BUDGET
BUDGET
AN ACT CONCERNING DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2025, AND COMPENSATION PAID TO INJURED EMPLOYEES AND THE PARENTS OF A DECEASED EMPLOYEE UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT. ITS PURPOSE IS TO IMPLEMENT THE GOVERNOR'S BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS.
This Act adjusts numerous appropriated accounts across several appropriated funds to various state agencies to address budget shortfalls for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025. The Act results in the FY 25 budget being over the spending cap by $283.5 million. Per the Governor’s May 19, 2025, Declaration of the Existence of Extraordinary Circumstances, appropriations in excess of the cap are authorized in the current fiscal year but are not included in the FY 26 calculation base. The Act also updates workers' compensation provisions to enhance clarity and support for injured employees and their dependents.
Effective from passage
AN ACT CONCERNING THE STATE BUDGET FOR THE BIENNIUM ENDING JUNE 30, 2027, AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS THEREFOR, AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO REVENUE AND OTHER ITEMS IMPLEMENTING THE STATE BUDGET.
year but are not included in the FY 26 calculation base. The Act also updates workers' compensation provisions to enhance clarity and support for injured employees and their dependents.
Effective from passage
AN ACT CONCERNING THE STATE BUDGET FOR THE BIENNIUM ENDING JUNE 30, 2027, AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS THEREFOR, AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO REVENUE AND OTHER ITEMS IMPLEMENTING THE STATE BUDGET.
UConn- Storrs and Regionals:
UConn Notes:
To Be Funded from Operating Expenses:
- $1M in FY26 and FY 27 for CT Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation (CIRCA) to fund operations. Created by Special Act in 2013, CIRCA provides practical solutions to problems facing CT Communities arising from a changing climate and associated severe weather events, such as sea level live rise, precipitation changes and associated increases in flooding, as well as extreme heat.
- $120,000 in FY 27 for UConn-Waterbury robotics program.
- $75,000 to the UConn School of Public Policy to complete two studies via MOU with the Connecticut Department of Veteran Affairs concerning municipal property tax exemptions by January 1, 2027. see PA 25-95.
To Be Funded from Debt Service – State Treasurer’s Budget:
- UConn 2000 - Debt Service FY ’26: 209,033,862, FY ‘27 213,698,862
UConn Health:
UConn Health Notes:
To Be Funded from Operating Expenses:
- $280,000 in FY 26 and 27 for additional funding for the endometriosis data and repository program (collaboration with UConn Health and the Jackson Laboratory).
- Migraine Study: funding of $150,000 in both FY ‘26 and FY ’27 provided for a migraine study, specifically relating to treatment for women and veterans. See SA 24-18, study to be completed by July 1, 2026.
To Be Funded from DOC budget:
- HITEC Funded at $620,645 in FY ’26, and $644,174 in FY ’27. UConn Health / Department of Correction via MOU. HITEC is the Health Improvement through Employee Control program, created by a team of researchers from UConn and UMass Lowell.
- § 13, 14 & 17 – BACK OF BUDGET REDUCTION AUTHORITY
Empowers the Secretary of OPM to reduce General Fund allotments for all Executive Branch agencies in order to achieve:
- $63.7 million (FY 26) and $73.7 million (FY 27) in savings.
- Targeted savings of $25.5 million (FY 26) and $15 million (FY 27).
Allows the Governor, with OPM and the Finance Advisory Committee, to adjust agency appropriations to:
- Comply with federal law, and
- Maximize federal revenue.
- 136 — UCONN HEALTH CENTER EMPLOYEE FRINGE BENEFITS
Eliminates a requirement that the comptroller (1) use up to $4.5 million of funds appropriated for State Comptroller-Fringe Benefits to fund a portion of the fringe benefits for UCHC employees and (2) enter into an MOU with UCHC for providing operational support
Effective July 1, 2025
Additional provisions of note:
- 47 — AHEAD FEDERAL DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM
Requires DSS, within available appropriations, to develop a plan to implement alternative payment methods for hospitals voluntarily participating in the AHEAD federal demonstration program; authorizes DSS to apply for a federal Medicaid waiver to implement these alternative payment methods.
