Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Insurance and Real Estate Committee on January 17, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
House Bill 5438
AN ACT CONCERNING PUBLIC OPTIONS FOR HEALTH CARE IN CONNECTICUT.
What it does
The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.
To: (1) Establish the ConnectHealth Program, the ConnectHealth Trust account and the ConnectHealth Advisory Board; (2) require the Comptroller, in consultation with the ConnectHealth Advisory Board and the Office of Health Strategy, to establish the ConnectHealth Plan; (3) authorize the Comptroller to offer coverage to plan participants and beneficiaries in this state under a multiemployer plan, nonprofit employers and their employees and small employers and their employees; and (4) require the Commissioner of Social Services to seek to amend the federal waiver for the state-wide dental plan that provides for the administration of the dental services portion of the department's medical assistance to expand coverage to include additional individuals in this state.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the House of Representatives
Sponsor
Brandon Chafee, Nick Gauthier, Mike Demicco, Nicholas Menapace
Chief co-sponsors
2 co-sponsors
Its course
January 17 to January 17, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action1 action on 1 day
In the House of RepresentativesJan 17 to Jan 17 · stopped0 days
Insurance and Real Estate CommitteeJan 17 to Jan 17 · stopped0 days
Text
Each version as the General Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.
In the House of Representatives Jan 17
- Jan 17Introduced and sent to Insurance and Real Estate Committee
All 1 actions, as published
- Jan 17REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses