Connecticut legislation · 2026 General Assembly
Connecticut SB357: AN ACT CONCERNING UNEMPLOYMENT DEPENDENCY ALLOWANCE.
Status: In committee, April 20, 2026
What the bill says
An act concerning unemployment dependency allowance. assembly convened.
From the introduced text:
AN ACT CONCERNING UNEMPLOYMENT DEPENDENCY ALLOWANCE. Assembly convened: Section 1. Section 31-234 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2028): Each individual who is eligible to receive benefits for unemployment with respect to any week shall be paid with respect to such week a dependency allowance of [fifteen] forty-five dollars for such individual's nonworking spouse, as defined by regulation, living in the same household with such individual and for each of such individual's children or stepchildren who at the beginning of the individual's current benefit year were being wholly or mainly supported by such individual and were under eighteen years of age or under twenty-one years of age and in full-time attendance in a secondary school, a technical school, a college, or state accredited job training program, or who at the beginning of the individual's benefit year were mentally or physically handicapped and because of such handicap were being wholly or mainly supported by such individual, but in no event shall such LCO No. 2126 1 of Raised Bill No. allowances exceed the number of whole dollars in one hundred per cent of the total unemployment benefit rate of such individual or be paid with respect to more than five dependents. If the individual acquires any additional dependents in the …
Sponsors
- Nicholas Gauthier (D, 38) · primary sponsor
- Kaitlyn Shake (D, 120)
Latest actions
- : Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
- : No New File by Committee on Appropriations
- : Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- : Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
- : Joint Favorable
- : Immediate Transmittal
- : Referred by Senate to Committee on Appropriations
- : Senate Adopted Senate Amendment Schedule A 4165
- : File Number 464
- : Senate Calendar Number 276
Votes
- APP Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable) (April 17, 2026): 40 yea, 13 nay, passed
- LAB Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable) (March 19, 2026): 9 yea, 4 nay, passed
Subjects: Dependents, Unemployment compensation
Common questions
- What is SB357?
- SB357 is a bill in the Connecticut Legislature (2026 General Assembly): AN ACT CONCERNING UNEMPLOYMENT DEPENDENCY ALLOWANCE.
- What does SB357 do?
- In its own words: An act concerning unemployment dependency allowance. assembly convened.
- What is the status of SB357?
- In committee as of April 20, 2026. Latest action: Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate (April 20, 2026).
- Who sponsored SB357?
- Nicholas Gauthier (D, 38), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for SB357?
- On the Connecticut Legislature website: https://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=SB00357&which_year=2026
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