Effective October 1, 2025
- 68 — REPEAL OF CONNECTICUT NEW OPPORTUNITIES FUND
Repeals the law requiring CI to establish the Connecticut New Opportunities Fund to invest in seed stage and emerging growth companies in the state. The Act repeals the law requiring Connecticut Innovations, Inc. (CI) to establish the Connecticut New Opportunities Fund to invest in seed stage and emerging growth companies in the state. The fund was enacted in 2005 but never established.
Effective from passage
- 69 — FINISH LINE SCHOLARS PROGRAM
Requires the Board of Regents (BOR) to establish a finish line scholars program awarding grants to students who received a Mary Ann Handley program award and then enroll in a bachelor’s program at Charter Oak State College or CSCU. UConn is not included in the Act. $7.7M is provided in the Expanded PACT Program.
Effective July 1, 2025
- 95 — REPORT ON GRANT PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN LICENSED HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS WORKING AS ADJUNCT PROFESSORS
Requires OHE to also submit its annual report on a grant program for certain licensed health care providers who are adjunct professors to the Appropriations Committee.
Effective October 1, 2025
- 115 — OPIOID SETTLEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Adds two members to the Opioid Settlement Advisory Committee.
Effective from passage
- § 116-120 — TELEHEALTH PRESCRIPTION OF OPIOIDS
Specifically allows opioids to be prescribed through telehealth as part of medication assisted treatment or to treat a psychiatric disability or substance use disorder.
Effective from passage
- 124 — MATERNITY CARE REPORT CARD
Requires the DPH commissioner to (1) establish an annual maternity care report card for birth centers and hospitals that provide obstetric care, (2) establish an advisory committee to establish the report card’s contents, and (3) adjust the report card based on patient acuity levels.
Effective October 1, 2025
- 140 — UCONN HEALTH NEUROMODULATION CENTER
Requires the UConn Health Center to establish a Center of Excellence for Neuromodulation Treatments funded in year two, FY 27 at $2M.
Effective from passage
- § 141 & 142 — HIGHER EDUCATION CONSTITUENT UNITS AND ENERGY-SAVINGS PERFORMANCE CONTRACTS
Authorizes the constituent units of higher education, including UConn and UConn Health to establish their own energy-savings performance contract process, rather than use DEEP’s, but subject to many of the same requirements as DEEP’s process. The Act also allows these energy-savings performance contracts to be extended for a term not to exceed thirty years (the DEEP statute is twenty years).
Effective July 1, 2025
- 170 — FEDERAL RECOMMENDATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Allows DPH to create an advisory committee on matters related to CDC and FDA recommendations. The advisory committee will include the deans of public health schools at an independent and a public institution.
Effective from passage
- § 171 & 172 — EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS AND EMERGENCY CARE PROVIDERS
Requires hospital emergency departments to provide services related to pregnancy complications when necessary; prohibits emergency departments, or their providers, from discriminating on various bases; requires hospitals to comply with the federal EMTALA, and DPH to adopt certain EMTALA-related provisions into state regulations if the federal law is revoked; allows DPH to take disciplinary action against hospitals or providers who violate these provisions.
Effective from passage
- 173 — SAFE HARBOR ACCOUNT
Creates an account funded by private sources to award grants to nonprofit organizations that provide funding for reproductive or gender-affirming health care services or collateral costs related to these services.
Effective July 1, 2025
- § 174 & 175 — OPIOID USE DISORDER
Declares opioid use disorder to be a public health crisis in the state and requires the Alcohol and Drug Policy Council to convene a working group to set goals to combat this disorder’s prevalence.
Effective from passage
- 176 — PUBLIC HEALTH URGENT COMMUNICATION ACCOUNT
Creates an account to fund DPH communications during public health emergencies.
Effective from passage
- 177 — EMERGENCY PUBLIC HEALTH FINANCIAL SAFEGUARD ACCOUNT
Creates an account to address unexpected shortfalls in public health funding.
Effective from passage
- 178 — SUDEP INFORMATION
Requires physicians, APRNs, and PAs who regularly treat patients with epilepsy to give them information on sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
Effective from passage
- 181 — EMS ADMINISTERING GLUCAGON NASAL POWDER
Requires EMS personnel to receive training on administering glucagon and allows them to administer glucagon nasal powder when necessary.
Effective from passage
- 182 — HOSPITAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PORTAL
Requires OHA to contract with a vendor to develop an online hospital financial assistance portal for patients and their family members.
