HB 5164: Who Shirked The Procedural Responsibility To Post This To The Senate Calendar? Who Pushed Through Paying Strikers To Strike? Get This Investigated!
HB 5164 AN ACT CONCERNING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, was written "to allow striking employees to access unemployment benefits after a period of two consecutive weeks of striking."
It would essentially pay strikers to strike...
The bill was brought before the House Friday, May 3rd, and from news reports had little discussion.
"HB 5164, after passing the House should have procedurally been posted to the Senate calendar and possibly had additional points reviewed, but without doing so was brought immediately before the Senate Monday, May 6th," according to the CT Mirror.
Co-sponsors of HB-5164 include:
Sen. Saud Anwar, 3rd Dist.
Sen. Jorge Cabrera, 17th Dist.
Sen. Herron Gaston, 23rd Dist.
Sen. Jan Hochadel, 13th Dist.
Sen. Julie Kushner, 24th Dist.
Sen. Martin M. Looney, 11th Dist.
Sen. Rick Lopes, 6th Dist.
Sen. Martha Marx, 20th Dist.
Sen. Gary A. Winfield, 10th Dist.
Rep. Amy Morrin Bello, 28th Dist.
Rep. Kai J. Belton, 100th Dist.
Rep. Aimee Berger-Girvalo, 111th Dist.
Rep. Kevin Brown, 56th Dist.
Rep. Marcus Brown, 127th Dist.
Rep. Aundre Bumgardner, 41st Dist.
Rep. Brandon Chafee, 33rd Dist.
Rep. Julio A. Concepcion, 4th Dist.
Rep. Christine Conley, 40th Dist.
Rep. Michael D'Agostino, 91st Dist.
Rep. Hubert D. Delany, 144th Dist.
Rep. Tom Delnicki, 14th Dist.
Rep. Josh Elliott, 88th Dist.
Rep. Kate Farrar, 20th Dist.
Rep. Antonio Felipe, 130th Dist.
Rep. Anabel D. Figueroa, 148th Dist.
Rep. Mary Fortier, 79th Dist.
Rep. Fred Gee, 126th Dist.
Rep. Bobby G. Gibson, 15th Dist.
Rep. Jillian Gilchrest, 18th Dist.
Rep. Bob Godfrey, 110th Dist.
Rep. Gregory Haddad, 54th Dist.
Rep. Joshua M. Hall, 7th Dist.
Rep. William Heffernan, 115th Dist.
Rep. Greg S. Howard, 43rd Dist.
Rep. Anne M. Hughes, 135th Dist.
Rep. Dominique Johnson, 143rd Dist.
Rep. Susan M. Johnson, 49th Dist.
Rep. Sarah Keitt, 134th Dist.
Rep. Maryam Khan, 5th Dist.
Rep. Roland J. Lemar, 96th Dist.
Rep. Geoff Luxenberg, 12th Dist.
Rep. Anthony L. Nolan, 39th Dist.
Rep. David Michel, 146th Dist.
Rep. Christine Palm, 36th Dist.
Rep. Corey P. Paris, 145th Dist.
Rep. Alphonse Paolillo, 97th Dist.
Rep. Robyn A. Porter, 94th Dist.
Rep. Kara Rochelle, 104th Dist.
Rep. Christopher Rosario, 128th Dist.
Rep. Kevin Ryan, 139th Dist.
Rep. Emmanuel Sanchez, 24th Dist.
Rep. Robert Sanchez, 25th Dist.
Rep. James Sanchez, 6th Dist.
Rep. Farley Santos, 109th Dist.
Rep. Travis Simms, 140th Dist.
Rep. Frank Smith, 118th Dist.
Rep. Peter A. Tercyak, 26th Dist.
Rep. Gary A. Turco, 27th Dist.
Rep. Derell Wilson, 46th Dist.
Approximately 8 hours are left in the 2024 General Assembly Session; the Republican Caucus should get this bill immediately investigated on procedural violation(s).
Anne Manusky, M.Ed., a 23-year Easton resident, wife and mother, is also the President of the CT Republican Assembly Chapter of NFRA and also CT Parents Involved in Education (CTPIE is a chapter of USPIE). She ran in Easton for Board of Education in 2015 and for Selectman in 2018. She has written extensively to advocate for children's issues, especially against the current ideological trends of pressuring academics, sex transition and psychological manipulation of children.
