A bill that would allow out-of-town commuters and caretakers of the disabled or chronically ill to vote by absentee ballot won final legislative passage Wednesday on a 30-4 vote in the Senate.
This bill would mean those towns would have to give something back to Connecticut if only allowing some new neighbors in to share the quality of life they’ve been hording.
The Senate gave final approval Monday to two measures that continue limited emergency powers to manage COVID-19, while shifting from Gov. Ned Lamont to educators the decision whether to require masks in schools.
House Bill 5047 extends 11 of the hundreds of executive orders issued by Lamont under the extraordinary emergency powers he asserted on March 10, 2020 to confront a COVID outbreak that quickly spiraled into a pandemic. Most now will expire April 15.