Explore legislative updates
Each year, the Department of Administrative Services provides updates before the Connecticut General Assembly on various topics. On this page, you’ll find:
- DAS Testimony
- DAS Legislative Newsletters
- DAS Work Groups and Task Forces
- DAS Presentations
- DAS Legislative Reports
- DAS Fact Sheets
Explore all DAS testimony from the current and past legislative sessions here.
2024 Testimony
- Appropriations Committee Testimony
- HB 5052 - An Act Supporting Solar Energy in Schools
- HB 5483 - An Act Establishing and Transferring Various Functions to a Division of Fire Services Administration within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection and Revising the Powers and Composition of the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control
- SB 11 - An Act Coordinating CT Resiliency Planning and Broadening Municipal Option for Climate Resilience
- SB 287 - An Act Concerning Indoor Air Quality in Schools
- SB 343 - An Act Making Various Changes Related to the State Building Code and Fire Safety Code, Financial notes for Proposed Regulations, Barriers for Swimming pools, Batter-Charged Security Fences and Parking of Electric Vehicles.
- SB 433 - An Act Implementing the Recommendations of the Commission on Racial Equity in Public Health
- DAS Commissioner General Bonding Subcommittee Testimony
- HB 5346 - An Act Concerning Early Child Care, and HB 5347 - An Act Concerning Authorization of State Grant Commitments for School Building Projects and Revisions to the School Building Project Statutes
- HB 5485 - An Act Concerning Transportation Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles
- SB 158 - An Act Concerning a Study of the Effect of Background Checks on Defense Industry Employment and Study of State Employment Outreach Efforts
- SB 288 - An Act Implementing the Recommendations of the Department of Administrative Services Regarding the School Building Projects Statutes
- SB 353 - An Act Concerning the Public Availability of Information Related to the Maintenance of Elevators
- SB 5 - An Act Concerning School Resources
- HB 5049 - An Act Making Deficiency Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2024
- HB 5444 - An Act Concerning Test Bed Technologies
- Priority list Review Committee Testimony
- SB 2 - An Act Concerning AI and SB3 - An Act Concerning Consumer Protection
- SB 312 - An Act Concerning a Janitorial Work Program for Persons with Disability and persons with a Disadvantage
- SB 414 - An Act Concerning Equity in State Employment
- SB 5 - An Act Concerning School Resources (DAS and CET)
2023 Testimony
- HB 6607 - an act concerning the nighttime lighting of state-owned buildings for the protection of birds (PDF)
- SB 984 - an act accelerating the state hiring process (PDF)
- SB 1124 - an act concerning a study of pathways to state employment (PDF)
- SB 1184 - an act implementing DAS recommendation concerning state contracting requirements and certain procurement thresholds (PDF)
- SB 1183 - an act concerning state construction related thresholds (PDF)
- SB 1191 - an act prohibiting use of certain applications, software and programs on state devices (PDF)
- SB 1198- an act implementing the recommendations of the school indoor air quality working group (PDF)
- SB 1201 - an act concerning authorization of state grant commitment for school building projects and revisions to school building project statutes (PDF)
2022 Testimony
- SB 166 - an act concerning the appointment and qualification of the state building inspector, submission of certain documents to the state building inspector, internet publication of variances from the state building code, the period of service of an acting building official, certain acoustical standards and path marking systems (PDF)
- SB 215 - an act concerning the development of a transportation engineering recruitment program (PDF)