David Michel

Here is is a look at what we have already passed in the House of Representatives this legislative session:

✅ HJ No. 1: CT's restrictive voting system is codified in the state constitution. Our vote helps give you the opportunity to decide in 2024 if we amend the state constitution to allow no-excuse absentee ballots. Voting is a fundamental American right. Eligible voters in Connecticut should have the freedom to choose how they vote without needing to provide an excuse.

✅ HB6823: Putting elections in the hands of the Constitutional office that manages elections makes sense. This bill designates the Secretary of the State as the state official responsible for certifying presidential electors.

✅ HB6891: A small but mighty change for taxpayers to allow charge card, debit card or electronic payment of municipal taxes or penalties.

✅ HJ No. 34: From 1647 to 1697, several individuals in Connecticut, primarily women, were hanged for suspicions of witchcraft. Similar to the Salem trials, the accusations against the victims were often unfounded and based in misogyny. We recognize the trauma caused by the witchcraft trials in the CT colonial courts and absolve those accused and convicted of "witchcraft" and "familiarities with the devil." 

✅ HB6672: Endometriosis is an under-studied disease impacting 10% of women in CT.  The House passed this bill to create the Endometriosis Data and Biorepository Program and associated endometriosis research lab.

✅ HB6590: This bill makes it easier for families to get access to the childcare they need.

✅ HB6699: I co-sponsored an act concerning cannabis regulation

✅ HB6614: An act concerning debit cards and cash discounts for gasoline purchases. 

✅ HB6638: An act revising the State's antidiscrimination statutes.

✅ HB6642: An act concerning a Title IX compliance toolkit for school districts. 

✅ HB6877: An act concerning risk protection orders or warrants and disqualifiers for firearm permits and eligibility certificates based on temporary commitment under a physician's emergency certification.

✅ HB6688: Improves protections for CT residents going through eviction, expands green subsidies to heat pumps and geothermal heating, improves CHFA subsidies for home ownership and affordable housing opportunities, and establishes a working group to find ways to increase financing opportunities for mobile manufactured homes.

✅ HB6752: Allows the CT Department of Banking to issue regulations regarding cryptocurrencies and protects CT residents from scams related to cryptocurrency kiosks.

✅ HB6831: Allows for 24-hour response for prescription drugs for certain mental health conditions.

All of these bills must now get through the Senate and get a signature from Governor Ned Lamont before they can become law.