Co-authored by Beth Barton of the BCONE Advisory Board and Founding Member of NSCW

The Connecticut General Assembly adjourned in June and now – 123 days later – Governor Dannel Malloy last Tuesday signed into law a two-year state budget. The governor did not adopt the budget, as passed overwhelmingly by both houses of the General Assembly, in its entirety. He exercised his line-item veto authority to eliminate appropriations in support of a proposed hospital tax. Other programs were not directly affected by the governor’s line-item veto. There are several significant budget provisions on the environmental front, though.

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