CT Democrats flex muscle with emergency legislation

CT Mirror – Wednesday, February 25, 2026
By Mark Pazniokas

Two “emergency-certified” bills crafted by the Connecticut General Assembly’s Democratic super-majorities sped Wednesday night to passage in the Senate after a partisan election-year debate over policies, process and power.

One of the bills, Senate Bill 298, is a 98-section behemoth that, among other things, revives significant House education and labor bills that died last year without votes in the Senate. The second, Senate Bill 299, is a stand-alone measure addressing bottle-bill redemption fraud.

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