The Issues
Making Connecticut Seniors a Priority
Making Connecticut Seniors a Priority
Making Connecticut Seniors a Priority
- Expedited Medicaid coverage for home-based care as an alternative to more costly nursing home car (PA 24-39)
- Required home care workers to wear photo-ID badges (PA 24-39)
- Created a new registry system to connect patients to home care providers and created a dashboard to help navigate nursing home options (PA 24-39)
- Prevented nursing homes from putting more than two patients in a single room (PA 24-141)
Connecticut's Health & Wellness
Making Connecticut Seniors a Priority
Making Connecticut Seniors a Priority
- Cutting red tape for operating plasma donation centers (PA 24-7)
- Putting Patients first: (PA 24-19)
- Allowed pharmacists to give opioid disposal systems when dispensing opioids
- Strengthened hospitals' defenses against cyberattacks
- Banned paperwork and payment requirements for receiving critical ambulance rides
- Established new Bureau of Services for Persons who are Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard of Hearing (PA 24-81)
- Banned numerous products containing dangerous PFAS chemicals (PA 24-59)
Protecting our Democracy
Making Connecticut Seniors a Priority
Improving Higher Education
- Banned foreign nationals from making contributions in CT or spending money on behalf of candidates (SB 253)
- Required video monitoring of ballot boxes (PA 24-148)
- Made it a crime to harass election workers (PA 24-148)
Improving Higher Education
Supporting Schools, Teachers & Students
Improving Higher Education
- Expanded state-backed student loans to students under 18 (PA 24-64)
- Invested in nonprofits that assist students with college and financial aid applications (PA 24-117)
- Expanded employer-based student loan repayment tax credits and reduced rates for state-backed loans for in-demand occupations (24-52)
Supporting Schools, Teachers & Students
Supporting Schools, Teachers & Students
Supporting Schools, Teachers & Students
- Required same day parental notification when a child hurts themselves or others (PA 24-93)
- Provided help to classroom para educators to pay for their health insurance (PA 24-81)
- Improving Childcare (PAs 24-78 & -91)
- increased coordination to raise private funds
- piloted new childcare programming
- $1800 one time pay for early childhood classroom teachers
- Growing our teachers workforce
- Cut certification red tape to make licensing faster and enable teachers to teach more subjects across more grades
- Expanded eligibility in the fast-track certification program
- Made it easier for industry experts to teach in our tech schools
Supporting Veterans
Supporting Schools, Teachers & Students
Supporting Schools, Teachers & Students
- Exempted permanently and totally disabled veterans from paying property taxes (PA 24-46)
- Expanded eligibility for grants from the MIlitary Relief Fund for families experiencing hardship (PA 24-57)
- Formally recognized Vietnam veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange (SJ 6)
- Made it easier for veterans to earn a Q license endorsement to join fire departments (PA 24-24)