Connecticut HB 5249: AN ACT CONCERNING DENTAL INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR CHILDREN, STEPCHILDREN AND OTHER DEPENDENT CHILDREN.

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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 5249
February Session, 2026

AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE SOUTH CENTRAL
CONNECTICUT REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY CONCERNING THE
POTENTIAL ACQUISITION OF A WATER COMPANY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subdivision (6) of subsection (a) of section 16-1 of the 2026 1
supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is 2
substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage): 3
(6) "Water company" includes every person owning, leasing, 4
maintaining, operating, managing or controlling any pond, lake, 5
reservoir, stream, well or distributing plant or system employed for the 6
purpose of supplying water to fifty or more consumers. [A water 7
company] "Water company" does not include [homeowners, 8
condominium associations] a homeowner, any condominium 9
association providing water only to [their members,] the unit owners of 10
such association, any homeowners [associations] association providing 11
water to customers, [at least] provided not less than eighty per cent of 12
[whom are members of such associations] such customers are unit 13
owners in such association, a municipal waterworks system established 14
under chapter 102, a district, metropolitan district, municipal district or 15
special services district established under chapter 105, chapter 105a, or 16
any other provision of the general [statute] statutes or any public or 17
special act, [which] that is authorized to supply water, or any other 18

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waterworks system owned, leased, maintained, operated, managed or 19
controlled by any unit of local government under any provision of the 20
general [statute] statutes or any public or special act, provided any such 21
district or waterworks system owned, leased, maintained, operated, 22
managed or controlled by a unit of local government serves fewer than 23
three hundred thousand customer accounts; 24
Sec. 2. Subsections (b) and (c) of section 5 of special act 77-98, as 25
amended by section 4 of special act 78-24, section 4 of special act 24-7 26
and section 37 of public act 24-1 of the June special session, are amended 27
to read as follows (Effective from passage): 28
(b) The members of the South Central Connecticut Regional Water 29
Authority board shall have the authority to act on behalf of the 30
Aquarion Water Authority, as described in section 35 of section 41 of 31
[this act] public act 24-1 of the June special session, until such time as 32
the members of the Aquarion Water Authority board [are] may be 33
appointed. 34
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, 35
[upon] if the Public Utilities Regulatory [Authority's] Authority, in the 36
full exercise of the authority's powers concerning the review of a 37
proposed change in control of a water company, including, but not 38
limited to, such powers granted to the authority pursuant to sections 16-39
47 and 16-22 of the general statutes, grants approval [of] to the South 40
Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority or the Aquarion Water 41
Authority to own and operate the Aquarion Water Company or one or 42
more of its subsidiaries, the [authority] Aquarion Water Authority 43
board, provided such approval has been granted, shall consist of eleven 44
members who shall reside in Connecticut and not be members of the 45
representative policy board, [six] five of whom shall be residents of the 46
South Central Connecticut Regional Water District appointed by the 47
representative policy board, and [five] six of whom shall be appointed 48
by the representative policy board of the Aquarion Regional Water 49
District, as described in section 35 of section 41 of [this act] public act 24-50
1 of the June special session, in accordance with section 38 of section 41 51

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of [this act] public act 24-1 of the June special session, as amended by 52
this act. The [six] five members appointed by the representative policy 53
board of the authority shall have the authority to act on behalf of the 54
Aquarion Water Authority until such time as the members of the 55
Aquarion Water Authority [are] may be appointed. All such authority 56
members shall be appointed without regard to political affiliation by a 57
majority of the total votes of those members of the representative policy 58
board present at a meeting at which at least two-thirds of the weighted 59
vote, excluding vacancies, is present, for terms of five years, not to 60
exceed four consecutive full terms, and until their successors are 61
appointed and have qualified. The sixth member first appointed shall 62
be appointed for a three-year term ending January 1, 2028, and the 63
seventh member first appointed shall be appointed for a five-year term 64
ending January 1, 2030. Any vacancy occurring on the authority shall be 65
filled in the same manner for the unexpired