Connecticut HB 5469: AN ACT CONCERNING FLEXIBLE HOLIDAYS FOR STATE EMPLOYEES.

Bill Text

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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5469
February Session, 2026 LCO No. 2300

Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY

Introduced by:
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AN ACT CONCERNING COLOCATED ELECTRIC SUPPLIERS AND
LARGE ELECTRIC LOAD CUSTOMERS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 16-1 of the 2026 supplement to the 1
general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu 2
thereof (Effective July 1, 2026): 3
(a) Terms used in this title and in chapters 244, 244a, 244b, 245, 245a 4
and 245b shall be construed as follows, unless another meaning is 5
expressed or is clearly apparent from the language or context: 6
(1) "Authority" means the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and 7
"department" means the Department of Energy and Environmental 8
Protection; 9
(2) "Utility commissioner" means a utility commissioner of the Public 10
Utilities Regulatory Authority; 11
(3) "Public service company" includes electric distribution, gas, 12
telephone, pipeline, sewage, water and community antenna television 13

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companies and holders of a certificate of cable franchise authority, 14
owning, leasing, maintaining, operating, managing or controlling plants 15
or parts of plants or equipment, but shall not include towns, cities, 16
boroughs, any municipal corporation or department thereof, whether 17
separately incorporated or not, a private power producer, as defined in 18
section 16-243b, or an exempt wholesale generator, as defined in 15 USC 19
79z-5a; 20
(4) "Plant" includes all real estate, buildings, tracks, pipes, mains, 21
poles, wires and other fixed or stationary construction and equipment, 22
wherever located, used in the conduct of the business of the company; 23
(5) "Gas company" includes every person owning, leasing, 24
maintaining, operating, managing or controlling mains, pipes or other 25
fixtures, in public highways or streets, for the transmission or 26
distribution of gas for sale for heat or power within this state, or engaged 27
in the manufacture of gas to be so transmitted or distributed for such 28
purpose, but shall not include (A) a person manufacturing gas through 29
the use of a biomass gasification plant provided such person does not 30
own, lease, maintain, operate, manage or control mains, pipes or other 31
fixtures in public highways or streets, (B) a municipal gas utility 32
established under chapter 101 or any other gas utility owned, leased, 33
maintained, operated, managed or controlled by any unit of local 34
government under any general statute or any public or special act, or 35
(C) an entity approved to submeter pursuant to section 16-19ff; 36
(6) "Water company" includes every person owning, leasing, 37
maintaining, operating, managing or controlling any pond, lake, 38
reservoir, stream, well or distributing plant or system employed for the 39
purpose of supplying water to fifty or more consumers. A water 40
company does not include homeowners, condominium associations 41
providing water only to their members, homeowners associations 42
providing water to customers at least eighty per cent of whom are 43
members of such associations, a municipal waterworks system 44
established under chapter 102, a district, metropolitan district, 45
municipal district or special services district established under chapter 46

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105, chapter 105a or any other general statute or any public or special 47
act which is authorized to supply water, or any other waterworks 48
system owned, leased, maintained, operated, managed or controlled by 49
any unit of local government under any general statute or any public or 50
special act; 51
(7) "Consumer" means any private dwelling, boardinghouse, 52
apartment, store, office building, institution, mechanical or 53
manufacturing establishment or other place of business or industry to 54
which water is supplied by a water company; 55
(8) "Sewage company" includes every person owning, leasing, 56
maintaining, operating, managing or controlling, for general use in any 57
town, city or borough, or portion thereof, in this state, sewage disposal 58
facilities which discharge treated effluent into any waterway of this 59
state; 60
(9) "Pipeline company" includes every person owning, leasing, 61
maintaining, operating, managing or controlling mains, pipes or other 62
fixtures through, over, across or under any public land, water, 63
parkways, highways, parks or public grounds for the transportation, 64
transmission or distribution of petroleum products for hire within this 65
state; 66
(10) "Community antenna television company" includes every person 67
owning, leasing, maintaining, operating, managing or controlling a 68
community antenna television system, in, under or over any public 69
street or highway, for the purpose of providing community antenna 70
television service for hire and sh