Legislative Action

The PCSW provides information, research and analysis to elected officials and the public regarding issues affecting the status of women. The bills we testify on are representative of our priority issues. Our 2013 Policy Agenda can be found here. Additionally, the PCSW publishes a report of its legislative activity each year after session has ended.

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2013 Testimony of the PCSW

Testimony is listed in chronological order by committee

Aging Committee:

SB 885, AA Establishing a Task Force to Evaluate the Utility of Creating a Public Retirement Plan, SB 937, AAC Care for Elderly Persons in a Home Setting Rather than a Nursing Home Facility, SB 939, AAC a Registry of Criminal Offenders Whose Victims Are Elderly, HB 6461, AAC Presumptive Medicaid Eligibility for the Connecticut Home-Care for the Elderly, HB 6463, AAC Aging (2/26/2013)

HB 5764, AA Increasing Temporary Family Assistance Benefits for Grandparents and Other Nonparent Caretaker Relatives & HB 5757, AA Increasing Eligibility for the Connecticut Home-Care Program for the Elderly (2/5/2013)

Appropriations:

H.B. 6354, AA Implementing the Governor’s Budget Recommendations Concerning General Government (3/22/2013)

Department of Social Services Budget (2/22/2013)

Children’s:

HB 6526, AAC Toxics Disclosure and Innovation for Healthy Children (3/5/2013)

SB 887, AAC the Care 4 Kids Program & HB 6332, AAC Toxic Fire Retardants in Children’s Products (2/21/2013)

Commerce:

HB 5017, AAC the Learn Here, Live Here Program and Business Creation (3/7/2013)

Environment:

SB 16, AA Requiring Labeling of Food & Drink Products that Are Packaged in Materials that Contain Bisphenol-A (2/25/2013)

Higher Education:

SB 176, An Act Establishing A Higher Education Performance Incentive Task Force (2/28/2013)

Housing:

HB 5062, AAC Urban Housing for Young Professionals (2/19/2013)

Human Services Committee:

HB 5919, AAC Presumptive Eligibility for the Connecticut Home-Care Program for the Elderly (3/5/2013)

HB 6367, AA Implementing the Governor’s Budget Recommendations for Human Services Programs (2/27/2013)

SB 27, Promoting the Pursuit of Education by Recipients of Assistance, SB 93, AAC the Community Spouse of an Institutionalized Person, SB 851, AA Protecting the Assets of the Spouse of an Institutionalized Medicaid Recipient (2/14/2013)

Finance:

SB 843, AAC Revenue Items to Implements the Governor’s Budget (3/4/2013)

GAE:

HB 6579, AAC the Prequalification of Subcontractors, Removing the Municipal Exemption from the Set-Aside Program and the Percentage of Contracts Reserved for Minority Businesses (3/11/2013)

SB 284, AAC the Percentages of Contractors and Subcontractors Who Are Minorities or Women Under the Set-Aside Program (2/22/2013)

Insurance & Real Estate Committee:

SB 446, AAC Health Insurance Coverage and Tort Reform, SB 862, AA Requiring Health Insurance Coverage for Lung Cancer Screening & HB 5644, AA Requiring Health Insurance Coverage of Fertility Preservation (2/19/2013)

SB 811, AAC Health Insurance Coverage of a Second Mammogram & HB 6320, AAC Health Insurance Coverage of Orally and Intravenously Administered Medications (2/5/2013)

Judiciary Committee:

S.B. 1158, AAC Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Human Trafficking, H.B. 6683, AAC the Abatement of a Public Nuisance, H.B. 6696, AAC Enhanced State Efforts to Prevent Human Trafficking, H.B. 6702, AAC Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (4/15/2013)

S.B. 1155, AAC Revisions to Statutes Relating to Dissolution of Marriage, Legal Separation and Annulment, H.B. 5666, AAC the Forfeiture of Moneys and Property Related to Sexual Exploitation and Human Trafficking, H.B. 6636, AAC the Collection of Sexual Assault Evidence from an Intoxicated or Incapacitated Victim & H.B. 6688, AAC Revisions to Statutes Relating to the Award of Alimony (4/5/2013)

H.B. 6641, AAC the Sexual Assault of Persons Whose Ability to Communicate Lack of Consent is Substantially Impaired & H.B. 6664, AAC Restraining Orders (3/25/2013)

Labor & Public Employees Committee:

HB 6553, AA Establishing a Task Force to Study Family Medical Leave Insurance (3/12/2013)

SB 54, AA Establishing a Retirement Savings Plan for Low-Income Private Sector Workers (2/26/2013)

S.B. 387, AA Increasing the Minimum Fair Wage (1/31/2013)

Public Health:

SB 63, AAC Grants from the Biomedical Research Trust Fund for Stroke Research, SB 366, AA Requiring Licensed Social Workers and Counselors to Complete Continuing Education Coursework in Cultural Foundations & HB 5728, AAC a Study of Breast Cancer Rates in the State and Potential Causes (2/20/2013)

Public Safety:

SB 834, AAC the Trafficking in Persons Council & SB 856, AAC Domestic Violence (2/21/2013)

Transportation Committee:

H.B. No. 6038 AA Requiring the Use of Gender-Neutral “People at Work” Signs by the Department of Transportation (2/13/2013)

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