Effective July 1, 2025
- 187 — EVALUATION OF DOC HEALTH CARE SERVICES
Requires the correction ombuds to evaluate health care services for incarcerated individuals, and specifies certain steps he may take when doing so.
Effective October 1, 2025
- 188 — CONSERVATOR APPOINTMENT EXPEDITED PROCESS
Requires the probate court administrator and DSS commissioner to evaluate the feasibility of establishing an expedited process to appoint a conservator for hospital emergency department patients who lack the capacity to consent to services.
Effective from passage
- 189 — HOSPITAL REPORTING ON EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS
Adds to the required recipients of hospitals’ annual reports analyzing emergency department data.
Effective from passage
- 190 — HOSPITAL DISCHARGE WORKING GROUP
Creates a working group on hospital discharge challenges.
Effective from passage
- 191 — CSCU RESERVE FUND EXPENDITURE WORKING GROUP
Establishes a working group to oversee and monitor expenditures from each reserve fund of CSCU or the higher education institutes within CSCU.
NOTE: This section was later repealed in HB 7288 – Sec. 216-217 and replaced with the establishment of a Subcommittee on Educational Alignment and Need of the Higher Education Financial Sustainability Advisory Board to monitor Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) sustainability plans and requires the board to make recommendations to the General Assembly on these plans and the funding required. (see Section 216-217).
July 1, 2025
- § 192-197 — LACTATION CONSULTANT LICENSURE
Creates a DPH licensure program for lactation consultants; allows unlicensed people meeting specified criteria to practice lactation consulting or provide related services, if they do not refer to themselves as “lactation consultants.”
July 1, 2026
- § 198-227 — STATE CONTRACTING DISPARITY STUDY AND SMALL BUSINESS AND MBE SPENDING ALLOCATION PROGRAM
Changes value thresholds that determine whether certain public works contracts are subject to state laws on non-discrimination contract compliance, the Small and Minority Owned Business Set-Aside Program, and affirmative action plans for certain state contractors; converts the set-aside program into the spending allocation program by, among other things, replacing the current 25% set-aside requirements with annual spending allocation goals by industry category and contract-specific spending allocation goals based on certain localized data; requires the state to do a disparity study every five years; makes other changes related to state contracting.
Effective October 1, 2025
- 208 - HIGHER EDUCATION CONTRACTS
Current law generally requires certain contracts entered into by the constituent units of the state’s higher education system to include the same nondiscrimination provisions as the state’s contract compliance law. For contracts entered into on or after July 1, 2026, the Act requires the protected classes specified in these contract provisions to include veterans and domestic violence victims (two groups that have become protected classes in recent years).
Effective October 1, 2025
- 213 - GENERAL BIDS
The law requires general bids for contracts subject to the law on constructing and altering state buildings to include certain information, such as that the bidder (1) will execute a contract according to the general bid’s terms and (2) has made good faith efforts to employ MBEs as subcontractors and suppliers of materials under the contract and will give CHRO certain related information upon request.
Effective October 1, 2025
- 214 - FAILURE TO TIMELY PAY SUBCONTRACTORS
With certain exceptions, current law generally requires a contractor with the state to pay any subcontractor it employs within 30 days after the state pays the contractor for any work performed or materials furnished by the subcontractor. The Act reduces the payment deadline to 15 days and makes a contractor’s failure to meet it a discriminatory practice subject to CHRO investigation and enforcement.
Effective October 1, 2025
- § 262 & 263 — ROBERTA B. WILLIS SCHOLARSHIPS
Limits the Roberta B. Willis Scholarship Program to need-based grants and need and merit-based grants eliminating the Charter Oak grant (§ 263). Requires OHE to annually notify institutions of their estimated funding for these awards by November 1st (§ 262).
- 262 Effective July 1, 2025
- 263 Effective July 1, 2026
- 264 — PLAN FOR DOC HEALTH CARE SERVICES
Specifically requires DOC’s plan for health care services to ensure that various requirements are met, rather than to include guidelines for implementing them; adds certain components to the plan, including (1) interviewing incarcerated people at intake about their mental health history and (2) providing evidence-based mental health services by a mental health provider or therapist, as needed, within two business days of a determination of need upon intake.
