Joint Aging Committee #
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“The Aging committee has cognizance of all matters relating to senior citizens” (committee website).
Joint Banking Committee #
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Membership; bills; meeting agendas, minutes, and documents; hearing agendas, testimony, and transcripts; votes; reports; and more available on website.
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“The Banking Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to the Department of Banking, and banks, savings banks, bank and trust companies, savings and loan associations, credit unions, the supervision of the sale of securities, fraternal benefit societies and secured and unsecured lending” (committee website).
Joint Children Committee #
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“The Committee on Children shall have cognizance of all matters relating to children” (committee website).
Joint Commerce Committee #
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“The Commerce Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to the Department of Economic and Community Development and Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated” (committee website).
Joint Education Committee #
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“The Education Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to the Department of Education, the Office of Early Childhood and the Technical Education and Career System, and school building projects, local and regional boards of education, the substantive law of collective bargaining covering teachers and professional employees of such boards, vocational rehabilitation, and libraries, including the State Library, museums and historical and cultural associations” (committee website).
Joint Energy and Technology Committee #
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“The Energy and Technology Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and energy planning and activities” (committee website).
Joint Environment Committee #
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“The Environment Committee has cognizance of those matters relating to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection that include conservation, recreation, pollution control, fisheries and game, state parks and forests, water resources and flood and erosion control; and all matters relating to the Department of Agriculture, including farming, dairy products and domestic animals” (committee website).
Joint General Law Committee #
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“The General Law Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to the Department of Consumer Protection, fair trade and sales practices, consumer protection, mobile homes and occupational licensing, except licensing by the Department of Public Health; and all matters relating to alcoholic beverages” (committee website).
Joint Government Administration and Elections Committee #
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“The Government Administration and Elections Committee has cognizance on all matters relating to the Department of Administrative Services, including purchasing and central collections, but excluding personnel and labor relations, fire marshals, the fire safety code, the state building code and school building projects, the administrative functions of the Office of Governmental Accountability, including the office’s personnel and employment policies and information technology, and the Freedom of Information Commission, the Office of State Ethics, the Citizen’s Ethics Advisory Board and the State Elections Enforcement Commission, state government organization and reorganization, structures and procedures, leasing, construction, maintenance, purchase and sale of state property and facilities, state and federal relations, interstate compacts, compacts between the state and Indian tribes, constitutional amendments, and all matters relating to elections and election laws. Any bill favorably reported by another committee that authorizes the conveyance of real property, or any interest therein, by the state, or any resolution favorably reported by another committee that proposes a constitutional amendment shall be referred to the committee on Government Administration and Elections” (committee website).
Joint Higher Education and Employment Committee #
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“The Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to (A) the Board of Regents for Higher Education and the Office of Higher Education, and (B) public and independent institutions of higher education, private occupational schools, post‑secondary education, job training institutions and programs, apprenticeship training programs and adult job training programs offered to the public by any state agency or funded in whole or in part by the state” (committee website).
Joint Housing Committee #
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“The Housing Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to housing and housing programs” (committee website).
Joint Human Services Committee #
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Membership; bills; meeting agendas, minutes, and documents; hearing agendas, testimony, and transcripts; votes; reports; and more available on website.
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“The Human Services Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to the Department of Social Services, including institutions under its jurisdiction, and the Department of Aging and Disability Services” (committee website).
Joint Insurance and Real Estate Committee #
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Membership; bills; meeting agendas, minutes, and documents; hearing agendas, testimony, and transcripts; votes; reports; and more available on website.
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“The Insurance and Real Estate Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to insurance law and real estate law” (committee website).
Joint Judiciary Committee #
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Membership; bills; meeting agendas, minutes, and documents; hearing agendas, testimony, and transcripts; votes; reports; and more available on website.
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“The Joint Committee on Judiciary has cognizance of all matters relating to (A) the Judicial Department, the Department of Correction and the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, (B) 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, (C) all (i) judicial nominations, (ii) nominations of workers’ compensation commissioners, and (iii) nominations of members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, and (D) 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” (committee website).
Joint Labor and Public Employees Committee #
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“The Labor and Public Employees Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to workers’ compensation, unemployment compensation, conditions of employment, hours of labor, minimum wages, industrial safety, occupational health and safety, labor unions and labor disputes; all matters relating to the Department of Labor; and all matters relating to conditions of employment of state and municipal employees and the substantive law of state and municipal employees’ collective bargaining” (committee website).
Joint Planning and Development Committee #
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“The Planning and Development Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to local governments, housing, urban renewal, fire, sewer and metropolitan districts, home rule and planning and zoning; regional planning and development activities and the State Plan of Conservation and Development, and economic development programs impacting local governments” (committee website).
Joint Public Health Committee #
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Membership; bills; meeting agendas, minutes, and documents; hearing agendas, testimony, and transcripts; votes; reports; and more available on website.
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“The Public Health Committee is one of the joint standing committees of the Connecticut General Assembly. It has cognizance of all programs and matters relating to the Department of Public Health; the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and the Department of Developmental Services; the Office of Health Care Access; and all other matters relating to health, including emergency medical services, all licensing boards within the Department of Public Health, nursing homes, pure food and drugs, and controlled substances, including the treatment of substance abuse” (committee website).
Joint Public Safety and Security Committee #
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“The Public Safety and Security Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to (A) the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, and (B) civil preparedness and homeland security, state police, the state-wide organized crime investigative task force, municipal police training, fire marshals, the fire safety code, the state building code, and legalized gambling” (committee website).
Joint Regulation Review Committee #
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“It is the responsibility of the Legislative Regulation Review Committee to review regulations proposed by state agencies and approve them before regulations are implemented. This position was adopted since all regulations have the force of law, and it is important that regulations do not contravene the legislative intent, or conflict with current state or federal laws, or state or federal constitutions” (committee website).
Joint Transportation Committee #
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Membership; bills; meeting agendas, minutes, and documents; hearing agendas, testimony, and transcripts; votes; reports; and more available on website.
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“The Transportation Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to the Department of Transportation, including highways and bridges, navigation, aeronautics, mass transit and railroads; and to the State Traffic Commission and the Department of Motor Vehicles” (committee website).
Joint Veterans’ and Military Affairs Committee #
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Membership; bills; meeting agendas, minutes, and documents; hearing agendas, testimony, and transcripts; votes; reports; and more available on website.
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“The Committee on Veterans’ and Military Affairs shall have cognizance of all matters relating to military and veterans’ affairs, except veterans’ pensions” (committee website).
Select Committee on Special Education #
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Membership; bills; meeting agendas, minutes, and documents; hearing agendas, testimony, and transcripts; votes; reports; and more available on website.
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“The Select Committee on Special Education may conduct public hearings, may issue reports of its findings and may originate and report any bill or resolution it deems necessary concerning special education. Any bill or resolution favorably reported by Select Committee on Special Education shall be referred to the joint standing committee on Education” (committee website).
