Connecticut House

Under a bill that cleared the Connecticut House of Representatives, towns that allow more apartments near mass transit would get priority on state infrastructure funds.

A bipartisan bill to protect aging Connecticut residents has won approval in the state House of Representatives. The bill includes a provision that requires more state oversight for home care workers.

House Republicans pitched a budget that boosts education, ends health care for undocumented women and children and trims the state workforce.

A bill waiting for a vote in the Connecticut House would prohibit police officers from stopping motorists who may be in violation of secondary violations like broken headlights, unlit license plates and dark-tinted windows.

The agreement is between the Lamont administration and SEBAC — the State Employee Bargaining Agreement Coalition — that represents 35 labor units across state agencies.

Connecticut lawmakers don’t intend to come back for a special session this year to override Governor Ned Lamont’s vetoes. The governor vetoed five of the 228 bills sent to him in the recent legislative session.

Deep in the Connecticut budget bill passed by the House of Representatives is a provision that could affect who can run for attorney general in 2026.

The Connecticut House has approved the state’s toughest gun restrictions since landmark gun laws were enacted following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting 10 years ago.

Wrong-way driver was ‘causative factor’ in fatal head-on car crash took the lives of Connecticut state Rep. Quentin “Q” Williams and Kimede Mustafaj.

The Connecticut Senate approved a bill that would allow prisoners serving long sentences for crimes they committed before they were 21 to apply for parole. In the House, lawmakers approved stricter regulation of cannabis products outside the state’s official dispensaries.