.”

HJ49 Con-Con Rescission (passed 35 to 0 on 5/8/25). Rescinds prior applications for an Article V constitutional convention to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States.

HB7213 Contraceptives for Children (passed 117 to 27 on 5/1/25). Allows minors to consent to reproductive health services related to pregnancy and pregnancy prevention without parental consent or notification.

HB7042 Firearm-manufacturer Lawfare (passed 100 to 46 on 4/30/25). Enacts the “Firearm Industry Responsibility Act” which requires firearm-industry members to adopt broadly defined “reasonable controls," and allows civil action in the superior court against firearm-industry members.

HJ49 Con-Con Rescission (passed 145 to 0 on 4/28/25). Rescinds prior applications for an Article V constitutional convention to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution.