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Read. Follow. Verify.Connecticut establishes task force to study business entities circumventing labor laws
Last action · April 7, 2026: File Number 475
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What This Bill Proposed
The General Assembly establishes a task force to study whether members of limited liability companies and other business entities avoid labor laws by creating new business entities. The ten-member panel must submit its findings and recommendations by January 1, 2027.
Creates an official legislative study group tasked with examining business restructuring and labor law compliance, with required reporting due to the labor committee by the start of 2027.
- Chapters 557 and 558 of the Connecticut General Statutes govern labor regulation, employment practices, wages, and working conditions in the state. context
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.
limited liability companies and other business entities
Subject to study by a newly created legislative task force examining whether business structures are used to bypass labor laws.
Labor Commissioner
Serves as a member of the task force or designates a representative to participate in the study.
Key Facts
- Establishes a task force to study potential circumvention of chapters 557 and 558 of the general statutes by business entities establishing new structures.
- The task force consists of ten members, including legislative appointees, the Labor Commissioner, the Secretary of the State, the Commissioner of Revenue Services, and the Commissioner of Administrative Services.
- Initial appointments must be made no later than thirty days after the effective date of the section.
- The speaker of the House of Representatives and the president pro tempore of the Senate select the chairpersons, who must schedule the first meeting within sixty days of the effective date.
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- The task force must submit a report on its findings and recommendations no later than January 1, 2027, and terminates upon submitting the report or on January 1, 2027, whichever is later.
- The measure has no fiscal impact on 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- Apr 7, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFile Number 475
- Apr 7, 2026SenateSenate Calendar Number 287
- Apr 7, 2026SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
- Apr 7, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Mar 30, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/07/26 12:00 PM
- Mar 19, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
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- Mar 19, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable Substitute
- Mar 6, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyPublic Hearing 03/10
- Mar 5, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyCommitteeReferred to Joint Committee on Labor and Public Employees
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 35)
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz15Current news / social attention level
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