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Read. Follow. Verify.Connecticut requires Labor Department to maintain unemployment staffing levels and hire 25 additional workers
Last action · April 20, 2026: Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, SenateSponsors: Nicholas Menapace and 3 others
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What This Bill Proposed
Connecticut requires the Labor Commissioner to maintain at least the same number of employees in the as were employed on September 30, 2025, and to hire 25 additional workers by July 1, 2027.
Establishes a mandatory staffing floor and workforce expansion for state unemployment claims processing through the ending June 30, 2027.
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.
Unemployment Insurance Benefits Division staff
Staffing floors are established and 25 new positions are added to the division.
Unemployment benefit claimants
Claim processing and administration is subject to increased workforce capacity.
Key Facts
- The Labor Commissioner must employ at least the number of staff at the Unemployment Insurance Benefits Division that were employed on September 30, 2025, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2027.
- The Labor Commissioner must hire an additional twenty-five employees for the division no later than July 1, 2027.
- The additional staff are dedicated to the purpose of processing and administering unemployment benefit claims.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Tabled in the Senate.
Procedural history
16 actions- Apr 20, 2026SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
- Apr 20, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyNo New File by Committee on Appropriations
- Apr 20, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Apr 20, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Apr 17, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable
- Apr 15, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyImmediate Transmittal
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- Apr 15, 2026SenateReferred by Senate to Committee on Appropriations
- Apr 7, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFile Number 463
- Apr 7, 2026SenateSenate Calendar Number 275
- 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
- Mar 19, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable Substitute
- Mar 6, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyPublic Hearing 03/10
- Feb 26, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyCommitteeReferred to Joint Committee on Labor and Public Employees
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 45)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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