Effective from passage
- 266 — MEDICAL RECORDS AUTHORIZATION FOR INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS
Requires the DOC commissioner to ensure that everyone in the department’s custody is given a form allowing them to authorize someone else to access their medical records that would otherwise be subject to nondisclosure under HIPAA.
Effective October 1, 2025
- 272 — CORRECTION OMBUDS ACCESSING MEDICAL RECORDS
Requires the correction ombuds, before accessing an incarcerated person’s medical record, to give the person prior notice of the reasons for doing so.
Effective from passage
- § 275 & 276 — CERTIFICATE OF NEED FOR HEALTH CARE ENTITIES
Expressly allows OHS, when reviewing CON applications for certain hospital ownership transfers that require a cost and market impact review, to consider the review’s preliminary and final reports and other specified materials; modifies the definition of “termination of services” for CON purposes to include the termination of any services for a combined total of more than 180 days within a consecutive two-year period.
- 275 Effective from passage
- 276 October 1, 2025
- § 278-286 — REPRODUCTIVE AND GENDER-AFFIRMING HEALTH CARE SERVICES
Subjects covered entities’ business associates to existing law’s disclosure limitations; requires the entities and business associates to notify the attorney general when they receive a subpoena for certain patient information; specifies that gender-affirming health care services do not include conversion therapy for anyone under age 18.
Effective July 1, 2025
- 293 — ADDITIONAL EARLY VOTING LOCATIONS ON CERTAIN COLLEGE CAMPUSES
Requires municipalities with 1,000 or more students living on a college campus or institutional housing in the municipality to establish an additional early voting location on campus.
Effective July 1, 2025
- 341 — MEDICAID COVERAGE FOR BREAST PROSTHESES
Requires the DSS commissioner to distribute information on Medicaid coverage for breast prostheses.
Effective from passage
- § 345–347 — IDENTIFIED PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
Caps the price for the sale of identified prescription drugs in the state; generally imposes a civil penalty on pharmaceutical manufacturers and wholesale distributors who violate the cap and requires the DRS commissioner to impose and collect it; and creates a process for penalty disputes.
Effective July 1, 2026
- § 360 & 361 — HOSPITAL PROVIDER TAX
Beginning in FY 27, requires the base year on which the hospital provider tax is calculated to be tied to an applicable federal fiscal year, rather than FY 16, and makes various corresponding changes; eliminates provisions allowing taxpayers subject to the hospital provider tax to request a payment extension under certain circumstances.
Effective July 1, 2026 and applicable to calendar quarters commencing on or after July 1, 2026
- 362 — HOSPITAL MEDICAID SUPPLEMENTAL PAYMENTS
Increases Medicaid supplemental payments to hospitals by $140 million for FY 27 and requires this total to be increased in subsequent years by $25 million over the preceding year if the total amount of hospital provider tax collected for that year increased by $25 million over the preceding year.
Effective July 1, 2026
- § 384 & 385 — UCONN TAX CREDIT INCENTIVE PROGRAM
Authorizes UConn to set up and administer a tax credit incentive program to promote and publicly recognize the university and its programs, services, and mission; creates a 50% tax credit for payments made to UConn according to qualified agreements under this program; caps the total credits allowed for each calendar year at $5 million and for each taxpayer at $500,000 per tax or income year.
Effective from passage and applicable to taxable and income years commencing on or after January 1, 2025
- § 415-432 — OCCUPATIONAL LICENSE OR CERTIFICATION FEES
Eliminates numerous occupational license or certification fees for health care professionals and educators.
Effective October 1, 2025
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT MAY OF INTEREST FROM THE OFFICE OF FISCAL ANALYSIS AGENCY BUDGET SHEETS FY 26-FY 27
Legislative Management
Provide Funding for Higher Education Planning Commission - page 4
Provides funding for the Higher Education Planning Commission in Legislative Management’s budget to update the state's strategic master plan for higher education- $100,000 in FY 26 and FY 27. C.G.S. Sec. 10a-11b establishes the Planning Commission for Higher Education and requires it to revise and update the state's strategic master plan for higher education. The plan was first adopted in 2015. An update to the plan is due December 1, 2025.
