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Gov. Ned Lamont’s biennial budget address on Wednesday sparked mixed reactions, with housing policy advocates like Open Communities Alliance (OCA) offering both recognition and suggestions for moving forward.

Legislative leaders are optimistic about compromise.

Gov. Ned Lamont’s biennial budget address prompted a range of reactions from advocacy groups, nonprofits, and local officials on Wednesday, with some arriving even before the completion of a morning briefing by his budget chief, Office of Policy and Management Secretary Jeff Beckham.

Gov. Ned Lamont released a two-year, $55.2 billion budget proposal for the upcoming 2026-2027 biennium on Wednesday with a focus on expanding access to child care, providing a small tax cut to Connecticut residents, and allowing for some small but significant changes to the state’s hotly debated fiscal guardrails.

$50 income tax cut also included in $55.2 billion, two-year budget Lamont will present to lawmakers Wednesday.

$50 income tax cut also included in $55.2 billion, two-year budget Lamont will present to lawmakers Wednesday.

New Hampshire is fighting back. The Granite State's latest move to protect businesses from sales tax legislation, HB 135, was introduced on Jan. 8, 2025. It states that "no New Hampshire business shall be required to collect sales taxes for a foreign jurisdiction [a.k.a., another state] unless mandated by Congress or New Hampshire law."

Lawmakers seek more funds for Medicaid, education while federal funds vanish.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong on Friday announced an initial victory against the Trump administration and said that the state has successfully secured a temporary restraining order against the federal government’s recent freeze on appropriated funds.

Officials spent billions of potential surplus dollars in mid-2000s.

Democratic representatives are once again advocating for a child tax credit after a similar effort came up short during the 2024 legislative session. House Bill 5986, An Act Establishing a Refundable Child Tax Credit Against the Personal Income Tax, has the support of over 60 Democratic legislators and aims to provide much-needed financial relief to Connecticut families.

Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the package of legislative proposals he will ask the Connecticut General Assembly to consider for ratification during the 2025 regular session will include a proposal increasing the oversight and financial stability of Connecticut hospitals, health systems, and medical practices, and ensuring that they continue providing the high quality, accessible, and affordable care that the state’s residents deserve.

The governor circumvented contract rules, like those protecting budget caps, in 2019.

Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the package of legislative proposals that he will ask the Connecticut General Assembly to consider for ratification during the 2025 regular session will include a proposal containing several initiatives to strengthen Connecticut’s resilience against the impacts of extreme weather events and climate change.

Democratic Senate leaders announced two more of their high-priority bills Tuesday: a bill to combat price gouging and a bill to protect public health at the state level from federal interference. Republicans, however, are skeptical of what they characterize as “government overreach.”

The Connecticut Department of Revenue Services (DRS) today released the state’s tax gap report, required under Public Act 23-204 sec. 374. This year’s report analyzes data from the 2022 tax year and estimates Connecticut’s net tax gap at $2.998 billion. This reflects the difference between the calculated gross tax gap of $3.702 billion and the approximately $704 million expected to be collected through ongoing DRS enforcement actions.

The state offices of Policy and Management and Fiscal Analysis issued their corrected consensus revenue estimates earlier this week, showing a small increase in projected revenue for the upcoming four years.

Democrats’ ‘Ratepayers First Act,’ proposed Thursday, is less a solution than a process by which they hope to find one.

But the governor may be flexible on another fiscal guardrail, the volatility cap.

Gov. Ned Lamont and Sen. James Maroney, who clashed last year and still disagree over the degree to which the state should regulate generative AI, found common ground Tuesday in the opening of the Connecticut Online AI Academy.