
2025-2026 Committee Assignments
Posted on January 10, 2025



With the 2025 legislative underway, I wanted to share with you some of my committee assignments for the 2025-2026 session. I have been reappointed to serve as the Ranking Member of the Insurance Committee. In addition, I will also be a member of the Appropriations and Judiciary Committees.
The Insurance and Real Estate Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to insurance law and real estate law.
The Appropriations Committee is one of the joint standing committees of the Connecticut General Assembly. It is composed of 53 members ‑ 13 Senators and 40 Representatives. The committee has cognizance of all matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies. Other issues under the committee’s jurisdiction include matters relating to state employees’ salaries, benefits and retirement, teachers’ retirement and veterans’ pensions and collective bargaining agreements and arbitration awards for all state employees.
The Judiciary Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to:
- the Judicial Department, the Department of Correction and the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities;
- courts, judicial procedures, criminal law, probate matters, probation, parole, wills, estates, adoption, divorce, bankruptcy, escheat, law libraries, deeds, mortgages, conveyancing, preservation of land records and other public documents, the law of business organizations, uniform laws, validations, authorizations to sue and to appeal, claims against the state;
- judicial nominations, nominations of workers’ compensation commissioners, and nominations of members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, and all bills carrying civil penalties that exceed the sum of, or that may exceed in the aggregate, five thousand dollars. Any bill favorably reported by another committee that carries a criminal penalty, other than an infraction, shall be referred to the committee, provided the committee’s consideration shall be limited to the criminal penalties established in such bill and shall not extend to the other substantive provisions or purposes of such bill.