Funding for increased membership fees to the New England Board of Higher Education - page 6
The New England Board of Higher Education promotes greater education opportunities and services for the residents of New England and its more than 250 colleges and universities. It works across the six New England states to help leaders assess, develop, and implement sound education practices and policies of regional significance; to promote regional cooperation and programs that encourage the efficient use and sharing of educational resources. The budget provides $7,500 in FY 26 and $15,000 in FY 27 to the New England Board of Higher Education for increases in membership fees.
Office of Governmental Accountability
The State Contracting Standards Board - page 28
Provide funding of $79,825 in FY 26 and FY 27 to support Board expenses, supplies, and training. This includes $45,000 in FY 26 and FY 27 to support Board expenses, $17,500 in FY 26 and FY 27 to support hiring of an intern from UCONN, $7,000 in Staff training in FY 26 and FY 27, $4,000 in FY 26 and $5,100 in FY 27 for membership dues.
Department of Social Services
Increase Hospital Supplemental Payments Related to Updated Provider Tax - page 179
Increases Health Provider Tax revenue by $140 million by updating the base year for the user fee and reducing the tax rate on outpatient services.
Adjust Funding for Hospital Supplemental Payments and Medicaid Rates - page 179
Provide $70 million in FY 27 for increased Hospital Supplemental Payments. The increase in Hospital Supplemental Payments results in additional General Fund revenue of $46.9 million to reflect federal reimbursement associated with such payments.
Day Kimball Hospital – page 179
Provides funding of $4,650,000 million in FY 26 and $2.9 million FY 27 to reflect Medicaid support.
Connecticut Children's Medical Center (CCMC) - page 179
Provides additional funding of $2 million in FY 26 & FY 27.
Increase Medicaid Provider Rates - page 180
May Impact UConn Health Clinical Revenues: provides funding of $15.4 million in FY 26 and $45 million in FY 27 to reflect rate increases for Medicaid providers. FY 26 includes funding to support behavioral health services (focusing on parity among pediatric and adult rates for similar services), physician outpatient and surgery services, family planning services, and independent audiology and speech and language pathology services. Rate increases are intended to be phased-in to align with the Medicare or five-state benchmarks detailed in phases one and two of the Medicaid rate study. In addition, funds will support the phase-in of rebased rates for federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), as noted in section 351 of PA 25-168, the budget bill.
Limit Coverage of Weight Loss Medications for Obesity Only - pages 180-181
Reduces funding by $28,790,000 in FY 26 and $16,850,000 in FY 27 to reflect limiting Medicaid coverage of prescription drugs used solely for the purpose of weight loss. This eliminates funding added in the current services update for weight loss only coverage.
Expand Emergency Medicaid Services - page181
Provides funding of $700,000 in FY 27 to support system adjustments to enable individuals to apply in advance for emergency Medicaid coverage for emergency medical conditions that can be treated in outpatient settings rather than in hospital emergency departments. May have minimal impact on UConn Health clinical revenues.
Increase funding for Foodshare – page 185
Husky Harvest is in partnership with Foodshare. The budget increase funding to $2M in FY 26 and $5M in FY 27 for Connecticut Foodshare.
Provide Funding to Conform with Hospital Settlement Agreement- provided for informational purposes only. - page 188
UConn Health is not a party to the hospital settlement agreement. Provides $24,920,000 in FY 26 and $39,650,000 in FY 27 .
Office of Higher Education
CT Loan Reimbursement - page 206
Provides funding of $5M FY 26 and $6M FY 27
Health Care Adjunct Grant Program – page 206
Provides funding of $240,000 in both FY 26 and FY 27.
Connecticut AI Alliance for High Performance Computing – page 206
Provides funding of $500,000 in FY 26 and $1 million in FY 27.
Open Education Resources Grant Program - page 206
Provides funding of $50,000 in both FY 26 and FY 27.
Connecticut State Colleges and Universities
Various grants – page 217
Provides funding of $53,000 in FY 26--(1) $50,000 for vending machines that dispense emergency contraceptives; and (2) $3,000 for a food pantry at Central Connecticut State University.
Department of Education
Waterbury Promise Program - page 224
Provides $1.5M in FY 26 and $1.5M in FY 27.
Provide funding of $53,000 in FY 26. Funding is provided accordingly: (1) $50,000 for vending machines that dispense emergency contraceptives; and (2) $3,000 for a food pantry at Central Connecticut State University.