CT Senate passes budget adding millions for education, Medicaid; CT’s ‘own big beautiful bill’

CT Budget Bill Clears General Assembly, Heads To Lamont's Desk

Among other appropriations, the budget revision adds just over $150 million in additional Education Cost Sharing funds, $20 million to ensure all school districts receive at least a 2% increase in their ECS grant, $18 million in aid for magnet and charter schools and vocational-technical schools.

CT Senate passes budget adding millions for education, Medicaid; CT’s ‘own big beautiful bill’

CT lawmakers debate 717-page budget that helps cities, towns, nonprofits with no rebates for taxpayers

CT legislature adopts $28.1B budget with big aid for towns, childcare

This story has been updated. The General Assembly adopted a $28.1 billion state budget Saturday that orders major new investments in municipal aid and affordable childcare and restructures Connecticut’s tax on hospitals to leverage more federal aid and assist the industry. Legislators did not include Gov. Ned Lamont’s proposal for a $200-per-person tax rebate this October nor any of the major tax-cutting proposals offered by either party. But th…