New Laws Effective October 1st

A number of new laws passed during the 2016 Legislative Session take effect October 1, 2016. These new laws may have an impact on you, your business, or our community.

Among those Public Acts that will become law on that date are the some measures that I co-sponsored, including:

AN ACT CONCERNING THE IMPACT OF PROPOSED REGULATIONS ON SMALL BUSINESSES (PA 16-32)

This law requires fiscal notes by the Office of Fiscal Analysis to include an estimate of the number of businesses that would be affected by proposed legislation and an estimated fiscal impact on such businesses and, for regulatory flexibility analyses of proposed regulations, to redefine small business to include any business with two hundred fifty or fewer employees and to require additional information in such analyses.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS

AN ACT CONCERNING OPIOIDS AND ACCESS TO OVERDOSE REVERSAL DRUGS (PA 16-43)

This law requires municipalities, by October 1, 2016, to amend their local emergency medical services (EMS) plans to ensure that specified first responders are equipped with an opioid antagonist and trained in administering it. CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS

AN ACT CONCERNING HUMAN TRAFFICKING (PA 16-71)

This law requires additional protections for victims of human trafficking and stricter penalties on the perpetrators. CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS

AN ACT CONCERNING CHILD ENDANGERMENT WHILE DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE (PA 16-126)

This law increases the criminal penalties for driving under the influence (DUI) (1) with a child passenger (under age 18) or (2) when driving a school bus, student transportation vehicle (STV), or other motor vehicle specially designated for carrying children, with or without a child passenger. It does so by creating specific crimes for these offenses, separate from the DUI statute. CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS

AN ACT CONCERNING THE REAPPLICATION PROCEDURE FOR ELDERLY PROPERTY TAX RELIEF (PA 16-143)

This law pushes back the deadline, from March 15 to April 15, by which elderly, and in some cases disabled, homeowners must reapply for property tax relief under three income-restricted programs. By law, these taxpayers must reapply for tax relief every two years by submitting copies of their federal income tax returns. By pushing the filing deadline to April 15, it aligns it with the deadline for filing federal tax returns, thus giving taxpayers more time to complete those returns and submit them to the municipality. CLICK HER FOR MORE DETAILS

For a full list of bills taking effect on October 1, 2016, CLICK HERE.

I hope you find this information helpful.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me anytime at devin.carney@housegop.ct.gov or (800) 842-1423.

State Representative Devin Carney

23rd General Assembly District