The legislation would make several police reforms including banning no-knock warrants. Under the proposed law, state law enforcement officers would be prohibited from seeking, executing, or participating in the execution of a no-knock warrant.
CT Governor Ned Lamont signs a gambling expansion bill that will allow the state's Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods casinos to offer online poker in the near future.
The Blue Plan is intended to prioritize the protection of existing natural resources and uses such as fishing, aquaculture, and navigation from future conflicting or incompatible activities, and to minimize conflicts between marine life and human uses in the Sound.
Negotiators are pushing for a comprehensive budget deal in which Democratic legislators would back off from their high-profile push for major tax increases in exchange for multiple Democratic priorities.
Published May 27. 2021 5:30PM
In 2019, the Connecticut House of Representatives passed a bill to raise Connecticut’s Homestead Exemption. That year, the state Senate refused to act on it.
The Homestead Exemption is a law that prevents unsecured creditors from attaching, or foreclosing on, a family’s principal residence due to unpaid medical bills or credit card debts. Every state has some version of this law. Rhode Island and Massachusetts both provide a $500,000 exemption on the value of a family’s home.
Connecticut has lagged far behind almost all other states offering only a $75,000 exemption for a family’s home. Despite soaring home prices in our state, this amount has not been raised in decades.