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Read. Follow. Verify.Connecticut restructures timelines and rules for human rights complaints before the CHRO
Last action · April 30, 2026: House Calendar Number 538
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What This Bill Proposed
Senate Bill 399 modifies case handling by the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities by requiring requests to occur before a draft investigative report is issued, updating standards for reopening closed complaints, and replacing certain statutes of limitations with a 90-day deadline after receiving a .
Changes procedural deadlines and filing requirements for individuals pursuing discrimination complaints before state administrative bodies and courts, replacing multi-year limitation statutes with a strict 90-day window following a .
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.
Complainants
Individuals filing discrimination complaints face new procedural deadlines and restrictions on requesting early legal intervention and reopening closed matters.
Respondents
Parties responding to complaints are subject to updated timelines and rules regarding early legal intervention and the reopening of closed proceedings.
Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities
The agency's authority to reopen closed complaints is expanded, and its staff and legal counsel operate under new statutory timelines for case disposition.
Key Facts
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · passed the Senate · on the House floor.
Procedural history
13 actions- Apr 30, 2026HouseHouse Calendar Number 538
- Apr 30, 2026HouseFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
- Apr 29, 2026HouseRules Suspended, Transmitted to the House
- Apr 29, 2026SenateFloorSenate Passed
- Apr 9, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFile Number 565
- Apr 9, 2026SenateSenate Calendar Number 331
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- Apr 9, 2026SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
- Apr 9, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Apr 2, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/08/26 5:00 PM
- Mar 24, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Mar 23, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable Substitute
- Mar 16, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyPublic Hearing 03/20
- Mar 3, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyCommitteeReferred to Joint Committee on Judiciary
Version history
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Discoveries
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Tightened Timelines for Legal Intervention and Filings
The legislation establishes stricter procedural deadlines by capping when early legal intervention can be requested and replacing general limitation statutes with a 90-day post-release filing requirement.
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Sources
cga.ct.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 60)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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