B|Estates: K-12 Climate Studies in CA. Dependent Allowance in CO. A Right to Affordable Housing in CT.
Select highlights on state legislation you should pay attention to ... because it might end up in the state where you live, too
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California
Democratic House | Democratic Senate | Democratic Governor
AB285 (D) - Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include certain areas of study, including, among others, English, mathematics, social sciences, science, and visual and performing arts, as specified. This bill, with respect to both of the above-referenced adopted courses of study, would require the science area of study to include an emphasis on the causes and effects of climate change and methods to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The bill would require that appropriate coursework including this material be offered to pupils as soon as possible, commencing no later than the 2024–25 school year.
AB257 (R) - This bill would prohibit a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property in any street, sidewalk, or other public property within 500 feet of a school, daycare center, park, or library. The bill would make a violation of the prohibition an infraction or a misdemeanor. The bill would also make willfully resisting, delaying, or obstructing a peace officer, public officer, or public employee in the discharge or attempt to discharge any duty to enforce the prohibition a misdemeanor.
SB59 (D) - This bill would enact the Menstrual Product Accessibility Act, which would require all women’s restrooms, all all-gender restrooms, and at least one men’s restroom in a building owned by the state or in the portion of a building where the state rents or leases office space, a building owned by a local government where a specified state-funded safety net program is administered, or in a hospital that receives state funds, as specified, to be stocked with menstrual products, as defined, available and accessible to employees and the public, free of cost, at all times.
Colorado
Democratic House | Democratic Senate | Democratic Governor
HB1119 (R) - The bill defines a "person" to include an unborn child at all stages of gestation, from fertilization to natural death, as it relates to a private right of action and current homicide and assault provisions. The bill declares that any existing state law relating to prenatal homicide or assault or regulating abortion or abortion facilities is superseded to the extent it conflicts or is inconsistent with the provisions of the bill. The bill authorizes the state to disregard any federal court decision that purports to enjoin or void this requirement and subjects a Colorado judge to impeachment or removal if the judge purports to enjoin, stay, overrule, or void the requirement.
HB1078 (D) - The bill creates a dependent allowance for an individual receiving unemployment compensation (eligible individual) for each of the eligible individual's dependents. The dependent allowance starts on July 1, 2025, is $35 per dependent per week, and increases annually for inflation if necessary.
SB016 (D) - Section 1 of the bill requires that, beginning in 2024, each insurance company issued a certificate of authority to transact insurance business that reports more than $100 million on its annual schedule T filing with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) must participate in and complete the NAIC's "Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey" or successor survey or reporting mechanism ….
Connecticut
Democratic House | Democratic Senate | Democratic Governor
SB00909 (D) - Section 1. (a) It shall be the goal of this state to implement policies that respect, protect and fulfill a right to affordable, decent, safe and stable housing for every resident of this state …
HB05249 (R) - That subsection (c) of section 53a-22 of the general statutes be 2 amended to provide that use of deadly force upon another person by a 3 peace officer or an authorized official of the Department of Correction 4 or the Board of Pardons and Paroles is justified if a reasonable officer or 5 official would use such force given the facts and circumstances known 6 to the officer or official at the time, instead of requiring such force be 7 objectively reasonable under the given circumstances at the time.
HB06507 (D) - That chapter 151 of the general statutes be amended to (1) prohibit intimidation, harassment or threatening of election officials in polling places, and (2) provide that any person guilty of violating such prohibition shall be guilty of a felony, with an increased penalty for any such violation while possessing a deadly weapon.