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Read. Follow. Verify.Connecticut Expands Long-Term Care Planning Committee Membership and Study Focus
Last action · April 7, 2026: File Number 484Sponsor: Martin Looney
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What This Bill Proposed
Senate Bill 495 expands the study focus of Connecticut's to include state financing models, workforce retention, and federal funding projections, while adding labor, retiree, and ombudsman representatives to the committee beginning July 1, 2026.
The measure alters how state agencies study and forecast long-term care needs by requiring evaluations of payroll deductions and wage standards, potentially impacting future state budget allocations and workforce policies for elder care.
- The Long-Term Care Planning Committee was established in Connecticut to coordinate policy and information regarding long-term care services across state agencies. context
- The Human Services Committee is a joint standing committee of the Connecticut General Assembly that evaluates legislative proposals relating to human services programs. 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.
Long-Term Care Planning Committee
The committee's mandatory study topics, annual reporting requirements, and internal leadership structure are expanded.
Long-term care workers
A representative organization for long-term care workers gains a designated seat on the committee, and workforce retention and wages become mandatory study topics.
Retirees
An organization representing retirees is added to the committee's membership.
Office of Policy and Management
The agency's secretary or designee is designated to serve as a committee chairperson, and the office may incur potential costs for additional staffing to complete the studies.
Key Facts
- The bill adds the Long-Term Care Ombudsman, a representative of long-term care workers, and a retiree representative to the Long-Term Care Planning Committee.
- The committee must study state financing models for long-term care, including potential payroll deductions.
- The committee must study best practices for workforce retention, wages, and standards.
- The committee must examine projected federal support for long-term care and solutions for insufficient federal funding.
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- The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, or a designee, is designated to serve as a committee chairperson alongside elected Senate and House chairpersons.
- Annual reporting requirements to the Aging and Human Services committees are updated to cover studied issues and service lists rather than individual counts.
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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 484
- Apr 7, 2026SenateSenate Calendar Number 296
- 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 20, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
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- Mar 19, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable
- Mar 13, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyPublic Hearing 03/17
- Mar 12, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyCommitteeReferred to Joint Committee on Human Services
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Expansion of Long-Term Care Focus Toward Workforce and Financing
The legislation broadens the statutory scope of the Long-Term Care Planning Committee from descriptive data collection to examining specific structural solutions such as payroll deductions and workforce retention standards.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 45)
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
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