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Read. Follow. Verify.Connecticut requires home health agencies to provide free personal protective equipment to aides starting October 1, 2026
Last action · March 19, 2026: File Number 78Sponsors: Jane Garibay and 3 others
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What This Bill Proposed
Home health aide agencies must provide free personal protective equipment to employees and contractors necessary to safely serve clients, starting October 1, 2026. Required items may include disposable gloves, hand sanitizer, aprons, gowns, foot covers, face shields, surgical masks, and -certified N95 or higher-rated masks.
Home health aide agencies face new operational costs to supply free protective gear to staff and contracted workers, while home health workers gain a guaranteed source of safety equipment at no personal expense.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Home health aide agencies
Home health aide agencies must provide necessary personal protective equipment at no cost to employees and contracted workers.
Home health aide employees and contractors
Home health aide employees and contractors receive necessary personal protective equipment at no cost from their employing or contracting agencies.
Key Facts
- Each home health aide agency must provide personal protective equipment at no cost to each home health aide employee and contractor.
- The mandate applies to equipment necessary to safely provide home health aide services to each client.
- Covered equipment includes disposable gloves, hand sanitizers, aprons, gowns, foot covers, face shields, surgical masks, and NIOSH-certified N95 or higher-rated masks.
- The fiscal note indicates no fiscal impact to the state or municipalities.
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This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · on the Senate floor.
Procedural history
9 actions- Mar 19, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFile Number 78
- Mar 19, 2026SenateSenate Calendar Number 78
- Mar 19, 2026SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
- Mar 19, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Mar 13, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/18/26 5:00 PM
- Mar 5, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
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- Mar 5, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable
- Feb 20, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyPublic Hearing 02/24
- Feb 19, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyCommitteeReferred to Joint Committee on Aging
Version history
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Sources
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 50)
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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